MIKI NITADORI
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    • Hale 2010 / 2023
    • Odyssey : reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2020
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    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Triumph 2004
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Transform part one 2010
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Combat exhibition 2008
    • Mini video 2007, 2010
    • Paradise lost 2000, 2005
    • project propositions
      • Ecology & waste
      • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
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    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • one night in the gallery 2015
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
    • I am humility 2015
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    • L'anti chambre
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    • Tohoku
  • Community, Residency & Workshops
    • Samsara in Arcadia
    • Writing of light
    • Combat: lockdown
    • Aloha
    • Creating an exhibition
    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
    • Big scare
    • Combat: Iolani
    • One boy and twenty girls
    • Sing & See
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  • Visual works
    • Hale 2010 / 2023
    • Odyssey : reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2020
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Triumph 2004
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Transform part one 2010
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Combat exhibition 2008
    • Mini video 2007, 2010
    • Paradise lost 2000, 2005
    • project propositions
      • Ecology & waste
      • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Participate & Collaborate
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • one night in the gallery 2015
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
    • I am humility 2015
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Catherine's Pier, Creation for projection,  for collaboration with a  prepared piano and a reader,  August  2017

Pier de Catherine ( Catherine's pier) 2017

Pier de Catherine ( Catherine's pier) is a series of images that was created on demand from the writer Isabelle Blondie. This piece consists of 110 images for theatrical monologue written by Isabelle on one of my oldest friends in Paris, Catherine. Isabelle is reincarnated in Catherine, who has undergone a life changing operation, ampulation and embarks alone on a sailboat, in the Mediterranean sea.  She faces pain, danger, fear and mourning. Her journey / monologue is interlinked to two tragedies: Catherine's condition and the terrorist attack of Nice (of which Isabelle is a native). In this work I wanted to challenge the audience, alluding to media manipulations. This is about general sub conscious public opinion of who refugees are and how they are often linked to terrorism. I have chosen to represent the refugees that  Embarks on the boat of Catherine / Isabelle with photographs of Japanese-American children ( 1st graders) in public school in San Francisco 1942 ( photograph attributed to Dorothea Lange via wiki commons)  After Pearl Harbor who suddenly were considered as Alien-enemies.
I used also images of European immigrants to America. What I tried to say in this work is that many of us are all decedent of immigrants and refugees in historical context. And history is way more interlinked than what we know and our knowledge can often lack of  many information.  This series were created by my photographs , friends photographs, and from digital archives on Creative commons images.


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Some examples of original peices from Odyssey : reflect  series
Odyssey : Reflect
Transform part one
Triumph
Combat : Manual for daily survival
Seesawspotting
interface
Paradise lost
Water field
Combat mini video
odyssey : reflect installation, extract reading & dance No no boy by John Okada (French)
Looking for "tree in the sun"
Blond Ambition

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  • Home
  • News
  • Profile
  • Artist statement
  • Organization & Curation
    • Photography?Why?
    • L'anti chambre
    • Watashitachi-Nous
    • Tohoku
  • Community, Residency & Workshops
    • Samsara in Arcadia
    • Writing of light
    • Combat: lockdown
    • Aloha
    • Creating an exhibition
    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
    • Big scare
    • Combat: Iolani
    • One boy and twenty girls
    • Sing & See
    • Workshop & Conferences
  • Visual works
    • Hale 2010 / 2023
    • Odyssey : reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2020
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Triumph 2004
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Transform part one 2010
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Combat exhibition 2008
    • Mini video 2007, 2010
    • Paradise lost 2000, 2005
    • project propositions
      • Ecology & waste
      • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Participate & Collaborate
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • one night in the gallery 2015
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
    • I am humility 2015
  • Contact