Out of the Ordinary: Koki Tanaka
Art AsiaPacific, Summer 2013, no. 84, pp. 66-73
Koki Tanaka's video installations explore relationships between objects and actions, played on a loop, so that the viewer takes notice of the mundane phenomena of everyday existence.
ITEM 2013.098 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Walking Through (2009), Everything is Everything, Physical Test (2007-08) Approach to an Old House (2008), Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture (2008), Walk Through, – Koki Tanaka
test nos. 1-2 (2009), Haircut by 9 Hairdressers at Once (second attempt) (2010) – Guy Debord
Perspectives for Conscious Alterations in Everyday Life (1961) – Henri Lefebvre
Clearing the Ground (1961) – Rosalind Krauss
Passages in Modern Sculpture (1981) – Richard Serra
Hand Gatching Lead (1968), Verb List (1967-68)