Naoko Tanaka:
Unverinnerlicht
Unverinnerlicht
In places where reason cannot penetrate, I imagine that all forgotten, unmemorable, and un-internalized experiences can still take shape.
What lies behind, between, and around our memories? A space populated by the un-internalized. We find ourselves in spheres of images, emotions, things visible and invisible. We are surrounded by dark expanses, where shadows take on immense weight.
Naoko Tanaka’s work invites spectators to try and envisage the present as memory, to set loose in the sea of lost images. Her choreography of light takes us into our ‘inner outside world’ and traces the spatial and temporal boundaries of the imagination. Un-internalized fragments swarm into view, become material, manifest, take shape as plastic poetry. As if viewed from the lonely perspective of a child keenly experiencing the world, the objects float, bob up and down, and circle us in changing states of deformation and flux.
CONCEPT, SET DESIGN, SCULPTURE, PERFORMANCE Naoko Tanaka MUSICAL COLLABORATION Luca Fogagnolo DRAMATURGICAL COLLABORATION Adam Czirak TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, SET DESIGN Thomas Lehmen LIGHT DESIGN, TECHNIQUE Felix Grimm, Andreas Harder ASSISTANCE, PERFORMANCE Alise Michon PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro.
A production by Naoko Tanaka in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, PACT Zollverein Essen and Kunststiftung NRW. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
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.
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