AKEMI TAKEYA

LEMONISM Vol.2 – Complete museum version

LEMONISM x CUBISM | DADAISM | MINIMALISM | SYMBOLISM & ACTIONISM | JAPONISM | 2017
“Performances & video installations”

➤ LEMONISM (Trailer – Complete museum version )

A biological impossibility but no problem artistically – not for Akemi Takeya, anyway: fruit and human flesh becoming one. This unification consists of 72 parts, numbers and names. For the first time, the audience can travel through the entire universe of Lemonism explored so far, hybridised with minimalism, Dadaism, Japonism and actionism, among other things.

The procedure opens up a completely new way of looking at 20th-century art history – a time when people readily believed in isms. Takeya drives this belief through her body once more in the glorious conclusion of her Lemonism project.

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LEMONISM X ACTIONISM: General infos

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LEMONISM X ACTIONISM (Videoinstallation)
It all began with the Viennese Actionism: At  the beginning of the LEMONISM series, the lemon’s flesh became the bodily flesh. The body was tormented, subjected to extreme strain and ordeals… Read more >>

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LEMONISM X CUBISM
It is referring to the action “no.36 Phantom Tail ” that is assigned to the human’s tailbone. Starting point for this action is Takeya’s specific movement she calls “Breathbody”… Read more >>

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LEMONISM X DADAISM
She presents her personal Dada Manifesto, referring to the lemon-circle action “No.13 Your Fun” that is assigned to the centre of the chest. A quest for utopia, a ceremonial performance, an exploration between body and lemon – who the winner of the ludicrous fight “LEMO-DADA” will be is secondary: Nothing to lose! … Read more >>

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LEMONISM X JAPONISM (Videoinstallation)
For the video installation, Takeya’s point of reference is Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Père Tanguy who is dressed in a Breton costume and placed in front of Japanese prints. In cooperation with visual artist, film director and dramaturge Naoto Iina… Read more >>

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LEMONISM X MINIMALISM
The action “ NO.61 Model X8”, assigned to the right upper arm, Takeya chooses reduction as the guiding aesthetic theme of her work. Her own body turns into a geometric sculpture that is being examined, fragmented and abstracted… Read more >>

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LEMONISM X SYMBOLISM
In “ No. 01 Gliding Soul” – one of the actions associated with the 72 lemons – Takeya focuss on a specific body part: the top of the head. Takeya, together with Armin Anders, created 72 actions – text-sheets to be used as “playing cards”, as means of transfer for possible and impossible ideas… Read more >>

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