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Ei Arakawa

WEWORK BABIES, 2019, Artists Space, New York

How can we imagine a dynamic structure around babies and shape it (or refuse to shape it) so that we can be more free?

Performed by Ei Arakawa, Malik Gaines, Sohee Kim, Erika Landström, Shuang Liang, George Liu, Yuri Manabe, Molly McFadden, Gela Patashuri, Jamie Stevens, Tinatin Tsiklauri, Some music by Stefan Tcherepnin & Igor Törnudd-Tcherepnin, Camera 1 by Sanggu Simon Chon.

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Ei Arakawa & Christian Naujoks

Warmhole Starshine (Score created in 2017)

A music score with ass-conducting.

Part of Ari Benjamin Meyers, Kunsthalle for Music, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2019

Performed by: Mika Hayashi Ebbesen (Cello), Booker Stardrum (Butt Conducting), Diego Gaeta (Keyboard), Garrett Wingfield (Saxophone), Marta Tiesenga (Saxophone), Nigel Deane (Vocal), Pauline Lay (Percussion), Camera by: Ei Arakawa

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Music: Sergei Tcherepnin & Stefan Tcherepnin, LAVA LOVE, 2018

A short elegy for eyes, UV, and lava. Shot at various locations in Italy. With a quote from Heinrich von Ofterdingen, written by Novalis.

Video montage: from Kerstin Brätsch & UNITED BROTHERS, M△XM△GM△L△▽△, 2018

CAST: Tanja Nis-Hansen, Beatrice Marchi, Astrid Kajsa Nylander, Davide Stucchi, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Camera by: Kerstin Brätsch, UNITED BROTHERS, Mattia Ruffolo

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My Shared Medium (Gustave Courbet, The Meeting, 1854) is a song from Ei Arakawa’s Harsh Citation, Harsh Pastoral, Harsh Münster at Sculpture Project Münster 2017. Music by Christian Naujoks. Lyrics by Ei Arakawa and Dan Poston.

“Arakawa staged a light and sound show on the south-western end of Lake Aa. He grouped seven pixelated LED paintings he assembled himself on the grassy space. Paintings by Gustave Courbet, Nikolas Gambaroff, Jutta Koether, Joan Mitchell, Amy Sillman, Reena Spaulings, and Atsuko Tanaka served as source material for these panels.”

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How To DISappear In America

A musical based on Seth Price’s fiction from 2008, which itself appropriates from 1960s countercultural handbooks.

CAST: Åskar Brickman, Miho Hatori, Jake Hart, Anne Fidler, Dan Poston, Ei Arakawa, Stefan Tcherepnin, Tara Tolaas, Thea Djordjadze

DIRECTION: Ei Arakawa
MUSIC: Stefan Tcherepnin
LYRICS: Ei Arakawa & Dan Poston

SOFTWARE: Andrew Steinmetz
STAGE MANAGEMENT: Eliel Jones

“Arakawa & Gambaroff travelled through Armenia earlier this year. The trip was originally set up as a heritage visit for Gambaroff’s mother who, born to an Armenian father, had never been to the country. … instead of documenting the trip, the artists interviewed the participants on their return to the U.S., asking them to recollect memories, to analyze the group dynamics of the trip and the psychological shifts in their perceptions.

The artists fictionalized these recollections in a film, Plates of Getashen, turning this approximation of a collective memory into a mini drama. Shooting the drama in three versions, with three sets of actors, presented each actor with an unlikely precedent, as each was mostly experienced in mainstream US television roles. The actors were presented with abstract psychological profiles of the characters, giving each one a superabundance of information with which to interpret the characters and allowing for a huge number of potential relationships and slippages between the actors, the characters, and the people they play.”

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Ei Arakawa & Nikolas Gambaroff

Plates of Getashen

CAST:

Group 1 - Megan Zhang (Jenny), Kiké Adedeji (Karina), Travis Owens (David), Yao Xie (Satoshi), Andrew C Valenzuela (Zaza)

Group 2 - Donna Lieu (Jenny), Sherry Michaels (Karina), Aron T. Garcia (David), Rich Go-2 (Satoshi), Tim Molyneux (Zaza)

Group 3 - Jacqueline Yu (Jenny), Pamela Lambert (Karina), Ian Mark (David), Kiyoichi Kondo (Satoshi), David Michael (Zaza)

Camera by: Thomas Torress

Sound by: Skye Chamberlain

E Ho Mai / Ke Lei Maila ‘O Ka’ula I ke Kai / E Ala E
Kūnihi Ka Mauna
A Ka Luna I Pu’u’oni’oni’ (Choreography: Luana Haraguchi)
Ua Nani Hāʻena I Ka ʻEhu Kai (Choreography: Darrell Lupenui)
Hana Waimea (Choreography: Nani Lim Yap)
He Nani Ha’upu (Choreography: Uncle George Na’ope)
Nā Uwē O Nā Manu (Choreography: Darrell Lupenui)
Hamakua (Choreography: Uncle George Na’ope)

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Pre-Christianity Hula Kahiko presented by:

Hālau Hula O Na Mele 'Āina O Hawai'i

Serpentine Gallery, London 2016

Luana Haraguchi (Kumu Hula), Christine Casil (Alaka’i), Ronald DelosTrino, Jr. (Alaka’i), Ei Arakawa, Brigita Bryant, Roxanne Dyer, Michiko Sugiyama

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Jiro, Digital Painting

The Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA

CAST: Ei Arakawa, Kim Hoang, Eliel Jones, Fabián Leyva-Barragan, Dan Poston, David Louis Zuckerman

DIRECTION: Ei Arakawa
MUSIC: David Louis Zuckerman with Ei Arakawa & Dan Poston
LYRICS: Ei Arakawa & Dan Poston

SOFTWARE: Andrew Steinmetz

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Seira, Düsseldorf presents:

Ei Arakawa & Shimon Minamikawa

Forever Now (2015)

at Dan Graham's "Two-Way Mirror Hedge, Almost Complete Circle" (Damaged)
K21, Düsseldorf, Germany

A self-organized performance at the public sculpture, after the exhibition "The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World" at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Ei Arakawa & Karl Holmqvist

WE HEART EARTH HEAT (pOEtry jOUrnEy) (2014)

“Olafur Eliasson's solar light-based project Little Sun is a work of art that works in life.” Arakawa and Holmqvist took a journey and reused this art device. The video was originally presented at the exhibition at Hollybush Garden, London.

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Ei Arakawa & Shimon Minamikawa

PARIS ADAPTED HOMELAND (Episode 6) (2013)

Arakawa excercizing with the early paintings by Minamikawa. Earlier episodes took place in Paris, the old capital of Modern paintings history. Painting travels Tokyo to Paris back and forth.

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Ei Arakawa, Aki Takahashi, Sergei Tcherpnin

Shiro no me / Blue Hood / Environmental Mechanical Orchestra – Imagining Kuniharu Akiyama (2013)

Iwaki City Museum, Fukushima, Japan

Arakawa and Tcherenin channel the spirit of Kuniharu Akiyama with the help of the pianist Aki Takahashi. Akiyama was the key member of post-WWII Japanese collective Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop). The performance took place at Arakawa’s birth town.

This lipsync musical is about the first generation of video artists in 70s Japan through the eyes of MoMA’s long-term media curator Barbara London. This is the 3rd part of the musical where the audience was transformed while hearing information about video collectives.

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Paris & Wizard (2013)

Direction: Ei Arakawa
Music: Stefan Tcherepnin
Lyrics: Ei Arakawa & Dan Poston

CAST: Marie Karlberg (Paris), Andrei Koschmieder (Wizard), Kashimi Asai (Nakaya-san), Anri Nakano (Mako-san), Shoko Fujita (Shigeko-san), Ei Arakawa (Yamaguchi-san), Dan Poston (Video Man 1), Stefan Tcherepnin (Video Man 2)

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“Nora Schultz performed a countdown, together with New York based artist Ei Arakawa, using a thin, flexible length of stainless steel that was bent into the form of each successive number. … The final “0” is a roughly corrugated approximation of the pristine, smoothly curved original “10”. The potential energy articulated here is that of material transformation, and the accumulation of allegory through simple means, from neutrality, through action. The zero point of this countdown—the return to neutrality—is impossible once the material has been loaded with the history of its transformations.” (Kristy Bell)

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Ei Arakawa in coorporation with the Gutai collection at Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, plus paintings by Picasso and Josh Smith …

See Weeds (2011)

Music: Prelude in D (1934)
Composed by Tadashi Ota
Piano played by Alexander Tcherepnine

Sketch (1934)
Composed by Bunya Koh
Piano played by Alexander Tcherepnine

Springtime at the Hills (1932)
Composed by Yasuji Kiyose
Piano played by Alexander Tcherepnine

Performers: Ei Arakawa, Camille Henri Clement, Léa Hodencq, Liis Lillo, Anna Mostosi, Davide Stucchi

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Grand Openings with Reiko Tomii

“Challenging Mud” as Archive

Excerpt from Grand Openings Return of The Blogs (2012) by Loretta Fahrenholz

Reiko Tomii “I Challenged Mud, After …”

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Ei Arakawa with Jutta Koether’s Mad Garland

Single’s Night

Excerpt from Grand Openings Return of The Blogs (2012) by Loretta Fahrenholz. The date of performance was 2011.

and the documentation from Tate Modern, London (2012)

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Ei Arakawa with Eleanor Erdman

Two Grahams (2007)

Performers: Ei Arakawa, Brittany Dreyer, Eleanor Erdman, Miki Ikeda, Sam Pulitzer, Patrick Price, Jessie Stead, Carly Whitehead and 2 other people.

Live Music: Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether

Music: The Static + The Coachmen, 8-Eyed Spy, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Contortions & Gynecologists (Originally recorded by Dan Graham)

Text by: Jutta Koether

This performance was a part of Gordon & Koether’s exhibition Dead Already at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York in 2007.

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Grand Openings (2006)

Tsunan High School, Nigata Japan

Special extracurricular activities by Grand Openings.

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Ei Arakawa

Mid-Yuming As Reconstruction Mood (2004)

Performers: Ei Arakawa, Alisa Baremboym, Sachiko Hirosue, Ikuko Ikari, Mari Mukai, Reiko Nagae, Yuri Yasuda