荒川ナッシュ医 Arakawa-Nash, Ei

Ei Arakawa-Nash (born in 1977) is an American performance artist based in Los Angeles. His performances are created through collaborations with various people including contemporary artists and art historians. The means of these collaborations are diverse, with such figures physically participating as performers, and in other instances their works themselves making appearances. Arakawa-Nash also invalidates the boundary between the performers and the audience by inviting the audience to participate in an improvisational manner, thus converting them from the role of passive viewers to active subjects of the performance. In the context of contemporary art that is based on notions of individualism as articulated in western modern ideology, Arakawa-Nash’s act of establishing the intersection between collaborations with other artists and the audience as his very practice, can be seen as an intention to liberate his works from the subjective framework of the “self”. … His problematic „gestational surrogacy“ had become a hot topic during the Venice Biennale 2026, Japan Pavilion. See the link: 日本館をめぐる非難と不名誉。貧しい女性たちに対する人種差別的かつ植民地主義的な搾取。保守的な日本の家父長制の強化。戸籍制度の強化。差別的な血統思想の強化。 Criticism and disgrace surrounding the Japan Pavilion. Racist and colonial exploitation of poor women. Strengthening of conservative Japanese patriarchy. Strengthening of the family registration system. Reinforcement of discriminatory bloodline ideology. …. check this interview: 日本美術オーラル・ヒストリー・アーカイヴ 荒川医 オーラル・ヒストリー 2013年3月30日 https://oralarthistory.org/archives/interviews/arakawa_ei_01/

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