PERFORMANCE “Collective BORDER - Break BORDER“ Do walls have the power to Bring people together?
FREE
2023.5.14
15:00―16:00
Former site of Itoyu Machiya
design｜Fumino Nakamura
CONCEPT｜
Inma Barrero's ceramic wall symbolizes this year's theme, "BORDER.
The performance will be held at the exhibition site.
Each performance artist will complete this year's KYOTOGRAPHIE by facing the BORDER in front of Inma Barrero's work and embodying her statement through dance and other means.
The shards of pottery teach us that life is a series of unexpected outcomes, and that the forms of beauty are diverse. (...)
Do walls have the power to Bring people together?
Walls, structures that rise vertically from the ground to the sky, often separate us from the places and people to which we are originally connected.
Walls create new territory. Walls create new territories and generate boundaries, divisions, and otherness within society. But can we not also shift such narratives and envision walls filled with light and possibility?
[Inma Barrero Statement (excerpt )]
ARTIST｜
Yoko Higashino (ANTIBODIES Collective choreographer and dancer)
Kyoko Nomura Nomura (Dancer)
田◯田 Tapota (performing arts unit)
ENTER（OT29, painter）
STORY｜
Introduction）
There are fragile and vulnerable individuals. While leaning on each other, they search for a way to live, for peace. However, because of their weakness, the domination by rights and the division of society are progressing, and gradually, insecurity permeates the peaceful daily life that they thought was always there.
Middle）
The unrest factor increases and rolls down to division and war. In this turbulent world, where people are unable to accept the diversity of those who are different from themselves, they are determined to destroy the division of power and stereotypes, and to fight for a revolution.
Progress）
Rain falls to calm the burned-out earth, new buds sprout, and a new generation, a new world, is born.
Starting from the second half of the 1990s, Yoko has used her physicality in her artwork in artistic forms ranging from the performing arts to music. From 2000 to 2014, she supervised “Dance Company BABY-Q”. In 2015, she formed “ANTIBODIES Collective”, where genreless artists came together to create a performance art collective. Activities range from dancing in domestic and international theaters, and festivals, performing in public areas and island-wide stage productions, collaborating with overseas artists, and more. Yoko also actively engages in communication work rooted in regional revitalization and reaching out to workshops for dancers, schools and welfare facilities. She is the recipient of multiple awards such as the Toyota Choreography Award and the Yokohama Dance Collection Solo x Duo . All Japan Dance Track Artistic Director.
Co-representative of Goda Planning. From 2007 to 2017, Kako Nomura was a major dancer in the Kyoto-based dance company "Monochrome Circus," and gained experience performing on many stages both domestically and internationally, including festivals and tours in Korea, France, Finland, and New York. Since 2015, she has co-founded "Goda Planning" with Yuki Goda and has been involved in producing and managing stage productions while also appearing as a dancer. In 2018, she was selected for the Kyoto Arts Center Residence Program and conducted a residency in Cologne, Germany. She was recognized as a Kyoto City Arts and Culture Encouragement Awardee in the Reiwa 4th year.
Starting in 2022, she has been appointed as the program director for the Kyoto International Dance Workshop Festival.
Tapota is an entertainment unit consisting of Takuto Maeda and Shiori Shinoda, both of whom are former members of a university Noh theater club. They use drumming, vocals, and choreography to bring joy and blessings to various locations, ranging from mountain streams to suburban areas. They perform dedications at temples and shrines, create and perform mask rituals, and conduct workshops, among other activities. They will soon be celebrating their 10th anniversary.
The paintings depicted in this exhibition are based on the rhythm of harmony, Japanese shadows and depth, and the form of NEO Ukiyo-e. (A modern take on the traditional Ukiyo-e style- Ukiyo-e is a late 16th century Japanese art style, also known as the floating world).
And the style is a wish for harmony in all things, including the world and culture.
He is also active in live painting as a part of the Ot29 (Otafuku).
The method of expression focuses on the architecture itself, by producing wall paintings that respond to the charm and mood of the building and its environment.
His activities are not limited to Japan, Kousaka is continuously seeking out murals around the world.
He has performed in events such as Secret Wars in London and Live Paint Dojo in Japan, and has been invited to paint live in various houses, shops, temples and shrines, museums and more.
