e-flux Shop currently features donated artworks to raise funds for relief efforts after the devastating earthquakes that struck Syria and Turkey on February 6. All proceeds from this benefit sale will go toward the White Helmets in Syria and a construction workers union in Antakya, Turkey. The benefit shop will run from April 1 through May 1.
Koki Tanaka is a visual artist whose diverse practice spans video, photography, site-specific installations, and interventions, and seeks to visualize and reveal the multiple contexts latent in everyday acts. In his early object-oriented works, Tanaka experimented with ordinary objects to explore ways of offering a possible escape from everyday routine. In later works, Tanaka asks participants to collectively navigate tasks that are out of the ordinary, seeking to reveal group dynamics in a micro-society and temporal community. Following the natural disasters of March 11, 2011 in Japan, his works have reflected on the relationality that arises between human beings, and what Tanaka calls “collective acts”—experiments of various sorts that lack a fixed destination.
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