Mami Takahashi
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Mami Takahashi
Journal 1998-2020
Video: Single-channel video
02:00
Writing: A series of poems
About the artist:
https://mamitakahashi.art
Mami Takahashi is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist, who integrates traditional and contemporary approaches in ideas, methods, and media to address perspectives on foreignness and Americanness. As a non-native English user in the U.S., she often incorporates her English usage into her visual practice. She shares the struggle non-native English speakers face when communicating with first-language speakers, and the limits imposed through these interactions. Takahashi uses multiple methods of art making such as painting, craft-making, digital photographs & video, performence and audio, often creating large scale installations that explore the boundaries in the social norms between cultures.
As a nation historically struggling with its diversity problems, the U.S. offers a unique perspective on the relationship between native English speakers and an increasing immigrant population. She believes that art re-ritualized the everyday to reveal something about our lives.