Criticism

• 2025“I am a MAN”: On the Possibility of Transforming “Man=Male”—Glenn Ligon and Hank Willis Thomas
  Toshima’s Blog: “Filament at Dawn”
• 2023“The Theatre of Identity, ACT, and the Power over Life and Death: On Las Meninas”Full text
  “Spiders and Brooms” Criticism Seminar | Criticism Contest: Special Award
• 2022“Rotation and Gags: Bruce Nauman’s Anthro/Socio and Duchamp’s Coffee Mill”
  “Spiders and Brooms” Criticism Seminar Correspondence Course | Selected Review
• 2017“Being Haunted by the Body, and Toward the Phenomenon of Human Embodiment”Reposted on note
  A review of cranky wordy things by mirukusouko (Milk Warehouse) + The Coconuts

Books & Contributions

• 2024“Well … Becomes the In-Between, In-Meanwhile”
  Eureka, August 2024 Issue | Special Feature: Paul Auster | End-of-Issue Essay: “Eureka” | Published by Seidosha
• 2020“Collection of Manuscripts, Issue No. 3 | Bad Jokes”
  Contributed the novel “Schrödinger’s Dog and Cat Hospital” to a magazine | Published by: Spiders and Brooms
• 2019“Theater Elite School: Regional Performance Preparation Issue”
  Manga Contribution | Published, Edited, and Designed by Saha
• 2016“POLY-GAHO Vol. 3 | transdreaming”
  Magazines, Manga, Texts, Dreams | Published by POLY-GAHO
• 2014“POLY-GAHO Vol. 1”
  Texts, Manga | Published by POLY-GAHO
• 2013“bid”
  Co-authored with Tatsuo Majima; novels, graphics, and four-panel comics | Published by the bid Editorial Department

Interviews, Talks & Discussions

• 2025Roundtable Discussion: “Invitation to Queer Reading”
  Hideaki Tazaki, Izumi Enaga, Asahi Konuta / ilya, Hosts: TARKY Toshima (as a puppet), Masayuki Yoshida (as Toshima the puppet), Facilitator: Nike Tobita | Ko Murobushi Archive Cafe Shy [Tokyo]
• 2024Roundtable Discussion: “Casual Encounter and an Escape”Part 1Part 2
  Tatsuya Mukozaka (Guest), TARKY Toshima, Masayuki Yoshida, Moderator: Nike Tobita | Alternative Art Week: “The Devil in Rojitohito,” Rojitohito | Organized by: qp, O,1,2nine
• 2024Talk & Performative Comedy Event: “Surfaces, Traversals, Transformations, and Disguises—Or, the Intersection Traversed by Highly Personal Archives”
  Izumi Enaga (Guest), Asahi Konuta / ilya, qp, Masayuki Yoshida, TARKY Toshima | Streamed on YouTube
• 2024Roundtable Discussion: “Toward Signs: The Brightness of Events, the Weight of the Subject”
  Masataka Matsuda, Rena Miyazaki, TARKY Toshima, Nike Tobita | Ko Murobushi Archive Cafe Shy [Tokyo]
• 2023Roundtable Discussion: “Nonsense =≠ Logic and Form”Part 1Part 2
  Takuma Ishikawa (Visual Artist/Art Critic), Takeshi Ueda (Director, TALION GALLERY), Hiroko Tasaka (Curator, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum), TARKY Toshima | Former Shimizuya Dry Cleaning (now Suisei) [Tokyo]
• 2023Post-Performance Talk: “When making a work, it’s not that there is no logic; it’s that the logic is forgotten.”
  O,1,2nine (TARKY Toshima + Masayuki Yoshida), Moderator: Nike Tobita | Former Shimizuya Dry Cleaning (now Suisei) [Tokyo]
• 2023Talk and Performance: “Surfaces and Traversals—Trans, Otokonoko, Genderqueer”
  Asahi Konuta / ilya, Masayuki Yoshida, TARKY Toshima | Social Kitchen [Kyoto]
• 2022Roundtable Discussion: “Is a History of Queer Theater Possible? Writing Plays, Reading Resistance (Desire)”
  Shinichi Sekine, Rena Miyazaki, TARKY Toshima, Nike Tobita | Planned by qp | Ko Murobushi Archive Cafe Shy [Tokyo]
• 2021O,1,2nine (TARKY Toshima + Masayuki Yoshida) × asunoah
  Whenever Wherever Festival 2021 | Spiral Hall [Tokyo]
• 2017TARKY Toshima, “The Belly Stealing the Back”: Public Interview
  blanClass (Coordinated by Haruka Kawaguchi)

Texts on Works and Projects

• 2021Concept Text of “Cast off skin (OFF) and put on something (ON)〈Give answer of what exists between hiding origins (ON) and taking off them (OFF)〉”
  Curated by TARKY Toshima (Takayuki Toshima) | TALION GALLERY
• 2017“Match-Mismatch”
  Gohya Iijima, TARKY Toshima | blankof5304
• 2006“Methods for ‘Other Logic’”
  Text written as part of Other Logic | Stripe House Gallery