Documentary: tabi-imo: Tabaimo 2011-2017

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Documentary:
tabi-imo: Tabaimo 2011-2017

Tabaimo (b. 1975) converts her hand-drawn images into animation and incorporates them into installations, using multi-projection and other means of expression. The film introduces a new endeavor with dance, Bunraku and performance projects, in addition to her exhibitions in N.Y., Zurich, Sydney after the Venezia Biennale in 2011. Tabaimo also collaborated on the Japanese Inn project in Uwajima and with the museum collection at the Seattle Art Museum. In Kyoto, her artistic hometown, she exhibited a piece about the internet incorporating architectural features of the former Bank of Japan. “tabi-imo”, the 6thdocumentary of Tabaimo, reflects back on the artist’s transition through her interviews.

KIYA no Shimi
木屋の染み
2013
Kiya ryokan, Uwajima
22’10
TOZEN
2014
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney　
5’11
Sugimoto Bunraku: The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
杉本文楽　曽根崎心中
2014
inner-net
網の中
2017
The Museum of Kyoto
9’24

Profile

Tabaimo

Well known for animated installations which use drawings and coloration that evoke the hand-made nature of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, offer a surreal, complex and sometimes disturbing vision of contemporary Japanese society. In 2011, she represented Japan at the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. She has begun to work on a variety of stage collaborations, beginning with a collaboration with Ohad Naharin of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company in 2006. In 2016, she directed the performance, “Fruits borne out of rust. This performance work toured the U.S. in 2020, traveling to four U.S. cities. This year, the work “Tangled Drop”, a collaboration with circus artist Jörg Müller, toured Japan as the world premiere. And a tour of France had just finished at the end of last year. A new installation work was presented at the Folkwang Museum in Germany in 2022. And a large-scale solo exhibition at GL Strand in Copenhagen was held in 2023.

Special Programs

Documentary:
tabi-imo: Tabaimo 2011-2017

SCHEDULE

Nov 4, 2023　13:10: NEW CHITOSE AIRPORT THEATER
Theater 3