Aquiles Hadjis was born in Maracaibo, and has been based in Tokyo since 2009 where he works as a filmmaker and a teacher at Temple University Japan Campus and Hosei University. His art practice combines strategies from visual arts and improvisation to drive his performances, installations, music, and instrument building. Linking the idea of prototypes to sketching, he thinks of both as thought that has solidified only slightly enough to do things it cannot do inside the mind, working as a frame for conversations with the unknown. He has performed and shown his work in the US, Japan, Germany, Austria, Venezuela, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, among other places.
