NaoKo TakaHashi

Not So Too Much of Much of Everything
Published by Book Works March 2007
Chap Book Series No 7

Solo Exhibition:
A Tale Of Two States

Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art Jerusalem
19 March-09 April 2009
touring to Ramalla 2009

** The Exhibition is in partnership with the British Council and supported by Ford Foundation.**

New Text Work:
Green Path Ahead of Much Too Much of Everything 2008

NaoKo TakaHashi is an artist, born in Japan, lives and works in London. Her work highlights the ambiguities and confusions of national and individual identities played out through language. Focusing on issues of dislocation, re-location and representation in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual society, she explores processes of continual translation: from thought to voice, between one language and another, through one media to the next.

NaoKo's work is primarily performative, including live performance and performance as a means of generating video/sound work; however, she also works with text and installation art. She uses text to examine and imagine (often humorously) a complex matrix of social and cultural forms of representation. Her installation works often include sculptural piece as well as traces of performance as video/sound installation. She often incorporates one medium into another in experimenting with new concepts and approaches to artwork.

NaoKo finished her BA in Fine Art Media at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2000 and her MFA in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in 2002.