Art, Performance & Activism

Pump House Gallery, London

In Contemporary Japan. This exhibition brings together the work of contemporary artists from Japan who explore how art, performance and activism meet. They offer a range of perspectives on aspects of Japan's contemporary culture and disputed history.

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Curated by Professor Fran Lloyd of Kingston University, London and Professor Rebecca Jennison of Kyoto Seika University, Japan

Artists: DumbType, Teiji Furuhashi, Soni Kum, Bubu de la Madeleine & Sohei Yamada, Yoshiko Shimada, Chikako Yamashiro

Art, Performance & Activism features the work of artists/activists based in Japan who push the boundaries of where art, performance and activism intersect. Presenting visually powerful and pioneering works from the mid-1990s to the present the exhibition explores differing strategies of intervention that seek to engage in contemporary debates and to change how we think and act.

Engaging with contemporary themes of art and action, private and public, memory and identity, the exhibition is the first to present their work in the UK and to provide a context for their interventions. Works include Teiji Furuhashi’s mesmerising solo production, The Lovers (Dying Pictures, Loving Pictures) and S/N performance by the Kyoto-based art collective DumbType, the print-based activist work of Yoshiko Shimada, and the visceral performance-based film work of emergent artists Soni Kum and Chikako Yamashiro. Provocative, beautiful, haunting, disturbing…moving.

Performance and Activism in Contemporary Japan has been kindly supported by:
POLA Art Foundation
Japan Foundation
Japan Foundation Endowment Committee
Japan Society
British Council
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
The Saison Foundation
Kingston University
Kyoto Seika University

Exhibition Events:
ARTIST'S TALK: Soni Kum
ARTISTS’ TALK: Yoshiko Shimada
CURATORS' TOUR: Fran Lloyd & Rebecca Jennison
MONTHLY DO: Drawing as One - with artist Yoshiko Shimada
MONTHLY DO: Performance workshop with artist Soni Kum
Yamashiro Chikako

Private View: 17 January 6.30 – 8.30pm

Pump House Gallery
Battersea Park, London
Opening Times: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 11am - 5pm. Saturday and Sunday 11am - 4pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday and during exhibition installations
Admission free

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