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Isak Immanuel


Isak Immanuel is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, and dancer making work within quotidian spaces, theaters, galleries, and for camera. As a platform to engage local and global questions of place, he founded Tableau Stations (2004). Numerous collaborative works, such as “Wind Stations - a curation of missing people", “ANICONIC”, and “pLandscape Carrier” have been researched/presented in San Francisco and internationally. Including, at Headlands Center for the Arts, Attakkalari India Biennial, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Dance Box Kobe, TPAM (Tokyo/Yokohama Performing Arts Meeting), Seoul Dance Center, Dock 11 Berlin, Fabrica Europa-Italy, and through fellowships from Japan-US Friendship Commission and Hemera Foundation.

Since receiving a BFA in interdisciplinary practices from California College of the Arts (1999), he worked with several movement artists, including: Anna Halprin, Katsura Kan, Yuko Kaseki, Thomas Langhoff (Munich/SF Opera), Koichi and Hiroko Tamano (Harupin Ha), Shinichi Iova-Koga (inkBoat), Marina Fukushima, and Surjit Nongmeikapam. He grew up in Taos, New Mexico and East Los Angeles.

Updated June 2019


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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Place/Displace

June 20, 2019 • Amy Sanchez Arteaga , Misael Diaz , Marina Fukushima , Isak Immanuel , traci kato-kiriyama

For this month’s column, I thought it would be a good time to feature the other artists in a residency we are sharing this summer in Little Tokyo (the +LAB Artists-in-Residence program, where five of us are here for three months working on various arts and community engagement projects in partnership with Little Tokyo Service Center, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Sustainable Little Tokyo, Visual Communications and the Japanese American National Museum). We ended up going through an experiment …

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