Installation view of the exhibition ”Rite for a Dream (Today My Empire Sings)” at VACANT, Tokyo, 2017, photo: Shizune Shiigi
Installation view of the exhibition ”Rite for a Dream (Today My Empire Sings)” at VACANT, Tokyo, 2017, photo: Shizune Shiigi
Installation view of the exhibition ”Rite for a Dream (Today My Empire Sings)” at VACANT, Tokyo, 2017, photo: Shizune Shiigi
Installation view of the exhibition ”Rite for a Dream (Today My Empire Sings)” at VACANT, Tokyo, 2017, photo: Shizune Shiigi
Rite for a Dream – Today my Empire sings (2016)
3 channel video installation
28 min. 04 sec.

A new video installation, revisiting the imperial subject matter of "Air." Filmed during the annual anti-emperor rally that takes place in Tokyo on August 15, Koizumi introduced actors and musicians in the volatile, heavily policed environment, directing them towards an intense climax.

Exhibition History
2019 Travelers Through a Hundred Ages, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan
2018 9th Asian Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2017 6th Asian Art Biennial 2017 - Negotiating the Future, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichun, Taiwan
2017 Today My Empire Sings, VACANT, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Today My Empire Sings, De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Public Collections
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
De Hallen Haarlem (Haarlem, The Netherlands)
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)