花形 槙HANAGATA Shin
Artist
still human
Photo:Shunsuke Shimura
Uber Exsitstence
Photo : Taro Karibe
Joints to be prostheses for trees
Photo : Itsuhiro Osawa
CHIMERIA
Photo：Rakutaro Ogiwara
Upcoming
- Residence
- New York
- Stay Period
Project ThemePerformance, Device Experiment and Local Research on "Twisting" Humanity
In New York, I will research institutions and art spaces in the field of human engineering, prosthetics and posthumanism, and observe how my practice — which seeks to deviate the body from the man-machine system — is received in the global center of the capitalism. During the stay, I will visit artists, researchers, and curators across NYC with my device “still human” which transplants the position of eyes to another part of the body, and have them wear it on site. I will also stage the international version of my new performance work “Ergonomic Embryo” that depicts the liminal body that does not “use” the technology, but “become” it, through physical practice and image-generation AI.
Profile
Born in Tokyo in 1995. Working across performance, media art, and contemporary art.
Amid a technologically accelerated capitalist society in which the realities of being “myself” and of being “human” are increasingly destabilized, they focus on technologies that mediate the relationship between body and world—such as communication systems, wearable devices, and prosthetic and orthotic apparatuses—seeking to explore a Torsion of Humanity.
- Name
- HANAGATA Shin
- Birth Year
- 1995
- Birth Place
- Tokyo
- Website
Education
- 2022 MFA in Media Art Program, Information Design, Tama Art University
- 2020 BA in Environment and Information Studies, Keio University
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibition
- 2025 “Techno-Engrafting Zone - CHIMERIA”, Shinjuku WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Performances
- 2025 “Ergonomic Embryo - Protocell”, Performing Arts Festival “Autumn Meteorite 2025 Tokyo”, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Japan
- 2024 “A Garden of Prosthesis”, TOKAS OPENSITE 8, Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions/Performances
- 2023 MOT ANNUAL 2023: Synergies, or between creation and generation, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
- 2023 Taipei Arts Festival 2023: Dancing Ecosystems, Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taiwan
- 2022 25th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Museum of Science, Tokyo, Japan
- 2022 Stilllive: Performance Art Summit Tokyo, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Japan
- 2021 Digital Art Festival Taipei, Digital Art Center Taipei, Taiwan
Awards
- 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 Japan
- 2022 25th Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division, New Face Award
Residencies
- 2023 Asian Performing Arts Camp, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Japan
- 2022 ADAM Residency Program, Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taiwan