Plush Subjectivity (Hong Kong), 2024
CHAT (Center for Heritage, Arts, and Textile), Hong Kong
Kenny X. Li, Nakayama Izumi, Sara Tse, in Hong Kong and Ei Arakawa-Nash, Won Ju Lim, Anna Sew Hoy, Shirley Tse, and Amy Yao. Special Thanks to Tiger & Sandra Chu.
Here Comes a Cohort, Through a Wind Tunnel, 2023
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Special Thanks: Contortion Studio Nugara, Junpei Fukuda, Tomoaki Imamura, Takayuki Ishii, Yuki Kimura, Yūma Kinoshita, Yūki Okumura, Q Takeki Maeda, Takayuki Mashiyama, Daiki Mizuno, Mōco Ayumi, Ito Mori, Misora Mori, Keita Saitō, Masayo Suzaki, Taka Ishii Gallery, Mrs. Takamura, Yūri Takeyasu, Yūichiro Tamura, Sen Uesaki, Yui Yaegashi with Toki-chan, Yamato Tricking Studio, Taichi Watanabe, and the Graduate Art program at ArtCenter College of Design.
FAC XTRA RETREAT, 2023
Ei Arakawa, Patty Chang, Pearl C Hsiung, Amanda Ross-Ho, Anna Sew Hoy, Shirley Tse, Amy Yao
REDCAT, LOS ANGELES
Steven Lam (Bass), Steve Kado (Keyboard), Haan Lee (Stage/Camera), Yubo Dong with Zihui Song (Photo), Angel Origgi (Photo), Lukas Maser (Clip), Todd Richmond (Clip), Alan Xu (After Effects), REDCAT: João Ribas, Edgar Miramontes, Rolando Rodriguez, Bill Ballou (Technical Director), Pete Pace (Assistant TD, Sound, and Video), Chu-Hsuan Chang (Assistant TD, Lighting Director), Christa Toester (Stage Manager), Scott Garner (Media), Jerrel Milan (Lighting Board Operator), Curtman Hurry (Audio Engineer), Caleb Veazey (Audio Assistant), Josue Clark (Deck), Jacques Boudreau (Audience seat setting), Brent Charles (Tickets). Special Thanks To: Asian American Pacific Islanders Arts Network, Ann Haeyoung, Christina Valentine, David Zuckerman, our families, and more.
Don’t Give Up (Performance), 2023
Les Bains de la Motta / Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Switzerland
Organized by Nicholas Brulhart
Music by Stefan Tcherepnin
Special thanks to Jörg Bosshard, Léa Depestel, Julie Folly, Estelle Negro, Sacha Rappo, Fabian Stücheli, and the participants for the performance
NEMESIS PAINTING (PURR … formance!), 2022
David Zwirner, New York
Part of A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9 (Performance Space New York benefit)
Ei Arakawa, Kerstin Brätsch, Nicole Eisenman, and Laura Owens
Music: Tina Chang-Chien, Ju Jin-Bonet, Isaac Kim, Hyun Joon Shin
Camera: Miho Hatori, Howard Silver
Editor : Ei Arakawa and Howard Silver
GET BACK / GET OUT, 2022
Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles
One day group performance of anagram poetry actions. AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islanders) Arts Network and their collaborators channel Yoko Ono in Get Back documentary.
Ei Arakawa, Patty Chang, York Chang, Anh Do, Yi Gao, Naotaka Hiro,
Pearl C Hsiung, Eric Kim, Grace Oh, Roksana Pirouzmand, Amanda Ross-Ho, Emily Ryan, Anna Sew Hoy, Danielle Shang, Kyungmi Shin,
Christina Valentine, Yan Yu, featuring Kim Gordon, Brontez Purnell, Bedros Yeretzian
Camera: Haan Lee
Don’t Give Up, 2022
Overduin & Co, Los Angeles
Vocaloids: Celia Hollander with Ei Arakawa
Lyrics: Ei Arakawa
Music: from the album Timekeeper (2021) by Celia Hollander
Social Muscle Rehab, 2021
Artists Space, New York
Performed by: Ei Arakawa, Dan Chen, Danielle A. Jackson, K.O. Nnamdie, Masako Shiba, Kenneth Teng, Ivanny Pagan, Britnie Williams
Camera by: Lazar Bolzic (Ortvi.com)
Production Management: Rezarta Seferi (Artists Space)
Mega Please Draw Freely, 2021
Tate Modern, London
An homage to Jirō Yoshihara’s Please Draw Freely from 1956
Music: Sergei Tcherepnin & Stefan Tcherepnin
Song: Atsuko’s Hearts (Atsuko Tanaka, Painting, 1960), 2019
Composed by Sergei Tcherepnin, Lyrics by Ei Arakawa
Camera: Jared Schiller
Tokyo Story, 2021
Ei Arakawa and Miho Hatori
Director of Photography: Soren Nielsen
Colorist: Ayumi Ashley
Make-Up/Hair: Tomomi Gonzalez
Producer: Miho Hatori and Wyatt Angelo
WEWORK BABIES, 2019
Artists Space, New York
Performers: Ei Arakawa, Malik Gaines, Sohee Kim, Erika Landström, Shuang Liang, George Liu, Yuri Manabe, Molly McFadden, Gela Patashuri, Jamie Stevens, Tinatin Tsiklauri, Artists Space, New York
Music: Stefan Tcherepnin & Igor Törnudd-Tcherepnin
Camera: Sanggu Simon Chon
Warmhole Starshine, 2019
Part of Ari Benjamin Meyers, Kunsthalle for Music, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
A music score with ass-conducting
Ei Arakawa & Christian Naujoks
Performers: Mika Hayashi Ebbesen (Cello), Booker Stardrum (Butt Conducting), Diego Gaeta (Keyboard), Garrett Wingfield (Saxophone), Marta Tiesenga (Saxophone), Nigel Deane (Vocal), Pauline Lay (Percussion)
Camera: Ei Arakawa
LAVA LOVE, 2018
Music: Sergei Tcherepnin & Stefan Tcherepnin
Video montage: from Kerstin Brätsch & UNITED BROTHERS, M△XM△GM△L△▽△
CAST: Tanja Nis-Hansen, Beatrice Marchi, Astrid Kajsa Nylander, Davide Stucchi, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger
Camera by: Kerstin Brätsch, UNITED BROTHERS, Mattia Ruffolo
My Shared Medium (Gustave Courbet, The Meeting, 1854), 2017
Music: Christian Naujoks
Lyrics: Ei Arakawa & Dan Poston.
Paintings: Gustave Courbet, Nikolas Gambaroff, Jutta Koether, Joan Mitchell, Amy Sillman, Reena Spaulings, and Atsuko Tanaka
How To DISappear In America, 2016
A musical based on Seth Price’s fiction from 2008, which itself appropriates from 1960s countercultural handbooks.
Cast: Åskar Brickman, Miho Hatori, Jake Hart, Anne Fidler, Dan Poston, Ei Arakawa, Stefan Tcherepnin, Tara Tolaas, Thea Djordjadze
Direction: Ei Arakawa
Music: Stefan Tcherepnin
Lyrics: Ei Arakawa & Dan Poston
Software: Andrew Steinmetz
Stage Management: Eliel Jones
Plates of Getashen, 2016
Ei Arakawa & Nikolas Gambaroff
Group 1: Megan Zhang (Jenny), Kiké Adedeji (Karina), Travis Owens (David), Yao Xie (Satoshi), Andrew C Valenzuela (Zaza)
Group 2: Donna Lieu (Jenny), Sherry Michaels (Karina), Aron T. Garcia (David), Rich Go-2 (Satoshi), Tim Molyneux (Zaza)
Group 3: Jacqueline Yu (Jenny), Pamela Lambert (Karina), Ian Mark (David), Kiyoichi Kondo (Satoshi), David Michael (Zaza)
Camera: Thomas Torress
Sound: Skye Chamberlain
Hālau Hula O Na Mele 'Āina O Hawai'i, 2016
Serpentine Gallery, London
Pre-Christianity Hula Kahiko: Luana Haraguchi (Kumu Hula), Christine Casil (Alaka’i), Ronald DelosTrino, Jr. (Alaka’i), Ei Arakawa, Brigita Bryant, Roxanne Dyer, Michiko Sugiyama
E Ho Mai / Ke Lei Maila ‘O Ka’ula I ke Kai / E Ala E
Kūnihi Ka Mauna
A Ka Luna I Pu’u’oni’oni’ (Choreography: Luana Haraguchi)
Ua Nani Hāʻena I Ka ʻEhu Kai (Choreography: Darrell Lupenui)
Hana Waimea (Choreography: Nani Lim Yap)
He Nani Ha’upu (Choreography: Uncle George Na’ope)
Nā Uwē O Nā Manu (Choreography: Darrell Lupenui)
Hamakua (Choreography: Uncle George Na’ope)
Jiro, Digital Painting, 2015
The Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Cast: Ei Arakawa, Kim Hoang, Eliel Jones, Fabián Leyva-Barragan, Dan Poston, David Louis Zuckerman
Direction: Ei Arakawa
Music: David Louis Zuckerman with Ei Arakawa & Dan Poston
Lyrics: Ei Arakawa & Dan Poston
Software: Andrew Steinmetz
Forever Now, 2015
Düsseldorf, Germany
A self-organized performance in conjunction with "The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World" at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Ei Arakawa & Shimon Minamikawa
WE HEART EARTH HEAT (pOEtry jOUrnEy), 2014
Hollybush Garden, London
Ei Arakawa & Karl Holmqvist
PARIS ADAPTED HOMELAND (Episode 6), 2013
Arakawa exercising with the early paintings by Minamikawa. Earlier episodes took place in Paris, the old capital of Modern paintings history. Painting travels Tokyo to Paris back and forth.
Ei Arakawa & Shimon Minamikawa
Shiro no me / Blue Hood / Environmental Mechanical Orchestra – Imagining Kuniharu Akiyama, 2013
Iwaki City Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Ei Arakawa, Aki Takahashi, Sergei Tcherpnin
Arakawa and Tcherenin channel the spirit of Kuniharu Akiyama with the help of the pianist Aki Takahashi. Akiyama was the key member of post-WWII Japanese collective Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop). The performance took place at Arakawa’s birth town.
Paris & Wizard, 2013
This lip-sync musical is about the first generation of video artists in 70s Japan through the eyes of MoMA’s long-term media curator Barbara London. This is the 3rd part of the musical where the audience was transformed while hearing information about video collectives.
Direction: Ei Arakawa
Music: Stefan Tcherepnin
Lyrics: Ei Arakawa & Dan Poston
CAST: Marie Karlberg (Paris), Andrei Koschmieder (Wizard), Kashimi Asai (Nakaya-san), Anri Nakano (Mako-san), Shoko Fujita (Shigeko-san), Ei Arakawa (Yamaguchi-san), Dan Poston (Video Man 1), Stefan Tcherepnin (Video Man 2)
Countdown, 2012
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nora Schultz & Ei Arakawa
“Nora Schultz performed a countdown, together with New York based artist Ei Arakawa, using a thin, flexible length of stainless steel that was bent into the form of each successive number. … The final “0” is a roughly corrugated approximation of the pristine, smoothly curved original “10”. The potential energy articulated here is that of material transformation, and the accumulation of allegory through simple means, from neutrality, through action. The zero point of this countdown—the return to neutrality—is impossible once the material has been loaded with the history of its transformations.” (Kristy Bell)
See Weeds, 2011
Performance with the Gutai collection at Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, including paintings by Picasso and Josh Smith
Performers: Ei Arakawa, Camille Henri Clement, Léa Hodencq, Liis Lillo, Anna Mostosi, Davide Stucchi
Composition: Tadashi Ota
Piano: Alexander Tcherepnine
Sketch (1934)
Composition: Bunya Koh
Piano: Alexander Tcherepnine
Springtime at the Hills (1932)
Composition: Yasuji Kiyose
Piano: Alexander Tcherepnine
“Challenging Mud” as Archive, 2011
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Ei Arakawa & Reiko Tomii
Excerpt from Grand Openings Return of The Blogs (2012) by Loretta Fahrenholz
Reiko Tomii “I Challenged Mud, After …”
Single’s Night, 2011-2012
Museum of Modern Art, New York & Tate Modern, London
Ei Arakawa with Jutta Koether
Two Grahams, 2008
Performance in conjunction with Gordon & Koether’s exhibition Dead Already at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York.
Ei Arakawa with Eleanor Erdman
Performers: Ei Arakawa, Brittany Dreyer, Eleanor Erdman, Miki Ikeda, Sam Pulitzer, Patrick Price, Jessie Stead, Carly Whitehead and 2 other people.
Live Music: Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether
Music: The Static + The Coachmen, 8-Eyed Spy, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Contortions & Gynecologists (Originally recorded by Dan Graham)
Text by: Jutta Koether
Grand Openings, 2006
Tsunan High School, Nigata Japan
Special extracurricular activities by Grand Openings.
Mid-Yuming As Reconstruction Mood, 2004
Performers: Ei Arakawa, Alisa Baremboym, Sachiko Hirosue, Ikuko Ikari, Mari Mukai, Reiko Nagae, Yuri Yasuda