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.
title : Before the 37 Trillion Pieces Get to Sleep
date : 2nd October 2019
venue : EDAM / Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
organizer : Makiko Hara
project : LIVE International Performance Art Biennale
title : I guess it’s better that radiation doesn’t have color……Sigh
date: 2012 1st September
venue : Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
project : Women In Between : Asian Women Artists1984-2012
camera&edit：recomemo workshop&studio
title : One Response for Bae Bong-gi and Countless Other Women in Okinawa
date: 1st September 2012
venue : Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
project : Women In Between | Asian Women Artists 1984-2012
camera&edit：recomemo workshop&studio
title : One Response for Bae Bong-gi and Countless Other Women
date：28th April 2011
venue: Haebaru Cultural Center, Okinawa
edited by IPAMIA
title : I would not forget you /あなたを忘れない
date : 29th July 2006
venue : PA/F space, Tokyo / パフスペース, 東京
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title : Where is the fear
date : 2001
venue : Kagurazaka DiePratze
project : Die Pratze “We want to see Performance Art”
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title : Me Being Me
date : 1999
venue : Free space PRAHA, Sapporo, JAPAN
coordinator : Kazuyo Yasuda
camera : Taku Ohashi
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title : Me Being Me
date : 1998
venue : Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
project : Exhibition “Love’s Body”
camera and edit (original movie) : Work In
digitized by IPAMIA from VHS
Title : Memory of Epidermis
date: 1st April 1994
venue :Franklyn Furnace, NY
organizer : Franklin Furnace
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title : Memory of Epidermis
date : 23th September 1993
venue : 1400 Dupon Street, Toronto
organizer : FADO
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title : Cosmos of Epidemis
venue : Gallery K , Fukushima
sound : Mototeru Takagia
direction : (Gallery K) Ken-ichiro Aida
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