TAKATANI Shiro

Born in 1963, TAKATANI began creating performances and installations in 1984 as a member of the art collective Dumb Type. Later individual projects included visual direction for SAKAMOTO Ryuichi's opera LIFE in 1999, participation in the 2007 Arctic expedition of the UK-based Cape Farewell project on climate change, and a collaborative installation that same year with SAKAMOTO at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, LIFE-fluid, invisible, inaudible... In 2008 he created and staged the performance La Chambre Claire at Theater der Welt in Germany. In 2010 his installation in collaboration with NAKAYA Fujiko, CLOUD FOREST, was produced at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, and in 2012 he created and staged the performance CHROMA at Biwako Hall Center for the Performing Arts.