Reina Takeuchi

Reina Takeuchi is an Australian-Japanese artist-researcher, dance maker and curator interested in cross-cultural exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration. Takeuchi explores how sensorial experience can be enhanced through ritualistic performance, interactive installations and time based media. Her work utilises choreographic processes and the transitory qualities of sound and action to meditate on human existence, transculturation, displacement, diaspora and the ethereal experiences of her peripatetic upbringing across East Asia and Southeast Asia. These processes allow for a clarity of somatic contemplation for the artist and she explores the potential for this sensitivity to be shared with the viewer. Her practice spans across visual arts, choreography, curatorial projects, written publications and creative facilitation.  

Her performance projects have included installations at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria and SomoS Arts, Berlin and performances for Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, Performance Space and the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Late program. Takeuchi holds a Master of Philosophy in Creative Practice from QUT – Bodies of Transmission: Embodiment, hybridity & transculturation in contemporary art & performance practice, Advanced Diploma in Dance Performance from the Sydney Dance Company Pre-Professional Year 2019 and is currently a PhD candidate at QUT, focusing on Asian Australian performance and curatorial projects. She has contributed to publications including Ausdance Qld, Delving into Dance, 4A Papers, Runway Journal and Going Down Swinging. Most recently, she was one of the winners of The 2022 Woollahra Digital Literary Award in Non-Fiction, a national literary award supporting innovation in Australian literature and publishing, encouraging writers producing work in a digital medium.

Listen to Wombat Radio podcast between Matt Cornell and Reina Takeuchi here.