Akemi Takeya has collaborated with artists in the fields of dance, theater, film/video, photography and music. She has created numerous dance, video and performance pieces with such artists as Wolfgang Mitterer, Christian Fennesz, Tetsuo Furudate, Granular Synthesis, Ong Ken Seng, Benoit Lachambre, among others...
Her own works include Imeka (1997) and bodypoems_REFLECTION (1998). For her third solo performance Drowning Fish, Akemi was awarded the Austrian Dance Production Prize 1999. Other performances include Yuragi (2000), Terror by a blind stranger (2001), Black Honey Drops (2001), Shadow Pieces (2002) and voice & body performance series multiple space (2001) & double space (2002) in collaboration with electronic musicians, and ZZ (2003/4. She conceived and coordinated the AJ Project, the Austria x Japan Dance and Performance Exchange Program which took place in Yokohama (2002), and Vienna, Budapest, and Prague (2003). Recently, she created and premiered weathering (2004) and ce_l (2005), an audiovisual environment with musical collaborator Ulf Langheinrich. So what! (2006) with rechenzentrum, solo performance Feeler (2006/7) and a performance series of vol.1-Loops, vol.2-La Fusio, vol.3-Red Point, and 31shots in 2007.