Tina Takemoto
Tina Takemoto is a writer and performance artist. Under the name Her/She Senses, she has collaborated with Angela Ellsworth since 1992. They have presented their installation-based performances internationally. They have been awarded numerous grants, including a New Forms Regional Initiative grant from DiverseWorks and Mexi-Arte, an Art Matters, Inc. fellowship, and a New Forms Regional grant from the Painted Bride Art Center. She also performs with Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens.
Her articles have appeared in Art Journal, Performance Research, College Literature, and the anthology Thinking Through the Skin (Routledge, 2001). She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled, Love/Sick: Illness, Collaboration, and Grief in Performance.
Her teaching interests include contemporary art, visual culture, performance art, gender and queer theory, Asian American studies, postcolonial theory, and theories of illness, trauma, and grief.
Associate Professor, Visual Studies, Graduate Program in Fine Arts, and Visual and Critical Studies.
BA, University of California, Berkeley; MFA, Rutgers State University of New Jersey; MA, PhD, University of Rochester.
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