EVENT

Selected Cuts is a screening of 13 works by Japanese video artist Fuyuhiko Takata, organized in partnership with KADIST. Across Takata’s works, bodies—often his own—are made up, cut open, costumed, covered and uncovered, dragged out; they sprout appendages, fuse with objects, and experience perpetual hybridizations. The artist’s references are strikingly varied, ranging from Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece to The Little Mermaid, from yaoi manga to Chris Crocker’s “Leave Britney Alone,” and from Rapunzel to Godzilla: an anything-goes approach to culture, where new opportunities for self-presentation emerge. His videos, laced with absurdist humour, are in turns sweet and sharp, pointing to the fragile, porous boundaries of gender expression and suggesting alternative configurations of desire.

Curator: Daniel Fiset

PHI wishes to thank Marie Martraire at KADIST, Tomoko Ashikawa at WAITINGROOM and the artist for their precious collaboration.