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Shimpei Takeda

Photography (Photography)

While still living in New York, shortly after the nuclear power plant disaster, Shimpei Takeda heard an NPR interview with a survivor living in temporary housing in Fukushima. He noticed that the dialect was similar to that of his grandparents. Straightaway he went back to Japan and turned to camera-less photographic techniques to capture otherwise unseen interactions of materials and light.

Happy Island - The Messianic Banquet of the Righteous
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Akira Takayama

Film & Video (Film & Video)

In Akira Takayama’s work Happy Island – The Messianic Banquet of the Righteous , five video screens perpendicular to the floor feature footage of cows grazing and resting in the rolling hills of a farmland. Renamed ‘The Farm of Hope’ by owner Masami Yoshizawa, the property is located 14 kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and is part of a now restricted area that became highly contaminated with radiation after an earthquake and tsunami caused leaks from the plant in 2011. Most of the livestock in the restricted areas have either starved to death after being abandoned by their owners or have suffered from the effects of radiation.

Shimpei Takeda

Born in 1982 in Fukushima, Shimpei Takeda grew up in Chiba just outside Tokyo...

Akira Takayama

Aki ra Takayama is a Japanese theat e r director known for creating projects that challenge the c onventional framework of theater ...