Akina

1. Whistle whistle: resonate until tongue
2. Murmurs heard from an indigo bush
3. Through Asadoya Yunta
4. Polvo de rocío en una parra
5. Hesitant connotations
   
6. The wandering of the heard word
   

Info/contact

contact: akiina.thais@hotmail.com
Akina Yoshitake Lopez is an artist and independent researcher from São Paulo (BR) who lives in Rotterdam (NL). Her research concerns the materiality and gesturings around language (wandering through manners of meanings, rustles of translations’ leftovers,  reimagined accents and unheard mother tongues). She graduated with a MA from the Royal Academy of Arts of The Hague (KABK) and a BA from the São Paulo State University (UNESP). 2024/25 Research Lab Casino Display 2024-2025 (Luxembourg, LU)
2024 Summer residency at Rib 2024 as duo (Rotterdam, NL)
2024 Presentation at Forum of Artistic Research (Klagenfurt, AU)
2023 UNIDEE residency Module V: Neither on land nor at sea at Cittadellarte (Biella, IT)
2023 Presentation at ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) seminar (Amsterdam, NL)
2023 ‘Cat’s tongue call’ residency at El Hacedor (La Aldea, SP)
2022  Master NLN graduation show 'Please elaborate', Royal Academy of Art (The Hague, NL)