Glenn Potter-Takata (Bronx, NY) is a Japanese-American media designer and artist working in performance. His practice is somatic-based, utilizing score-based movement, improvisation, video, and appropriated media to create performances around the body as a historical site in post-Internment America. Preoccupied with the consumer culture runoff from the Japanese archipelago, Glenn juxtaposes the materiality of consumer detritus with concepts of emptiness and nothingness. Both rigorous and playful in his process, Glenn incorporates aspects of Buddhist philosophy and pedagogy into his work but also sometimes performs wearing a giant Pikachu costume.
Glenn is a 2023 Bronx Cultural Visions Award recipient, a 2022 MAP Fund Award Recipient, a 2022 Bronx Dance Fund Award recipient, and has been awarded residencies through Movement Research, Rogers Art Loft, Gibney Dance Center, and CUNY Dance Initiative/Lehman College. His performances have also been shown at Mabou Mines, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix at Abrons Art Center, WestFest, Center for Performance Research, Amanda + James’ Summer Happenings Series, Dixon Place, Green Space, and with Pioneers Go East. Glenn received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where he is currently a teacher of Sound Design and Video Design.
