Katsumi Sunamori – Implications of the Scenery (1) On the morning of June 2, 2019, I arrived at Nagasaki Airport and headed south by car in the direction of the Shimabara Peninsula. It was the first time I had been to the Shimabara region. My destination was...View More >

Against Again Troupe is the Annual Grand Prize winner of the 18th Taishin Arts Award, it was announced in Taipei on Jun 6. Taking home NTD 1.5 million, the troupe received the prize for White Clear Song, directed and written by Snow Huang. Also winning prizes were I-Hsuen Chen in the Visual Arts and Wang Shih-Wei in the Performing Arts categories. Chen and Wang received NTD 1 million each.View More >

A theatre performance that consciously deals with its fundamental temporal nature is a rare thing. Time forms the foundation of the viewing experience. Why is it…View More >

Imagination for recovery – Disaster and restoration 2019, both the final year of the Heisei era and the beginning of the Reiwa era, will go on record as a year in which Japan suffered heavy damage from typhoons and as a year in which it lost cultural resources...View More >

SEEING THE SOUNDS — "Music is not immaterial, but it is molecularized based on territory, as with bird calls. It makes boundaries and is in turn made by the boundaries, which I see as a kind of self-collapse. This point of self-collapse is what interests me: where one needs the other but cannot be differentiated from the other at the same time."View More >

AFTER "IN DEFENSE OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION — “We really, really, really hope that they will reopen. I was telling Meiro that for the first time in my career, over my many experiences of censorship, I feel there is a chance for the situation to be solved, and that maybe the Aichi Triennale could be a symbol to the world for how to deal with this kind of situation successfully.”View More >

We, the undersigned artists and cultural workers, feel compelled to speak out against the closure of “After ‘Freedom of Expression?’” at Aichi Triennale 2019 from the perspective of gender equality—one of the stated principles of the Triennale’s organization.View More >