Charles Atlas and Mika Tajima

Since 2009, video and performance artist Charles Atlas has collaborated with installation artist and painter Mika Tajima. Using Tajima’s work as a medium to receive projected videos by Atlas, the two create large environmental installations. Despite the very different formal and material properties of each artist’s work, both see their collaborative output as being guided by similar concerns with space, collage, and haptic experience. Both artists had, previous to their collaboration, worked with other artists: Atlas with dance companies (most notably the Merce Cunningham Dance Comapny) and Tajima with performance artists, particularly her New Humans collective.

In their first collaborative piece, Today is Not a Dress Rehearsal, which was presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2009, the duo constructed an elaborate stage and filmed both musical and dance performances. The installation was open to public visitors who were encouraged to explore the production set in between tapings. The performances included elements and themes of repetition, speech, and rhetoric, as well as lectures by the San Francisco chapter of Toastmasters International and Judy Butler.

Atlas and Tajima have seperately been the focus of solo shows, and their collaborative practice has been exhibited at SFMoMA and South …

Atlas and Tajima have seperately been the focus of solo shows, and their collaborative practice has been exhibited at SFMoMA and South London Gallery.

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