Breadman Walking - The Orimoto Festival
The Orimoto Festival
Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen Denmark
Christine Buhl Andersen is Director at KØS, Denmark’s only museum to focus on art in public spaces. For CHART ART FAIR the Køge-based museum are holding a two-day festival dedicated to Japanese performance artist Tatsumi Orimoto.
Can you tell me a little about the two-day Orimoto Festival that will happen during CHART?
KØS’s Orimoto Festival at CHART and in Køge is part of the large-scale exhibition In your heart |In your city arranged by our museum.
The exhibition features four active Japanese contemporary artists who belong to different generations, but all work with participatory art in public spaces: Chiharu Shiota, Takafumi Hara, Yukihiru Taguchi and Tatsumi Orimoto. When we realised that the scheduled time of Orimoto’s performances in Denmark coincided with CHART, we thought that a collaboration would be a wonderful choice, thereby involving him in this major Copenhagen art event.
What drew the museum to Tatsumi Orimoto as an artist?
Orimoto is a definite pioneer within performance art. In many ways he has been an avant-garde forerunner for some of the important strategies seen on the contemporary art scene today, internationally and in Japan. Thanks to the excellent relationship between the exhibition curator Tereza de Arruda and the artist, and thanks to Orimoto’s enthusiasm about the concept of KØS, which is one of the only museums in the world to be dedicated exclusively to public art, we were fortunate enough to persuade him to come all the way to Denmark."
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The Orimoto Festival
Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen Denmark
Christine Buhl Andersen is Director at KØS, Denmark’s only museum to focus on art in public spaces. For CHART ART FAIR the Køge-based museum are holding a two-day festival dedicated to Japanese performance artist Tatsumi Orimoto.
Can you tell me a little about the two-day Orimoto Festival that will happen during CHART?
KØS’s Orimoto Festival at CHART and in Køge is part of the large-scale exhibition In your heart |In your city arranged by our museum.
The exhibition features four active Japanese contemporary artists who belong to different generations, but all work with participatory art in public spaces: Chiharu Shiota, Takafumi Hara, Yukihiru Taguchi and Tatsumi Orimoto. When we realised that the scheduled time of Orimoto’s performances in Denmark coincided with CHART, we thought that a collaboration would be a wonderful choice, thereby involving him in this major Copenhagen art event.
What drew the museum to Tatsumi Orimoto as an artist?
Orimoto is a definite pioneer within performance art. In many ways he has been an avant-garde forerunner for some of the important strategies seen on the contemporary art scene today, internationally and in Japan. Thanks to the excellent relationship between the exhibition curator Tereza de Arruda and the artist, and thanks to Orimoto’s enthusiasm about the concept of KØS, which is one of the only museums in the world to be dedicated exclusively to public art, we were fortunate enough to persuade him to come all the way to Denmark."
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