Can Festivals Exist in the City? Vol.03: Becoming the Shishi

Tama Art University TUB Collaborative Program

Information

Performance: 9/28(Sun) 15:00-15:30
Talk Session: 9/28(Sun) 14:00-18:00

Performance: Tokyo Midtown Plaza 1st Floor
Talk Session: Tama Art University TUB (Inside Design Hub, Midtown Tower 5th Floor)

Performance: Free
Talk Session: ¥1,500
*Reservation required for the talk session.

Detail

This series reexamines the meaning of festivals and rituals from multiple perspectives, while exploring practical ways to build sustainable systems of urban nature, community, and craftsmanship.
In this edition, we welcome the Hariyama Shishi Odori from Tōno City, Iwate Prefecture, creating a stage for performance at Roppongi Art Night. After experiencing the dance up close, we will reflect on what it means to “become” something other than oneself. Together with our guest speakers in a talk session, we will consider how, within contemporary urban life, we might reframe and practice “festival” in relation to nature and others in our daily lives.

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Artist

Mukashi Megane (Yoshinari Takahashi / Osamu Sakai)

Mukashi Megane (Yoshinari Takahashi / Osamu Sakai)
A project that explores forms of expression including animation, by examining the relationship between humans and nature through folk culture and traditions that still remain throughout Japan.

Collaborative Partners
Ryuichi Nanbu (Design Director, ACTANT FOREST / Comoris DAO)
Gaku Tomikawa (Representative, Tomikawaya Co., Ltd. / Shishi-odori Dancer)
Toshiaki Ishikura (Anthropologist / Associate Professor, Akita University of Art)
Tama Art University TUB