Koki Tanaka's video work "Beholding Performer, Performing Beholder," selected to represent Japan at the 55th Venice Biennale, which will be held in Italy from June 2013, has been shown in Japan for the first time. The exhibition is held at the Costume National Aoyama Complex Lab (CNAC LAB) in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, and runs until July 31st. This work was exhibited for approximately three months at the "Made in L.A." Biennale held at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2012. It is a video installation consisting of three drawings, ten circular mirrors, and twenty chairs. The video was produced in collaboration with two marimba players from the UCLA School of Music, the parent institution of the Hammer Museum. One player watches the other perform through a handheld mirror. The video of the two is then projected onto a screen. Additionally, multiple mirrors have been installed within the exhibition space to reflect the viewers themselves. Through the video and mirrors, this creates a space in which the viewer's own image, the video, the venue, and the images of other viewers coexist in a single space.

Koki Tanaka is an artist and filmmaker born in Tochigi Prefecture in 1975 and currently living in Los Angeles. He graduated from Tokyo Zokei University and completed a master's course at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School. Since 2000, he has held numerous exhibitions not only throughout Japan but also overseas, including Milan, Rome, Paris, Rotterdam, Vienna, Copenhagen, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Zealand, Vancouver, Beijing, Seoul, and Taipei.


[Event Information]
Koki Tanaka "Beholding Performer, Performing Beholder"
Duration: Until July 31, 2013
Venue: CNAC LAB
Address: 5-4-30 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Opening Hours: 11:00 - 19:00