Akiko Hada - Biography

Born 1961 in Japan. Lived in London 1979-90, now lives and works in Berlin. Began working with video in 1981. Videotapes shown extensively at various festivals and museums in Britain, Germany and the rest of Europe, Turkey, Egypt, Canada, USA, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, etc., as well as numerous TV broadcasts in many countries. 

Videotapes

1995:	"WAS KOSTET DIE MEISE?" (D/Iceland, 3:07) with Wolfgang Müller. 
	A "still life" in Reykjavík.

1993:	"DORIS MEETS DORIS" (D, 20:53)
	Archive footage of the Berliner art/music group "Die Tödliche Doris" treated with 	minimal effects and compiled. 

1992:	"THE LEAP (NO LEAP)" (D/GB, 21:04)
	Original German version "DER SPRUNG (ODER: KEIN SPRUNG)" 30:00
	Produced for the group exhibition "Die Hormone des Mannes" at the Gay 
	Museum, Berlin.

1991:	"THE CAGE, THE LAKE, THE OFFICE" (D, 15:56)
	A site-specific music documentation piece with the group Thirteenth Tribe, 
	produced for Freunde guter Musik Berlin e.V./Intermedienschauplatz 
	Lindentunnel. 

	"THE FALL OF A QUEEN, OR THE TASTE OF THE FRUIT TO COME" (D/GB, 19:35) 
	An experimental opera for the video medium. Written by Wolfgang Müller, 
	music by Lester Square and Helen McCookerybook. (Akiko Hada Productions 
	for the Arts Council of Great Britain and Channel 4 Television)

1989:	"ART MODERNA CHA CHA CHA" (GB, 6:00)
	A musical morsel for Channel 4's "Club X".. Script by Andrew Brenner, music 
	by Steve Beresford. (Edible TV) 

1988:	"OHI HO BANG BANG: THE TWO" (GB, 3:45)
	An audio visual collaboration with musicians Holger Hiller and Karl Bonnie. 
	Released as a CD-Video single on Mute Records. 

	"JAMES BONK IN MATT BLACKFINGER" (GB, 11:38)
	With the Japanese American Toy Theatre of London, produced for Channel 
	4's "Ghosts in the Machine II". (Illuminations)

1985:	"FLOWERS" (GB, 14 min)

1983:	"DOUBLE INDEMNITY" (GB, 35 min)
	With the Japanese American Toy Theatre of London.

	"WHITE PIECE" (4 min)

1982:	"CHRISTMAS TAPE" (6 min) with Jane Parish

	"THE BRANKS" (7 min)

Installations: 

1994:	"KANINCHEN HABEN KEINEN MUND"
	Installation with 2 monitors and video prints, silkscreen, Galerie Zwinger, 
	Berlin; a 1-monitor version of this work was shown at the "16 Rippen" 
	women's group show, Gay Museum, Berlin, 1997-98 and at the Projkt-Galerie 
	Musterwohnung, Zurich, 2000.

	"DISPLEIDOSCOPE"
	5-monitor installation, produced by Medienhaus für Kunst & Kultur 
	Hannover

Other Activities & Productions

2000-:	One of the editorial team for Deep Purple’s official website, The Highway Star 

2000-1:	Collaboration on the CD-Rom version of "killer.berlin.doc" (see below)

1998:	One of the 10 artists participating in "killer.berlin.doc", a TV programme for 
	ZDF/arte, to be premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, 1999. (dogfilm)

	A VHS compilation of video works released by London Electronic Arts as part 
	of the Artists' Anthologies" series

	2-minute video clip produced for Helen McCookery's Performance "Voxpop 
	Puella", a project of the University of Westminster, London. 

1996-:	Website for the artists' association VideoKunst & MultiMedia Berlin e.V. 

	Programme curation for the "Urban Aboriginals - Polar" festival in 1998/99, Berlin 
	(experimental music/inter media events.) 

1996:	Group exhibition of gallery artists, Galerie Martin Schmitz, Kassel. 

	Organistion/programme curation/Website for the "Urban Aboriginals - The 
	British Ambience" festival, Berlin. 

1995:	"WRAPPED BERLIN BEAR" 
	An action in Reykjavík with Wolfgang Müller and Karola Schlegelmilch, on 
	the same day as Christo began his wrapping of Reichstag in Berlin. 

1993: 	Group exhibition of multiples, Galerie Martin Schmitz, Kassel. 

1992: 	With Gavin Hodge & Veit-Lup, editor of the June programme of "VAMP - 
	Video Art Magazine" for the Berlin cable station FAB. 

1989:	Production and offline editing of the 4-minute video "ABSURD" by John 
	Maybury, produced for London Weekend Television's "South Bank Show". 
	(Akiko Hada Prods.) 

1989:	Member of the Council of Management, Fantasy Factory Video, London. 

1988:	Production of the title sequence for "CINE CINQ", for the French TV station La 
	Cinq, directed by Neville Brody. (Premiére Heure) 

1987-88:	Production and offline editing of numerous pop promos and other music 
	programmes for Boy George, Sinead O'Connor, Jesus & Mary Chain, etc. 
	(Promo Palace, Initial TV, Akiko Hada Prods., etc.)

1985-:	Various audio visual collaborations including a music/video event at 
	Hammersmith Palais organised by Genesis P-Orridge; production of visual 
	backdrops for concerts by Bananarama, Psychic TV, Holger Hiller, etc.; as  	
	well as video for Danielle Dax and documentations of live works by other 
	artists 

1985-86:	Member of the Council of Management, London Video Arts. 

1984-86:	Worked as production assistant/camera assistant/offline editor on various 
	pop promos by John Maybury, Cerith Wyn Evans, Derek Jarman, David 
	Larcher, etc. (WHY-B2) 

1983-84:	Organisation and co-ordination of film, video and performance events at the 
	B2 Gallery, AIR Gallery, etc., London. 

Awards: 

Tokyo Video Festival, 1988 (Work of Excellence)
1st International Video Days, Istanbul, 1989 (Special Mention)
Festival du Jeune Cinéma, Monetréal, 1990 (Best Video Fiction)
Festival Internacion de Video, Cicada de Vigo, 1994 (Special Mention) 

Grants: 

1985: Greater London Arts (Production)
1988: British Council (Travel costs London/Karlsruhe for a concert project)
1989: Arts Council of Great Britain / BBC Television (which I turned it down!) 
1990: Arts Council of Great Britain / Channel Four Television (Production)
1994: Japan Foundation, Cologne (Travel costs Berlin/Cologne for a screening)
1994: Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, City of Hannover and Sparda 
	Bank Hannover (Production / exhibition of video installation)

Teaching:

1990:	Cardiff Collge of Art (visiting lecturer)
1999: 	School of Television and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art, 
          	University of Dundee, Scotland (visiting lecturer)
          	Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (short lecture, Industrial Design Dept.)
1999-: Aichi Prefectural University, Faculty of Arts, Nagoya, Japan (visiting lecturer, 
           	Design Dept.)  
2000:  Art Academy Trondheim, Norway (visiting lecturer)