Statement of the jury: ZKB Acknowledgement Prize 2012  

 

(Zürcher Theater Spektakel, 2012)

 

Naoko Tanaka (Japan/Germany) «Die Scheinwerferin»

 

The ZKB Acknowledgment Prize 2012 goes to Naoko Tanaka for her performance «Die Scheinwerferin» for searching for a specific language and creative form of art to encounter visual art, installation and performance in a thoughtful context; Innovative working with objects; Interactive relations of light, sound, image and performer’s body; projecting individual life and the world outside in an analytic way, presenting the absence, challenging the meaning of reality and the dream, image and imagination; Precise work of dramaturgy and sharing an experience with audience through a playful discovery