2-YOKAI
ArtCenter presents 2-YOKAI by Andy Fedak and Bruce Yonemoto
The exhibition brings together animation, film and installation to explore the Japanese mythological spirits known as Yokai, specifically the Kappa and the Nurikabe, through surrealist narratives that draw on Japanese folklore to understand our own contemporary world.
2-YOKAI
Exhibition-related Events
Saturday, July 11
3 p.m.
Artist Talk: Andy Fedak, Bruce Yonemoto, in conversation with Ana Iwataki
Join Andy Fedak and Bruce Yonemoto as they share insights into their collaborative relationship, the support ecosystem that artists need to thrive, and the intersection of their ideas that led to the works in the exhibition.
The artists are joined by Ana Iwataki, associate curator of art at the Japanese American National Museum. Her recent doctoral project explores how Nikkei artists living and working at 800 Traction in Downtown Los Angeles in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s created transpacific, intergenerational, and multiracial networks, profoundly impacting the city during one of its most consequential periods of art historical and urban change.
About Ana Iwataki
Ana Iwataki is the Associate Curator of Art at the Japanese American National Museum. Her recent curatorial projects include Portrait of a Publisher as a Political Project: 30 Years of Kaya Press and Kaya Micro Operas: Alternatives to Archiving at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, 2025; Nancy 2024 at LA Artcore, 2024; Itinéraires Fantômes (co-curated with Marion Vasseur Raluy) at the CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, 2024; and Yoshie Sakai: Grandma Entertainment Franchise (co-curated with Dav Bell) at the Vincent Price Art Museum, 2023.