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my work moves between the visual avant-garde, utopian and dystopian literature, historical pain, and everyday dark humour — at times returning to a distinctly Wildean aestheticism
i am interested in how beauty, monstrosity, money, diplomacy, surveillance, and technocratic power reorganise what becomes visible
Category: Frankenstein
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This long essay was published in The Asia Pacific Journal | Japan Focus (Cambridge Core/Open Access, 2024). Artist Tetsu Takeda left Japan for America in 1986 and returned to Japan in 2011. Shortly after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Takeda started identifying himself as a “professional artist” and only doing “high art” by rethinking life and our role as human beings…
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