NISSA NISHIKAWA
Nissa Nishikawa’s multidisciplinary practice is comprised of performance, poetry, ceramics, glass and film. Nishikawa researches and interprets traditional forms of dance, ritual and craft in ways that illuminate animistic and alchemical philosophies with an embodied and structural approach. She often works in the open-air and studios equipped to house fire; interconnecting the layers of the arcane with the supra-sensual, the living earth and various conscious inhabitants.
Recent site-specific performances include the Archaeological Zone Tepozteco, Mexico and Abu Gorab Temple, Egypt. She has exhibited work with various spaces such as Harlseden High Street/Diasporas Now (London), Bethnal Green Nature Reserve (London), Mexican Arts Society (London), Wellcome Collection (London), Galerie D’art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi (Tangier), Saint Leonard’s Church (London) and Camden Arts Centre (London). Workshops have been offered at The British University of Egypt (Cairo), Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), American Language Centres in Morocco, Volte Gallery (India), Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and the Royal College of Art (London).
Nishikawa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Concordia University, Montréal) and Masters in Performance (Goldsmiths, London). She studied Stage Arts at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (London) and trained in her formative years with the dancer/farmer Min Tanaka in Yamanashi, Japan.
Nishikawa is Canadian/Japanese and currently based in London, UK.
Nissa Nishikawa
TOP IMAGE BY AUGUSTO CASCALES
LEFT STILL FROM NISHIKAWA’S FILM 'THE FREQUENCY OF A METEORITE IS OUR ANCESTORS SINGING'
RIGHT BY NICOL VIZIOLO