∅ AKEMI TAKEYA

 

∅ LEMONISM Museum Versions “ The rhizomatic performance series has completed ”

∅ LEMONISM Theater Version ” How can historical -isms be transferred into today?”

∅ LEMONISM x ACTIONISM Special Version “The adaptation of the radical Austrian art movement and Géricault’s “The Rafts of the Medusa”

 

Akemi Takeya. Lemonism x Actionism. Photo by Karolina Miernik. mumok, Oct. 2016k

Akemi Takeya. Lemonism x Dadaism. Photo by Emilia Milewska. Leopold Museum, July 2017

Akemi Takeya. Lemonism x Actionism. Photo by Karolina Miernik. mumok, July 2016

Akemi Takeya. Lemonism x Japonism. Photo by Karolina Miernik. Leopold Museum 2016

Akemi Takeya. Lemonism x Minimalism. Photo by Karolina Miernik. Leopold Museum 2016

Akemi Takeya. Lemonism x Symbolism. Photo by Karolina Miernik. Leopold Museum 2016

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“For the first time, the audience can travel through the entire universe of Lemonism explored so far and can even be a witness of the birth of a new –ism… ”

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In July 2017 the world premiere of the thearter version, ” LEMONISM X DADAISM ” and the complete museum version vol.2, ” LEMONISM X D, LEMONISM x CUBISM | SYMBOLISM | MINIMALISM | DADAISM, and the video installation LEMONISM X ACTIONISM | JAPONISM took place at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

In her rhizomatic performance Akemi Takeya confronts different “art isms” with her idea of Lemonism: In the series’ kick off performance LEMONISM x ACTIONISM she sets up a battle between the two concepts of LEMONISM and Actionism, adapts and re-enacts the strategies of the Viennese 1960s artistic movement. In Takeya’s cosmic and artistic world LEMONISM focuses on the body as material of “the I“ including 72 items. It is a trial of finding a new perspective to present the body, which aims to reconstruct the way of body definition. The presentation of this action through the 72 items re-identifies the body in a transfiguration – a multiple integration through the action. The lemon becomes a metaphor and a vessel for transforming each of the 72 items, a means of imprinting or personifying nature itself. Flesh acts as flesh, juice for blood, cut for cut.

After the kick-off of the series with the performance LEMONISM x ACTIONISM in the framework of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival 2015 Takeya continues the development of her unique concept of LEMONISM: in October the performance was shown in the framework of “ORF Long Night of Museums” at mumok (Museum of Modern Art). The LEMONISM X ACTIONISM has got another turn to participate in the project of Jan Fabre, “The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely” which is also curated by him, Takeya will perform as a theatriacal version and also, present the video installation in Ostend (Belgium). The project will have its opening October 2017 and last until April 2018.

2017. LEMONISM x DADAISM: theater version
2017. LEMONISM Vol.2: complete museum version (performance & video installation) – LEMONISM x CUBISM | DADAISM | MINIMALISM | SYMBOLISM & ACTIONISM | JAPONISM
2016. LEMONISM Vol.1: museum version – LEMONISM x JAPONISM | MINIMALISM | SYMBOLISM | ACTIONISM
2015. LEMONISM X ACTIONISM: museum version

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Activity

➔ Performance & Instalation: LEMONISM x ACTIONISM *Special
20.10.2017–15.04.2018, at Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium
The participation in the frame of the exhibition “The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely” curated by Jan Fabre and Joanna De Vos

➔ Performance: LEMONISM X DADAISM ( Theater Version *The world premiere)
01.08.2017, 19:00, at Odeon Theater Vienna

➔ Performance & Instalation: LEMONISM vol.2 ( Museum Version)
LEMONISM X MINIMALISM | CUBISM | SYMBOLISM | DADAISM (Performance) & LEMONISM X ACTIONISM | JAPONISM (video installation)
21.07.2017, 19:00, at Leopold Museum Vienna

➔ Lecture performance: LEMONISM X JAPONISM (Video Installation)
09.06.2017, at Zokei University in Tokyo

➔ Residency: LEMONISM X CUBISM
08.-12.05.2017 at Jan Fabre | Laboratorium, Antwerp, Belgium
Continuing the research for the performance series LEMONISM that will explore the “CUBISM” of the art movements.

➔ Performance on tour: LEMONISM x ACTIONISM
10.–11.11.2016, at 20:00 SESC Consolação, São Paulo
It will be presented in a new version transferring the performance created in a museum space into the black box theatre of SESC.

➔ Performance & Instalation: LEMONISM vol.1 ( Museum Version)
LEMONISM x JAPONISM | MINIMALISM | SYMBOLISM | ACTIONISM
Leopold Museum, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
in the framework of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Continuing her rhizomatic performance series, Takeya examines historical “isms” in art. She paraphrases and re-enacts ideas and strategies of the art movements, transferring them into Takeya’s very own universe of “Lemonism”. A three-day-long Gesamtkunstwerk where the flesh of fruit and humans, ritual and ecstasy meet 20th-century art:
28.07.2016; 19:00 – LEMONISM x JAPONISM & MINIMALISM
30.07.2016; 19:30 – LEMONISM x JAPONISM & SYMBOLISM
01.08.2016; 19:15 – LEMONISM x JAPONISM & ACTIONISM * ImPulsTanz Classic

➔ Performance: LEMONISM x ACTIONISM
mumok, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 vienna
21.07.2015, 19:30
25.07.2015, 19:30 Additional Performance
03.10.2015, 19:00 | 21:00 | 23:00 | in the framework of “ORF Long Night of Museums”
www.impulstanz.com | www.mumok.at
The performance in July 2015 was presented in the framework of “Redefining Action(ism)”, a cooperation between ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival and mumok. It is the kick-off for a performance series of Lemonism, in which Akemi Takeya will examine the relation between “Lemonism” and the existing “Isms” in our world.

➔ Residency: LEMONISM
29.01.2016, 19:00 at nadaLokal
live stream here on this website!
In a residency at nadaLokal Akemi Takeya continues the research for the performance series LEMONISM that will explore the “Kunstismen” – the “isms” of different art movements – in several performances. Her research will also focus on the potential of live streaming of performance art in the world wide web.

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ℜ Credits

Concept & Performance Akemi Takeya Scenery Concept & Stage Hannes Wurm Visual Environment Michael Loizenbauer Artistic Advisor Armin Anders Dramaturgical Assistant, Communication Anna Etteldorf Music Akemi Takeya Composition Noid, Sebastian Bauer Sound Sebastian Bauer Production Coordination Vladimir und Estragon Production Management das Schaufenster Cooperation ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, Leopold Museum, mumok, WUK-Werkstättenbereich Supported by Wien Kultur, BKA Production IMEKA

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Links

➔ Watch the Trailer from ORF Long Night of Museums (Close Up)
➔ Watch the Trailer from ORF Long Night of Museums

➔ Download Postcard “LEMONISM x JAPONISM | SYMBOLISM | MINIMALISM | ACTIONISM”
➔ Download Postcard “LEMONISM x ACTIONISM”

➔ Read Press Review “Kurier” about “LEMONISM x JAPONISM | SYMBOLISM | MINIMALISM | ACTIONISM”
➔ Read Press Review “der Standard” about “LEMONISM x ACTIONISM”
➔ Read Press Review “die Presse” about “LEMONISM x ACTIONISM”
➔ Read Press Review “european-cultural-news.com” about “LEMONISM x ACTIONISM”
➔ Read Press Review “tanzschrift.at” about “LEMONISM x ACTIONISM”
➔ Watch TV report on “Arte Journal”