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Fluctuating Being – Now and in the Future

Speaker: Yukako Tanaka
Date: January 16th 2024, 19:00 JST
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"Throughout my practice, I have explored the theme of 'existence' since the early stages, contemplating and researching what it means to 'be'. As part of this exploration, I've been thinking about human evolution. After the pandemic, the fluctuation between physical and virtual experiences has accelerated. In our current state, how can we understand and interpret our own existence?"

"In this talk, I will explore the concept of 'being' by drawing on my past practice, focusing primarily on works that have addressed aspects of human evolution, and delving into posthumanism."

About Yukako Tanaka

Her practice is characterised by a fusion of science, art and philosophy, and she has worked in cross-disciplinary collaboration with scholars in astrophysics, neuroscience and biology. The themes of her work have considered the idea of being, and in doing so have dealt with presence and absence, time, memory and human evolution.

Graduated from Royal College of Art, MA/Contemporary Art Practice, Public Sphere in 2021 and received Princess of Wales Award 2018/19 (RCA/Contemporary Art Practice) in first year. She is currently studying on the PGCert/teaching licence programme at the University of the Arts London and is working to Central Saint Martins, Performance Design & Practice as an Associate Lecturer. Also, from November 2023 to 2025, she will be working with King's College London, Nanotechnology department on the collaborative programme "Transcending the Invisible ".

In 2022, he was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022, won the Emerging Artists Prize, the newcomer prize of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2022, and was a finalist in the CIRCA X Dazed Class of 2022. In January-March 2022, the prize was awarded to the youngest artist in the world. From January to March 2022, she will hold a solo exhibition 'Fluctuating Fluctuations: now=then here=elsewhere' at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Gallery in London. In 2020, she participated as a member of the Ethereal Antimatter Challenge in the almost two-month-long Hackathon "#SciCommHack" at CERN in Geneva.

Recent group exhibitions: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022, Hull/London (2022); Aesthetica Art Prize 2022, York (2022); YOBITSUGI: Beyond Repair, White Conduit Gallery, London (2022); London Grads Now. 21, Saatchi Gallery, London (2021); Sound and Vision, Royal Academy of Music, London (2020); Late Light 2019,. King's College, London (2019); and SICF20, Spiral Hall, Tokyo (2019) etc.

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About the Talk

  • The talk will be in-person at BioClub Tokyo and online at https://zoom.bioclub.tokyo
  • The talk is free, please join
  • The talk will be in Japanese, Q &A can be also in English