Yang Ikumi
Active across installation, performance, and moving image, Ikumi Yang creates spatial works that incorporate the movement and perception of viewers. Her practice visualizes the processes of transition by which the body shifts into a collective field.
Year Selected
2026
Project
Waiting for Spring
Summary
We believe fashion to be effective means of self-representation, but does the line between choice and being chosen for you still exist today? Taking that question as its starting point, this performance-installation projects the concept of the “three distances” (high, deep, and level) of perspective from Eastern painting onto urban space. Simultaneously emerging dispersive situations are rewoven in real time as a single event, and made public. Blurring the boundaries between performer and viewer, the project explores the landscape of early spring that awaits beyond the self languishing in the winter of discontent.
Profile
Yang Ikumi
artist
Born in Tokyo in 1993, Ikumi Yang spent her childhood in eight different countries until the age of ten. Active across installation, performance, moving image, and text, she creates spatial works that incorporate the movement and perception of viewers. Drawing inspiration from pictorial perspective, Yang constructs sites where multiple viewpoints, distances, and temporalities intersect, reconfiguring the relationships between seeing, being present, and being recorded. Her practice turns the processes of transition that emerge between event and record, the everyday and ritual, and the individual body and the collective field into spatial experiences.
Art Incubation Program
One of CCBT’s core programs, the Art Incubation Program provides opportunities for creative talent to undertake new projects and makes those processes accessible to the public, facilitating forms of artistic expression, exploration, and action that change our city for the better. Selected through an open call, five artist fellows will act as CCBT partners, developing their projects, making the creative process public, exhibiting the results, and holding workshops and talks.
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