Born in Kyoto, Japan. Formed Dumb Type in Kyoto University of Arts in 1984, when he was studying Video Art and Conceptual Planning of the Arts. As a media artist, Furuhashi created and freely used visual images, music and performance in various kinds of expressive activities. These activities were usually made public by performances or installations in the group creations of dumb type and individual exhibitions such as Lovers.
Teiji Furuhashi passed away on October 29th 1995 in Kyoto. • 1980-1984 Kyoto University of Arts
• 1984 Formed dumb type
• 1985 "7 Conversation Styles" (video) - Kyoto Municipal Museum of Arts (Japan), Museum Of Modern Arts, New York (USA)
• 1988 "Pleasure Life" (performance) - Quest Hall, New York (USA), 1st New York International Festival of the Arts / Space 122 (USA), Theater im Pumpenhaus, Münster (Germany), ICA, London (UK.), Royal Museum of Arts, Copenhagen (Denmark), Alti, Tokyo (Japan)
• 1989 "The Polygonal Journey #1" (performance - collaboration with the Bridgehouse Collection) - Artspace Mumonkan, Kyoto (Japan)
"Play Back" (installation, video) with the exhibition "Against Nature" - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA), Akron Art Museum, Mit List Visual Arts Center, Bank of Boston Art Gallery
(1990) : Seattle Art Museum (USA), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
(1991) : ICA Nagoya, (Japan)
• 1990 "The Polygonal Journey #2" (performance - collaboration with the Bridgehouse Collection) - Northern Light Planetarium, Trømso (Norway)
"pH" (performance) - premiered at the Spiral Hall, Tokyo (Japan)
"pH" (exhibition) - premiered at the Spiral Garden
"pH" (performance) - Artspace Mumonkan, Kyoto (Japan)
• 1991 "pH" (performance) - Kyoto Municipal Museum of Arts, ICA Nagoya (Japan), Granada Festival (Spain), Art in the Anchorage New York (USA), Moda Hall, Osaka (Japan), Chapter, Cardiff (UK), Tramway, Glasgow
"pH" (video) - Japan Satellite Broadcasting
• 1992 "pH" (performance) - Messepalast / Vienna Festival (Austria), Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (Spain), Theater im Pumpenhaus, Münster (Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art / "Zones of Love", Sydney (Australia)
"pH" (video) - Prize "Sole d'Ora" / TTVV Riccione (Italy), Prize "Best Stage Recording - Studio Adaptation / IMZ Alter Oper Frankfurt, Dance Screen 1992 (Germany)
"S/N #1" (installation) in the exhibition "The Binary Era" / Museum of Ixelles, Brussels (Belgium)
(1993) : Kunsthalle, Vienna (Austria)
"The Enigma of the late Afternoon" (performance - collaboration with HOTEL PRO FORMA) - Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen (Denmark)
"S/N #2" (installation) in the exhibition "Another World" / ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito
• 1993 "pH" (performance) - Spiral Hall, Tokyo (Japan), Theaterhaus Gessnerallee / June Festival Zürich
"The Seminar show for "S/N" (performance and talk) - Artspace Mumonkan Kyoto (Japan), Shonandai Culture Center Civic Theater, Fujisawa (Japan)
• 1994 "Love/Sex/Death/Money/Life" (installation) - Spiral Tokyo (Japan)
"S/N #1" (installation) in the exhibition "Japanese Art after 1945; Scream against Sky", Yokohama Art Museum (Japan), Guggenheim Soho New York (USA)
"S/N" (performance) - Adelaide Festival (Australia), Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal (Canada), King Theater Seattle (USA), Landmark Hall Yokohama (Japan)
"Lovers" (installation) - Artlab 4 Hillside Plaza Tokyo (Japan)
• 1995 "S/N" (CD).
"S/N" (perfomance) - Spiral Tokyo (Japan), Festival MIT, Maubeuge (France), Esch Theatre (Luxemburg), Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana (Slovenia), Halle Münsterland / Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster (Germany), Festival Exit / Maison des Arts de Créteil (France), Kunsten Festival des Arts de Bruxelles (Belgium), Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Switzerland), Århus Festuge (Denmark), Spiel.Art Theater Festival Munich (Germany), International Festival of Performing Arts in São Paolo (Brazil)
"pH" (performance) - Harbourfront Center, Toronto (Canada), Festival MIT, Maubeuge (France), Festival Exit/Maison des Arts de Créteil (France).
"S/N #1" (installation) - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco).
"Lovers" (installation) in the exhibition "Video Spaces" / Museum Of Modern Art New York
• 1996 "S/N" (performance) - Tokyo Festival, Kyoto, Hong Kong Arts Festival (Hong Kong), International New Zealand Festival of Arts, Wellington, Teatro Central in Sevilla (Spain), Festival Exit / Maison des Arts de Créteil (France)
"Lovers" (installation) at the Biennale de Lyon (France), Festival Visas / Le Manège, Maubeuge (France), Festival Exit / Maison des Arts de Créteil (France), Sonar Festival, Barcelona (Spain), "Object:Video" exhibition in Linz (Austria), and other cities and Festivals in Europe.
