Tadasu Takamine

Born in Kagoshima, Japan, in 1968, Tadasu Takamine is a controversial, thought provoking, and irreverent media, video, and installation artist. His performance and moving image works engage almost masochistic levels of endurance, often focusing on themes of sexuality, humanity, and the body. Takamine received his degree from Kyoto City University of Arts and Music’s Craft Division. He later studied at the International Academy of Media-Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Gifu, Japan. He is a frequent collaborator with dancers and other performance and media artists, including the influential Japanese multimedia-performance group Dumb Type, which he was an active member of from 1992 to 1997. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Jerusalem Center for the Visual Arts, Banff Center for the Arts, Saw Video Centre for the Media Arts, Ottawa, and the Yokohama Museum of Art, which culminated in a solo exhibition entitled Too Far To See (2011). He has exhibited extensively throughout Asia, North America, and Europe, including as part of the 2003 Venice Biennale, the 2004 Busan Biennale, the 2005 Yokohama Triennial, and the 2010 Aichi Triennial, as well as exhibited in Australia, Israel, Mexico, and South Africa.

For his residency, Takamine will give a public talk and visit interdisciplinary, graduate, and undergraduate visual art classes.

Events

Artist Talk: Tadasu Takamine
February 06, 2018 at 6:00pm
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre
SFU at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings, Vancouver
Free

About AVAIR

The Audain Visual Artist in Residence program brings artists and practitioners to Vancouver who have contributed significantly to the field of contemporary art and whose work resonates with local and international visual art discourses. The visiting artists interact with the students and faculty of the School for the Contemporary Arts as well as the broader visual arts and cultural communities. The program is generously funded by the Audain Foundation Endowment Fund.