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photo by 唐詩慧 Seiko Kitayama was born in 1982 and studied painting at Tokyo Zokei University and Musashino Art University. She managed the artist-run space and organized regional-art project at her university. She started Performance Art in 2008 and participated in festivals and residency programs in India, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Mexico, America, China, Singapore, Philippines, Serbia, Czech and UK. When she performed together with audiences, she got interested in building interactive relationships and compassion between artist and audiences. To explore her interests, she started to make her performances that works with audiences in several Performance Art festivals. The theme of her work was about suppression of society and resiliency between you and me. Recently, she has ever made her performance works at her house. She has tried her performance at those spaces to think about actions in people's lives and emotions at their homes .Also, she has ever produced her original performance events collaborated with performance artists in Japan and other countries. In 2020, she organized the event named "At home", which she makes performance with various artists in her house. In this COVIT-19 situation, she has tried transferring her thoughts that have been developed by doing live performances into video performance. She is a member of a group, KOUI-IZEN, in which we do durational performance event staying in various places in our country. Also the member of a group, IPAMIA ( Independent Performance Artist's Moving Images Archive ), which makes archive and study of performance art . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNPxVI4O-RQ title : "Calling for the shadows" date : 26th December 2020venue: forest in Seya-ku, Kanagawa, Japan 神奈川県瀬谷市民の森edit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxmnidUun3g title : "Life As a Butterfly" date : 22nd September 2020venue: Asahi-ku, Kanagawa, Japan 神奈川県旭区 project : Equinox solidarity Pilipinas SIPAF 2020edit : Seiko Kitayamacooperation of performance: Yohei Kina 喜納洋平 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrTSxMTYFJ0 title : "In the woods" date : 18th December 2020venue: forest in Seya-ku, Kanagawa, Japan 神奈川県 瀬谷市民の森edit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTvi0HAXrVY title : "Watering In a Square" date : 9th November 2020venue: Roof top of apartment in Yanaka, Tokyo アパート屋上 東京都谷中 project : rooftop pafo +hot pot fun eventvideo camera : Megumi Shimizu 清水惠みedit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4m4u9A2cj8 title : "Rooms" date : 1st August 2020venue: At my house, japan 自宅にて project : Miami Performance International Festival ‘20 Facebook Live Streamingcollaborate with : Yohei Kina 喜納洋平edit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8W7vBjkUjI title : "As rolling down the hill 転がり落ちるように" date : 26th July 2020venue: forest in Aihara-town Tokyo 東京都町田市相原町の山project : Holiday performance 休日パフォーマンス collaborate with : Megumi Shimizu 清水惠みedit : Seiko Kitayama https://youtu.be/zmOzQTPYTe8 title : "Say the opposite of ......" date : September 2018 venue: Tomioka, Fukushima, japan 福島県富岡町project : "Responding" International Performance Art Festival and Meetingvideo camera : Takumichan たくみちゃんedit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3UojWWai9s title : "A String" date : 10th September 2018 venue: Iwaki-Yumoto, Fukushima, Japan 福島県いわき湯本project : "Responding" International Performance Art Festival and Meetingvideo camera : Akiho Azuma 東秋帆edit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3LU-GPQzM title : "In the case" date : 11th July 2018 venue: Nakano ZERO, Tokyo 中野ゼロ、東京project : Tokyo Performing Arts Festival 2018 東京創造芸術祭2018edit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzcjP4tXFhE title : "Do the stones feel a breath? 石は息を感じるか？" date : 4th November 2017 venue: Gallery Hanagura , Nagano, Japan ギャラリー花蔵 長野市 project : A Painting Class Exhibition 絵画教室みたいな絵画教室展edit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxw_g2-3a4 title : "Officially Licensed Performance" date : July 2017 venue: Intersection Gallery , Singaporeproject : Performance Resources Orchestra edit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp7LNnYRzRc title : "A leaf between you and me " date : July 2017 venue: Zarch Collaboratives, Singaporeproject : Performance Resources Orchestra edit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR1Z2EmoT-A title : "Trip with" date : April 2017 venue: Xiang Xishi Contemporary Art Center, Xi'an, China 相西石現代アートセンター 西安市、中国project : GUYU Action International Performance Art Festival 谷雨行動 国際行為芸術祭 video camera : Lu Deshen 呂徳生edit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw-EZkvpi3o you can watch, if you are enough old title : "Candle Face" date : 2016 video workedit : Seiko Kitayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2MNyMf2Ro title : "candles" date : 2016venue: Suigyoku-do, Gyoda-city Saitamama, Japan 翠玉堂 埼玉県行田市 project : Bakery Performance Art Event パン屋会edit : Seiko Kitayama

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