CV NORIKO OKAKU |
Noriko Okaku primarily makes animated video works, incorporating photography, drawing and cut-out collage. Her work explores the variety, eclectic nature and strangeness underlying everyday things and actions. The main theme of her work lies in provoking a wide range of understandings behind existing facts, thoughts, materials and meanings. |
| Exhibitions | |
| 2011: | Transform, Asifakeil/quartier21, Vienna, Austria (2 persons exhibition) Allegory of Mrs. Triangle, Hakobaka, Kyoto, Japan (solo exhibition) Serpentine, Red Gallery, London, UK (solo exhibition) |
| 2004: | Strategies Against Marketecture, Temporary Contemporary Gallery, London. UK (group exhibition) |
| Filmography | |
| 2011: | The Falcons, PV for Patrick Wolf, UK ever-present/peace starts with me, PUMA.Creative, UK Electropia, UK/Japan Allegory of Mrs. Triangle, UK/Denmark |
| 2010: | Tetete, UK Close Up and Private in Motion, UK/Denmark The Resolution of the Congress 1962, UK Something in between memories, UK |
| 2009: | IN PROCESS – SS 10 Collection, video, UK/Japan Hall Ohara – AW 09 Collection, UK/Japan |
| 2008: | Hall Ohara – SS 09 Collection, UK/Japan Hall Ohara – AW 08 Collection, UK/Japan |
| 2005: | Multifaceted, UK Space Shower TV Idents, Japan |
| 2004: | Sketch, 16mm film, UK |
| 2003: | Diametric Artimaid, UK Hellobye, UK Voodoo Kiki from South Africa, UK Idiot, UK Dispose of something, UK Moles, UK |
| 2002: | Define |
| Screenings: | |
| 2011: | Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Russia onedotzero, UK Swedenborg Short Film Festival, UK Ottawa International Animation festival, Canada Animate Open: digitalis, online Secret Garden Party, Huntingdon, UK Supertoon International Animation festival, Bol, Croatia |
| 2010: | Art Experiment 2011, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Russia
Videoholica International video art festival, Bulgaria P'Silo / Festival Images Contre Nature, France Magmart International videoart festival, Italy |
| 2009: | Anifest, Trebon, Czech Republic |
| 2008: | 4 X 4, Warsaw + Wroclaw, Poland |
| 2007: | Tricky Women Festival, Vienna, Austria |
| 2006: | Clerkenwell Film Festival, London, UK Aniwow, Beijing, China |
| 2004: | Dance and Media Japan, Uplink Gallery,Japan |
| Prizes: | |
| 2011: | Best Music Video Award, Ottawa International Aniamtion Film Festival |
| 2010: | Best Audiovisual Performance, International Videofestival Bochum, Germany |
| 2009: | The 9th Filmfest Dresden Exchange Forum, Germany |
| 2003: | Beck’s Futures Student Prize, ICA, UK |
| Artist in residence: | |
| 2011: | quartier21 Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria. May – June |
| 2010: | The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark. July – September |