Fuyuki Yamakawa is an ‘avant-garde khoomei singer’ and performance/installation artist who works with bare light bulbs, yogic breath, medical equipment, modified musical instruments and the amplified sound of his heartbeat [read more]
With choreography by Yuka Kobayashi and costumes by Taisuke Abe, She de cusu oh chee! is a Japanese performance troupe of escapist alter egos [read more]
Kiiiiiii according to Kiiiiiii [read more]
It seemed like a pretty standard uptight fashion week party at TRUMP ROOM last night, until the Trippple Nippples exploded onto the dance floor with screams, water pistols, glitter bombs, fake blood and feathers, whipping everyone up into a messy mania before disappearing as quickly as they appeared. You better brace yourselves for these guys before they perform at our event in December! [read more]
Kathy’s eerie and ritualistic performances are like nothing else; think moulin rouge meets meets victorian morality meets lucifer rising. And they are one of our first confirmed guests for the huge Kirin Big In Japan event that is taking place this December at CarriageWorks [read more]
Meet the Trippple Nippples, your new best friends / favourite Tokyo fem performance outfit. They will bring to the relationship their unhinged DIY aesthetic, an inimitably intense live energy and a song about teaching your nipples to speak. ‘Express’ yourself! [read more]
Hiroaki Umeda will be lighting up The Studio at the Sydney Opera House next month when he brings his otherworldly moves and aesthetic to Australia for the first time [read more]
Stepping into a Hiromi Tango instillation is like seeing the results of her chaotic/kawaii soul stripped bare and laid out, in all its lo-fi psychedelic glory. There’s origami, balls of wool, faux flowers, needle-crafts, nick-knacks, letters, sequins, dolls and every shade of pink. Hiromi’s art is one of intimacy and conversation. She temporarily occupies public spaces like shop windows with her personal things and her self, and from there she interacts with anyone who passes by, swapping letters and gifts, even having them sleep over. Currently on show in the IMA’s Fresh Cuts exhibition is the most recent incarnation of the Japanese-born Brisbane-based artist’s Hiromi Hotel series, which dissolves the line between public and domestic spaces, as well as the artist/spectator divide [read more]
Do blank canvases make you nervous? Why not make like Ushio Shinohara and show them who’s boss with a few good punches in their blank faces?! [read more]