PORT: Performance or Theory #5
PORT is an artist platform for mutual critique and discourse for artists in both performance and performing arts. PORT was founded in 2019 by choreographer Saori Hara and F/T, with members participating in the discourse workshop “Artist Pit,” which was co-hosted by F/T. Since then, PORT has been held irregularly at ANB Tokyo (Tokyo), Dance Base Yokohama (Yokohama), and other venues.
Artists working in dance, theater, performance art, etc. will gather for presentations, talks, collaborative research, etc., in open or closed formats of their choice.
For the first event of 2023, four artists active in Japan and abroad will report on their residencies and give pre-talks about their new works.
◆8/5(Sat) 19:00-21:00 Arata Mino, Mai Endo
Two artists who have received the ACC Fellowship and the Agency for Cultural Affairs Overseas Study Program for Emerging Artists in New York in 2021 and 2022, respectively, will give a report on their activities.
I stayed in New York via Europe (Documenta) from June 2022 to January 2022 under the ACC (Asian Cultural Council) New York Fellowship Program.
I will talk about what I saw, heard, and talked about in New York, and how I organized and thought about the current Japanese art scene in my own way.
In January 2022, just as the restrictions on movement caused by the Corona disaster were beginning to calm down a bit, I traveled to New York under the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Overseas Study Program for Emerging Artists. I would like to report on my research and activities in New York, where I stayed for a year while being tossed around by the sharp depreciation of the yen. I will talk about the Franklin Furnace Archive, an art organization-in-residence, outdoor events in community gardens and parks, and queer/feminist art practices by People of Color.
◆8/6(Sun) 19:00-21:00 Midori Kurata, Saori Hara
We will hold a pre-talk for Midori Kurata’s new work “Please Applaud When the Conductor Comes Out” to be presented at the Saitama International Arts Festival in November 2023. Midori Kurata will introduce her previous works in the first half of the talk, followed by a discussion with Saori Hara, a performer of the same work in the second half.
Performance details: https://artsaitama.jp/events/pe8dc1eje77t/
◆8/4(Fri)-8/6(Sun) PORT Private Salon [for artists, free admission].
Along with the paid talk events, a free salon for young artists will be held. In this salon, the artists who will speak will present their works in a closed space, and free talks and collaborative research will be held with the participants of the day. Applications are now being accepted from the form below for artists and students who aspire to become professionals.
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◆Participating Artists Profile
Photographer and stage writer. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture. His research and practice focuses on connecting memories and landscapes that remain in marginalized places and things, and finding the middle ground between “here” and “there” to foreground them. He creates fictions based mainly on photographs and videos he has taken himself, and presents them through his own and others’ bodies and various media, working in a cross-disciplinary manner.
In 2011, he graduated from Waseda University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Theatre and Film Arts, and in 2017, he completed the doctoral program of Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Advanced Art Expression, Ph. D. in Art, and received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to stay in New York from 2022 to 2023. Currently based in Tokyo and Kanagawa.
Recent major exhibitions and performances include “SEAsaw: Kisogawa, Voyaging through Space” (mh PROJECT Nokogirini, Aichi, 2023), “YAU TEN” (YAU STUDIO, Tokyo, 2022), “To/from Kuba” (ANB Tokyo, 2021), “Practice to Fall Well” (Kyoto Art Center , 2019), etc.
He will have a solo exhibition at Towada Museum of Contemporary Art space from September 2023, and will participate in a group exhibition in New York from October 2023. Photo by Mayumi Hosokura
www.aratamino.com
Actor and artist. Interested in the performative body in relation to the image, she works across media and methodologies, including video, photography, theater, and books. In recent years, she has developed a queer feminist practice, including offering “Shadow Feminisms in Art Practice” at an art school and organizing zine publications and exhibitions with Mika Maruyama in “Multiple Spirits (Marsupi). Major exhibitions include “The End of the Body La Clausura del Cuerpo” (Centro Cultural las Cigarreras, Alicante, 2022), “Burning Yourself with Burning Thoughts” (Satellite Gallery SA・KURA, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Aichi, 2021), ” Feminisms” (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 2021), “Rules? (2021, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT), etc. “Scraps of Defending Reanimated Marilyn” (oarpress) was published in 2023, and she completed her doctorate at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2021. She will stay in New York under the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Overseas Study Program for Emerging Artists in 2022.
Born 1987 in Mie Prefecture. Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design (now Kyoto University of Art), Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Started classical ballet and modern ballet at the age of 3. Based in Kyoto, he works as a director, choreographer, and dancer. Since 2016, she has been the leader of akakilike, a group consisting only of Midori Kurata and technical staff. The aim of the group is to engage actors and staff on an equal footing in the production of a work. She is a Saison Fellow I of the Saison Foundation, and has been the Artistic Director (Dance Division) of the Matsumoto City Arts Center since 2024.
Artist, choreographer, dancer
Born 1988 in Tokyo.
With choreography for self and others at the core of her work, she creates staged works that interweave reality and fiction, using a variety of media including light, sound, space, and text. In recent years, he has been developing performance research focusing on the power relationship between society and the body. 2023, he moved from Berlin to Tokyo and Kobe.
She received her MFA in Design from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015 and her MA in Solo Performance from the Department of Dance at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2018; studied abroad at the Faculty of Plastic Arts at the Bauhaus University in 2012; was a Yoshino Gypsum Foundation overseas trainee in 2013; was a Pola Art Foundation overseas trainee in 2017; received the 9th El Sur Foundation Newcomer Award in 2020. Awarded in the contemporary dance category.
He is a 2020-2022 ACY U39 Artist Fellow, a resident artist at Dance Base Yokohama from 2020, and a part-time lecturer at Musashino Art University’s Department of Film and New Media from 2021.
