“A body“ Series
A body of 48
2025
My late grandmother wrote a journal about loss of her first husband by atomic bomb on 15th August 1945. She left me many memory and I wished to explore how culture, hometown, history and memory are accumulated in one’s body. The work aims to challenge to interpret the invisible yet profound one’s cultural and historical identity created over generations through movement and media images.
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Photography
Teo Swee An
A body of 45
2022
Continuing to the Takashi’s ‘A Body’ series, A body of 45 is a new experimental, site-specific solo performance work, as a part of the MAP Fest 2022. In this work, Taka attempts to create discord and distorted narratives through three poems written by the 3 prominent Japanese poets, Syuntaro Tanikawa, Ryokan, and Michio Mado.
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Year
27/08/2022
A body of 44
2021
For a year of my 44th year of age, I had a look at my own face in the mirror more than ever before, maybe because of the pandemic/lockdown or maybe because of the mid-age crisis that has been in existence for the past 2 years. Having noticed the yet-to-deep but clear wrinkles, an increasing amount of grey hairs, and some dark spots on my face, I realised once again that I have been getting old as all do.
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Year
17/11/2021