Bookmark: Koki Tanaka
By the contributing artist
For Bookmark, ArtAsiaPacific invites an artist to share some of their online sources of inspiration and intrigue. This week we asked Japanese multi-media and video artist Koki Tanaka.
Tanaka's work revolves around found objects and situations, to uncover poetic quotidian dramas that delve into the most minute interactions between people and their everyday reality. Most recently, at the 2011 Yokohama Triennale, the artist used existing materials and equipment from the storerooms of the Yokohama Museum of Art to create a random room-like space with tatami mat flooring in what was usually a passageway—titled A whole museum could be used at once (2011). Within this he installed flat-screen televisions showing video documentation of previous projects, such as the self-explanatory A haircut by 9 hairdressers at once (second attempt) (2010), completed for Tanaka's 2010 solo show at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Fransisco.
