Hanayo

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Hanayo in the role of Yoko Ono in the performance "My felt, my fat, my rabbit" at documenta X (1997)

Hanayo Nakajima ( Japanese 中 島 花 代 , Nakajima Hanayo ; * 1970 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese artist , photographer and musician .

Life

Hanayo grew up in a western oriented family. At the end of the 1980s she broke off her studies to train as a geisha , whose traditional art fascinated her. In addition to her education, she founded the band Muscats together with the Japanoise musicians Masami Akita (Merzbow) and Masaya Nakahara ( Violent Onsen Geisha ) .

In December 1992, Hanayo was featured on the cover of the travel magazine Merian as a "demure" geisha. This was followed by a cover story After the bubble / Japan in the British fashion magazine The Face , which suddenly made it known to a larger audience. She then worked as a model for photo series and fashion shows, including for Jean Paul Gaultier .

In the mid-1990s she moved to Germany, where she increasingly turned to the art world and music. In 1997 she appeared in Christoph Schlingensief's theater action Mein Filz, mein Fett, mein Hase - 48 Hours of Survival for Germany on the occasion of documenta X as Yoko Ono . She then worked on the Schlingensief projects Passion Impossible - 7 Days Emergency Call for Germany and The Last Days of Rosa Luxemburg .

In addition to various solo record releases, she also appeared as the lead singer of the band Vapid Dolly , a follow-up project to Daisy Chainsaw . In 1999 Hanayo worked with drum and bass producer Panacea to create the album Hanayo In Panacea . In addition, Hanayo played a few concerts in Germany and France in the same year with Dirk Dresselhaus ( Schneider TM ) and Christopher Uhe and later Vredeber Albrecht in the band Paincake . Stylistically, the band experimented at the interface between noise and performance .

In 2000, a second album, Gift, was released, which was created with the support of musicians such as Terre Thaemlitz , Schorsch Kamerun , Justus Köhncke , Kai Althoff , Curd Duca , Patric Catani , Merzbow and Rocko Schamoni . Their biggest hit had Hanayo with the first as on this album Hidden Track Hidden Joe le taxi . By Jürgen Paape co-produced techno - cover version of the 1987 Vanessa Paradis -Single reached in 2002 as a single release in France for a short time the top 100 charts and was established in 2003 through the use of the much-praised 2manydjs mix album As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 also known internationally.

In 2009 she founded the noise rock project Wooden Veil with Marcel Türkowsky, Christopher Kline, Dominik Noé and Jan Pfeiffer , whose debut album was released on the Dekorder label in the same year .

As a guest singer she worked with artists as diverse as Die Goldenen Zitronen , Egoexpress , Stilluppsteypa , Andreas Ammer with Console and Christoph de Babalon .

She presented her photographs as well as various video and installation art objects in solo exhibitions. Hanayo's photographs have appeared in several volumes. She also appears as a performance artist , among others with Hanazac (with Isaac Bigsby Trogdon , 2006) and Ponpons (with Matan Zamir , Nicola Mascia , 2007).

Hanayo lives with her daughter alternately in Tokyo, London and Berlin.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2000: Hanayo presents Hanayo. Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin
  • 2002: Hanayo. Palais de Tokyo, Paris
  • 2008: Hanayo. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
  • 2009: Hanayo. Birgit Ostermeier Gallery, Berlin

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Joe le taxi
  FR 94 11/23/2002 (2 weeks)

Albums

  • 1999: Hanayo In Panacea - Hanayo In Panacea ( Mille Plateaux )
  • 2000: Hanayo - Gift (Geist Records)
  • 2009: Wooden Veil - Wooden Veil (Decorder)

Singles & EPs

  • 1995: Hanayo - Makka Na Shizuku (Media Remoras)
  • 1995: Hanayo - Dang Dong (Media Remoras)
  • 1996: Hanayo - Sayonalala (Media Remoras)
  • 2002: Hanayo - Joe Le Taxi (Bio Records)

Photo books

  • Hanayome. Tokyo, Shinchōsha, 1996
  • Hanayo artist book. Paris, Galerie du Jour agnès b .; Tokyo, Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2004, ISBN 4-309-90540-4
  • Magma. Akaaka Art Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-4-903545-25-7
  • よ な は / yonaha. Tokyo, Tennenbunko, 2010
  • 花 代 写真 帖 / Photo book the mechanism of physical spiritual phenomena. Tokyo, Parabolica-bis, 2010,
  • Colpoesne. Tokyo, Utrecht, 2010, ISBN 978-4-904479-32-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanayo at kunststueckchen.de, accessed on March 12, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Between tradition and rebellion: The former geisha Hanayo loves extremes at welt.de, accessed on March 12, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c Solo exhibition: Hanayo presents Hanayo at artfacts.net, accessed on March 12, 2012
  4. ↑ Mein Filz, mein Fett, mein Hase - 48 hours survival for Germany at schlingensief.com, accessed on March 12, 2012
  5. ↑ Passion Impossible - 7 days emergency call for Germany at schlingensief.com, accessed on March 12, 2012
  6. ↑ Wooden Veil Interview 2010 at thequietus.com, accessed March 12, 2012
  7. ↑ Chart sources: Joe le taxi at lescharts.com, accessed on March 12, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hanayo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nakajima, Hanayo (full name); 中 島 花 代 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese artist, photographer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture