Performance Archives

Lecture / Performance & Dialogue | The Mystery of Red | Towada Art Center

The Towada Art Center presents a live stream of a lecture and performance by Inter+Play exhibiting artist Megumi Matsubara, followed by her conversation with exhibition curator Kodama Kanazawa. (Language: Japanese)

Date & Time : Sun, Jul 19, 2020 14:00 – 15:30
Location : Towada Art Center Room F, within Megumi Matsubara’s installation « Truth / Freedom »

*This event will be streamed live on the Towada Art Center’s YouTube channel.
Please note that this is an online event. The exhibition space will not be open to the public.

Above: The Mystery of Red: Lecture/Performance by Megumi Matsubara & Conversation with Kodama Kanazawa on Towada Art Center’s YouTube Channel.

Megumi Matsubara Lecture & Performance: “The Mystery of Red” + Conversation with Kodama Kanazawa (Inter+Play Curator)
Facilitator: Chieko Nakagawa (Towada Art Center)
Originally broadcast on Sunday, July 19, 2020 at 14:00 
– 15:30 JST

*Inter+Play #001 is on view until August 29 2021:
https://towadaartcenter.com/exhibitions/artstowada10th-interplay-001/

In Residence | Casa Wabi | Mexico

Megumi Matsubara is in residence at Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mexico, upon invitation and with support by Fundación Casa Wabi, Residency Program 2019.
Curator: Alberto Ríos de la Rosa, Paola Jasso

*About Fundación Casa Wabi > http://casawabi.org

Reading & Talk | DOMANI at National Art Center | Japan

Megumi Matsubara will give a reading performance “Undress,” followed by an artist talk within her installation “Un coquelicot” showcased in the 21st DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow exhibition at the National Art Center, Tokyo. With presence of the curator, Yoko Hayashi [Art historian / Senior researcher (Visual Arts) at the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan].

« 21st DOMANI: Art of Tomorrow » Artist Talk vol.1
Artists: Megumi Matsubara, Goro Murayama
Time: 11:00 – 12:00
Date: Sun, 27th Jan 2019
Place: Gallery 2E, National Art Center, Tokyo

 

Undress / Un coquelicot, Reading & Talk by Megumi Matsubara, 21st DOMANI, National Art Center, Tokyo from Megumi Matsubara on Vimeo.

Performance | Fossil of Contact | Aichi Triennale

Megumi Matsubara & Sergio Diaz Performance (2)

Fossil of Contact

Megumi Matsubara and Sergio Diaz will be present at Aichi Triennale 2016 within Megumi Matsubara’s installation Fossil of Contact.

Date: Sat 15th & Sun 16th October 2016
Time: 11:10 – 11:25 / 12:10 – 12:25 (twice each day)
Plac: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Aichi Arts Center, 10th floor, Teizo Kimura Collection Room
*Open to everyone.
*Photo/Video documentation is prohibited.

http://aichitriennale.jp/schedule/1823.html

*About Sergio Diaz
Dancer/Performer/Choreographer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Born in the United States, Diaz started his dancing career in France with Ballet Preljocaj directed by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj. After 16 years in the company he becomes Preljocaj’s creative assistant, and restages his works around the world. To further expand as an artist, Diaz has now moved his base to Tel Aviv to learn from Ohad Naharin, choreographer and art director of Batsheva Dance Company who created the dance language known as Gaga. Exploring and deepening his field of dance, Diaz practices as an independent dancer/performer/choreographer in collaboration with various contemporary choreographers internationally.

*About Megumi Matsubara’s Fossil of Contact
http://megumimatsubara.com/exhibit/fossil-of-contact/

Thank you for imagining how it was, it is, it will be, to be with—
The work remains faithful to you all.

Performance by Megumi Matsubara & Sergio Diaz
Sound (Acoustic Braille) by Clovis Lemée

Aichi Triennale 2016: Interview with Megumi Matsubara & Sergio Diaz

Reading & Talk | Alley Cat Books | San Francisco

Un Coquelicot: reading & talk by Megumi Matsubara

Megumi Matsubara reads from her book The Tale of the Japanese and the Mosquito, followed by a talk about her perennial subject: red poppy. The space will be scented with the fragrance of the red poppy field that a prominent Moroccan botanist/aromatherapist produced with Matsubara’s tale as inspiration. 

Megumi Matsubara is a Japanese artist who lives and works between Morocco and Japan. She is a guest artist in the city of San Francisco as part of the exhibition ‘SLOW DIALOGUES: Time, Space, and Scale’ guest curated by Slow Research Lab. Her site-specific installation It Is a Garden (2016) is on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from April 22 – July 10, 2016.

Time: 2PM – 3PM
Place: Alley Cat Books and Gallery
Contact: +1 (415) 824-1761

*About the exhibition:
‘SLOW DIALOGUES: Time, Space, and Scale’
Upstairs Galleries at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)
Guest curated by Slow Research Lab

Alley Cat Books

 

 

Megumi Matsubara “Un Coquelicot” from slowLab on Vimeo.

NOT NEW NOW: Marrakech Biennale

Megumi Matsubara participates in Not New Now, the 6th edition of the Marrakech Biennale, taking place on February 24 to May 8, 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco.

Curated by Reem Fadda
Assistant curator Ilaria Conti

Exhibition period: 24 February – 8 May, 2016
Press preview: 23 February
Opening week: 24–28 February

Main venues: Palais Bahia, Palais El Badii

Participating artists: Talal Afifi, Haig Aivazian, El Anatsui, Tarek Atoui, Kader Attia, Dana Awartani, Yto Barrada, Isak Berbic, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Farid Belkahia, Ahmed Bouanani, Touda Bouanani, Mohamed Chebaa, Manthia Diawara, Melvin Edwards, Ali Essafi, Khalil El Ghrib, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Mohssin Harraki, Mona Hatoum, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, Saba Innab, Bouchra Khalili, Radhika Khimji, Rachid Koraichi, Al Loving, Khaled Malas, Djibril Diop Mambety, Jumana Manna, Ahmed Mater, Megumi Matsubara, Mohammed Melehi, Naeem Mohaiemen, Mohamed Mourabiti, Radouan Mriziga, Oscar Murillo, Sara Ouhaddou, Khalil Rabah, SUPERFLEX, Rayyane Tabet, The Otolith Group, Eric Van Hove, Adrián Villar Rojas, Fatiha Zemmouri

http://www.marrakechbiennale.org

Performance | Toi, un coquelicot— / Un coquelicot, moi aussi. | Marrakech Biennale

Toi, un coquelicot— / Un coquelicot, moi aussi.

Toi, un coquelicot—
Un coquelicot, moi aussi.

Performance by Megumi Matsubara & Marine Chesnais
Sound by Clovis Lemée

Presented at Marrakech Biennale 6 curated by Reem Fadda
Palais El Badii – Cave

23rd Feb – please request the time at the press office
25th Feb – 16:00 / 17:30
26th Feb – 16:00 / 16:45 / 17:30
27th Feb – 16:00 / 16:45 / 17:30

*Late arrival will not be accepted.
*Each performance will start on time and its duration is 20 minutes.
*Limited capacity of 12 persons maximum for each performance during 25th-27th.
*Photo/Video documentation is strictly prohibited.

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Toi, un coquelicot—
Un coquelicot, moi aussi.

A coquelicot, you are—
A coquelicot, me too.

When will our bodies coincide?
A vanishing point will be explored.
Two performers will be present for one another i n the peculiar environment of Palais El Badii’s underground cave . Toi, un coquelicot— / Un coquelicot, moi aussi. (performance, 2016) is fabricated upon Megumi Matsubara’s installation of A proposal for a textbook to learn Braille, English, and other languages (bronze, 2012-2015) , La Japonaise (scent , 2015) and Undress (text, 2015). The performance which will have been once presented will leave a series of afterimages unfolding the works’ varied states within the space.
The installation will remain on view through the closing of the biennale, 8th May 2016.

http://www.marrakechbiennale.org/

Group Show | Carrefour / Treffpunkt | Berlin

Megumi Matsubara, "Undress" 2015, installation view, ifa Stuttgart (24)

Megumi Matsubara’s work Undress on view in Berlin, having travelled from Stuttgart:

Carrefour / Treffpunkt / Meeting Point
July 17–October 4, 2015

ifa Gallery Berlin, ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations)
Linienstrasse 139/140
10115 Berlin
Germany

Hours:
Tuesday–Sunday 14–18h
Admission free

Exhibition information:
http://www.ifa.de/en/visual-arts/ifa-galleries/exhibitions/carrefour-treffpunkt.html

About Undress:
https://megumimatsubara.com/exhibit/undress/