Tableau Stations / Floor of Sky is a performance and exhibition series that began in 2004 by Interdisciplinary Artist and Dancer Isak Immanuel.  It acts as a context to explore experimental collaborations and theme based work engaged with the specificity of site, transit, and the absences and inversions of everyday life.  Since its conception, it has created solo and ensemble works, site-specific performances, video, and mixed media photography within the context of theaters, galleries, metro stations, airports, intersections, and civic space through out the SF Bay Area and Internationally.

 

 

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Isak Immanuel grew up in the contrasting environments of the mesas of Taos, New Mexico and the inner-city area of East Los Angeles; he now lives and works primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Recently he has worked collaboratively with Kanoko Nishi, Luigi Coppola, Sherwood Chen, Robert L. Terrell, Yuko Kaseki, Dohee Lee, Terrance Graven, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Paige Sorvillo, Yachu Kang, Odessa Chen, Kinji Hayashi, Meng Yeh Chou, and Conrad Lewbel among others.  

 

His work and practice is an amalgamation influenced by cross-cultural studies in Physical Theatre, Butoh, Contemporary Dance, Pantomime, Qigong, Painting and Tableau Photography.  Notable movement studies are with: Katsura Kan, Hiroko Tamano, Thomas Langhoff, Shinichi Iova-Koga, William Dere, and Lu Yi.   He holds a BFA from California College of the Arts studying with notable visual artists Raymond Saunders, Barron Storey,, and Chris Johnson among others.  He has been an Artist in Residence at Taipei International Artists Village and the Haulien International Artists Workshop in Taiwan, Fabrica-Europa in Florence, Italy, CESTA (Cultural Exchange Station Tabor Arts) in the Czech Republic, CounterPULSE and Djerassi in the SF Bay Area.  as well as doing performance, collaboration, and research work in Berlin, Paris, and Seoul.