上田舞
日常生活に潜む瞬間や物事をアートとして見立てる”とんち”を通してオーディエンス自らが気づきを持てるよう助長したい。２０００年よりニューヨークを拠点に現代アートの世界でパフォーマンス、詞、デザインを通して表現し活動する。世界を旅し、順応性を創造性とし追求する。茶の湯と出会い、２０１４年にチャーティスト集団、ワールドティーギャザリングを発足させる。
Mai Ueda is an uncompromising artist-as-human. She cherishes art as life, and life as art. Her message is to encourage people to feel for themselves. Having co-founded NEEN, an art movement which concerned itself with the poetic potential of internet and technology in 2000, she has worked across platforms of internet, performance, drawing, poetry and installation, finding herself most comfortable with non-material mediums. Since 2012 Ueda rediscovered her Japanese roots through zen and the tradition of the Tea Ceremony, has made it the core of her practice. A Tea Ceremony brings together people to share knowledge and emotions. It creates awareness to enjoy the moment. Ueda uses the traditions of a Japanese Tea Ceremony for reflection upon globalization which is increasingly a westernization. She has exhibited in museums and institutions around the world, including; Seoul Biennial 2004; Venice Biennale 2009, MACRO Rome 2012, MONA Tasmania 2013 and Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014. There has been several publications dedicated to Mai Ueda's poetry, drawings and songs. Ueda is a founder of World Tea Gathering a community of Tea Artists, they meet in different places around the world and explore possibilities and meaning of tea as an art form.
by Ché Zara Blomfield October 2014
BORN
Japan
RESIDES
New York City
EDUCATION
1997-1999 Kyoto Collage of Arts, Japan
SOLO EXHIBITONS
"Tea Ceremony with Ready mades" series of tea gatherings for the openings of project space,Composing rooms Berlin, (2014)
"Deep sea tea ceremony" old Tomio Koyama/Taka Ishii gallery space, Kyoto, Japan (2013)
"Experimental Tea Ceremony Ceries" P3 Sutio, Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (2012)
Video projection room and "BIRD CHOIR" performances Freight + Volume, New York (2011)
PERFORMA09: "Family Dinner in the Parallel Universe" Curated by Liutauras Psibilskis, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (2009)
Sketch the gallery London, UK (2006)
"Romantics" Biz Art, Shanghai, China (2005)
"I A M M A I" M&M Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2003)
"Mai Ueda retrospective" Electoronic Orphanage, Los Angeles, CA(2003)
"Porn Turntable" Electropnic Orphanage, Los Angeles, CA (2002)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Inidia (2015)
"Japonism in Contemporary Art" The Nippon Gallery at the Nippon Club, New York (2014)
RUNNING OUT OF TIME A tea room in
Collaboration with Rirkrit Tiravanija, The Red Queen show at MONA, Tasmania, Australia (2013)
DEAR THICK AND THIN, ME contemporary, Copenhagen (2011)
B.Y.O.B by Rafael Rozendaal, Spencer Brown Stone Gallery, New York (2010)
B.Y.O.B by Angelo Plessas, Kunsthalle, Athens (2010)
Happy is a place, Centro Historico, Mexico City (2010)
Performing "solo SCHAU" for CRONE Benefit Auction, Gavin Brown Enterprise , New York (2010)
"Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don't Make Work About Being Asian" Arario Gallery, New York (2010)
"Toropicalia" Salt Space, New York (2010)
"Knowledge Base" a show curated by Liutauras Psibilskis, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas (2009)
"Are You Sure You Are You?" Spencer Brownstone Gallery New York (2009)
"Spam show" curated by Dessislava Dimova, Emails (2007)
"Cohabitats" curated by Charles Barachon, Guislaine Hussenot, Paris, France (2005)
"Neen Porno" Loop video festival, Gallery Delosangeles, Barcelona, Spain (2004)
"Internet Performance Scenery" curated by Jan Vanwoensel, Antwerp, Belgium (2004)
Tirana Biennale, Organized by Flash Art, invited by V. Grancher, Tirana, Albania (2003)
"Afterneen" Casco, Utrecht, Holland (2002)
WhitneyBiennale.com
Lyon biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art France (2001)
Tirana Biennale, curated by Flash Art Italy, invited by Vanessa Beecroft, Tirana, Albania (2001)
Biennale.net Deitch Project, New York, NY (2001)
PERFORMANCES & PROJECTS
Tea on the roof of National Gallery Singapore
Tea room by Rirkrit Tiravanija
"untitled 2018 (the infinite dimensions of smallness)" tea gathering at Piece by Rirkrit Tiravanija National Gallery Singapore (2018)
"Acting things" tea gathering at Piece by Judith Seng Kyoto Art Center (2017)
"no boundaries" tea gathering series on piece by Rirkrit Tiravanija located at Okayama Castle during Okayama Art Summit (2016)
"have tea not war" tea gathering on "tawaraya" boxing ring for Memphis at R and Company New York (2015)
Tea gathering for kochi muziris biennale in Kabral Yard by Valsan Koorma Kolleri(2015)
World Tea Gathering organized a first meeting of tea artists in Iceland (2014)
"Tea ceremony in heaven" organized tea gathering in the garden of summer house in Woodstock upstate New York (2012)
Experimental Tea Ceremony Ceries P3 Sutio, Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (2012)
Chanel party Tokyo , performance with Open Reel Emsemble (2012)
Electronic Tea Ceremony, Macro Museum of contemporary art, Rome, Italy(2012)
Underground Tea Ceremony, Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan, Italy(2012)
Opening and clothing performance of BIRD CHOIR, video projection room show Freight + Volume (2011)
ARCADIAN NIGHT festival of multimedia and performance, Race brook lodge, MA, U.S.A (2010)
B.Y.O.B by Rafael Rozendaal, Spencer Brown Stone Gallery, New York (2010)
Perforamce for Rirkrit Tiravanija Absolute Award and inaguration of Daniel Birnbaum a new curator at Moderna Museet Stockholm (2010)
Performance at the Box for opening of Charls Bank Gallery, New York (2010)
PERFORMA09: "Family Dinner in the Parallel Universe" Curated by Liutauras Psibilskis, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (2009) PERFORMA09: Participation for Girl Machine Produced by Luisa Gui, New York (2009) PERFORMA09: Singing at Finale, New York (2009) Venice Biennale : Performance for Embassy of Piracy, Internet Pavilion, Venice, Itally(2009) Performance for "In Coherence" a show curated by Liutauras Psibilskis at Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas (2009) Performance in Athens at Bios (2008) Performance at Chanel Mobile Art Tokyo Party (2008) Performance for SWAP, ITEMIDEM x Andrew Crews, Paris, France (2008) Pirates of the Internet, performance for the opening of FargFabriken, Ostersund, Sweden (2008) Sound contribution for Visionair 53 with I wanna buy some clothes, published by Visionaire (2007) Mirror dinner, curated by Future audience during Miami Art fair, Miami Cinematheque, FL (2007) Singing with The Plastics, Le Bron de Paris Grand Opening, Tokyo, Japan (2006) Project for Celine, "Mai Bag for Celine" Launch party Performance, Celux Tokyo, Celine Paris (2006) Performance with Momus "I'll talk You'll sing", Zach Feruer Gallery (LFL) New York, NY (2005) Performance with Momus, PS1, New York, NY (2006) Performance, "Le Mepris", Curated by Moniek Voulon, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Holland (2006) Performance, Sketch the gallery, London, UK (2006) Performance, Braga Menendez Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentine (2005) Anti Copy Right performance "Cut Piece of Yoko Ono" for Reenact, Curated by Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Holland (2004) Performance, News From Home, at Anex, White Box, New York, NY (2004) Special Appearance on Golden BMW, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2004) Performance, Official clothing ceremony of Atomium, Brussels, Belgium (2004) Perfprmance for 1minute, April 4th 2004 4:44pm, Neen Today, MU foundation, Eindhoven, Holland (2004) Performance for Celebration of the Demons, FargFabriken, Stockholm, Sweden (2004) Performance of Mai's short songs, Purple Institute Organized by Outcast, Paris, France (2004) Mai Photo Diary on billboard, Curated by Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Holland (2003) Internet project Iwannabuysomeclothes.com and screensaver for Art production Fund, New York, NY (2003) Mai in Naples performance for painting and space in Gallery 404, Naples, Italy (2003) Aibo dog Performance, Museum of Contemporary art Chicago, IL (2002) Performance for Better than Fantasy, Curated by Paul Groot, Amsterdam, Holland (2001) Big Brother performance, Invited by Miltos Manetas, Galerie Almin Rech, Pairs, France (2001) SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY PUBLICATIONS Drawings from my previous life published by Automatic Books (2012) Mai Ueda Domain Poems published by One star press (2005) Mai Ueda Times published by Celine (2006) Book on NEEN by Miltos Manetas, published by Carta, Italy(2006) 090 situation, poetry reading song on compilation CD from Sony Japan(2007) Sound contribution for Visionair 53 with I wanna buy some clothes, by Visionaire (2007) ARTICLES By Redazione, Artribune Italy(2012) By Marta Stella, Marie Claire Italy(2012) By Zelia Pastore, Vanity Fair Italy(2012) By Roberta Smith, Art in Review: Momus and Mai Ueda, NY TIMES, July 01, (2005)
Tea on the roof of National Gallery Singapore
Artiscle on Straits Times
By Paul Groot, Self portrait of an artist as a young woman (2004)
By Nick Curry Imomus (2006)