TODOME Da Fox
TODOME Da Fox (Noe Iwai) is a London-based Japanese multi-disciplinary artist, performer and researcher.
Her practice is a dialogue between the political and the poetic. Works are often expressed in a form of performance art, interaction with nature, installation, voice (sound) work, poetry and painting, with a theatrical method. The animal 'Fox', material such as 'Mask' and 'Cocoon' has been the key materials which she uses to represent herself in her work.
She questions traditions, rules and manners in her practice and shifts constantly between the past and the present, her childhood in Japan and England, the poetry, myths and the stories behind them, versus her identity at the moment of the performance.
Being a Japanese female is integral to her life and work and she uses traditional gestures and cultural rituals in performance as a way of addressing this wider collective heritage, and interpersonal and emotive narratives are woven with these threads.
These relationships are an ongoing vein of research in her work, that of care and respect - for family and friends in Japan and in England, as a connection to the wider cultural past.
Her martial art (karate), calligraphy, acting and music practice both carry the essence of culture and the energy of speed, purpose and power, which she uses in her artwork. And the nature she loves, that her name 'Noe' was named after.
These cultural elements of refinement, dedication and discipline are charged with the political power of the person and they are movements with the strength of history behind them.
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Education
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- Semester Classical Acting, Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Royal College of Art
- MRes Fine Arts & Humanities, 2019 - 2020
Royal College of Art
- MA Contemporary Art Practice: Performance, 2017 - 2019
Goldsmiths University of London
- BA FINE ART 2013 - 2017
Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies
- A level: Fine Art, Design and Photography, 2011 - 2013
Licensed Victuallers School
- A level: Fine Art, Music and English, 2010-2011
Exhibitions and Presentations
2021
-What Do We Know Anyway?
Bloc Project
71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield
10th July - 17th July 2021
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2020
-Make It Public
Jonathan Ashley-smith and Diane Ashley smith in conversation with Noe Iwai - LINK
-Design Museum online link
11th of July
-DIG
Presented work - Human Play A-Loan Game
Performed from at home in Portobello, London
-San Mei Gallery online link
13th - 27th of May
-Work in Progress Show (WIP)
Presented work - Bug Loves MoーNey: 金食い虫
At the Royal College of Art, London
-Dyson Gallery
31 of January - 2nd of February
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2019
-DisOrder LIVE ART FESTIVAL
Presented work - Fox Says: 狐言葉
Lichfield St, WV1 1DU
-Wolverhampton Art Gallery
5.6.7th of July
-SHOW 2019
Presented work - Fox Says: 狐言葉
1 Hester Rd, SW11 4AN
-Royal College of Art
28th of June - 7th of July
-ENCOUNTER
Presented work - Cocoon 冬季繭 II
Sheraton Park, Durham, DH1 4FL
-Ustinov College
2nd March
-Stage of Life
Presented work - Fox Says: 狐言葉
171 Uxbridge Road, HA5 4EA,
Harrow, UK
27th February
-DisORDER Presents Disorders
Presented work - Fox Says: 狐言葉
92-94 Wallis Road, E9 5LN, London
-Studio 9294
27th February
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2018
-INTERESTED? INTERESTED? INTERESTED?
At Grow Tottenham, Ashley house, Ashley Rd, London
'Word or no words? Wine bottle or a bottle? Notes or paper?'
OCTOBER
- ANOTHER FIVE MINUTES OF YOUR TIME
At The Doodle bar
JUNE
- Revolve Performance Art Days
At Uppsala, Sweden
MAY
- Live pt 1
At the Royal College of Art, London
APRIL
- CAP Baret
At the Royal College of Art, London
‘The Sound of Wind Chimes’
MARCH
- ‘Rumble to the Core Mexico Fundraiser’
At the Deptford Cinema, London, United Kingdom
FEBRUARY
- Work in Progress Show (WIP)
At the Royal College of Art, London
‘Beyond the Curve is Cold’
JANUARY
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2017
- Degree Show
At the Goldsmiths College, London
‘Fox Rain - 狐雨’
JULY
- ‘Inhabit’
At the 137 – 139 Copeland Road, London
MARCH
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2016
- ‘On the Threshold ll.’
At the Oriental Museum in Durham, Supported by Durham University,
The Oriental Museum, and Ustinov College, United Kingdom.
JANUARY
Theater Work and Leadership
July 2015 - September 2015
Red (play) - Directed by Eriko Ogawa
Produced by SIS COMPANY
New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan.
Painting Leadership and Scenic Design for the theatre play RED.
- Teaching actors how to paint the under layers of Mark Rothko’s painting using theatrical methods.
- Painted seven of well-known Mark Rothko’s paintings (3m in size) for the theatre set.
2021
- ‘Instruction For the Sky’
by Eduardo Navaro
At the Gasworks London
15th Sept
2019
- ‘CUSP’
by Isobel Adderley
At the UK YOUNG ARTISTS CITY TAKE OVER : NOTTINGHAM
8th - 9th of Feb
2018
- ‘On the importance of Insects’
by Hattie Godfrey
At the New Shoreditch Theater
2017
- ‘QWAKE’
by Isobel Adderley
At the Dungeness sound mirrors
2016
- ‘CUSP’
by Isobel Adderley
At the Goldsmiths College London
Collaborations
2020
-Make It Public
Jonathan Ashley-smith and Diane Ashley smith in conversation with Noe Iwai
-Design Museum online link
11th of July
2019
'Do you Wanna Play?' by Noe Iwai Featured in 'Nothinhg Really Matress' by PANICATTACK DUO
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018
At the South London Gallery
FEBUARY