Mitchell Akiyama
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Montreal-based composer and visual artist Mitchell
Akiyama has performed, recorded and exhibited widely
in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. His work
explores notions of classification and its consequences.
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PRESENTED WORK
EN MAUVAISE HERBE, QUEBEC, 2003
His recent video/sound piece, En mauvaise herbe,
is a meditation on the processes of selection and ordering
that go on in urban environments; the judgments that seek
to eliminate certain forms of life while privileging and
supporting others.
