Oddly Satisfying curator Allen Riley hosts an evening-length program of moving image works from artist and musician Taku Hannoda.
 

Born in 1981, Hannoda has been performing improvised music in cities across Japan since 2000. In 2005, he appeared at the ONKYO MARATHON at the Japan Society in New York, an event curated by Carl Stone, where he collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Nobukazu Takemura, and others. In the spring of 2011, he was invited as an artist-in-residence in Krems, Austria. Since 2021, he has released 10 solo albums and performed at venues including the Mizunoki Museum of Art. In 2024, he released the albums EG SOLOs, Melonesque, and Crickets. 

Oddly Satisfying presents a series of audiovisual and performance works by artists who work with video as a physical material. “Oddly satisfying” is a label given to viral looping videos that somehow feel tangible to the viewer, eliciting haptic sensory perception that absorbs perception into the screen. The artists presented in this series recognize that physical participation is the basic condition of experiencing media and they respond by instead calling attention to embodied perception.

Curated by Allen Riley, 2025 Curator-in-Residence