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Mako Ishizuka is an artist and a researcher, who intervenes in the distances that emerge where the global meets the everyday. She uses her experiences of living as ‘others’ in various societies to play with their norms and logic and enjoy the challenges and openings generated by uncertain/unfamiliar elements. It manifests itself in a personal manner with various forms, such as installation, performance, workshop, drawing and essay. In the past years, she has employed a workshop of dialogue and collaboration as a medium for research and production, and also considered it as an artwork, examining its potential to be an alternative and malleable form for social/collective artistic experience in the current world with reduced humanity.
Since her first visit to Vilnius in summer 2022, Mako has questioned how people want stories to be told in Lithuania, inspired by the local voice-over culture, and met various locals to listen to their story. During her stay at SODAS 2123, she plans to engage in on-site collaborative experiments around control and solidarity and share the paths of her inquiries on different platforms in Lithuania.
Mako studied Interdisciplinary Studies (culture/philosophy/sociology) in Japan, and free art in the Netherlands and Sweden. Many of her projects were developed on the platform of residencies, such as IASPIS (Sweden), Capacete (Brazil), Bag Factory (South Africa) and Rupert (Lithuania); also through collaboration with locals, including architect-group Septembre (France), and Graduate School of Intercultural Studies at Kobe University (Japan). She has presented her practice at Architecture Biennale in Venice, EHESS in Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, International Literary Festival in Riga, among others.
Mako Ishizuka residency is supported by Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
SODAS 2123 activities are supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius city municipality.
