Taka Takiguchi 滝口貴
Photo: Toshiki Tanaka
Co-creator / creative producer / Web & graphic designer
Taka Takashi (滝口貴) is an independent practicing artist and producer of Japanese heritage based in Naarm (Melbourne) with over 10 years of experience in the arts sector. His art-making process is to question social norms and their structures from intersectional perspectives and to create provocative works through the mediums of poetry, installations, and various movement-based techniques: Suzuki Method, Butoh, and shamanic/trance dance practices.
His unique background as a social worker and an inclusive art practitioner has greatly informed his artistic aesthetics and practice. He founded his production company, ImPermanence Productions in 2015. He was one of the recipients of the Victorian Independent Producers Initiative (2020-2021), an initiative funded by Creative Victoria.
He has achieved to produced and performed 25 community-led performing arts festivals in 4 countries (Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India) and programmed several hundred artists from all around the world since 2015.