TT Takemoto
TT Takemoto is an American artist and associate professor of visual studies and dean of Humanities & Sciences at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Takemoto's work explores issues of race and queer identity. They have presented work internationally, and received numerous grants for their work, notably from ART Matters, the James Irvine Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Their film Looking for Jiro received Best Experimental Film Jury Award at the Austin LGBT International Film Festival,[1] and opened MIX 24: New York’s Queer Experimental Film Festival.[2]
Takemoto also writes articles for Afterimage,[3][4] Art Journal,[5][6] GLQ,[7] Performance Research, Radical Teacher,[8] Theatre Survey,[9] Women and Performance, and the anthology Thinking Through the Skin.[10] Takemoto is a board member of the Queer Cultural Center and co-founder of Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts.
Education
[edit]Takemoto holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, an MFA from Rutgers State University of New Jersey, and an MA and PhD from the University of Rochester.[11]
Work
[edit]Takemoto's work examines issues of illness, race, queer identity, memory, and grief.
Starting in early 1990s Takemoto worked with Angela Ellsworth under the collective name Her/She Senses in part as a response to Ellsworth's lymphoma diagnoses and exploring "representations of women, particularly in relation to the body and race."[10]
Takemoto's film "Looking for Jiro Onuma" explores same-sex intimacy and queer sexuality for Japanese Americans incarcerated by the US government during World War II.[5][7][12][13] The film, in which Takemoto performs as Jiro, grew out of an archives project curated by E. G. Crichton, artist-in-residence at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual Historical Society of San Francisco. This project matched contemporary artists with historical persons whose papers were found in the archive. Takemoto was matched with Jiro Onuma, a gay bachelor and dandy in San Francisco until he was incarcerated in the Japanese American Internment Camp at Topaz, Utah, in 1942. The sculptural piece which resulted from their investigation of his archival box was "Gay Bachelor’s Japanese American Internment Survival Kit." This "survival kit" created objects for Jiro, body building literature and equipment.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Biography". Tina Takemoto. Archived from the original on 18 April 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ Roberts, LJ (14 May 2012). "Online Exclusive - Looking for Jiro". Hyphen. No. 25. Archived from the original on 29 May 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ Takemoto, Tina (March–April 2014). "Skin Matters: A Conversation with June Yong Lee". Afterimage. 41 (5): 6–9. doi:10.1525/aft.2014.41.5.6. ProQuest 1511965392. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ Takemoto, Tina (March–April 2009). "Remembering Jo Spence: A Conversation with Terry Dennett". Afterimage. 36 (5): 13–18. doi:10.1525/aft.2009.36.5.13. ProQuest 212084594. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ a b Takemoto, Tina (Summer 2013). "Notes on Internment Camp". Art Journal. 72 (2): 54–57. doi:10.1080/00043249.2013.10791032. JSTOR 43188597.
- ^ Takemoto, Tina (Spring 2016). "Queer Art/Queer Failure". Art Journal. 75 (1): 85–88. doi:10.1080/00043249.2016.1171547. JSTOR 43967656. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ a b Takemoto, Tina (2014). "Looking for Jiro Onuma: A Queer Meditation on the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 20 (3): 241–275. doi:10.1215/10642684-2422665. S2CID 145132740. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ Takemoto, Tina (Winter 2011). "Looking For Jiro and Gentleman's Gaman". Radical Teacher (92): 20–25. ProQuest 917634987.
- ^ Takemoto, Tina (April 2012). "Love/Sick: A Conversation with Angella Ellsworth". Theatre Survey. 53 (1): 105–114. doi:10.1017/S0040557411000974. ProQuest 965877722.
- ^ a b Takemoto, Tina (2001). "Open wounds". In Ahmed, Sara; Stacey, Jackie (eds.). Thinking Through the Skin. New York: Routledge. pp. 104–105. ISBN 9780203165706. OCLC 56326135. Retrieved 27 November 2024 – via Google Books.
- ^ "CCA Faculty: Tina Takemoto - About". California College of the Arts. Archived from the original on 28 November 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ Roberts, LJ (Spring 2012). "Camp in the Camps". Hyphen (25): 81. ProQuest 1352759630. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ Kyan, Winston (16 August 2021). "After Hope: Videos of Resistance". CAA Reviews. doi:10.3202/caa.reviews.2021.79. ProQuest 2568006659.
- ^ Latimer, Tirza True (27 January 2012). "Life in the archives". Open Space. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 15 July 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
External links
[edit]- 21st-century American women artists
- Film directors from California
- Living people
- California College of the Arts faculty
- Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area
- American artists of Japanese descent
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- University of Rochester alumni
- American women academics
- American academics of Japanese descent