Mina Nishimura offered us a photoset in answer to our prompt, “My most significant artistic influences are…” Nishimura’s Princess Cabbage / Celery of Everything runs this Thursday-Saturday at Danspace Project, drawing on source material including the writings of Butoh originator Tatsumi… Read more

Chris Schlichting in conversation with Danspace Executive Director Judy Hussie-Taylor, from 2011′s Body Madness Platform catalogue: On ‘body madness’: “I pursue behavior of the body that cracks outside of my accepted daily conventional behavior, exploring the secret lives in the body… Read more

My most significant artistic influence(s) is/are: Miyako Yokoshi, my mother who has never seen my work. She was a haiku poet. Her sense of space and likings for simplicity and complexity influenced me as an artist. I realized this after… Read more

The video for ZERO ONE features three Japanese performance artists: Hangman Takuzo, Mika Kurosawa and Namiko Kawamura. 67-year old Hangman Takuzo lives in Tokyo. Over the past 14 years, he has been presenting a “garden theater” at his house. In… Read more