Takao Kawaguchi "a perfect life"

void+ presents "a perfect life" by Takao Kawaguchifrom April 10th 18th, 2009.
"a perfect life" is an on going series of performance Kawaguchi has created with collaging text, films sounds and dance, and each version of this series he tells different episode based on his private experiences. Kawaguchi will assemble an installation work and performance using catwalk like stage build inside void+. Takayuki Fujimoto from Dumb Type will be collaborating on lighting design.

Takao Kawaguchi
A performer and choreographer based in Tokyo. From 1991 to 1995 he, together with Atsuko Yoshifuku, ran the independent dance group, ATA Dance. In 1996, he joined the Japanese multimedia performance company Dumb Type and participated in OR, memorandum and Voyage. He has also been active in independent solo projects since 2000. His recent works, characterized by collaborations with sound/visual artists who uniquely combine and synchronize the elements of light and sound, include Di Que No Ves (Say You Don't See) (2003), D.D.D. -How many more times will my heart beat before it stops?- (2004), Tablemind (2006) and Good Luck (2008). Currently, Kawaguchi is also involved in other projects including true - a new light, sound and dance performance, a collaboration with Japanese contemporary dancer/choreographer Tsuyoshi Shirai and Dumb Type's lighting designer Taklayuki Fujimoto using the new LED lighting technology. Kawaguchi is also working on his solo, site-specific performance series A Perfect Lifewhich began last year in Chicago in May 2008, and continued in Tokyo on the Sumida River, in August 2008. Next Perfect Life will be in August 2009, in Nippori, Tokyo.

Apart from the performing arts, Takao Kawaguchi was the director of the Tokyo International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival from 1995 to 99. in 2003, he translated into Japanese UK's openly gay experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman's essay on colors Chroma which he wrote just before he died of AIDS in 1994.

http://www.kawaguchitakao.com/

I would like to talk to you about my life about my day-to-day life things that happened around me
My family, friends, people I know meet or part...
Small details of my personal life reflect the realities of the world