Interview with Kiyoshi Yamamoto
12.10.2016
Q: Why / when / how did you start to work with performance, what is your background, how did you arrive at doing performance?
I started to work with performance during my MA studies at Bergen National Academy of Arts and Design. It was a discovery on how to put out my ideas, without the borders of materialisation. It was something that gave me freedom and understanding.
Q: What is your process like when you make a performance, from idea to actual work?
I do always let the idea itself choose which form its going to take in my practice. Sometimes it can be materialised as textiles, paintings, sculptures or performance. I do not limit myself. Maybe this is my process. But is just something that I normally do. I try not to be so judgmental.
Q: Can you tell about your latest project?
I have so many projects going on right now. But I can tell you something about my main focus this Fall-
and that is a series of works that takes Ludwig Wittgenstein’s book “Remark on Colours” as a starting point. One of those works is the performance that I will show this November in collaboration with PAO.
The performance has a tittle: BLUE KILL YELLOW. And is about the drama in the colour study. It is a fight between Ludwig and Goethe.
But at the same time, a love affair between my self and colour theory.
Q: What role does performance art have in your life / artistic praxis? Do you also work within other fields, like installation, sculpture, drawing, and other e
expressions? How do they influence / inform each other?
I am trained as a weaver. So textiles are something that I have worked on continually. But performance has been taking up a large part of my practice. As I said before, I try not to be judgmental. I am always challenging myself and the others around me.
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Q: Why / when / how did you start to work with performance, what is your background, how did you arrive at doing performance?
I started to work with performance during my MA studies at Bergen National Academy of Arts and Design. It was a discovery on how to put out my ideas, without the borders of materialisation. It was something that gave me freedom and understanding.
Q: What is your process like when you make a performance, from idea to actual work?
I do always let the idea itself choose which form its going to take in my practice. Sometimes it can be materialised as textiles, paintings, sculptures or performance. I do not limit myself. Maybe this is my process. But is just something that I normally do. I try not to be so judgmental.
Q: Can you tell about your latest project?
I have so many projects going on right now. But I can tell you something about my main focus this Fall-
and that is a series of works that takes Ludwig Wittgenstein’s book “Remark on Colours” as a starting point. One of those works is the performance that I will show this November in collaboration with PAO.
The performance has a tittle: BLUE KILL YELLOW. And is about the drama in the colour study. It is a fight between Ludwig and Goethe.
But at the same time, a love affair between my self and colour theory.
Q: What role does performance art have in your life / artistic praxis? Do you also work within other fields, like installation, sculpture, drawing, and other e
expressions? How do they influence / inform each other?
I am trained as a weaver. So textiles are something that I have worked on continually. But performance has been taking up a large part of my practice. As I said before, I try not to be judgmental. I am always challenging myself and the others around me.
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