Mika Tajima - Feb 8

Mika Tajima/New Humans
Disassociate, 2007
Performance with Vito Acconci

Mika Tajima: Born 1975 in Los Angeles, California; lives in New York, New York.

New Humans, a collaborative founded by Mika Tajima with Howie Chen, explores the intersecting strata of sound, installation, and performance within the context of Tajima’s visual art practice. The elements making up Tajima’s projects slip from foreground sculptures to background props, staging markers, and functional structures, their status in continual transition and production. Challenging the audience’s expectations of sculpture as a static presence, Tajima combines multimedia installations with serial performance elements by New Humans including sonically spare noise music grounded in Minimal composition and evoking a post– John Cage mayhem. A constantly changing roster of collaborators from different disciplines contributes to a relentless layering of visual and aural textures, creating a discordant dialogue.

More information at:

http://www.elizabethdeegallery.com/artists/view/mika-tajima-new-humans

http://www.newhumansnyc.com/

Sign ups will be posted Friday at 11am:

Monday Feb 8

2:00

2;45

3:30

Lunch

4:45

5:30

6:15

Talk at 7:30