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Takuro Kotaka
1984 Born in Saitama,Japan.
2006 Graduated from Digital media design Course, ASAGAYA College of Art and Design.
I am a contemporary artist from Japan. Through my work, such as documentary videos and performance art, I try to consider various racial issues and the problems which affect both developing and developed nations. I draw on my own experiences for inspiration. For example, when I was a student I visited various South-East Asian tribal villages in more than 30 different places. I lived with various tribes and was shocked by the reality of their lives and the serious, cruel problems they have to contend with. However, it's hard for only one person to make a difference and really help solve these problems. When we examine such problems, typically we can find similar issues in developed nations.
Some of my work ...
[Dear NOZOMI] : A documentary style love letter intended for Nozomi, a girl from a "long neck" tribe in Thailand.
[Japanese soldier] : Performance on the Indonesian island of Siberut, where I was living with the Mentawai tribe. I wore only Japanese clothes (Hundoshi and Hachimaki) and spoke only in Japanese.
[Raft Travel] :I took a ride on a handmade raft in a train and on a moving walkway in Tokyo.
[BABAISM] : A record for future generataions of the experiences and values of my grandmother, an ordinary 64 year old Japanese woman.
[Sacrifice of today] : Guerrilla performance. I became a sacrifice. Volunteers tied both my hands and legs to a pole and and carried me around Akihabara in Tokyo.
I create mischief including a pure earnest, consider for a social problem. based on experience of own.
I am planning as main member of "Artist as Activist" INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART EVENT 2007.
2007]
Art BBQ, Tamagawa River, Tokyo
MIACA@LUX -Lecture and a screening in London, LUX in the UK
The Day of 39@rt ("Thank you art"), Ceap bar, Tokyo
[2006]
Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival'06 "Listening: Living Art from Japan and San Francisco", The Lab, San Francisco, USA
Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival'06 "SF TOKYO @ 667Shotwell" 667 Shotwell, San Francisco, USA
Park recipe Work Shop No1 and No1 MINAMI Kindergarten, Saitama, Japan
Sacrifice of today Akihabara area, Tokyo, Japan
Raft Travel, JR Yamanote Line, Tokyo, Japan
HELP ME!/in the vegetable store Asagaya vegetable store, Tokyo, Japan
Neo fest movie festival 2006, Space Neo, Tokyo, Japan
The special society movie festival Vol.63 Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan
The Day of 39@rt, Saitama residential area, Japan
creative garden, Yokohama Akarenga, Kanagawa, Japan
[2005]
Japan-France movie festival "eating your time", Nakano Zero, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese soldier Art project, Mentawai villages, Sibert island, Indonesia
i weat, you weat Vol.2, Forth Floor, Tokyo, Japan
11 wolves with Aozora Kikin, Asagaya college of art and design, Tokyo, Japan
i weat,you weat Vol.1, Forth Floor, Tokyo, Japan
Kino-animage Vol.2, Zamuza Asagaya, Tokyo, Japan
[2004]
Animation 80 movie festival 30th, Nakano Zero, Tokyo, Japan
Kino-animage Vol.1, Asagaya college of art and design, Tokyo, Japan
Nama, SK art gallery, Tokyo, Japan