Art, Performance and Activism in Contemporary Japan
Date: 19 January 2012 – 26 February 2012
Venue: Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park
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, Cho Yukio’s thought-provoking Pandemic, 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.
The East Foundation is a registered charity (1142886) in the UK. Our charitable objects are to promote, maintain, improve and advance education for the public in the arts and culture of East Asia, in particular but not exclusively the arts of drama, mime, dance, singing and music. 
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