KYOTA TAKAHASHI (JAPAN)

 Kyota Takahashi presented a live public projection on the tower of the former Melbourne Power Station at Lonsdale and Spencer Streets, Melbourne. Anyone who has seen Takahashi’s work at Spacement will have observed that he manipulates images in conjunction with the projection (and mirrors) to create distorted perspectives. As a video sequence, the piece at Spacement renders a human shadow in motion, whereas the projections on the tower were more inert, being a series slides rather than rolling footage. Takahashi’s light-work reduced complex imagery into powerful silhouettes that, in the live projection, took the form of biomorphic abstraction. In 2008, Kyota Takahashi was part of the The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale.

Kyota Takahashi’s residency was supported by the Japan Foundation as part of Rapt!

This information was current at the time of his residency.