Biography
Japanese-born and currently based in Singapore, where she spent time during her childhood, Ayano Hattori takes a performative approach in her art making, crossing the borders of art and everyday life in order to evoke questions concerning identity. Manipulating the documenting media of photography, video and sound, her performance works deal with the documentation of performance art as an autonomous or discrete form, since these three media inter-dependently constitute the ephemeral nature of action, experience and communication as objects that extend nature; this brings into question its authenticity while extending its ephemerality.
With video assuming a central role in her work, she address the issue of authentic experience in mediated actions and post-performance documentation manipulation, including the role of text in reproduction and reuse of documentation. She also extends the experience of the illusion of video to the spacial reality of installation, providing the perception of duality. Her works deal mainly with two areas - media-specific issues in performance art/video and sociocultural experience.
