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Colour Exchanges: Interview with Koki Tanaka
“Colour marks exchange. It is border-work. Mixture is our calling.”—Lisa Robertson, How to Colour
In place of the artist talk, colourschool presents an ongoing series of artist interviews conducted by Johan Lundh, whose practice adopts the “art of conversation” as a starting point for more dynamic explorations. Since 2005, Lundh has made over thirty interviews with artists, curators, and writers about their views on contemporary art and culture in his Conversations on Contemporary Art project, which is dedicated to the definition, development, and examination of art and culture in the world today.
Colour Exchanges follow a traditional interview format, but allow for and encourage participation by visitors in the midst of the conversation.
Johan Lundh interviews Koki Tanaka for the first session.
- hosts:
- Johan Lundh and Koki Tanaka
- date & time:
- November 10th, 2007 at 3 pm
- location:
- IDS building, ECIAD,1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Johan Lundh is an artist, curator, and writer, living and working in Stockholm, Sweden and Vancouver, Canada. He fosters research-based projects that explore connections between social interaction and the mechanics of contemporary art. The cornerstone of his creative practice is experimental collaboration, manifesting itself through inter/ multidisciplinary actions. He is currently working on an extensive interview-project and a series of posters, co-produced by Toronto and Vancouver-based artists, together with Vancouver-based artist and curator Alissa Firth-Eagland. He is generally perceived as “young and restless,” but in reality is old and settled.
Koki Tanaka is an artist living and working in Tokyo, Japan. He happily received an MFA from Tokyo National University of Art and Music in 2006, but has already participated in numerous nice exhibitions, cute projects, and lovely screenings in Japan and abroad including at the Mori Art Museum, the Palais de Tokyo, the Taipei Biennial, the Asia Society, MOMA, MOCA, and the Getty Center. He mainly works with site-specific video installations, characterized by the use of everyday materials and simple gestures. By humorously experimenting with everyday objects in unexpected ways, he transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. His joyous month-long residency in Vancouver culminates in an installation, Turning the Lights On, which gently opens on Friday, November 9 at Centre A, the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. During his stay, Koki successfully continued to avoid eating fish and saw the following films: Superbad, Eastern Promises, Kingdom, Across the Universe, 30 Days of Night, Dan in Real Life, and Knocked Up.
Event Images & Documentation
Courtesy of Koki Tanaka.