Ei Arakawa-Nash

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Ei Arakawa-Nash (b. 1977, Fukushima) is a queer Japanese American performance artist based in Los Angeles. His exhibitions and performances are often created through collaborations with artists (and at times their artworks), art historians, and with audience members themselves. His activities undertake the lo-fi mimicry, duplication, and embodiment of cultural forms—be they architectural structures, art historical legacies, or organizational systems—to reanimate their potentialities anew. Since the early 2000s, Arakawa has been at the forefront of renewing the visibility and advancement of performance art internationally, and has mined both its vintage forms (such as Japanese Gutai, New York’s Fluxus, Happenings, and Judson Dance Theater, and Viennese Actionism) as well as numerous contemporary manifestations of movement, entertainment, and togetherness. His work, initially appearing spontaneous or improvised, is underpinned by a deep commitment to collaboration as well as addressing the specific contexts of the people for which it is created. He is a core faculty at the Graduate Art program at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Ei Arakawa-Nah is represented by Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Galerie Max Mayer, Berlin, Overduin & Co, Los Angeles, Reena Spaulings, New York, and Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna.

DINNER

After the lecture, SCA Members and their guests are invited to join the artist for dinner at Shaw's Crab House.

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