MILLIARDEN JAHRE WIDERHALL

In the organizer's words:

Performative exhibition by Naoko Tanaka

As part of the FWT thematic series Focus on: ROHSTOFFE - Buried Secrets

"Billions of Years of Echoes" is a performative exhibition that rethinks elementary and reciprocal relationships between people and their living terrain. Tanaka's exploration begins with her travels to the contaminated exclusion zone of Fukushima. A place where people's ambivalent relationship with the earth is interrupted in a catastrophic event. What happens when radioactive minerals reach the earth's surface from the depths through human use?

Performance, film, drawing and installation - a series of independent works together create a resonating space in which the echo of human influences on the earth takes on a sensual presence. The result is contemplative, sublime compositions that take the audience on an imaginative expedition into the distant past and the deeply undermined.

Naoko Tanaka (Tokyo, 1975)
studied painting and sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts and came to Germany in 1999 on a scholarship from the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where she came into contact with the performance and later the dance scene. Her interdisciplinary works include drawing, installation, performance and film. With the Shadow Trilogy (2011-2015), Tanaka developed an original format for performing installations - light, shadow and other moving objects are brought into choreographic and architectural compositions that can put the audience into an extraordinary mode of perception.

Language: German / little language
Duration: Performance approx. 35 minutes. After the performance, the space will be accessible as an exhibition.
Content notes: Naoko creates noises in places with a string, creating a weird and loud sound.

Thanks to: Yoshie Shibahara for the special technique of plastic foil, Theaterhaus G7 Mannheim, Kunsthaus Mitte in Oberhausen
Supported by the Kunststiftung NRW.
Research and preliminary work process supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, DIS-TANZEN aid program of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETZ Gastspielförderung Tanz, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the federal states.