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Born in Tochigi, Japan, 1975. Lives and works in Kyoto. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University (BFA, 2000) and Tokyo University of the Arts (MFA, 2005). Tanaka's practice looks closely at the many contexts embedded in everyday acts and experiences, and takes many forms: video and photographic records of his projects, their development into installations, performative events, and writing that reflects back on the practice itself. Since the 2011 earthquake, he has pursued the question of whether the experience of an event can be shared, or divided among others, examining "community" and "collective activity" together with the society, history and institutions that lie inside and outside them. Because an event is received differently by each person, sensation is hard to share. Taking that as his premise, what interests the artist is how sharing might still occur with "someone" at a spatial or temporal distance — a proposal and a practice for what collaboration with an unimaginable other, even one close at hand, might bring about, and at times a detailed presentation of its very difficulty and failure.

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