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*This talk is part of the CEAS Artists, Activists, and Academics in East Asia Series  

Eiko performs, exhibits, teaches, and writes about the massive violence and environmental disaster caused by nuclear weapons and the failures of nuclear power. She uses her body as a conduit to connect audience members and students to such places as Trinity, New Mexico, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima. This conversation with Rosemary Candelario will address the multi-faceted components of her A Body in Fukushima project, how she teaches her interdisciplinary college course about human experiences of nuclear matters, and her translation of and advocacy for literary works by HAYASHI Kyoko, a survivor of the Nagasaki A-Bomb. 

 

Raised in Japan and a resident of New York since 1976, Eiko Otake is a movement–based interdisciplinary artist. She worked for 42 years as Eiko & Koma, receiving commissions from the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, and MoMA, and major awards including the MacArthur Fellowship and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award. Since 2014 Eiko has worked as a solo artist, producing live proscenium and site-specific performances, museum and gallery installations, films, and a book. Eiko performs, teaches, and writes about the impacts of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, notably through her A Body in Fukushima project and her translation of award-winning literary writings by Hayashi Kyoko, a survivor of the Nagasaki A-Bomb.

 

Rosemary Calendario, Associate Professor in the UT Theatre and Dance, has written extensively about Otake’s earlier work in her award-winning book Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma's Asian/American Choreographies (Wesleyan University Press 2016). She both writes and makes dances engaged with Asian and Asian American dance, butoh, ecology and site-related performance and is the recipient of the 2022 Mid-Career Award from the Dance Studies Association.

 

Artists, Activists, and Academics in East Asia Series 

Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) at UT Austin

 A series of events that aim to foster dialogue among artists, activists, and academics about pressing issues facing contemporary East Asian societies and beyond. Our events aims to bring together artistic practices and theories by featuring scholars and artists whose work breaks traditional boundaries that divide artistic and activist practices from their theoretical conceptualizations. All events in the series will be free and open to the UT and broader surrounding communities. We anticipate the program will be of interest to a wide range of interests that span the arts and humanities to the social sciences, media and performance studies to public policy advocates.

Funding support provided by Sterling Clark Holloway Centennial Lectureship in Liberal Arts

Sponsored by: Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Humanities Institute, and IRG Council

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