MIKI NITADORI
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    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
  • Visual works
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Triumph 2004
  • Exhibitions & Installations
    • Odyssey : Reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2018
    • Combat exhibition 2008
  • Participative & community projects
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
  • Interventions & collaborations
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • I am humility 2015
    • one night in the gallery 2015
  • Written pieces
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
  • Older works
    • Interface 2010
    • Transform part one 2010
      • Transform origin 1895 - 1960
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Combat mini video 2007
    • water field 1997, 2007
    • Paradises lost 2000, 2005
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
  • Videos
    • Odyssey : Reflect book
    • On Odyssey : Reflect installation, Rome 2016
    • Odyssey : Reflect Exhibition, installation walk 2016
    • What is timelesshugs? 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Call to the workers at Mac Val 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Call for participation, Arles 2016
  • project proposition
    • Ecology & waste
    • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Research
  • Home
  • About
  • Artist statement
  • Contact
  • Workshop & Conferences
  • News / blah blah
  • Art Objects
    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
  • Visual works
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Triumph 2004
  • Exhibitions & Installations
    • Odyssey : Reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2018
    • Combat exhibition 2008
  • Participative & community projects
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
  • Interventions & collaborations
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • I am humility 2015
    • one night in the gallery 2015
  • Written pieces
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
  • Older works
    • Interface 2010
    • Transform part one 2010
      • Transform origin 1895 - 1960
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Combat mini video 2007
    • water field 1997, 2007
    • Paradises lost 2000, 2005
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
  • Videos
    • Odyssey : Reflect book
    • On Odyssey : Reflect installation, Rome 2016
    • Odyssey : Reflect Exhibition, installation walk 2016
    • What is timelesshugs? 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Call to the workers at Mac Val 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Call for participation, Arles 2016
  • project proposition
    • Ecology & waste
    • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Research

Blond Ambition Photographs of installation by Bernd Lauber, Installation at Galerie Lacen, May 2008
Flag print  80 x 140 cm edition of 3


Blond Ambition video & Flag installation

"Short and exciting video in which a Japanese artist portrays her complicated quest for her personal
and the national identity." 
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009

Laughter is what I identify as being Japanese.

How can we define Japan? What is a racial consciousness and how do we define our ethnic identity as an individual?

This work was mainly filmed on Maui, Hawaii. Interviewing people who are "Japanese" in their origins. What is the relationship we share to Japan?
The title “Blond Ambition” comes from my experience in Japan during the late 90's. Couple of years after the economic bubble had popped, it was hip to get jobs at newly opened western company branches. During this time, I was surprised to see in Tokyo subways that many people of all ages had dyed their hair other than black.I saw that this period was an important social transition in Japanese society.

The flag was made with extract phrases from the video.I thought of making the Japanese flag with the phrases from video because the flag symbolize the questions of racial consciousness and national identity as well as question on relationship between an individual and a nation.

How can an individual express themselves and deal within the history and nationality that one did not choose but was born into ?

By physically writing the words on a red circle, I attempt to creates a relationship between real voices of people and a nation.I wanted to bring the personal visions onto anonymous flag, to confront these two elements. This act is an attempt to ask the public “Is a flag something that truly symbolize you?”

For viewing of the film please contact
For detail information :
mikinitadoriblondambition.blogspot.com


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  • Home
  • About
  • Artist statement
  • Contact
  • Workshop & Conferences
  • News / blah blah
  • Art Objects
    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
  • Visual works
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Triumph 2004
  • Exhibitions & Installations
    • Odyssey : Reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2018
    • Combat exhibition 2008
  • Participative & community projects
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
  • Interventions & collaborations
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • I am humility 2015
    • one night in the gallery 2015
  • Written pieces
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
  • Older works
    • Interface 2010
    • Transform part one 2010
      • Transform origin 1895 - 1960
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Combat mini video 2007
    • water field 1997, 2007
    • Paradises lost 2000, 2005
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
  • Videos
    • Odyssey : Reflect book
    • On Odyssey : Reflect installation, Rome 2016
    • Odyssey : Reflect Exhibition, installation walk 2016
    • What is timelesshugs? 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Call to the workers at Mac Val 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Call for participation, Arles 2016
  • project proposition
    • Ecology & waste
    • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Research