Koki Tanaka

Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie)

Koki Tanaka, Tanaka Koki

As racist sentiment and discrimination continue to pull Japanese society apart, artist Koki Tanaka stages a series of conversations between Christian, a half-Swiss, half-Japanese-American man and Woohi, a Japan-born third-generation Korean (zainichi) woman living in Japan. The two young people discuss the disconcerting rise and increased presence of hate speech in the world, investigating not only the cold minutiae of law to reveal the lack of legal repercussions against the agitators, but also the devastating emotional consequences for those who are targeted.

Reflective Notes (Reconfiguration)

Koki Tanaka

The versatile artist Koki Tanaka, working across video, photography and site-specific installation, addresses isolation and existing social divisions in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in this sweeping essay film drawing on theories of collectivity and his personal archive of footage collected during, and even before, the crisis. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

一つのプロジェクト、七つの箱と行為、美術館にて

Koki Tanaka

A project at the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, wherein many cardboard boxes are moved around.

Abstracted / Family

Koki Tanaka

Koki Tanaka questions the coordinates and the mechanisms that contribute to the formation of a family through his video work, where the notion of “family” is not one based on blood relation, but refers to a “quasi-family,” wherein a group of people who happen to share the same time and space are united.

a pottery produced by 5 potters at once (silent attempt)

Koki Tanaka