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Rei Kakiuchi

sculptuur, installatie, Conceptueel, Artistiek onderzoek

My work explores themes of secrecy and escapology, occupying liminal spaces between life and death, between visibility and erasure. Through alter egos, marginal creatures, and fragmented narratives, I create installations, drawings, videos, and performances that question the social norms and symbolic systems that we ourselves have created and that now hold us in place. Guided by recurring motifs such as the eel, I construct ambiguous and layered environments that resist fixed meaning and invite reflection on transformation, belonging, and the elusive nature of connection.

Escapology - ver2 -
Escapology - ver2 - - The performance weaves together my ancestor's immigration story from China to Japan and his collection of Edison's wax-record player and conch horns, both sharing rotational structures. I demonstrated playing the conch horn, featuring John Cage's "Inlet." Throughout the performance, I introduced my "Japanese Pervert" persona, which became an unexpected but significant artistic character that will continue to appear in future works. The performance creates a sense of vertigo for the audience, offering no stable narrative pathway. This disorientation potentially mirrors the experience of our time, combining research elements with personal history in a humorous yet unsettling presentation. The persona represents someone people might avoid yet embodies a unique artistic charisma and a reluctant point of contact between people. Het Archief, Rotterdam / performance / conch, sound equipment / 2023 (Photo: Sander van Wettum)
Escapology - ver2
Escapology - ver2 - The performance weaves together my ancestor's immigration story from China to Japan and his collection of Edison's wax-record player and conch horns, both sharing rotational structures. I demonstrated playing the conch horn, featuring John Cage's "Inlet." Throughout the performance, I introduced my "Japanese Pervert" persona, which became an unexpected but significant artistic character that will continue to appear in future works. The performance creates a sense of vertigo for the audience, offering no stable narrative pathway. This disorientation potentially mirrors the experience of our time, combining research elements with personal history in a humorous yet unsettling presentation. The persona represents someone people might avoid yet embodies a unique artistic charisma and a reluctant point of contact between people. Het Archief, Rotterdam / performance / conch, sound equipment / 2023 (Photo: Sander van Wettum)
escapology 2
Escapology - ver2 - The performance weaves together my ancestor's immigration story from China to Japan and his collection of Edison's wax-record player and conch horns, both sharing rotational structures. I demonstrated playing the conch horn, featuring John Cage's "Inlet." Throughout the performance, I introduced my "Japanese Pervert" persona, which became an unexpected but significant artistic character that will continue to appear in future works. The performance creates a sense of vertigo for the audience, offering no stable narrative pathway. This disorientation potentially mirrors the experience of our time, combining research elements with personal history in a humorous yet unsettling presentation. The persona represents someone people might avoid yet embodies a unique artistic charisma and a reluctant point of contact between people. Het Archief, Rotterdam / performance / conch, sound equipment / 2023 (Photo: Sander van Wettum, Assistant performer: Gordon H. Williams)
Escapology ver2
Escapology - ver2 - The performance weaves together my ancestor's immigration story from China to Japan and his collection of Edison's wax-record player and conch horns, both sharing rotational structures. I demonstrated playing the conch horn, featuring John Cage's "Inlet." Throughout the performance, I introduced my "Japanese Pervert" persona, which became an unexpected but significant artistic character that will continue to appear in future works. The performance creates a sense of vertigo for the audience, offering no stable narrative pathway. This disorientation potentially mirrors the experience of our time, combining research elements with personal history in a humorous yet unsettling presentation. The persona represents someone people might avoid yet embodies a unique artistic charisma and a reluctant point of contact between people. Het Archief, Rotterdam / performance / conch, sound equipment / 2023 (Photo: Sander van Wettum)
Escapology - ver2
Escapology - ver2 - at Het Archief, Rotterdam / installation, conch horn, metal shelf, sound equipment / 2023 (Photo: Jan Andriaans)
Escapology -ver2
Escapology - ver2 - at Het Archief, Rotterdam / installation, conch horn, metal shelf, sound equipment / 2023 (Photo: Jan Andriaans)
Escapology - at Goethe institute Rotterdam / performance / 27 Jan 2023
Escapology (Inlet / John Cage) - at Goethe Institute Rotterdam / conches, sound systems, water / 27 Jan 2023 (Photo: Sander van Wettum)
No Sound in the Shell - at Glowing Space Wielewaal, Rotterdam / conches, woods / 4500mm / 17-30 Apr 2023
Slippery Calligraphy - Watching someone else write feels like a guilty. It seems glimpsing their true nature. Awkward emotion we have when we see the ugly handwriting of a beautiful person. Names of the four living organisms appears in the screen cut in quoter. A boy draw name of animals on papers. These name of the living organisms are damp and slimy, moving with a repulsive, sluggish motion, despised and nocturnal, active where no eyes can reach. This video was captured in night vision mode. We can not see the nature clearly without tech? Let’s go to a space colony there is only man-made environment. It would be upside down world as you can see in the video. 3 min movie (loop), Hi-8 video
EEL BAR / The art of eel - 4-meter wooden counter set against an transcript large scale wall drawing from 18th-century New Zealand watercolor, featuring a cocktail station where Matthew Steddler creates the "Electric Eel" cocktail (sake, blue curaçao, lemon, nori) inspired by Japanese ingredients encountered in rural Mexico. The counter displays three object types: borrowed ceramic schnapps cups from Micha Zweifel symbolizing friendship, unfired clay impressions of my palm, and tiny sake cups from Japan. This social gathering space creates a deliberate tension: elements related to fingers, prints, and hands are juxtaposed with the eel's slippery nature that refuses fingerprints and conceals its origins. This paradox invites reflection on the unstable nature of relationships, especially in a space where drinking may blur memory. At Kaus Australis / ceramics and cups: Rei Kakiuchi, Micha Zweifel, as well as various found cups.
EEL BAR / The art of eel - 4-meter wooden counter set against an transcript large scale wall drawing from 18th-century New Zealand watercolor, featuring a cocktail station where Matthew Steddler creates the "Electric Eel" cocktail (sake, blue curaçao, lemon, nori) inspired by Japanese ingredients encountered in rural Mexico. The counter displays three object types: borrowed ceramic schnapps cups from Micha Zweifel symbolizing friendship, unfired clay impressions of my palm, and tiny sake cups from Japan. This social gathering space creates a deliberate tension: elements related to fingers, prints, and hands are juxtaposed with the eel's slippery nature that refuses fingerprints and conceals its origins. This paradox invites reflection on the unstable nature of relationships, especially in a space where drinking may blur memory. Residency at Kaus Australis
Electric Eel - 4-meter wooden counter set against an transcript large scale wall drawing from 18th-century New Zealand watercolor, featuring a cocktail station where Matthew Steddler creates the "Electric Eel" cocktail (sake, blue curaçao, lemon, nori) inspired by Japanese ingredients encountered in rural Mexico. The counter displays three object types: borrowed ceramic schnapps cups from Micha Zweifel symbolizing friendship, unfired clay impressions of my palm, and tiny sake cups from Japan. This social gathering space creates a deliberate tension: elements related to fingers, prints, and hands are juxtaposed with the eel's slippery nature that refuses fingerprints and conceals its origins. This paradox invites reflection on the unstable nature of relationships, especially in a space where drinking may blur memory. At Kaus Australis / An original cocktail was served from the countertop by the writer Matthew Stadler, who had invented the recipe in collaboration with Rei Kakiuchi.
Is Technology a Spectrum of Intimacy? - at Galerie Herold, Bremen Germany

No sound in the shell

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Investigating "escapology"

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Locatie: Goethe Institute

permanent collection

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Locatie: SAI gallery

Group show

http://saigallery.com/

Soft Rocks

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Locatie: KKV, Bohuslan
In samenwerking met: Yoeir Guepein, Agnes Mohlin
https://kkv-b.se/

Flash Memories

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Locatie: SAI gallery
http://saigallery.com/

Psychogeographical Vexillology

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Locatie: Oxford University, Magdalen college, UK
In samenwerking met: Samson Kambalu

Open studio at Samson Kambalu's studio / cottage

Residency at Kaus Australis

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In samenwerking met: Kaus Australis
http://kausaustralis.org/

Slippery Calligraphy

Locatie: Drievriendenstraat

3min film projection

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