TAKASHIMA Makiko
Concept
Evoking the tension of a stage-like moment, the light and colours symbolise the performative nature of social transformation and adaptation through the reflected figures of the viewer themselves and their surroundings. Influenced by sociologist Irving Goffman's theory of 'social performativity', the shifting roles and contradictions of everyday life, which change according to the scene and situation, are expressed through the play of light and the changing reflections. The work is a medium that illuminates our social behaviour and its nature through images that change according to environment, time and the presence of the viewer!
Profile
With a background as a professional dancer, she moved to the UK to explore the relationship between the body and space. She studied performing arts at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, completed a philosophy degree at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and graduated first in her Masters in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art. Installed an outdoor public sculpture in Battersea Park, London. She has worked in a variety of media, including installation, sculpture and video, on the theme of the relationship between technology, identity and the body, from a philosophical and ethnographic approach to the visualisation of the energy of natural phenomena such as sound, light and air. Also active as a performer. Based in Japan and the UK.