Ryoko aoki artist biography
- Ryoko Aoki obtained a BA and a Master of Music from the Faculty of Music at the Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music with a focus on the Kanze school of Noh theatre, before obtaining a PhD at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, with a thesis on "Women and Noh".
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Hammer Projects: Ryoko Aoki
By Midori Matsui
Ryoko Aoki's art is true to the basic impulse behind drawing as a means of recording the processes of perception, but it also captures the workings of the unconscious involved in dream formation. Incorporating disparate images from different sources, her drawings create a visual field in which the relations among images provide as powerful a thrill as their symbolic content. While the frequent appearance of flowers, small animals, and adolescent girls reflects an innocent longing for a pastoral world, the condensation, displacement, and other "rhetorical" paths through which images connect with one another reveal the mind as a receptacle and a mechanism for mixing external stimuli with internal fancies.
While suggesting rich dream content, Aoki's drawing nevertheless resists a reconstruction of personal history. She deliberately erases traces of subjectivity by copying from photos, advertisements, and childrens' encyclopedias and then tracing the outlines of the images she has drawn. These are arranged in a whimsical manner that
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Profile
She has performed with ensembles and orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Spanish National Orchestra and Choir (OCNE), the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Ensemble Musikfabrik, the Remix Ensemble, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Arditti Quartet, the Quatour Diotima, and the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra.
In 2013, Ryoko Aoki made her debut at the Teatro Real de Madrid in Wolfgang Rihm’s opera The Conquest of Mexico in the role of Malinche, in a production directed by Pierre Audi. The world premiere of Noriko Baba’s “Nopera” AOI with the Ensemble 2e2m in Paris in 2016 was followed by world premieres of two works composed for her in the 2017/18 season: Federico Gardella’s Two Souls at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Toshio Hosokawa’s Futari Shizuka (The Maiden from the Sea) with the Ensemble intercontemporain at the Philharmonie de Paris and Kölner Philharmonie. The work was then performed at the University of Toronto, the TTIMF Festival in Tongyeong/Korea, the
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Ryoko Aoki
In 2013, Ryoko Aoki made her debut at the Teatro Real de Madrid in Wolfgang Rihm’s opera The Conquest of Mexico in the role of Malinche, in a production directed by Pierre Audi. The world premiere of Noriko Baba's "Nopera" AOI with the Ensemble 2e2m in Paris in 2016 was followed by world premieres of two works composed for her in the 2017/18 season: Federico Gardella’s Two Souls at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Toshio Hosokawa’s Futari Shizuka (The Maiden from the Sea) with the Ensemble intercontemporain at the Philharmonie de Paris and Kölner Philharmonie. The work was then performed at the University of Toronto, the TTIMF Festival in Tongyeong/Korea, the Talea Ensemble in New York and the Suntory Hall Summer Festival 2021 with the Ensemble intercontemporain. In 2019, she performed Peter Eötvös' Secret kiss, premiered by the Gageego Ensemble, at Konserthus Göteborg, followed by performances at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Casa da Música Porto with Remix Ensemble and Auditorio Nacional Madrid with Plural Ensemble as well as with the Ensemble Musikfabri
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