Amia Yokoyama
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Amia Yokoyama is a multi-media artist who works with ceramic sculpture, experimental animation, video, and installation, currently living and working in Los Angeles.
*I engage in a practice of reimagining, colliding, and falling along with everything else. I engage the idea that the place from where I come or where we collectively come is a constantly moving/shifting location that is tied to the context of the present and to each other. What occurs in the moment when the boundedness of the initial source of one collides with the boundedness of another? I am interested in ecstatic states of change not in a linear direction, but out in all directions, in favor of multiplicity and illegitimacy. Not in opposition to identity or history, but in defense of sometimes not knowing. Not knowing as a defense to reject and resist imposed frameworks. The failure of language and definition to describe something that is interstitial, because definition precedes judgment which is used to create…
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Amia Yokoyama
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Amia Yokoyama is a multi-media artist who works with ceramic sculpture, experimental animation, video, and installation, currently living and working in Los Angeles.
*I engage in a practice of reimagining, colliding, and falling along with everything else. I engage the idea that the place from where I come or where we collectively come is a constantly moving/shifting location that is tied to the context of the present and to each other. What occurs in the moment when the boundedness of the initial source of one collides with the boundedness of another? I am interested in ecstatic states of change not in a linear direction, but out in all directions, in favor of multiplicity and illegitimacy. Not in opposition to identity or history, but in defense of sometimes not knowing. Not knowing as a defense to reject and resist imposed frameworks. The failure of language and definition to describe something that is interstitial, because definition precedes judgment which is used to create…
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