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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 refracted through the social and moral structures of contemporary cultural politics.

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  • Rubbish, Animism and Post-Fukushima Japan

    This long essay is published in The Asia Pacific Journal | Japan Focus (Cambridge Core/Open Access) 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 interfering…