Naoko Tanaka:
Unverinnerlicht
Unverinnerlicht
„Out there, where our reason and logic can’t reach, I imagine that all our forgotten, non-memorable and not internalized experiences can find a form.”
In her light and shadow choreography, Naoko Tanaka swims in a sea of lost images. In an attempt to understand the present as a memory, she leads us into our inner external world and feels around for the limits of time and space in this perception.
CONCEPT, STAGE DESIGN, SCULPTURE, PERFORMANCE Naoko Tanaka MUSICAL COLLABORATION Luca Fogagnolo DRAMATURGIC COLLABORATION Adam Czirak TECHNICS
Thomas Lehmen ASSISTANCE Alise Michon, Finn Leon Cam, Marie Golüke COMPANY MANAGEMENT ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Produced by Naoko Tanaka in coproduction with PACT Zollverein and SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by teh MAyer of Berlin – Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten and the Kunststiftung NRW.
photo © Naoko Tanaka + Finn Leon Cam
NAOKO TANAKA studied fine arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts and came to Germany in 1999 as a scholarship holder at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Since then, she has been developing performances and installations that closely combine choreography and visual art. She was invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland in 2010, along with the artist collective Ludica. and the choreographer Morgan Nardi. In 2011, Naoko Tanaka created her first solo piece Die Scheinwerferin, which was successfully performed throughout Europe. The piece received the Prix Jardin d'Europe 2012 as well as the ZKB Anerkennungspreis at the Zürcher Theaterspektakel. In 2012 the performance was also shown at Sophiensælen, followed by the premiere of Absolute Helligkeit in the same year. With Unverinnerlicht (2015), she completed her shadow trilogy, which was shown in its entirety in 2017. Most recently, Tanaka showed the work Still Lives (2018) at the Sophiensælen. Here she realized the conceptual, as well as the spatial and sound design.
