PERFORMING ARTS
Akira Takayama | "BGM/My Song"
There are people who are forced to move from their home country for various reasons. What they bring when they leave the country is a song taught by their fathers, grandmothers, fathers and mothers in their home country. This time, four people from Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Kurdish will sing "My Song" that has moved their bodies.
These songs will be played as BGM on Shibuya PARCO's in-house broadcast. BGM is "background music", so it is usually in the backstage, does not insist on existence, but it refers to music that is passed through, but this song is "My song" and the song is engraved with the background of the singer (background).
If you fly to a dedicated website, you can read the contents of the lyrics in Japanese. But that's not a translation of lyrics in the ordinary sense. Four poets who are proficient in Japanese are paired with singers, listening to songs, and having them teach the background of the song and the contents of the lyrics. It is a poem of the poet himself.
Akira Takayama
Songs, singers and poets
Mother's Diary (Vietnam)
Song: Nguyen Ti Ha poem: Aoyagi vegetable picking
"Blowing the Boat" (Cambodia)
Song: Kugo Ponnaret Poems: Yomitsu Koiso
"Reme, Reme" (Kurdo)
Song: Fehime poem: Tanaka walnut
“I miss my home.” – Laos
Song: Intachuk Villai poem: Kojima Weather
Aoyagi Nanami / Artist
In observing the growth process of everything, while conducting research and fieldwork, we will work on the subject of the means to experience what we see as it is, and to be aware of the impossibility of the audience. Received the 28th Chuya Nakahara Prize of the Chuya Nakahara Prize in recent years, his solo exhibition "Dead Ship" (Towada Art Center, 2022) in his collection of poems "Sodatsu no Yaku" (thoasa, 2022). Co-books and honkbooks.
©wada shintaro
Yomitsu Koiso / translator and poet
Translations include Ann Carson's "Autobiography of Red" (Kanbo Shoshi), Teju Cole's "Open City" (Shincho Crest Books), Grayson Perry's "The End of Manhood" (Film Art Company). He has published Japanese and English poems in "Modern Poetry" and "Poetry" in the United States.
©Izumi Shiokawa
Hiyori Kojima / Poet
Born in 1997. Graduated from the Faculty of Culture and Design, Waseda University. In 2020, he published his first collection of poems, "Waterside" (July-do) as "Incarepoetry Collection". Received the 26th Chuya Nakahara Prize for his collection of poems.
©asako kojima
Tanaka walnut / artist
Born in Iwate Prefecture. Graduate School of Film and Media Studies, Tokyo University of the Arts. Based on the question of what should be built on an absurd land where you do not know what will happen, he creates video production and poetry as a means to look closely at the land and humans. In recent activities, he published "Chinese Giso Diary" (2022) and "valet of the Wind" (2023) from the independent label "HoyaBooks".
©shunsuke kusabiraki
Akira Takayama
Director of theatre unit Port B (Porto B). We are developing activities to intervene in real cities and societies around the world. In recent years, he has been working to expand his scope of activities in collaboration with different fields such as art, tourism, literature, architecture, and education.
©Bea Borgers
Information
- Name of work
- "BGM/My Song"
- Broadcast location
- Broadcast in various parts of the building ※Poems by four poets can be viewed from the flyer QR code distributed in the hotel.
- Exhibition Period
- Broadcast from September 15 (Fri) to September 24 (Sun), 2023 every hour 15 minutes and 45 minutes
Yosuke Amamiya| A stone that has been carried for 1300 years.
Using everyday objects such as apples, stones, humans, etc., as a motif, you can step on the recognized accelerator and brake at the same time, or use your own way of talking and ultra-skill techniques to provide an "experience as if you are going to cross the phase somehow". Yosuke Amamiya, an artist. A paper of a project that started in 2014 and takes up to 3314, "Nothing stone carried for 1300 years" is distributed inside the museum. Excerpts of the text describing the project are posted on ART WALL.
Yosuke Amamiya
Born in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1975. Graduated from the Sandberg Institute Fine Art Course in Amsterdam. He creates works in a wide range of ways, including sculptures, video installations, and performances. In 2014, he started a project that took up until 3314, "A stone that was carried for 1300 years."
Instagram（@yosuke_amemiya3314）
Information
- Project Name
- A stone that has been carried for 1300 years.
- Exhibition place
- 1F ART WALL
- Place of distribution
- Entrance of the building, etc.
- Exhibition Period
- September 15 (Friday) to September 24 (Sunday), 2023
mixed media performance「p.§.」
On September 18 (Mon./holiday) and 19 (Tuesday), an experimental performance using the entire building will be held. In this project, Ikumi Yang participated in the performance direction, Asahi Ishikawa as a performer, Chinori Komatsu in music, Sodai Suzuki in video, and Koji Koyamada as a stylist. Set in a place that is usually popular as a commercial facility, you can experience the synergies created by local gatherings of creators from different fields in an hour. Instead of intentionally using the theater, they attempt to extend and contract time and space by echoing the vibrations of performance, video, and music from anywhere in the hall, including the backyard.
Against the theme of ART Week, “Moment,” they climb up to the rooftop, creepyly looping the reality of one-time sex that should never happen again.
Yang Ikumi
Born in Tokyo in 1993. Graduated from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019. Produced performances and installations based on the history of urban life. Performance direction is also performed. Create a space and community with fluid and margins by referring to the perspective method of landscape paintings.
Chirin Komatsu
Born in Kochi Prefecture in 1992. Musician, artist, DJ. Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2022. To date, he has released a huge number of sound sources under multiple names from various labels and publishers. In addition, we produce and study the flow of information in the information environment, the state of the body next to it, and its memories and traditions using light and songs.
Sodai Suzuki
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1999. Graduate School of Media and Media Studies, Tokyo University of the Arts. He creates images and installations using the coined word "Perak Placeability" as a keyword for the location of the same era that changed due to globalization and the development of the Internet. He is also active as a VJ video artist mainly in Tokyo.
Asahi, Ishikawa
Born in 1995. Actor. The fourth of five boys. After dropping out of the Department of Theater Dance Design at Tama Art University, he entered the Jacques Le Coq International Theater School. Graduated after studying abroad for two years. He returned home. While performing mask production and masked play based on "Kamen" as the basis of his own activities, while being involved in contemporary theater, dance, performance, inside the theater, and outside the theater, I feel that the way I live is quite different now.
Koshi Oyamada
Born in 1985. Graduated from the Department of Fashion Business, Dressmaker Academy. He studied under the fashion director Dai Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi since he was a student. After graduation, he and Yoshimitsu Goto open a second-hand clothing store "Hayatochiri" in Koenji Kitakore Building. Since 2010, he has been working as a stylist. He works on editorials, advertising, and styling of artists in Japan and overseas. Member of Lesen Inc. since August 2020.
YOSHIKO KURATA
Features and coverage of fashion designers and artists from Japan and overseas in a wide range of fields. In March 2019, he co-translates and edits the Virgil Abloh book “The Complex Title Here” by Adachi Press Publishing. In 2022, he was in charge of the exhibition curation of DIESEL ART GALLERY. In the same year, he coordinated Japanese artist nico ito at GucciBamboo 1947.
Instagram（@yoshiko_kurata）
Information
- Exhibition name
- mixed media performance「p.§.」
- Floor
- 10F and some floors inside the building
- Exhibition Period
- September 18 (Mon./holiday) and 19 (Tuesday), 20:00-21:00
