IWAKI Kyoko
IWAKI Kyoko
update: 2017.9.1
Profile
Expected graduate from Goldsmiths, University of London PhD in Theatre and Performance in 2017.
Recent 5 main activities (personal exhibitions, group exhibitions, concerts) are
- Tokyo Theatre Today: Conversations with Eight Emerging Theatre Artists, Hublet Publishing (London), 2011
- 'Japanese Theatre after Fukushima: Okada Toshiki's Current Location', New Theatre Quarterly, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2015
- 'A History of Japanese Contemporary Theatre', Gendai Engeki no Lesson: Hirogaru ba, koeru hyōgen, Film Art-sha, 2015
- 'Tokyo World Theatre Capital', A History of Japanese Theatre, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2015
- 'Politics of the Senses: Takayama Akira's Atomized Theatre after Fukushima', Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disasters, Routledge (London), 2015
Kyoko is a Lecturer and Researcher specialising in Japanese theatre. Her research interest lies at the intersection of sociology, politics and theatre, specifically, on how Japanese post-war theatre have shifted through constant interactions with nuclear catastrophes. For the past fifteen years, she has also worked as a theatre journalist. Her recent publications include Tokyo Theatre Today (Hublet Publishint, 2012). She is the co-author of Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster (Routledge, 2016) and A History of Japanese Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2016). From January 2018, she is a Visiting Research Scholar at Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
About works / performance
"Scene/Asia Annual Symposium", Hong Kong, 2017
"Scene/Asia Annual Meeting", Singapore, 2016
Politics of the Senses: Takayama Akira's Atomized Theatre after Fukushima, Included in Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disasters, London: Routledge, 2015
A History of Japanese Contemporary Theatre, Included in Gendai Engeki no Lesson: Hirogaru ba, koeru hyōgen, Tokyo: Film Art-sha, 2015
Tokyo Theatre Today: Conversations with Eight Emerging Theatre Artists, London, 2011, Book Design: Kensaku Kato
