Samon Takahashi
Kinō no mirai no ongaku [Future Music of Yesterday]
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Gulbenkian GardenTakahashi draws from his personal library of iconic music from Japan, starting from the 50’s, to fill the new extension of the Gulbenkian Garden with sounds ranging from pop and contemporary to noise and experimental.
Samon Takahashi (b. France, 1970) is a French visual artist and musician. He lives and works in Paris. He has previously exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris), Laxart (Los Angeles), ICA (London), De Vleeshal (Middelburg), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Spiral Wacoal Art Center (Tokyo), CNEAI (Chatou), and MNAC (Bucharest), among others. He is a founding member of the mobile laboratory OuUnPo since 2009, a founding member of the improvised music band GOL since 1989 and is hosting the radio show Epsilonia on Radio Libertaire (Paris) since 1993. From 2017, he is involved in the collective EEGsynth, a research based project connecting art and neuroscience.
Engawa – A Season of Contemporary Art from Japan
‘Engawa’ is a programming that brings to Lisbon a set of creators from Japan and the Japanese diaspora, many of them for the first time in Portugal. More info
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'Event Horizon', Samon Takahashi, 2013. Photo: © Samon Takahashi / Wacoal Art Center 2013
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