Hijikata Tatsumi as Trickster / “Rebellion of the Body”1968--2018
In 2008, Keio University Art Center organized the exhibition "1968" and introduced materials concerning the Butoh dance stage "Tasumi Hijikata and Japanese" by Tatsumi Hijikata. We explored how this Butoh stage came to be called "Rebellion of the Body", and reconsidered significance this show had.
Presenting "Rebellion of the Body" in 1968, the current exhibition intends to review Hijikata's activity in the following 2 years, when he aimed for revolution in dance construction and method. Intensively snapped and filmed, his strange body got a lot of media exposure. He was called "demon", "devil", "magician", or "the king of defective children", and he himself said that he felt jealous of dogs' vein or that he wanted to be defective. After all, was he "abject", or trickster?
By the way, 2 stage works appear this year, which seems to reinterpret Hijikata's butoh as "abjection" or "play of resurrection": Choy Ka Fai's “UnBearableDarkness” and AMAREYA THEATRE's ”DEADMAN EATING WATERMELON”. This exhibition introduces them by both installation and demonstration.
Tatsumi Hijikata insisted that he himself was his work. Even today, can we regard him as “the cultural hero”? As is usual with exhibition about Hijikata, this exhibition will also reconsider who Hijikata was as well as what his Butoh was.
Date
Monday, October 1 – Friday, November 2, 2018
Venue
Keio University Art Space
Audience
Everyone welcome
Cost
Free participation
Enquiries and bookings
Keio University Art Center
+81-3-5427-1621
pj.ca.oiek.tsda@ijnet-ca
Exhibition[Introduction to Archives]
Date
Monday, October 1 – Friday, November 2, 2018 / Monday to Friday, 11:00-18:00 (Closed on Saturday, Sunday and Holiday)
Venue
Keio University Art Space
[Located on the ground floor of Keio University South Annex]
2-15-45, Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8345
Tel. 03-5427-1621 Fax. 03-5427-1620
JR: Tamachi station on Yamanote - and KeihinTohoku Line
Subway: Mita station on Mita Line, Akabanebashi station on Oedo Line
Audience
Everyone welcome
Cost
Free participation
Enquiries and bookings
Keio University Art Center
+81-3-5427-1621
pj.ca.oiek.tsda@ijnet-ca
Organiser(s)
Organiser: Keio University Art Center
What's on
- SHOW-CASE PROJECT Extra-1 Motohiro Tomii: The Presence of Objects and Matters
- Introduction to Art Archive XXVII: Correspondence-Poetry or Letters and Affects—Shuzo Takiguchi and Shusaku Arakawa/Madeline Gins
- Correspondences and Hyōryūshi [Drifting-poetry]
- ラーニング・ワークショップ「放送博物館」で考えるーアナログ技術のこれまで・これから
- The 39th Anniversary of Hijikata Tatsumi’s Death: Talking together about Hijikata Tatsumi