Women’s Art Network

Japanese Tari Ito was born in 1951 in Tokyo, Japan. She began working as a pantomime performer in Japan and the Netherlands before becoming active as a performance artist in the late 1980s, and as a feminist and lesbian artist since the 1990s. She established and founded the Women's Art Network (WAN) in 1994 in Tokyo, which organized Women Breaking Boundaries 21, an exhibition of women artists from Japan and other parts of Asia in 2001. Ito set up PA/F (Performance Art/Feminism) Space in 2003. Ito's performance and artistic practice focused on exploring sexuality, military violence against women, and the fear of radiation exposure after Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Her work "has continued to draw on themes and materials from daily life to produce live performance artworks that she believes can become catalysts for change". Beginning in 2014, she lived with degenerative neurological conditions that limited her mobility, though she performed during that time Ito died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on September 22, 2021, at the age of 70. https://youtu.be/lvA8BEIKSNA title : Before the 37 Trillion Pieces Get to Sleep date : 2nd October 2019 venue : EDAM / Western Front, Vancouver, Canadaorganizer : Makiko Hara project : LIVE International Performance Art Biennale https://youtu.be/tXEVv9kIRAs title : I guess it’s better that radiation doesn’t have color……Sigh date: 2012 1st Septembervenue : Fukuoka Asian Art Museumproject : Women In Between : Asian Women Artists1984-2012 camera&amp;edit：recomemo workshop&amp;studio https://youtu.be/XLuH1CO7ow4 title : One Response for Bae Bong-gi and Countless Other Women in Okinawa date: 1st September 2012venue : Fukuoka Asian Art Museumproject : Women In Between | Asian Women Artists 1984-2012 camera&amp;edit：recomemo workshop&amp;studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF0zYbEm3o0 title : One Response for Bae Bong-gi and Countless Other Womendate：28th April 2011venue: Haebaru Cultural Center, Okinawaedited by IPAMIA https://youtu.be/xO5zRTQaQL8 title : I would not forget you /あなたを忘れないdate : 29th July 2006venue : PA/F space, Tokyo / パフスペース, 東京digitized from VHS and edited by : IPAMIA https://youtu.be/FZ6Ieb29IgA title : Where is the feardate : 2001 venue : Kagurazaka DiePratze project : Die Pratze "We want to see Performance Art" digitized from VHS and edited by : IPAMIA https://youtu.be/4HVZ1Q5wHPU title : Me Being Medate : 1999venue : Free space PRAHA, Sapporo, JAPAN coordinator : Kazuyo Yasudacamera : Taku Ohashi digitized from VHS by IPAMIA https://youtu.be/AVppldS12dk title : Me Being Me date : 1998venue : Tokyo Photographic Art Museum project : Exhibition "Love's Body" camera and edit (original movie) : Work Indigitized by IPAMIA from VHS https://youtu.be/KicPu9p6aNw Title : Memory of Epidermisdate: 1st April 1994venue :Franklyn Furnace, NY organizer : Franklin Furnacedigitized from VHS and edited by IPAMIA https://youtu.be/ndWAItYu0CI title : Memory of Epidermis date : 23th September 1993 venue : 1400 Dupon Street, Toronto organizer : FADO digitized from VHS and edited by IPAMIA https://youtu.be/jTq_M_xsefA title : Cosmos of Epidemis venue : Gallery K , Fukushima sound : Mototeru Takagia direction : (Gallery K) Ken-ichiro Aida digitized from VHS by IPAMIA

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