Jan. 14–19, 2014

Eiko and Bill’s first trip to Fukushima

July 22–27, 2014

Eiko and Bill’s second trip to Fukushima

Oct. 3, 2014–Apr. 5, 2015 (#)(*)(+)

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
Philadelphia, PA

PAFA Director Harry Philbrick presented Eiko’s first solo performance A Body in a Station at the Amtrak’s 30th Street Station in Philadelphia and curated the exhibition A Body in Fukushima, which opened on the day of the first of four weekly three-hour performances.

Dec. 5, 2014–Feb. 14, 2015 (#)(*)(+)

University of Colorado in Colorado Springs (UCCS) Gallery of Contemporary Art (GOCA)
Colorado Springs, CO

GOCA Director Daisy McConnell co-curated the exhibition A Body in Fukushima. Eiko and guest artists performed in the gallery.  

Feb. 5–May 25, 2015 (#)(*)

Wesleyan University, Center for the Arts (CFA)
Middletown, CT

Pam Tatge, then CFA Director, collaborated with Curator Clare Rogan of Davison Art Center and Curator Patrick Dowdey of East Asian Studies to present unprecedented exhibitions A Body in Fukushima in three different galleries.                                         

June 14–July 25, 2015 (#)(*)(+)

American Dance Festival
Durham, NC  

ADF Director Jodee Nimerichter produced multi-site exhibition A Body in Fukushima in the Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham Arts Council, and Pleiades Gallery along with Eiko’s solo performances A Body in Places in a vacant warehouse.

Nov. 13–Dec. 20, 2015 (#)(+)

Pioneer Works
Brooklyn, NY

Pioneer Work’s Artistic Director Gabriel Florenz proposed to the Fukushima exhibition alongside the exhibition of Hiroshima Panels painted by Iri and Toshi Maruki. Eiko performed at the opening.  

Dec. 4–14, 2015 (*)(+)

MOBILE M+: LIVE ART
Hong Kong

M+ Chief Curator Doryun Chong produced three performances of A Body in Places in two sites in Hong Kong, exhibited Eiko’s Fukushima video, and moderated her talk at Connecting Art, Hong Kong. Doryun saw the strength of a historian-photographer collaborating with Eiko by going to Fukushima together.      

Jan. 6–24, 2016 (#)(*)(+)

Santiago a Mil International Theater Festival at Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral
Santiago, Chile  

Festival Director Carmen Romero proposed Eiko’s ten performances in the gallery where a Fukushima photo exhibition and video installation were shown. Forrest Gander, C.D. Wright, and other Chilean poets recited their poems prior to her performances.              

Mar. 5–May 28, 2016 (#)(+)

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
Burlington, VT                                   

Flynn’s then Executive Director John Killacky had a long history with Eiko & Koma in his many previous positions as a curator/presenter. He worked with Steven Macqueen and Nancy Abbott-Hourigan to produce Eiko’s solo at Moran Plant and a photo exhibition at Flynn’s Tarrant Gallery.

Mar. 11–12, 2016 (#)(*)(+)

Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church Sanctuary
New York City

The 24-hour event, After Fukushima, was presented as a part of a month-long Platform titled A Body in Places, co-curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor, Danspace Project Director, and Lydia Bell, then Managing Director, together with Eiko. Photographs were placed on the floor and on the built-in benches, and a full-length video loop was projected on the alter wall. A different set of artists performed at every hour throughout the 24 hours. The exhibition was preceded by three sets of panel discussions and Eiko’s solo performance in the chapel among the photographs.

Mar. 11–June 30, 2016 (*)

C.V. Starr East Asian Studies Library, Columbia University
New York City

Invited by the Library’s Director Jim Cheng, the exhibition was installed among the library’s books in the main reading room.           

May 17, 2016

Indian Point Energy Center
Buchanan, NY

Bill photographed Eiko at Indian Point Energy Center, 29 miles (47 km) north of Manhattan by the Hudson River, and these photos were exhibited with Fukushima photos at Topaz Arts in 2017.

May 25–June 12, 2016 (#)(*)(+)

A Gallery Oak Bluffs
Martha’s Vineyard, MA

David White, Artistic Director of The Yard, produced Eiko and Koma’s solo performances during the same week, along with the photo exhibition in the town center and a video screening at a town library.

May–July, 2016 (#)(*)(+)

American Dance Festival

ADF again presented Eiko’s photo exhibition from Fukushima but this time at Cameron Village Regional Library in Raleigh, NC. Bill’s photos of Eiko in Chile were also shown in the Reynolds Industries Theater. Eiko performed in the library and at a farmer’s market.

Aug. 1–8, 2016

Eiko and Bill’s third trip to Fukushima

Oct. 6, 2016–Mar. 12, 2017 (#)(*)(+)

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
New York City                                      

Lisa Schubert, Vice President of the Cathedral’s Programming and External Relations invited Eiko to be the Cathedral’s Artist-in-Residence. The six-month photo and video exhibition was installed at the center of the nave as a part of a larger exhibition, The Christa Project. Eiko performed not only at the exhibition opening but also at unannounced times, resulting in many impromptu conversations with visitors.         

Nov. 9–10, 2016 (#)(+)

Studio One, Granoff Center for the Arts of Brown University
Providence, RI

Photographs from A Body in Fukushima were exhibited in the space for a two-day event titled Come Shining: In Tribute to C.D. Wright. Her recitation at the exhibition in Santiago, Chile was C.D.’s last public appearance. Eiko performed as a part of this memorial event.                      

Mar. 11, 2017 (#)(*)(+)

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
New York City

Eiko produced and directed a four-hour Fukushima memorial event, Remembering Fukushima: Art and Conversation, with the participation of many scholars and artists.               

June 24-Jun. 29, 2017

Eiko and Bill’s fourth trip to Fukushima

 July 1-31, 2017 (#)(*)(+)

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
The Berkshires, MA

Pillow’s Executive and Artistic Director Pam Tatge worked closely with Eiko and Bill at Wesleyan. In the first season, she commissioned Eiko’s A Body at the Pillow. Audience members followed Eiko throughout the Pillow's diverse landscape. Photographs of A Body in Fukushima were exhibited both at the Pillow’s Duke Theater and at the Pittsfield Public Library, where Eiko also performed.

May 6–28, 2017 (#)(*)(+)

Topaz Arts
Queens, New York City

Co-curated with Todd B. Richmond and Paz Tanjuaquio, this exhibition placed photographs of Eiko in Fukushima with photos of her near Indian Point Energy Center, 29 miles (47 km) north of Manhattan by the Hudson River. Eiko’s performance started in the gallery, continued to the streets, and ended in front of a nearby power station with a DANGER sign.              

Sept. 1, 2017–May 10, 2018

Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT    

During the academic year 2017-2018, Barry Chernoff, the College of Environmental Studies chair, invited Eiko to become a Think Tank Fellow for “From Disruptions to Disasters: A Lens on the Human-Environment Relationship.” While living on campus, Eiko edited her seven and a half hour long video that combined hundreds of still photographs with texts and sound. Eiko met with Bill frequently to conceive this book.

Oct. 10, 2017 (*)(+)

Columbia University
New York City

Bill and Eiko participated in “Swallowing and Spitting History,” an event conceived and produced by Miki Kaneda. This was the first public performance where Eiko experimented with moving a projector to manipulate the video of A Body in Fukushima as a part of her performance.  

Nov. 5, 12, & 19, 2017 (*)(+)

Metropolitan Museum and PERFORMA 2017
New York City

Limor Tomer, Met Live Director, commissioned A Body in Places: Met Edition. Eiko performed all day projecting and interacting with the video she created at the Met Cloisters (November 5), the Met Breuer (November 12), and the Met Fifth Avenue (November 19).

Nov. 20–Dec. 22, 2017

Robert Rauschenberg Residency
Captiva, FL 

Bill joined Eiko for this creative residency to produce large-size prints of photographs taken during their 2017 visit to Fukushima and at the Met performance. These prints were shown at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts.

Jan. 25–Feb. 15, 2018 (#)(*)

Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts
Middletown, CT

This exhibition at the South Gallery of the CFA included large prints from two trips to Fukushima in 2016 and 2017 and Bill’s photos of Eiko performing with Fukushima images.

Mar. 4–Apr. 14, 2019 (#)(*)(+)

The Asian Institute of the University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Produced and curated by historian and Institute’s director Takashi Fujitani, this multi-site, multi-media, and multi-disciplinary event A Body in Fukushima: Reflections on the Nuclear in Everyday Life included a performance at the city’s largest public library, screenings of A Body in Fukushima, a multi-site photo exhibition at the Robarts Library, and a panel presentation at the University.        

Mar. 11, 2019 (#)(*)(+)

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
New York City

Eiko produced this memorial event, Remembering Fukushima, in collaboration with Jake Price and Ralph Samuelson.      

Aug. 10–11, 2019 (*)(+)

Cloud Gate Theater
Taipei, Taiwan

This five-hour program included the first in-theater screening of film A Body in Fukushima, which Lin Hwai Min, Cloud Gate’s Artistic Director translated, Eiko’s solo performance, and a moderated discussion.      

Sept. 2019 (#)(*)(+)

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)  
Portland, OR

As a part of the Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival, PICA presented screenings of A Body in Fukushima at The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture of Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) and at the Northwest Film Center of the Portland Art Museum. Eiko also offered a solo performance and an in–theater performance of a larger production.

Dec. 20–27, 2019

Eiko and Bill’s fifth trip to Fukushima

Jan. 11, 2020 (*)

Inside Out Museum
Beijing, China

Eiko presented a video lecture with a focus on her work in Fukushima followed by an active conversation with independent artists.

July 30, 2020

Japan Women’s Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (*)

JWNDRR invited Eiko to present a lecture. When that was cancelled due to the pandemic, Eiko created a 90-minute virtual lecture, “Disaster and Art Making: From Fukushima to Pandemic,” which includes photographs taken in Fukushima, videos of how Eiko installed and performed with the photos in the U.S. and elsewhere, and how she continued to create throughout the pandemic. The video was distributed through the same network and was also used in classes at International Christian University and Tokyo University in the fall.

April 24–August 15, 2021

Tokyo Real Underground (*)(+)
Tokyo, Japan

Eiko opened the "Tokyo Real Underground Festival" as a part of Tokyo Tokyo Festival. In March, Eiko performed for camera in various parts of Tokyo Downtown and also performed live at Tokyo Art Theater alongside a projection of A Body in Fukushima.

May 22, 2021

Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts (*)(+)
Middletown, CT

Eiko premiered a live outdoor performance of A Body with Fukushima, intimately interwoven with David Harrington’s video and music. Two projectors merged their images onto Eiko’s body and onto the outside wall of the CFA building. David provided various music and sounds for Eiko’s Fukushima project, and during the pandemic, they worked together in New York, and David also worked in California’s Redwoods imagining Eiko in Fukushima.

June 1, 2021

Book Publication of A Body in Fukushima

The book A Body in Fukushima is the culmination of Eiko and William Johnston’s experiences in Fukushima through their essays and photographs. The book was published by Wesleyan University Press on June 1, 2021.

June 1, 2021

Book Talk with Catharine Stimpson
Online

Eiko Otake and William Johnston joined Catharine Stimpson for a conversation to mark the release of their new book, A Body In Fukushima.

June 18, 2021

Kronos Festival (*)

Kronos Festival premiered Eiko Otake and David Harrington: A Body in Fukushima on June 18th. David of Kronos Quartet has been offering Eiko music and sounds for her larger project A Body in Fukushima since 2018 and has commissioned this short piece that presents the core of the work.

March 6, 2022

The Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight Festival (*)
New York, NY

MoMA’s Doc Fortnight 2022 presented the world premiere of A Body in Fukushima. There was an in-person screening on March 6 followed by a conversation with Eiko and William Johnston and another in-person screening on March 8. The film was also available online via MoMA’s Virtual Cinema streaming platform from February 23–March 10.

June 2, 2022

FICA - International Environmental Film Festival (*)
Goiás, Brazil

A Body in Fukushima had its South American premiere at the 23rd FICA - International Environmental Film Festival in Goiás, Brazil, a World Heritage site. It was screened at the São Joaquim Theatre on June 2, as well as through the festival’s online platform. Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento translated the film in Portuguese.

September 9, 2022

Jumping Frames — Hong Kong International Movement-Image Festival (*)
Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong

A Body in Fukushima had its Asian premiere at Jumping Frames — Hong Kong International Movement-Image Festival, curated by festival director Elysa Wendi. It was screened as part of “International Feature Film Selections: Body Narratives” at Broadway Cinematheque. Eiko created a version of the film with English and Chinese subtitles.

February 9, 2023

ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival (*)
Macao

A Body in Fukushima with English and Chinese subtitles was a Focus Screening at ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival in Macao. It was screened at Cinema Alegria.

May 28, 2023

International Uranium Film Festival (*)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A Body in Fukushima with Portuguese subtitles was screened at the 2023 International Uranium Film Festival at Modern Art Museum Cinematheque in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and received an Honorable Mention. The festival is dedicated to all films about nuclear power and the risks of radioactivity, from uranium mining to nuclear waste, from atomic bombs to nuclear power plants, from Hiroshima to Fukushima.

June 6, 2023

Theater Rotterdam: PASSING BODIES - Choreographing Ecocritical Routes (*)
Rotterdam, Netherlands

A Body in Fukushima was screened as part of "PASSING BODIES - Choreographing Ecocritical Routes", an ongoing artistic research conversation between Eylül Fidan Akıncı and Tery Žeželj.

November 7, 2023

University of Houston (+)
Houston, TX

Aurora Picture Show and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presented Eiko’s solo performance project, “A Body with Fukushima”. She performed live within an installation of moving image projections.

February 15, 2024

Carrying Fukushima at Temple University Dance Studies Colloquium (+)
Philadelphia, PA

Sharing parts of her film A Body in Fukushima, Eiko shared how she first conceived the project, how she expanded it to include exhibitions, screenings, performances, memorials, a feature-length film, and book publication. Watch on YouTube.

March 15 – June 9, 2024

Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art (*)
Yokohama, Japan

Eiko's film A Body in Fukushima was selected as part of the 8th Yokohama Triennale Wild Grass: Our Lives, directed by Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu. The title of this year's Triennale is taken from the Chinese writer Lu Xun (魯迅)'s (1891–1936) anthology Wild Grass, which is about self-motivation and finding an outlet in a time of complete darkness.

March 20 – 22, 2024

The University of Texas at Austin (+)
Austin, Texas

Eiko attended the conference "Disarming Toxic Empire" at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Law and closed the conference by performing with her A Body in Fukushima film. She found great pleasure in not only performing but also presenting video lectures.

August 8, 2024

Indonesia Bertutur (*)
Bali, Indonesia

Eiko’s film “A Body in Fukushima” (2022) was screened in the Layarambha program of Indonesia Bertutur 2024 at Tonyraka Art Gallery, Ubud.