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Meiro Koizumi graduated from the International Christian University and studied film at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London.!
Meiro Koizumi
Meiro Koizumi’s videos investigate the boundaries between the private and the public, the authentic and the staged, in particular as evidenced within moments of collective or civic memory, a domain of specific importance to his Japanese cultural heritage.
His work often deals specifically with individual moments where questions are asked about how we might engage with, relate to and confront, painful moments within nation’s histories and how we remember conflict without recourse to nostalgia, revisionism or jingoistic propaganda.
A professional acting coach taught the youths the basics of how to act on the stage, and encouraged them to imagine characters, to transform themselves with.
Typically his videos unfold to present everyday situations transformed into sites of tension. His 2018 work Battlelands was the first time the artist had worked with non-Japanese subjects, Koizumi investigating the psychological dimension of the violence of war through performances by five US combat veterans from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Their stories of traumatic experiences are countered by the picturing of the domestic spaces of t