Category: Internal Monologue

R3:Scape-City is the third year program of Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting’s third year program, in collaboration with Singapore’s The Artists Village (TAV) […]

Internal Monologue

Field Trip Project Asia is in Taiwan’s National Museum of Marine Science and Teqchnology

by daisukeSeptember 17, 2020September 20, 2020

Field Trip Project Asia has been in Taiwan visiting local school for the past months and now the exhibition is ready at National Museum of […]

Internal Monologue

Renewal of Daisuke Takeya Website

by daisukeSeptember 17, 2020September 20, 2020

After almost a decade, Daisuke Takeya Website has been renewed. People know of my praxis as someone who ‘paints large abstract sky and miniature realistic […]

Internal Monologue

with Les AMIS Ensemble

by lucieJuly 15, 2012September 17, 2020

Performed on Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 at Toronto’s Gallery 345 with: Erin Cooper Gay, soprano & horn, Lynn Kuo, violin, and Erika Crinó, piano

with Lynn Kuo

by lucieJuly 7, 2012September 6, 2020

Performed live painting with violinist Lynn Kuo, featuring original composition Interior Design for solo violin by Steven Mackey, at University of Toronto New Music Festival on January 26 2013.

Le Petite Canadian Art Collection launched!!!

by daisukeApril 13, 2012September 3, 2020

I sort of started collecting Canadian art. It is paralleled to my creative process of art making … Artist actually spending money to buy art […]

Light from 311/ Kesennuma: Official project poster painting

by daisukeJanuary 2, 2012September 3, 2020

January 1st, 2012, solitary in my Rosedale residence. It has been good so that I can focus on my commission paintings overdue from Christmas. One […]

with Vernon Regehr

by daisukeAugust 21, 2011September 6, 2020

Performed on Saturday, September 10 2011, at Bianca’s, St. John’s, NewFoundland and Labrador, Canada. Live painting with cellist Vernon Regehr, accompanying the opening of “No. w. here,” an exhibition of landscape paintings at James Baird Gallery.

with deVah String Quartet

by lucieAugust 19, 2011September 6, 2020

” Viva La Vida ~ A Coldplay variation, live painting with musical performance by deVah String Quartet, featuring violinists Emily Hau and Sharon Lee, violist Moira Burke, and cellist Liza McLellan.” Performed on stage on Friday, September 23rd, 2011 for VIP reception at Artbound/ The pARTy : The Evolution of POP!

Clara Venice is a Fiddler Diva on the Roof!

by daisukeAugust 3, 2011September 3, 2020

One evening on the rooftop of a house in Yorkville … ex- punk cultural hip area now a Toronto’s high-end neighourhood with fashion boutiques and […]

Meet me under the willow tree … Music in the garden series in the music garden

by daisukeAugust 3, 2011September 3, 2020

It was raining in the morning … nice and cool in summer but I was a little disappointed because I was looking forward to the […]

Sang Kim … King of Kensington Market and his talented friends!

by daisukeAugust 3, 2011September 3, 2020

Last weekend of every month in Kensington is so much fan! The streets are closed for pedestrians filled with festivities to wonder about and it makes […]

Fencer vs. Samurai … pouring rain made it a real street fight!!

by daisukeAugust 3, 2011September 3, 2020

“Fencer vs. Samurai” was premiered at BIG on Bloor Street Festival’s Bloor Alternative Art Fair(BAAF) on Saturday, July 23, 2011. With my former student, Nils […]

The last Scream Literary Festival guided by A. Rawlings as a ghost in the Park!

by daisukeAugust 3, 2011September 6, 2020

The last Scream Literary Festival was held in Toronto’s High Park on Monday, July 11, 2011. Angela Rawlings as a mysterious ghost from the past, present, […]

with Arte Infinitus

by lucieJuly 26, 2011September 6, 2020

Arte Infinitus ” Exploring the infinite possibilities of art.” Four accomplished artists combine forces to push the boundaries of live musical performance. Arte Infinitus is […]

Neoist Monty Cantsin, Istvan Kantor’s storage space and summer gallery

by daisukeJuly 10, 2011September 6, 2020

Yesterday I went to the re-opening of Istvan Kantor’s storage space and summer gallery. A small group of artists, writers, poets, and other arty type […]