Events

Tokyo Art Meeting "Transformation"

29 October 2010 - 30 January 2011

Along the theme of metamorphosis and disguise, the visual art exhibition  Transformation will include 21 artists from 15 countries, including those of Patricia Piccinini from Australia. 

While bodily transformation has long been a pre-occupation of thinkers and artists in the east and west, it has taken place in accelerated and more profound ways in recent decades along with new technologies. Experiments with the non-human - animals, organic-design, robotics, cyborgs – are manifest in cosmetic surgery, biotechnology and organ transplantation, among other things. Contemporary art has taken a transdisciplinary tack in order to negotiate these changes. This exhibition is an example of such a process, in which Yuko Hasegawa, Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, collaborates with anthropologist and co-curator Nakazawa Shinichi in collecting from the recent historical and sub-cultural art archives examples of changing organic forms in the world.

Patricia Piccinini

Born in 1965 in Sierra Leone, Piccinini lives and works in Melbourne. Graduated from the Australian National University in Economics and the Victorian College of the Arts in Fine Arts, Piccinini has exhibited at the 2nd Berlin Biennale, in the Songs of Earth exhibition in Cassel, and the Gwangju Biennale among many others. Her work is focused on the theme of mutation and the environment, working in sculpture, video and digital prints in response to developments in genetic manipulation, biotechnology and the machine-human interface. Her body of work can be seen as engaged in designing new prototypic organic forms. 

      Share

We look forward to hearing your feedback regarding this event.

2010 Events Archive Page