Performance: Sculptural Rebirth 脱皮的彫刻 by Tadasu Takamine

Join us to experience Sculptural Rebirth 脱皮的彫刻, an experimental collaboration between Japanese artist Tadasu Takamine and art student participants from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD). The work exists between sculpture and performance.

This performance is free for Experience Members and above and ticketed at the reduced price of $10 for Ideas Members and $15 for Access Pass Holders. For non-members, the performance will be $15 in addition to the cost of Gallery admission.

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Doors open at 1:30 PM. The performance will begin at 2 PM and last about 70 minutes.

Please note that capacity is limited, and seating will be first come, first served. The first 40 attendees will be seated in the performance space. The remaining attendees will have a partial view of the performance and will be able to watch via a live stream from overflow space in the 3rd Floor gallery.

If cost is a barrier to you or if you have any access requests for this event, please email learn@vanartgallery.bc.ca or call 604 662 4700.

The performance is organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery with the generous support of Emily Carr University of Art + Design and their NSERC Mobilize grant. It is directed by artist Tadasu Takamine and curated by Makiko Hara, Curator in Residence.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Tadasu Takamine 高嶺格 was born in 1968 in Kagoshima, Japan and is based in Tokyo. He employs various media including video, installation and stage performance to reveal buried social issues, often engaging with his own body and personal experiences. Takamine has developed his unique experimental live installation-performance practices through workshops with local participants over several decades, which he incorporates in much of his recent artwork.   

 Takamine’s works can be laced with a sense of pain and frustration and are deeply personal. Often placing audiences in uncomfortable situations, Takamine calls into question their sense of belonging, while conveying through untrained awkward bodies, an underlying warm, naive humanity that longs for others.   

 Takamine’s work is highly acclaimed in both Japan and abroad. Solo exhibitions include Too Far to See, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England, 2011; Cool Japan, Mito Art Centre, Japan, 2012; Japan Syndrome, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2013; and Brothers, TKG Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2016. Takamine has also participated in the Venice Biennale, 2003; Busan Biennale, 2004; Asian Pacific Triennale, 2012; and Aichi Triennale in 2019. Takamine was the Audain Visual Artist in Residence at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts in 2018 and is currently the professor and Chair of the Sculpture Department at Tama Art University, Tokyo. 

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Makiko Hara 原万希子 is an independent curator, lecturer, writer and art and cultural consultant based in Vancouver, BC. From 2007 to 2013, she was Chief Curator/Deputy Director of Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. In addition, she has worked with many local and international visual artists on a variety of large-scale projects as an independent curator, including Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2009); AIR YONAGO, Tottori Geijyu Art Festival, Yonago, Japan (2014–15); Fictive Communities Asia– Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan (2014); and Rock Paper Scissors: Cindy Mochizuki, Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan (2018). Hara was Guest Curator of Koganecho Bazaar in 2014 and at Kamloops Art Gallery in 2021. Between 2017 and 2022, Hara served on the advisory committee for the International Exchange Center, Akita University of Art, Japan, and organized numerous international exchange programs. Hara co-founded Pacific Crossings, a British Columbia-based curatorial platform, in 2018. Pacific Crossings has initiated and organized numerous conversations, residencies and cultural exchanges, both online and offline, across the Pacific. Hara received the Alvin Balkind Curator’s Prize in 2020. She is currently Curator in Residence at the Vancouver Art Gallery.