
Takayama Akira Happy Island – The Messianic Banquet of the Righteous 2015
BIOGRAPHY
Takayama Akira 高山明
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Born 1969 in Saitama, lives and works in Saitama, Japan
1991-93 | Studied philosophy at Waseda University, Japan |
1993-98 | Practiced theater in Germany |
1998-2002 | Directed and produced work at theaters in Tokyo |
2002 | Founded Port B (Theater and Performance Unit) |
– Selected Exhibitions, Theater Projects and Performances –
2020 | THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong |
Tokyo Trunk Room, ARCHI=DEPOT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan | |
2019 | Where We Now Stand – In Order to Map the Future, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa |
A sequel to Marbashi Liturgia Horarum – Akatsuki no mura Walk, The Ecology of Expression: Remaking Our Relations with the world, Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan | |
Heterotopia Riga, Riga, Latvia | |
Public Speech Project, J Art Call Center, Aichi Triennale 2019: Taming Y/Our Passion, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Aichi, Japan | |
McDonald’s Radio University, McDonald’s Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan | |
New Tokyo School Excursion Project: Fukushima Version, Tokyo, Japan | |
Heterotopia Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE | |
2018 | McDonald’s Radio University, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
New Tokyo School Excursion Project: Japanese Orphans in China Version, Tokyo, Japan | |
New Tokyo School Excursion Project: Kurd Version, Tokyo, Japan | |
McDonald’s Radio University River Tour, Berlin, Germany | |
21st Biennale of Sydney―SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Venue, Sydney, Australia | |
2017 | Tokyo School Excursion Project: China Version, Tokyo, Japan |
Tokyo School Excursion Project: Thailand Version, Tokyo, Japan | |
Wagner Project- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Center, Yokohama, Japan | |
Sharjah Biennial 13 Act II, Beirut, Lebanon | |
Some Lessons to Feel:Something Far is Near, Something Near is Far, Koganecho Bazaar 2017, Yokohama Hinode Pier, Yokohama, Japan | |
Piraeus / Heterotopia, Athens,Greece | |
McDonald’s Radio University, Frankfurt, German | |
Tokyo School Excursion Project: Taiwan Version, Tokyo, Japan | |
Beitou/Tokyo Heterotopia, Taiwan Cultural Center, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, Tokyo, Japan | |
2016 | Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
Beitou Heterotopia, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan | |
Forest of Expression, Arts Maebashi, Gumma, Japan | |
2015 | Happy Island, SpielArt Festival, Munich, Germany |
Demarcation: Akira Takayama & Meiro Koizumi, Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan | |
Oita Media Collegio, Oita Toilennale, Oita, Japan | |
X Apartments Athens, Fast Forward Festival, ONASSIS Culture Centre, Athens, Greece | |
2014 | The Place of Crossed Destinies Akita, Akita Arts Project, Akita, Japan |
The Complete Manual of Evacuation Frankfurt, Kuenstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt; Mainz State Theater; Darmstadt State Theater; Rhine-Main Region, Germany | |
Yokohama Commune (installation), Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan | |
Yokohama Commune (performance), Yokohama Triennale, nitehi works, Yokohama, Japan | |
Referendum Project, Tour of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan | |
Referendum Project (installation), Berlin Hebbel am Ufer Theater, Berlin, Germany | |
2013 | Tokyo Heterotopia, Festival/Tokyo 2013, Tokyo, Japan |
Referendum Project (installation), Festival de Keuze, Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
Referendum Project (Installation), Academy of Arts Vienna, Austria | |
Fukushima Epilog? (performance), Secession, Vienna, Austria | |
Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant Tour (performance), Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant, Austria | |
2012 | Kein Licht II (based on “Fukushima Epilog” by Elfriede Jelinek), Festival/Tokyo 2012, Shinbashi area, Tokyo, Japan |
Referendum Project (installation), Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan | |
Referendum Project, Tohoku tour, Miyagi, Iwate, Japan | |
2011 | Referendum Project, Festival/Tokyo 2011, Tokyo and Fukushima, Japan |
Compartment City Vienna, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria | |
2010 | The Complete Manual of Evacuation Tokyo, Festival/Tokyo 2010, Tokyo, Japan |
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完全避難マニュアル 東京版 2010年
The Complete Manual of Evacuation – Tokyo 2010
完全避難マニュアル・フランクフルト版 2014年
The Complete Manual of Evacuation – Frankfurt, 2014