We are pleased to present Aki Goto “Follower”, a video screening and performance. “Follower” is a diary-like one-minute short video project started in 2019, documenting the transitions of family, environment, time and one’s self. It is an activity that encompasses all thoughts, emotions and universal elements of the everyday. The project will consist of two videos re-edited for this occasion, as well as a collaboration with the artist Hanayo in the first part, and a performance by the Goto in the second part. You will witness a space filled with organic energy that will forever expand.

 

We look forward to your visit.

 

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Date:

Saturday, August 10

Part 1 with Hanayo: 1pm ー 2 pm | Admission: 1,500 JPY

Part 2: 4pm ー 5pm | Admission: 1,000 JPY

 

Reservations required

Please send your name, e-mail address, phone number, and preferred program (Part 1 or Part 2 or both) to the e-mail address below. We will reply only to those who are able to join.

event[a]cosmicwonder.com

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Venue:

Center for COSMIC WONDER

5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866

Open noon – 6pm

 

INSTAGRAM: @a3igo1o

 

Aki Goto

Aki Goto is a multimedia artist mainly working in video, installation and sound these days. Originally from Japan, textile art brought Goto to NYC in 2009. It was during this time that Goto worked as an artist assistant for Susan Cianciolo. It was an awakening for her of what textile art can do, and the different contexts in which it could function. Not long after, Goto relocated to upstate NY, where the natural world became an integral element in her work. It was there where her art and life finally blended as one. During the early period of 2020, Goto made the most of a Covid-era lockdown by filming her children in acutely edited short videos to share on social media and now there are over 300. Goto has exhibited her work at EUROPA, CLEARING, Nonaka Hill Gallery, Starr Suites, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz NY, etc. She is exhibiting a video installation at Museum of Gaspe (CA) this July – September.

Goto also performs alongside Masami Tomihisa as Masaaki, an avant-garde pop music unit.

 

Hanayo

She studied in Paris while majoring in sculpture at Tamagawa University College of Arts. In 1989, soon after her return from Paris, Hanayo began training as a geisha apprentice in Mukojima. She retired from the geisha world in 1995 and moved to the UK in 1995. Currently based in Berlin and Tokyo, she has made works throughout her career as a photographer, geisha, musician, and model. Her photographs and collages capture her daily life in a dreamlike light that colors her surroundings. She has also exhibited installations, in which music and three-dimensional elements are added to her collages and photographs. She performs frequently and has participated in numerous group and international exhibitions in Japan and abroad. Her solo exhibitions include “utsushiyumekuni”, PARCO GALLERY (Tokyo, 2000); “hanayo”, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2002); “hanayo III” Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film (Tokyo, 2017). Her publications include Hanayome (Shinchosha, 1996); MAGMA (AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2008); berlin (Getsuyosha, 2013); Tenko (Case Publishing, 2016); Hanayo’s Underworld: Half a Century (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2021). Her music albums include wooden veil (dekorder, 2009); Gift (DHR Geist, 2000).