A Body in Nuclear Places: Eiko Otake’s Performance, Installation, & Translation Practices - A conversation with Eiko Otake and Rosemary Candelario

Date: Wednesday March 20, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118)

*This talk is part of the CEAS Artists, Activists, and Academics in East Asia Series  

Raised in Japan and a resident of New York since 1976, Eiko Otake is a movement–based interdisciplinary artist. She worked for 42 years as Eiko & Koma, receiving commissions from the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, and MoMA, and major awards including the MacArthur Fellowship and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award. Since 2014 Eiko has worked as a solo artist, producing live proscenium and site-specific performances, museum and gallery installations, films, and a book. Eiko performs, teaches, and writes about the impacts of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, notably through her A Body in Fukushima project and her translation of award-winning literary writings by Hayashi Kyoko, a survivor of the Nagasaki A-Bomb.

Rosemary Calendario, Associate Professor in the UT Theatre and Dance, has written extensively about Otake’s earlier work in her award-winning book Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma's Asian/American Choreographies (Wesleyan University Press 2016). She both writes and makes dances engaged with Asian and Asian American dance, butoh, ecology and site-related performance and is the recipient of the 2022 Mid-Career Award from the Dance Studies Association.

University of Texas at Austin Center for East Asian Studies
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