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Hey Arakawa

He comes from Fukushima, where he was born in 1977. He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Bard College. He teaches at Hunter College School of Visual Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Received the Altoids Award, and since 1998 He lives and works in New York. He is a performance artist who incorporates installation and film into his practice, and often involves friends, passers-by and other artists. He collaborates with his brother Tomoo at United Brothers on projects that explore the present and history of Fukushima. In an effort to perceive ethnic and cultural identity, he travels the world, seeking to discover how his objects can acquire a distilled idea and feeling of the places he has visited. His performative works, often collaborative, explore the colloquial in artistic production and he said: ``In my performance I always want there to be some relationship with other projects I've done or with the projects of my friends, which they did and which influenced me. `.The performances are based on historical references, but the narratives and events relate to psychotic and interrelational experience. Obviously, he took inspiration from the Japanese post-war art groups - Jiknen Kobo, Gutai and Hi Red Center, and he also collaborates with Fluxus. If he gets too much attention as a performer, he features other artists in his work and lets the audience do the performance. Sometimes the performance is accompanied by music and dance, screening and installation. Thus, in Taka Ishii Gallery- Tokyo 2017 An exhibition of an installation in a musical style with pictures by 5 Gutai artists, a hand-made LED screen, is presented. It is a new work - ``Tryst '' in which the pictures were already used in 2011. In the performance ``See Weeds '' (a performance in which images are installed on wheels that dance to background music based on text from an interview with Gutai members discussing human relationships in their group), produced around 1959, calling David Zimerman as composer and Dan Poston as contributor to the text on post-war Japanese art within a larger modern art history. Previously collaborated with Aki Takahashi (pianist) and Sergei Tcherepnin (artist) to create `Shiro nome / Blue Hood Environmental Mechanical Orchestra – Imagining Kuniharu Akiyama' (2013) – a work that includes poetry, objects and music relating to the poet and composer Kuniharu Akiyama, a member of the experimental workshop Jikken Kobo. In ``Frieze Live '' he initiates problems caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011. Presenting a vegetable soup (presumably healthy) prepared by his mother. He will point out: ``I am currently working on a series of performance projects related to the Japanese nuclear crisis and its relevance and irrelevance in the New York art world. '' In doing so, he collaborates with his brother, who runs a tanning salon in Iwaki, Fukushima, and uses various machines and other tanning aids as a source of inspiration. He holds performances in many cities, including Zurich, Luneburg, Tokio, Chicago, London...