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About

Glenn Potter-Takata (Bronx, NY) is a Japanese-American media designer and artist working in performance. He utilizes butoh, media equipment, and consumer materials to create performances around the body as a historical site in post-internment America. Interested in material culture and consumer aesthetics, his practice involves fabricating performance objects and choreographies that critique the optimism of a postindustrial metropolitan machine. Born into a Buddhist family in Los Angeles, Glenn’s work elaborates on the writings of the 9th-century Shingon Buddhist monk, Kukai, and the 20th-century philosopher, Keiji Nishitani, emphasizing their notions on metaphysics and the nature of the self. Centered within a greater Buddhist diasporic context, his work highlights the specter of a globalized consumerism within a multi-generational culture transition and responds to the commodification of Buddhism in the United States.

His performance works have been shown in New York City at Danspace Project, Mabou Mines, Pageant, Kestrels, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at Judson Church, Grace Exhibition Space, Gibney Dance Center, Flux Factory, and with Pioneers Go East, among other places. Nationally, his performance work has been presented by Cannonball (Philadelphia, PA) and his first solo gallery exhibition was commissioned by Rogers Studio Gallery (Las Vegas, NV). He has been an artist-in-residence with Movement Research, Gibney Dance Center (Work Up), CUNY Dance Initiative at Lehman College, Ucross, Rogers Art Loft, and is the recipient of a MAP Fund Award, Bronx Cultural Visions Award, Bronx Dance Fund Award, a Mabou Mines SUITE/Space Fellowship, and was an ATLAS Scholar at ImPulsTanz (Vienna, Austria). Glenn is currently a teacher of sound and projection design for live performance at Sarah Lawrence College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College.

Contact: glennlpotter[at]gmail[dot]com