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Tokyo Shiokouji「Journey “Meguro→Yokosuka→Yokohama→Kanazawa”」
2022.2.12(Sat.) - 2022.2.13(Sun.)
Tokyo Shiokouji are an eight-piece band who flit nimbly between genres in pursuit of a highly original and unconventional musicality. This work on a “journey” theme is a live performance in which a piece of music is updated with each successive location visited. A video collaboration throughout creates in the theater space a musical experience that goes beyond mere listening.
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Anjū no Chi「¡play!」
2022.1.20(Thu.) - 2022.1.23(Sun.)
Faster, higher, stronger! Get ready for a sporting drama for the Reiwa era. Once the victor is decided, the spectators swiftly slip away, leaving only silent stadium and stony-faced scoreboard. To whom then, if not the crowd-devoured athletes, do the ultimate sporting physique and spirit belong? Left in the still and silent stadium are the unfeeling scoreboard and.... Anjū no Chi will leap over time, space and the fence in this superb shot at the fiery tale surrounding an imaginary event dubbed “Uni-Base.”
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“Age of Decoupling” series, Part 2
Akira Takayama / Port B: Wagner Project @ 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa
2022.1.8(Sat.) - 2022.2.6(Sun.)
Chance to join a hip-hop-style opera crew! In this program inspired by Wilhelm Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the “sing-off” depicted in the opera is linked to hip-hop, dubbed the opera of the streets. A “hip-hop school” will be set up at the Museum with top rappers and DJs as tutors, in a participatory project involving learning while performing. The project will also access hip-hop culture from around the world online, while displaying archival material from previous performances. WAGNER PROJECT
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TETSURO YASUNAGA JIMUSHITSU Memories of Shelter | Miu Sakamoto feat. Mamiko Hirai
2021.12.26(Sun.)
“Memories of Shelter” with its theme of a “calm, intimate musical experience akin to congregating in a shelter” is a sound performance project led by Tetsuro Yasunaga Jimushitsu and musician Miu Sakamoto, in which a changing selection of artists in various genres are invited to join in creating spaces. Guest artists for this first-ever staging in Kanazawa will include pianist Mamiko Hirai.
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Jichiku 2021: “Age of Decoupling” Series, Part 1
Meiro Koizumi: Prometheus Bound
2021.12.11 (Sat.), 12 (Sun.), 17 (Fri.), 18 (Sat.), 19 (Sun.)
A long-term project of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, “Jichiku” (lit. “autonomous region”) is not limited to art but intersects with other fields such as science, history, and sociology. It includes live performances, video screenings, talks, artist residencies, and workshops traversing the genres of music, movies, and theater, which are presented throughout the year. Through partnerships and collaboration with external communities, we are conducting experimental activities that transcend the conventional exhibition venue. Jichiku 2021: “Age of Decoupling” is a two-part series featuring Meiro Koizumi and Akira Takayama. Today we live in a society of ever-accelerating efficiency and competition amid a superheated market economy, generating interpersonal disparities, conflicts, and polarization. What stance should we take toward the realities of systemic injustice and unreleased emotion, laid bare more than ever by the pandemic? Through the works and activities of these two artists, we open up possibilities to engage with these issues on a personal level.
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Ayaka Ono & Akira Nakazawa / Spacenotblank「Modest Difference」
2021.7.3 (Sat.), 7.4 (Sun.)
Modest Difference is a theater piece written by Shuntaro Matsubara, directed by Ayaka Ono and Akira Nakazawa, and performed by Chika Araki, Yuki Koga, Hiromi Nishii, and Masayuki Yano. The stage is set up as if the actors are gathering in a meeting room of words, human and human before us, yet portraying the modest notion that perhaps we are all just drifting. In this production Spacenotblank, explorers of the value of all performing arts, accept and resist the presence of boundaries between people in today's world, controlled by scripts, and demonstrate these on the stage.
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Kanazawa Fringe ver. Kids LOOKOUT/ Kanazawa
2020.8.17(Mon.) - 2020.8.30(Sun.)
British artist and local schoolchildren map out the future of Kanazawa in workshops and performances Over a period of around two weeks British artist Andy Field—also a scriptwriter, director and curator—will join fourth-graders in workshops and performances mapping out the future of Kanazawa 30, 60 and 90 years from now, in the first Japanese outing for a program that has to date been run in 10 countries and 20 cities around the world.
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Telexplosion In the Afterglow of TV-Land 1980s: MTV, JumboTron, INFERMENTAL
2020.2.8 (Sat.) 9 (Sun.) 11 (Tue.)
Experimental and Entertaining Moving Images for Televisions. In the 1980s, tanks to VHS cassette tapes and MTV, full of experimental and entertaining moving images appeared on televisions at home. Sony produced the enormous television “JumboTron” for Tsukuba EXPO in 1985. This screening program will show video art works which reflects such age. After every program we organize a post-talk and Q&A.