PROGRAM
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Group Photo Performance
Ceremony
Aya Comori (project manager), Ayami Sasaki (scenographer), Sally★(printer), Rino Daidoji (actor), Moteslim (editor), Amane Yamaguchi (architect)
Let's gather together and make eye contact with people from future!
Scenographer Ayami Sasaki is a member of the theatre group FAIFAI, which continues to present works using a unique collective creation-based approach. For this project set in Toshima’s Otsuka, an area where redevelopment is in full swing, she will be organizing a ceremony for as many people as possible regardless of age or nationality to participate in and witness. Over the three years from 2019, Sasaki has repeatedly visited, stayed in and enjoyed exchange with Otsuka and other neighborhoods through her participation in "Roaming Shopping Street Festival," an art project looking to rediscover the appeal of the area from the perspective of a scenographer. For this project, Sasaki will welcome people who live in the neighborhood, people who commute to work or school there and tourists as participants in the “ceremony.” A temporary structure supported by human hands and local buildings will appear with the cooperation of participants, and group photos will be taken there. By producing photographs showing the changing town and the gaze of people, Sasaki hopes to create an opportunity for encounters that transcend time and space.
Program Directors’comment
This year's FT label offers a program of works designed to make visitors feel the presence of people again; that there are real flesh-and-blood people on the other side of the screen you look at every day, behind the scenes of manufacturing and logistics, and even in buildings that are being destroyed. The artist says that although the act of taking a group photograph involves looking into the lens at a particular moment in time, in fact what they are doing is making eye contact with someone in the future who will someday be looking at that photograph. We hope you will join us in the changing urban landscape to witness this ephemeral ceremony.
Kaku Nagashima, Chika Kawai (FT label Program Directors)
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Profile
Ayami Sasaki
FAIFAI scenographer
Born in 1983 in Kagoshima Prefecture. In addition to her FAIFAI activities, she works as a stage designer and scenographer on various projects related to theatre, dance, concerts, exhibitions and more. Recent works and projects she has been involved in include FAIFAI’s "Louie Louie" (KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre/2019), “We Assemble Together” by Momonga Complex (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre/2020), and the Sceno-ha (Scenographers’Collective) art project, “Roaming Shopping Street Festival.” She loves giving parties at home.
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Aya Comori
Born in Hokkaido. After graduating from University she became a member of artist unit Maywa Denki. After stints with Festival/Tokyo and a Kyoto theatre company she joined TASKO inc.,and bench Co. With a focus on the performing arts, she continues to create spaces and production environments that connect audiences and works. In recent years the principle works she has been involved in are Kenta Kojiri + Yasuhiro Morinaga’s“Coroli”(2022), “Unexplored Unfulfilled Ghost and Monster “Zaha” and “Tsuruga””(2021), Sangatsu’s “¿Music?”（2021）and ”Sangatsu @WWW”(2019), Meiro Koizumi’s “Prometheus Unbound” (2019), and Saeborg’s “House of L” (2019). She is a mentor for the art management and mentorship program “Battery.”
Sally
Born in 1993 in Tokyo, graduated from the Textile Design department of Tokyo Zokei University. In October 2019, she formed ONLY CHILD CLUB with friends who are only-children. The club zine “Hitorikko no mado” (“The Only Child’s Window” ) is still published from time to time. From April 2021, she was in charge of creating the program zine, stickers, flyer etc. for “La mia quarantena,” a diary film by actor Rino Daidoji. She is a versatile artist who collaborates with a variety of people on projects which include the creation of works such as zines, textile productions, craft workshop planning, and research on local areas and communities.
Rino Daidoji
Born in 1982 in Tokyo. As a founding member of the theatre company FAIFAI, she has featured in domestic and international productions as an actor. Since 2014 she has staged her solo performance “Socialstrip” in Tokyo, Yokohama, Beijing, Hong Kong and Bangkok. In 2015 she moved to Cesena in the north of Italy, and ever since has split her working base between Japan and Italy. Her principal works include “This is a Great Great Autumn,” and “Asa to chisana yoru-tachi” (“Mornings and little nights”). On the back of creating her first movie, the diary film “La mia quarantena” in April 2020, she launched “Daidoji’s Super Experimental Club” with Sally★ and Riho Onodera, organizing screenings of the film in Tokyo, Kyoto, Cesena and Hong Kong. She plans to challenge herself to various experimental creation going forward.
Moteslim
Born in Tokyo in 1989, he is the representative of MOTE, Inc. He is an editor, and his star sign is Virgo. He was part of the editorial department of "STUDIO VOICE" from 2018 to 2019, in charge of interviewing artists and musicians, mainly from East Asian countries such as China and South Korea. In 2021, he initiated UNLIRICE, a project focusing on creatives from Asian countries which handles magazine publication, music releases, etc. In 2022, he opened the multi-project space RABA in Asakusa, Tokyo.
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Amane Yamaguchi
Born in Tokyo in 1997. After completing a master’s course at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2022, she began work for an architectural design company.
Language
Japanese
Notice to visitors
This performance will be held with measures in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Please be sure to check the following link on the Tokyo Festival website when visiting:
Tokyo Festival anti-coronavirus measures
https://tokyo-festival.jp/2022/en/info/covid19/
-Please wear a mask at all times.
-Please be advised that those who have a temperature of 37.5℃ or higher or those who are not feeling well may be denied admission on the day of the performance.
-Admission may be restricted during busy times.
-Photographs and video will be taken on the day for documentary purposes.
Venue
The area around Otsuka Station, Toshima city, Reception area: Otsuka Station South Square
Staff credits
Documentation: Shintaro Tamada (video artist)
Production: Madoka Ashihara, Keisuke Shimada, Miki Kanai (NPO Arts Network Japan)
Organizer credits
Organizers
Tokyo Festival Executive Committee [Toshima City, Toshima Mirai Cultural Foundation, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre & Arts Council Tokyo), Tokyo Metropolitan Government]
Supported by
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in fiscal 2022
Sponsored by
Asahi Group Japan, Ltd.
Inquiries
Tokyo Festival Executive Committee Office
“Ceremony” Production Office (NPO Arts Network Japan)
03-5961-5200 (weekdays 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.) openair-tf@anj.or.jp
Keisuke Shimada, Miki Kanai, Madoka Ashihara