PERFORMING ARTS
Akira Takayama | "Background Music/My Song"
There are people who have to move from their home country for a variety of reasons. What they bring when they leave the country is songs taught by their grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers and mothers in their home country. This time, we have four people from Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Kurds sing "My Song" which has moved with their bodies.
These songs are played as BGM on Shibuya PARCO's in-house broadcasts. Background music is "background music", so it is usually in the background and does not strongly assert its existence, but this song is "my song" and the singer's background (background) is engraved.
If you fly to a dedicated website, you can read the contents of the lyrics in Japanese. However, it is not a translation of lyrics in a normal sense. Four poets who are proficient in Japanese are paired with the singer, listened to the song, and spun by having them teach the background of the song and the contents of the lyrics, It is the poet's own poem.
Akira Takayama
Song, Singer and Poet
“Mother's Diary” (Vietnam)
Sing: Nguyen Tiha Poem: Aoyagi vegetable picking
"Keep the boat" (Cambodia)
Sing: Kugo Ponnaret Poem: Hiromitsu Koiso
"Reme, Reme" (Kurd)
Sing: Fehime poetry: Tanaka walnut
"I miss my hometown" (Laos)
Sing: Intachak Villai: Kojima Weather Day
Nanami Aoyagi / Artist
In observing the growth process of everything, through research and fieldwork, we work on the theme of how to experience what we see as it is, and how the audience realizes its potential. Recent activities include his solo exhibition "The Ship of Ship" (Towada Art Center, 2022) and his collection of poems "Not Sodatsu" (thoasa, 2022), the 28th Chuya Nakahara Award. President of Komoto and honkbooks.
©wada shintaro
Hiromitsu Koiso / Translator / Poet
Translations include Ann Carson's "Autobiography of Red" (Kanbo Shoshi), Teju Call "Open City" (Shincho Crest Books), Grayson Perry's "The End of Manliness" (Film Art). He has published Japanese and English poems in "Contemporary Poetry" and American "Poetry".
©Izumi Shiokawa
Hiyori Kojima / Poet
Born in 1997. Graduated from the Faculty of Culture and Design, Waseda University. In 2020, published the first collection of poems, "Border" (July-do) as "Incare Poetry Collection". Received the 26th Chuya Nakahara Prize for his collection of poems.
©asako kojima
Kurumi Tanaka / Artist
Born in Iwate Prefecture. Graduated from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. Based on the question of what to build on an absurd land where you do not know what will happen, he creates video and poetry as a means of closely watching the land and humans. In recent years, he published "Chinese Giso Diary" (2022) and "Kaze no valet" (2023) from his independent label "HoyaBooks".
©shunsuke kusabiraki
Akira Takayama
President of theatrical unit Port B (Porto B). We are engaged in activities to intervene in real cities and society around the world. In recent years, he has been working to expand the scope of his activities by collaborating with different fields such as art, tourism, literature, architecture, and education.
©Bea Borgers
Information
- Name of the work
- "Background Music/My Song"
- Broadcast location
- Broadcast on various parts of the building ※Poems by the four poets can be viewed from the flyer QR code distributed in the museum.
- Period
- Broadcast from September 15 (Fri) to September 24 (Sun), 2023 at 15 minutes and 45 minutes every hour.
Yosuke Amamiya | "Nothing stone carried around for 1300 years,"
Using the motifs of common things such as apples, stones, and humans, he uses his unique narratives and transcendence techniques to step on the accelerator and brakes of recognition at the same time, and provides "experiences as if they were going to cross the phase in no time." artist Yosuke Amamiya. The paper of the project, which started in 2014 and took up to 3314, "Nevery Stone Carryed for 1300", is distributed throughout the museum. An excerpt of the text describing the project was posted on ART WALL.
Yosuke Amamiya
Born in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1975. Completed a master's degree in Sandberg Institute Fine Art Course in Amsterdam. He creates works in a wide variety of ways, including sculpture, video installation, and performance. In 2014, he started a project that took up to 3314, "Nevery Stone Carryed for 1300 years."
Instagram（@yosuke_amemiya3314）
Information
- Project name
- "Nothing stone carried around for 1300 years,"
- Exhibition site
- 1F ART WALL
- Distribution location
- Entrance, etc.
- Period
- September 15 (Fri) to September 24 (Sun), 2023
mixed media performance「p.§.」
On September 18 (Mon./holiday) and 19 (Tuesday), an experimental performance will be held using the entire building. In this project, Ikumi Yang participated in the performance direction, Asahi Ishikawa as a performer, Chirin Komatsu for music, Sodai Suzuki for video, and Koji Koyamada for stylists. Set in a place that is usually popular as a commercial facility, you can experience the synergies created by local gathering creators from different fields in one hour. They intentionally try to expand and contract time and space by echoing the vibrations of performance, video, and music from everywhere in the hall, including the backyard, without using the theater.
In response to "MOMENT", the theme of ART WEEK, they climb up to the rooftop, whilst looping out the reality of one-time nature that should never happen again.
Yang Ikumi
Born in Tokyo in 1993. Completed a master's degree in oil painting in Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019. Produced performances and installations based on the history of urban life. A performance direction is also performed. Reference the perspective of landscape painting to create a fluid and marginal space and community.
Chirin Komatsu
Born in Kochi Prefecture in 1992. Musicians, artists, DJs. Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto in 2022. To date, he has released a huge number of sound sources under multiple names from various labels and publishers. In addition, he creates and studies 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 Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. He creates images and installations based on the coined word "Perak Place" 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 and video artist mainly in Tokyo.
Asahi, Ishikawa
Born in 1995. Actor. The fourth of five male brothers. After dropping out of Tama Art University's theater and dance design department, he entered Jack Lukok International Theater School. Graduated after studying abroad for 2 years. Return to Japan. While performing mask production and masked drama based on "Mask" as the basis of his own activities, he is involved in contemporary drama, dance, performance, inside the theater, and outside the theater, and experience that the residence is quite different now.
Koshi Oyamada
Born in 1985. Graduated from the Department of Fashion Business, Dressmaker. He studied under fashion director Dai Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi since he was in school. After graduation, he opened a second-hand clothing shop "Hayatochiri" in Koenji Kitakore Building with Keimitsu Goto. He has been active as a stylist since 2010. He has worked on editorials, advertising, and styling for artists in Japan and overseas. He has been a member of LESEN inc. since August 2020.
YOSHIKO KURATA
Special Features and interviews with fashion designers and artists from Japan and abroad in a wide range of fields. In March 2019, he co-translates and edits Virgil Abloh's book "" 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 in the building
- Period
- September 18 (Mon./holiday) and 19 (Tue) 20:00-21:00, 2023
