磯村暖

Artist. Working across painting, sculpture, video, sound installation, and project-based practices, she develops works that intersect different timescales, life activities, and forms of language/information. Interested in human existence that deviates from anthropocentric time consciousness and values, and biopolitics, she superimposes multiple layers—everyday rhythms, alternative evolution, and transformations of bodily functions—through a queer-time sensibility of repetition, shift, and stagnation. Furthermore, using science fiction imagination, references to social norms, and humor, she moves and transforms diverse media, questioning the very conditions for the establishment of meaning. Her major activities include a residency in New York through the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Fellowship, participation in the "Asian Art Biennale 2021" held at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and a presentation at "TEDxUTokyo 2023" at the Yasuda Auditorium of the University of Tokyo.

Artist image: Photography by Fumika Endo
Image of the artwork: Photography by Matsuo Uto

 

An artist whose practice spans pain ting, sculpture, video, sound installation, and project-based works, exploring intersections between differing temporal scales, forms of life activity, and modes of language and information. Their work is informed by an interest in forms of human existence that deviate from anthropocentric notions of time, systems of value, and biopolitics. Through queer temporal sensibilities such as repetition, disjunction, and stagnation, they layer multiple dimensions including everyday rhythms, alternative forms of evolution, and transformations of bodily functions. Drawing on speculative imagination, citations of social norms, and humor, the artist shifts continuously and transforms media in order to question the very conditions through which meaning is produced. Major activities include a residency in New York through the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Fellowship, participation in the “Asian Art Biennial 2021” at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and a presentation at “TEDxUTokyo 2023” held at Yasuda Auditorium, The University of Tokyo.

Profile credit: Portrait by Ayaka Endo
Artwork credit: Photo by Ujin Matsuo