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MOMENTUM | Sydney hosted 6 live performances
Tatsumi Orimoto
Breadman
Tatsumi Orimoto’s pictures are closely connected to his performances, in which he deals with everyday life, ageing and questions of communication. In his artistic work, he thematises society’s way of dealing with ageing and the social marginalisation and distance connected to it. His mother suffers from Alzheimer’s and depression and is therefore an invalid requiring constant tendance, who has been affectionatley cared for by Tatsumi Orimoto for years. At the same time, she is the object of his artistic production.
His works became known through the Venice Biennale 2001, where the artist performatively and provokingly put car tires around her neck and placed her in cardboard boxes.
The recent works are created from a subjective family perspective, meaning that Tatsumi Orimoto reflects everyday life. The private domestic atmosphere is made public, the pictures remain true to reality: mother and son in their own kitchen, in the living room and in the garden. Life is no longer staged.
In the 1970s, Tatsumi Orimoto worked in the U.S. as assistant to Nam June Paik. Since his experiences in the time of the Fluxus movement, his artistic work has been dealing with the theme of communication. An important example for this are his exceptional “Bread Man“ performances, in which he – several loaves of bread tied to his head – communicated with people on the street all over the world.
Sumugan Sivanesan
What’s Eating Gilberto Gil?
Unit 7
Durational Sound and Image Performance by the artist collective made up of Jason Wing, Ash Wing, Vincent O’Connor, Vaughan O’Connor, Mark Brown, Sophia Kouyoumdjian, Khaled Sabsabi, Alex Kiers.
Johnny Walker in collaboration with Anne Graham
In Memory of Francis Bacon, A Tribute to Joseph Beuys, by Johnny Walker
Tim Gruchy in collaboration with Mieko Suzuki
MMOMENTUM / Sydney closing night party