BIENNALE
2025

- Installation
- Photography
- Video
Elke Reinhuber: The Urban Beautician
EVENTS
Performance
Sanpo
Venue
Nihonbashi/Bakurocho Area
Etoile Kaito Living Bldg.
1-15-15 Higashikanda, Chiyoda-ku
Date
11:00~12:30
Free
Maximum Participants: 10
* If it rains, the event will be held indoors at the exhibition venue.
A participatory event by Elke Reinhuber, a biennale artist.
The Urban Beautician tries to emphasise or even improve neglected details in our urban environment with non-intrusive interventions and performances to camera. Since more than two decades, she takes care of things no one else does. These overlooked details in urban space gain a new breath of life through performance, installations, video and photography.
Now in Tokyo, she invites her audience to join her on a walk through different areas to support her in identifying aspects that could do with some corrections. An introductory lecture performance will provide further insight to her approach before joining her to observe and document the nooks and crannies of the city with her ironic perfectionism.
What to Bring
Camera or mobile phone, rubber gloves
Map
2 min walk from JR Sobu Line Bakurocho Sta. (Ex. 4)
6 min walk from Toei Shinjuku Line Bakuroyokoyama Sta. (Ex. A1)
Elke Reinhuber is a media artist, educator and researcher, Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media (SCM), City University of Hong Kong. With her award winning and internationally presented works, she explores different modes of presentation and strategies of storytelling to emphasise the parallel existence of multiple truths of the here-and-now.
Her Alter Ego, the Urban Beautician, tries to improve neglected details in our urban environment with non-intrusive interventions in public space and performances to camera. She takes care of things no one else does. These overlooked details in urban space gain a new breath of life through performance, installations, video and photography.
Nihonbashi/Bakurocho Area
Etoile Kaito Living Bldg.