WINDOW BOX GALLERY – Tari Ito
Feb 5- March 2020
Video/Installation: Before the 37 Trillion Pieces Get to Sleep
Tari Ito is a feminist performance artist who lives in Tokyo, Japan. Seven years ago, Ito was diagnosed with a neurologic disease called SMA which affects her muscles. The disease has progressed rapidly and as a result she has become confined to a wheelchair. Ito has had to necessarily review the creative expectations she has of her own body. After a four year break from performance, Ito took part in LIVE Performance Art Biennale 2019 with the North American premiere of Before the 37 Trillion Pieces Get to Sleep, a new project that addressed the crucial reality, and inhabitants fear, of the invisible. presence of residual radiation in Fukushima following the March 11 nuclear disaster. This performance marked Ito s return to the Western Front three decades after her first performance in 1990. Similarly, the Window Box Gallery exhibit marks a similar span of time as she returns likewise to Toronto with this exhibit/video.
Curated by WIA Projects
