Events

Artist Aki Sasamoto will give a talk as part of the Claflin Lecture Series

Feb. 1, 2023, 5:00 p.m.
Location:

Taylor Hall, Room 203

Aki Sasamoto works in sculpture, performance, video, and more. In her installation/performance works, Sasamoto moves and talks inside the careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, activating bizarre emotions behind daily life. Her works appear in gallery spaces, theater spaces, and odd sites. Her works were shown at SculptureCenter, the Kitchen, Chocolate Factory Theater, Whitney Biennial 2010, MOMA-PS1, New York; Aichi Triennale 2022, National Museum of Art-Osaka, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Yokohama Triennale 2008, Japan; Busan Biennale 2022, Gwangju Biennial 2012, South Korea; Shanghai Biennale 2016, China; Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, India; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands; the 59th Venice Biennale, Italy.

Free and open to the public.
 

 

Aki Sasamoto lying on the floor, peering through a window made of paper.
Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2022 Sasamoto Aki, Squirrel Ways: Thickness of Borders, 2022 ©︎ Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee Photo: ToLoLo studio