Hollow Center: A Performance by Takahiro Yamamoto

Join Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) and artist Takahiro Yamamoto for a performance of Hollow Center, in conjunction with the exhibition an archive and/or a repertoire.

Hollow Center (with film by Roland Dahwen, design by Maggie Heath, and sound contributions by Cenk Ergün, Jesse Majía, Shao Way Wu, Byron Au Young, and Sofia Acosta) embodies an intricate quality of slowness, high physicality, and balance through sound, video, gestures, and repeated movements over a long duration.

By stretching time, Yamamoto practices a “minor” mode of aesthetics—lingering, listening, obscuring, and relating—without capturing or pre-determining meanings. In continuation of his previous works NOTHINGBEING (2022) and Opacity of Performance (2019–2023), Yamamoto contemplates the porous duality of nothingness and being from his dual-cultural position.   

Hollow Center: A Performance by Takahiro Yamamoto is part of a new commission in an archive and/or a repertoire, on view at TUAG / Boston, 230 Fenway, through April 20, 2025. 

Takahiro Yamamoto is a multidisciplinary artist and choreographer. His current conceptual investigations revolve around the phenomenological effects of time, embodied approach to the presence of nothingness, and the social/emotional implications of visibility. He has received support from New England Foundation for the Arts, Bogliasco Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, MacDowell, NCCAkron, National Performance Network, Japan Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium and others. His performance works have been presented at On the Boards, the Chocolate Factory Theater, Portland Art Museum, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Diverseworks, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, The Henry Art Gallery, GoDown Arts Centre Nairobi, among other venues. Yamamoto holds an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. He is part of the Portland-based group Physical Education with Allie Hankins, keyon gaskin, and Lu Yim. Yamamoto is currently a visiting professor at Studio for Interrelated Media Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA.

Image: Photo by DJ Schaller.