Tari Ito

Tari Ito (伊藤 塔莉, Ito Tari) (1951 – September 22, 2021) was a Japanese performance artist based in Tokyo who presented her work in Japan and Asia, North America, and Europe. She was one of the few out lesbian artists in Japan.[1]

In this Japanese name, Ito is the family name.

Biography

Tari Ito was born in 1951 in Tokyo, Japan.[2] She began working as a mime performer in Japan and Holland before becoming active as a performance artist in the late 1980s, and as a feminist and lesbian artist since the 1990s.[3] She established the Women's Art Network in 1994 in Tokyo,[4] which organized Women Breaking Boundaries 21, an exhibition of women artists from Japan and other parts of Asia in 2001.[1] Ito set up PA/F (Performance Art/Feminism) Space in 2003. Since 2014, she has lived with degenerative neurological conditions that have limited her mobility, though she has performed since then.[5]

Ito died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on September 22, 2021, at the age of 70.[6]

Work

In 1996, Ito performed Self-Portrait (自画像) at various venues in Japan,[7] and as part of Womanifesto in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1997.[8] Ito considers the piece, in which she comes out as lesbian, as a "turning point" in her career.[2] Other performances include Memory of Epidermis (1994), Me Being Me (1999), Where is the Fear (2001), I Would Not Forget You (2006),[7] One Response (2008-2010),[9] One Response for Bae Bong-gi and Countless Other Women (ひとつの応答 ぺポンギさんと数えきれない女たち) (2012), and Before the 37 Trillion Pieces Get to Sleep (37兆個が眠りに就くまえに) (2019).[7]

Her work has been featured in the 3rd Nippon International Performance Art Festival NIPAF '96 (1996),[10] and the exhibitions Womanifesto and Womanifesto II (1999),[11] Text and Subtext (2000-2003),[12] Women Breaking Boundaries 21 (2001),[13] and Women In-Between (2012).[14]

References
  1. Shimada, Yoshiko (2019-08-21). "Shortlist | The Defiant Fringed Pink: Feminist Art in Japan". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  2. Asian Women Artists (database) (2020-03-09). "イトー・ターリ ITO Tari | アジアの女性アーティスト：ジェンダー、歴史、境界 ｜Asian Women Artists : Gender/History/Border" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  3. Tonooka, Naomi (1999). ""Desire and Sexual (In)difference: Constructing Lesbian Self in Tari Ito's Performance with the Skin." Theatre Research International, 24(3), 254-258". Cambridge Core. doi:10.1017/S0307883300019106.
  4. "Yayori Award / Women's Human Rights Activities Award". www.wfphr.org. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  5. Wiaprojects (2020-01-15). "WIAprojects: Tari Ito - Window Box Gallery". WIAprojects. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  6. Obituary: Tari Ito (1951–2021)
  7. "Tari Ito / イトーターリ｜パフォーマンスアート | Independent Performance Artists' Moving Images Archive". ipamia.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  8. Bovino, Emily Verla (2020-10-19). "Womanifesto: Crafting Communities at Asia Art Archive". ocula.com. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  9. Tenthousandthings (2010-03-11). "Ten Thousand Things: "War Makes People Insane": Dramatic work by performance artist Tari Ito lays bare the realities of military sexual violence". Ten Thousand Things. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  10. Asia Art Archive. "The 3rd Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF '96)". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  11. Asia Art Archive. "Womanifesto-II: The 2nd International Women's Art Exchange". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  12. Asia Art Archive. "Text & Subtext: Contemporary Art and Asian Woman". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  13. Asia Art Archive. "Women Breaking Boundaries 21". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  14. Asia Art Archive. "Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
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