Nissa Nishikawa’s multidimensional practice comprises performance, poetry, painting, sculpture and moving image. She researches and interprets traditional forms of dance, ritual and craft in ways that illuminate animistic and alchemical philosophies with an embodied and structural approach. Nishikawa often works in the open-air and studios equipped to house fire; interconnecting the layers of the arcane with the supra-sensual, the living earth and various conscious inhabitants.
Education
2012-2014 Mevlevi Turning, The Study Society, London
2008-2009 MA in Performance with distinction, Goldsmiths, London
2006-2007 Stage Arts, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London
2000-2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Selected art works
2024 FOR OUR SPIRITS Solo exhibition. Camden Arts Centre, London
2023 THE CIRCULATION OF ANIMALS IS THE EPOCH OF FIRE. Wonderfruit Festival, Pattaya, Thailand
2022 WE PRAISE (Performance with SERAFINE1369's The Long Night) Somerset House, London, UK
2022 SHINTAI 12 (Ceramics) & THE FREQUENCY OF METEORITE IS OUR ANCESTORS SINGING (film) Group show: Bury the Bridge, DUPLEX, NYC.
2022 THE FREQUENCY OF METEORITE IS OUR ANCESTORS SINGING (film). Thee Birth, The White Hotel, Salford, UK
2022 Ceramics for Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome GO, GO, GO BEYOND. The Roberts Institute of Art, London
2021 GATHERING with sound by Naima Karlsson and Xristian Espinoza. Group show: Cosmos, 6 Agustin Gonzalez, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 LET THE BODY (Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome), Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2021 DIRT (Ceramic installation) Group show: Extraterra. Diasporas Now/Harslesden High Street, London
2021 PRIMORDIAL SKY. Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, London
2020 MY MEAT IS NOT YOUR MEDICINE Mexican Arts Society, London
2020 MY MEAT IS NOT YOUR MEDICINE Sound by Kenichi Iwasa and Maxwell Sterling. Rio Cinema, London
2020 HOUX På Den Anden Side Biennale, Mön, Denmark
2019 An organ of Omatera Wellcome Collection, London
2019 MUDRA In collaboration with Naima Karlsson.. New River Studios, London
2019 THE HUM. In collaboration with Naima Karlsson. Tagarp Schoolhouse, Sweden.
2019 CLIMATE I Music by Sayaka Botanic and Kensuke Hoshi. LANDR, Tokyo
2019 RELATIONS OF FIRE film screening The Palace of Ritual, Palazzo Dona, Venice, Italy
2019 DEN with performance TENKO NO SEISHIN, Group show: Sisyphus in Retrograde Regents Place,
London
2018 FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME Image Movement, Sprueth Magers, Berlin
2018 THE HUM. In collaboration with Naima Karlsson St. Leonard's Church, London
2018 All-gender ceramic urinal and STP's Commission by Compost Mentis/Phytology, Bethnal Green
Nature Reserve, London
2018 FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME Universe, LifeSport, Athens, Greece
2018 AMA 7 Cob Gallery, London
2018 THIS IS THE HUNT Æther, Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 FOR HER, Group show with Anish Kapoor, Boomoon, Damien Hirst and Gary Hume. CCASM Contemporary, Sommerville
House, Jersey, Channel Isles
2017 FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME with Fritz Stolberg Rio Cinema, London
2017 DANCE OF DAYS Programme, Apiary Studios, London
2016 SILENT PROTEST Film in progress, Medicine Hat, Alberta and Browing, Montana
2016 THE INTERPRETER with Noriko Okaku Tom's Etching Studio, London
2016 FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME In collaboration with FRitz Stlberg and Bo Ningen, International Festival of Projections, University of Kent
2016 FEAST Saint Leonard's Church, London
2015 Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Artist Award
2015 FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME In collaboration with Fritz Stolberg and Bo Ningen, Station to Station, Barbican Gallery, London
2015 AN ANIMAL MORNING The Medina, Tanger, Morocco
2015 THERE ARE EYES ABOVE with Josephine Foster The American Legation Museum, Tanger, Morocco
2015 PURGE Power Station of Art, Shanghai and twenty institutions in the Netherlands. Curated by J&K
2014 SHADOWS with Group A Kata Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo
2014 DANCERBATION Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2014 AT THE END OF EVERYTHING THE STONES WILL BEGIN TO SPEAK Silwax House, London
2013 THE FAMILIAR EARTH Colony, Anarch Gallery, London
2013 RELATIONS OF FIRE Lower Hewood Farm, Dorset, London
2013 EAT THE FLESH OF THE HEAD IN THE OPEN COUNTRY The Wand, Berlin
2013 BLOOD GROWS COLD with Ebe Oke The Kitchen, New York, NY. Curated by Laurie Anderson
2013 VENUS TRANSIT SUN The Wayward Gallery, London
2013 AMANNAZOTHA The October Gallery, London
2013 PANT The Rose Lipman Building, London
2012 GOLDEN OPULENCE SERENDIPITY SUNDAY Red Space Gallery, Clerkenwell, London
2012 SOUND with Ebe Oke Punkt Festival, Kristiansand, Norway. Curated by Brian Eno
2012 A WELCOMING Floda 31, Umea, Sweden
2012 TWISTING AT THE END OF A STORY with Hilary Koob Sassen Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2012 5 AGGREGATES OF MOTION with Fritz Stolberg Siobahn Davies Studio, London
2011 I LIKE DASTON AND DALSTON LIKES ME FARM:SHOP, London
2011 THE FIFTEEN EYES OF AXOMAMMA [I Shall Become A Perfect Dead Woman] Jersey Opera House,
Jersey
2011 THE POLYOPIA OF PURPLE: A Radio Play with Makoto Kawabata NTS RADIO, London
2011 IN THE WAKE OF THE NIGHTSHADE Camden Arts Centre, London
2011 THE 2nd ACTION OF ANTI/FORM Palace of Arts/Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
2011 FISH PLAY Projections, Modtar Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 RITE OF AUGURY Swedenborg Society, London
2009 YU The Marc Blanco Theatre, London
2009 SEAHORSE SOUP Shunt, London
2009 THE COMEDY OF UNHAPPINESS Monotsropati Festival, Budapest, Hungary
2007 A READING with Adrian Mitchell and Michael Horovitz The Art Workers' Guild, London
2006 OPEN AIR PERFORMANCES Yamanashi and Saitama, Japan
2004 BIRTH OF THE TREE Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montreal, Quebec
2004 SCUM Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montreal, Quebec
Residencies
2016 American Legation Museum, Tangier, Morocco
2014 Troy Town Pottery, Open School East, London
2014 Jersey Arts Trust, Jersey, Channel Islands
2012 Worlds in Transit (Super/Collider), Floda 31, Umea, Sweden
2011 Chisenhale Dance Space, London
2010 Swedenborg Society, London
Choreography and Performance for film
2015 UR Feeling. Directed by Simon Martin. In association with FLAMIN
2013 The Chimera of M. Directed by Sebastian Buekner. In association with FLAMIN
2012 Of This, Men Shall Know Nothing! Directed by Fritz Stolberg. Animate Projects Award for Best Experimental Film, London Short Film Festival
2011 Transcalar Investment Vehicles. Directed by Hilary Koob-Sassen. In association with FLAMIN: Film London Productions and IDA Project