Tsuneko Taniuchi

Tsuneko Taniuchi (谷内恒子 Taniuchi Tsuneko), born in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan, in 1946, is a contemporary artist, who uses performance as her main medium. Her practice, which oscillates between scripted situations and participatory works, aims to question cultural, social and sexual constructions, linked to notions of identity, immigrations and feminisms.[1]

Tsuneko Taniuchi
Tsuneko Taniuchi © Atsushi Nakamichi
Born1946
Nishinomiya, Hyôgo, Japan
NationalityFrench
StylePerformance
Websitehttps://taniuchi.fr/

Education and early works

After studying 20th-century Western art history and sociology at the of Kobe Jogakuin, Japan, Tsuneko Taniuchi studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (France) for two years between (1970–1972). From 1983 to 1987, she travelled extensively between New York, Paris and Japan (Kobe, Tokyo), before settling permanently in France in 1987.[2] Her early works focused first on, paintings, and then on installations, including photographs, and videos.[3]

Works

In 1995, she began her performance work, which she sees as a series of "micro-events[4]."

This term refers to the personal dimension of her actions, in relation to contemporary society, and politics, in  which she is generally the main performer alone or she directs a team of often female dancers, performers, actors, etc.

The situations she sets up are the result of an intersection between the viewer, the art work and the artist with political and social questioning.

“Micro-Events /Weddings” series

Initiated in 2002 at the Galerie Jennifer Flay in Paris.

Since 2002, the date France adopted the PACS - Civil Solidarity Pact, allowing same-sex couples to embrace a form of union close to civil marriage, Taniuchi has been developing a new series of Micro-Events called “Micro-Events/Weddings[5] ”. Their aim is to question, through a variation of contexts, the social norms surrounding marriage; to this date, she has “married” more than two hundred ninety people, men, women, all sexes and genders, and sometimes with several people at once.[6]

Micro-Events /Daily Resistance

A selection of her performance series of her micro-events from 1995 to 2010, were exhibited at Le Générateur in 2011. The exhibition was conceived as a retrospective of the forty-one micro-events, created since 1995. The event combined the staging of previous performances reactivated by the artist and by women dancers/performers, narrations by actors of certain micro-events, and the exhibitions of video archives.[7]

A monograph was also devoted to this series, distributed by R-Diffusion.[8]

Micro-event 45

She has repeatedly questioned the role and image of women in contemporary society, through a practice of disguise that take in socially determined contexts, as is the case with her performance "Micro-Event n°45 /Six Female Characters + A Women / Seven days" where she played the female roles of waitress, boxer, gymnast, homeless woman, Ganguro and Ninja.[9]

More recently, her work has involved other performers—dancers, actors— around themes related to multiculturalism, postcolonialism and intersectional feminism.[10]

Exhibitions and performances (selection)

2010-2020

2020

Micro-Event n°51 /It's the body as subjectivity. Le Générateur, Gentilly, France, 6 March.[11]

2019

Flower Bed, London East Asia Film Festival, (Film & Art), Tate Modern, Starr Cinema, London, UK, October 26 (cat. LEAFF2019).

Lignes de vies - une exposition de légendes, curated by Frank Lamy, MAC VAL – Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France, March 30–August 25.[12]

Micro-Event 50 /My Body Is Political - Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY, May 17–18.[13]

Hors Pistes 14e Édition, L’odeur de la lune vague après la Pluie, Judith Cahen and Masayasu Eguchi, Centre Pompidou, Paris, February 2.[14]

2018

Micro-Event 50 /My Body Is Political, Le Générateur, Gentilly and  Musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint -Denis, France, November 17 & December 2.[15]

Micro-Event /Weddings Anniversary (installation), Quel Amour !? MP1-8, curated Eric Corne, Mac, Musée d’art contemporain de Marseille, France, May 5–September 2.[16]

2017

Micro-Event n°49 /Space Oddity – The Artist and Her Studio, Traversées Ren@rde, curated by Damien Sausset, Julie Crenn, Nadège Piton & Erik Noulette, Transpalette, Bourges, France, October 21–January 28, 2018 (performance: December 16).[17]

Micro-Event n°49 /Space Oddity – The Artist and Her Studio, Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC, October 27 (performance & screening).[18]

Herstory, des archives à l’heure des postféminismes, curated by Julie Crenn &  Pascal Lievre, Maison des arts – centre d’art contemporain de Malakoff, France, January 21–March 19.[19]

Micro-Event n°6 bis /Fast Food – Sushi Merguez, La Nuit européenne des musées 2017, May 2, curated by Frank Lamy & Julie Crenn, MAC VAL – Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, in the exhibition Tous, des sang-mêlés, France, April 24–September 3.[20][21]

2016

Micro-Events 1995–2015, Légende, curated by Lauren Buffet for FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, February 5–May 7.[22]

Micro-Event n°49 /Space Oddity – The Artist and Her Studio, Le Générateur, Gentilly, France, 9 October.[23]

2015

Micro-Event n°44 /Theater of the (Re)presentation of Self, after “Fresh Acconci, Les lanceurs d’alerte – Carte Blanche à Sylvie Blocher, Mudam, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, February 7.

L’Effet Vertigo Parcours #7–New Hanging of Works from the Collection, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry–sur–Seine, France, 24.10.2015–2017.

Micro-événement N° 14 /Love me tender, L’Effet Vertigo Parcours #7–New Hanging of Works from the Collection, 2002. 20 framed color photographs, 29.5 × 20.5 cm (each). MAC VAL Collection, 2011.

2014

Tsuneko Taniuchi Micro-Events, solo exhibit, Ginza Maison Hermès, Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan, July18–September 21.[24]

Micro-Event n°46 /Weddings in Tokyo, Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan, August 8.

Micro-Event n°45 /Six Female Characters + A Woman / Seven Days, Ginza Maison Hermès, Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan, July18–September 21.[25]

2012

Situation(s) [48°47 34 N / 2°23 14 E], curated by Frank Lamy, MAC VAL – Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de- Marne, France, June 30–Septembre 23.[26]

Micro-Event n°42 /Weddings in the Summer Gardens, Situation(s) [48°47 34 N / 2°23 14 E], curated by Frank Lamy, MAC VAL – Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France, July 1.[27]

Micro-Event n°25 /Public communication bar / VIPCocktails, Neon. La materia lumino- sa dell’arte, curated by David Rosenberg & Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Italy, June 6.

2011

Micro-Events /Daily Resistances, Le Générateur, Gentilly, France, October 22–October 30.[28][29]

Micro-Event n°41 /Flower Bed, Nuit Blanche, curated by Alexia Fabre and Frank Lamy, Hôtel Amour, Paris, October 1.[30][31]

2010

Micro-Event /Weddings Anniversary, Rendez-vous du forum, Session 2, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2010 – CNAP Collection 2013.[32]

2000-2010

2009

Micro-Event n°13, La Force de l’Art 02, Grand Palais, Paris, May 30. 15 April 24–June 1.[33]

Micro-Event n°36 /Ice Vitrine, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden, February 13.[34]

Micro-Event n°5 /Nine Female Characters + Queen Béatrice, tijdenstefaf, organized with Nadja Vilenne Gallery, Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, Netherlands, March 8–March 16.[35]

2007

Feminist Art Base, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, curated by Maura Reilly, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.[36]

Micro-Event n°25 /Public communication bar / VIPCocktails, invited by Nadja Vilenne Gallery, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, April 19.

2006

Micro-Event n°18bis Marianne, La Force de l’Art 01, curated by Hou Hanru, Grand Palais, Paris, May 10–June 25.[37][38][39]

2005

Micro-Event n°26 /I Get Married in Chinese, Miss China Beauty Gallery, Paris, February 8–February 28.

Micro-Event n°25 /Public communication bar / VIPCocktails,, Scènes de vie, Swiss Cultural Centre, Paris, October 30–December 18.

2004

Micro-Event n°24 /Weddings, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool Biennial,  Tate Liverpool, Independents district, Liverpool, September 18–Novembe 28.

Micro-Event n°25 /Public communication bar / VIPCocktails, Occupations #1, MAC VAL- Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France, October 22–October 24.

2003

Micro-Event n°21 /Marriage Candidates, Intimités, Hôtel de Ville, Paris, March 7–March 9.

2002

Micro-Event n°14 /Future Bride Likes to Paint, Art & Vitrine, Rougier & Plé, Paris, January 15–February 1.

Micro-Event n°14 /Love Me Tender, Sens Dessus-Dessous, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, January 26–February 3.

2001

Micro-Event n°11 /Tsuneko Troc, Tokyorama, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, September 1–September 30.

Micro- Event n°11 /Tsuneko Troc, in Arts d’Attitudes, Le Lieu, Québec, (France au Québec / La saison), organized by l’AFAA et Le Lieu, September 6–September 8.

Micro- Event n°9 bis /A Female Boxer, Je ne suis pas une Pénélope, Espace Culturel François Mitterrand, Beauvais, France, November 18–January 13.

Micro-Event n°6 /Berlin / Fast Food, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, (Villa Médicis Hors les Murs 2000/AFAA), October 21.

Ganguro Girl, Les Revues parlées – Machines, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, December 15.

Micro-Event n°12 /The Right to Housing, Rewind, Glassbox, Paris, March–April 21.

2000

Micro-Event n°5 /Nine Female Characters, Paris pour escale, curated by Hou and Evelyne Jouanno, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, December 7–February 18, 2001.  

1980-2000

1999

Micro-Event n°5 /Nine Female Characters, Transpalette, Bourges, France, October 9–November 7.

Expériences du divers, Galerie Art & Essai / Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France, May 18–June 26.[40]

1998  

Passeurs, Centre national de la Photographie, curated by Julie Sauerwein and Adriaan Himmelreich, Paris, April 29–June 6.

Gare de l’Est, curated by Hou Hanru and Enrico Lunghi, Casino Luxembourg / Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg, December 12–February 21, 1999.

Ici, ailleurs et nulle part, Quartier Éphémère, Montreal, Canada, November 21–December 20 (exhibition-residency)

Micro-Event n°20 /How to Become a Good Housewife, Ici, ailleurs et nulle part, Quartier Éphémère, Montreal, Canada, November 21.

1997

Parisien(ne)s, curated by Hou Hanru, and organized by Iniva in collaboration with Camden Arts Centre, February 7–March 23.[41][42]

1995

Micro-Event n°1 /Ato No Matsuri /Too Late, Chez Valentin Gallery, Paris, July 8.

You are not invited / Collection de Nora, Heart Gallery, Paris, November 21–December 13.

Strangers in Paradise (Étrangères au Paradis), curated by Michel Nuridsany, Le monde de l'art, Paris, April 11–May 27.

1994

Chaque génération paye les erreurs de la précédente, curated by Hou Hanru, Hôpital Éphémère, Paris, January 8–January 9.

1991

Il reste toujours une place, Credit Agricole gallery, Poitiers, France, October 8–October 31.

1989

Galerie du Triangle, Bordeaux, France.

1986

Galerie Moris, Tokyo, Japan.

1983

Jack Tilton Gallery, New York.

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