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Performance: Eiko and Koma

April 20, 2017
6:00-7:00pm
Art Institute of Chicago
Free with museum admission (meet in Griffin Court)
http://www.artic.edu/event/live-art-eiko-and-koma

Renowned performance artists Eiko Otake and Koma Otake, known as the groundbreaking duo Eiko and Koma, present solo performances in response to the exhibition Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance, 1960–75. Eiko performs A Body in the Art Institute, an intimate meditation on how a frail, itinerant body can occupy a public space with surprising force. Following this performance, Koma presents a variation on his first solo work The Ghost Festival, a Tango-inflected evocation of what haunts us. The work of both artists reflects the influence, however muted by time, of the Provoke movement of 1960s Japan.

Symposium: “Provoke — Between Protest and Performance, 1960-1975”

April 21, 2017
2:30-5:00pm
Art Institute of Chicago, Price Auditorium
Free with museum admission; registration required
http://www.artic.edu/event/symposium-provoke-between-protest-and-performance-1960-1975

On the occasion of the exhibitions Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance 1960-1975 and Takuma Nakahira: Circulation, renowned scholars discuss photography of the Provoke era in postwar Japan.

Renowned performance artist Eiko Otake leads a pre-symposium workshop at 12:00 in Griffin Court that is free with museum admission.