Sakiko Yamaoka Explained

Sakiko Yamaoka
Birth Date:1961
Birth Place:Japan
Occupation:Performance artist

Sakiko Yamaoka (山岡 さ希子; born 1961) is a Japanese performance artist from Tokyo, Japan. Since the early 1990s, she has staged performances in various cities across Asia, Europe, and both Americas. In 2009, Yamaoka appeared in the film Phenomenology of Truth.[1]

Life and career

In 1984, Yamaoka graduated from Musashino Art University, a private university in Kodaira, Western Tokyo where she studied oil painting. In 1991 she became interested in performance as an art form.[2] Since then her work has encompassed performance, video, photography, and installation.[3]

In her performance art, Yamaoaka focuses on how we see objects and things, and on human boundaries. She has said, "I define my artworks as sculptures depicting action and time and relationship between artist and audience, artist and materials, in which I attempt to create an example of the human condition."[4]

Since the early 1990s, Yamaoka has staged performance exhibitions in Japan and abroad at art festivals and other events as well as in urban environments. Among the cities where she has returned several times with different exhibitions are her home city of Tokyo, Singapore, Jerusalem, Stockholm, Essen, Boston, Toronto and Warsaw. In 2014 she took part in the performance "Friktioner" in Uppsala, Sweden,[5] and later that year she returned to Sweden for an exhibition in Malmö.[6]

In the 29-minute-long film Phenomenology of Truth, she portrays a Japanese artist who one day gets to meet a Warsaw philosopher - whom she has admired at a distance.[7]

Work

Performance[8]

Filmography

References

  1. Web site: 2nd edition. Administrator. 6 December 2014. 23 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141023182009/http://festiwalfilmufilozoficznego.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28&Itemid=26&lang=pl. live.
  2. Web site: LIVE 2011 - Vancouver's Internationally Acclaimed Performance Art Celebration . 6 December 2014 . dead . https://webb.archive.org/web/20140601193249/http://livebiennale.ca/2011/artists.html . June 1, 2014.
  3. Web site: Sakiko Yamaoka. FRIKTIONER Internationell performancekonstfestival. 6 December 2014. 23 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141223163133/https://friktionerfriction.wordpress.com/artists-2014/sakiko-yamaoka/. live.
  4. http://palsfestival.se/artists/sakiko-yamaoka-japan Sakiko Yamaoka Japan
  5. http://www.suenbutohcompany.net/news/news_item_bulletins.htm Sakiko Yamaoka bulletins Friktioner
  6. Web site: Now Exhibition OLTA. 6 December 2014. 17 August 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140817112353/http://olta.jp/nowExhibition.html. live.
  7. Web site: Pawe Kuczyski - Phenomenology of Truth - Directing.com. 6 December 2014. 23 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923214954/http://www.directing.com/phenomen.html. dead.
  8. Web site: Works. 6 December 2014. 13 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160113063306/http://sakikoyamaoka.com/WorksList.html. dead.

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