ABOUT ME
人の目には見えないもの、例えば、人の心の中、ストレスやプレッシャー、放射線、細菌やウィルス、不安や痛みなどそれらが人の感情に及ぼす影響を作品を通じて表現したいと思っています。私はグループや学校、会社など社会生活のコミュニティーで馴染めない性格でした。そのため私は宇宙人として生きることを決意しました。日常に感じる人の目には見えない実態のない不安や課題を異星人の視点であれば見ることができます。そして様々な表現方法で作品にすることができます。私は常識や概念に囚われようとは一切考えていません。なので私は自分の表現を「アヴァンギャルド・ポップ」と呼んでいます。パフォーマンスやアート作品を通じてカオスな世界の中に豊かなオアシスを作るように精進していきたいと思います。
美音異星人
I am an artist based in Hiroshima, with a focus on performance art.
I want to convey the impact of things invisible to the human eye, such as the inner workings of the human mind, stress, pressure, radiation, bacteria, viruses, anxiety, and pain, through my artwork. I've always been a personality that struggled to fit into societal communities like groups, schools, and workplaces. As a result, I made the decision to live life as an extraterrestrial. Viewing the intangible anxieties and challenges present in daily life from an extraterrestrial perspective allows me to bring these experiences into my art through various expressive methods. I don't confine myself to societal norms or concepts, and I refer to my expression as "Avant-garde Pop." I am not bound by common sense or preconceptions. Through performances and art pieces, I aspire to dedicate myself to creating a lush oasis within the chaotic world, breaking away from conventional thinking.
Bion
BION ALIEN-Biography
"Avant-Gatde Pop"
"Avant-Gatde Pop"
In 1998, Bion Toyoshima submitted his acoustic work, "Sense of Sound" to the Okamoto Taro Award for Contemporary Art (TARO Award). Toyoshima's performance, which was watched by Okamoto Toshiko, secretary and adopted daughter of the late Japanese avant-garde artist, Okamoto Taro, led to the creation of Isejin Bion, Toyoshima's avant-garde performance art alter ego. Bion-an alien on the star of beautiful sounds-dresses in "Artist Training Armor," a spring-loaded costume designed to resist Earth's gravity and denote the challenges faced by earthlings. He performs to the Bion Machine, which generates beautiful sounds.
In 2002, Bion released "Bion Flash," a musical composition ridiculing world leaders' interests in nuclear testing. In 2009, he created the group "Bion Pink Dancers," recruiting a team of back dancers incapable of dancing. In 2013, he began performing "Super Mitsuko," a story depicting love with a doll pulled from the ruins of the atomic bomb. He performed this story internationally at venues in Taiwan, Korea, Cambodia, and more.
His collaboration with the film director Rithy Panh in 2019 led to an appearance as a ghost in the 2020 Berlinale Documentary Award winning film "Irradiés" In 2020, he also created and released a self-portrait exhibiting resilience under the COVID-19 pandemic on Instagram the character "Mask Girl". In 2021,he held his first photographic exhibition, "Mask Girl" in Haikyo gallery. In the same year, his work "Mask Flower" was selected for the cover of "Quarantined Lives," a book about the pandemic published in London. He also participated as a writer. In 2022, he held a solo exhibition" Mask Girl in Beppu"at four hot springs and a shopping district, in Beppu city. In the same year,he published his first photo book "Mask Girls", and held an exhibition at Haikyo gallery.
He is now active with various presentations and exhibitions, which, in addition to performance art, include drawings and film production.