I wonder
April 25th, 2008
Often I find these sit in a shopfront stunts contrived - like the infamous Jabba/Regurgitator band in a bubble one a few years ago - but Hiromi Tango, currently holed up in the new window space at Redfern’s Grantpirrie, matches the wonderful colour anarchy of Japan’s Harajuku girls with the reflective self-assessment that has to come with sitting in a shop front, among your thoughts, for days on end.
She was described as “very enthusiastic” in an Auckland Festival performance last year: “she would have liked to have slept in her shop and be there 24/7.” The current one, ‘Am I Here, Can You See Me?’, has progressed a long way since the pic on Grantpirrie’s website was taken.
I took this photo on my mobile this afternoon, and I think Hiromi was bustling around behind the mess of tags, thread and letters.
Visit soon, Hiromi heads to Melbourne for Next Wave in May, where the Queensland Government’s given her $10,000 to set up another public performance piece.
Brisbane sound artist/musician Tom Hall put together a series of processed field recordings in reaction to one of Hiromi’s earlier works in the Brisbane Arc Biennial. It’s available for download here.
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:33 am
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