All beings exist also as supports like materials to form something else when seen from another world.”
I call this idea the “support theory” and it is the basis of my creative activities.
This is the idea that the objects and phenomena in front of us,
even our own bodies and minds, are actually like materials and temporary forms to form something.
For the past two years, I have been working on one of the more specific themes of support theory, “ma (space)”.
The content is that in order to perceive and recognize a thing, we need to capture it through its framework.
In other words, we cannot directly perceive the thing itself,
but there is something between us and the thing that synchronizes us.
Under this idea, my creations are expressed across several media,
including three-dimensional, two-dimensional, video, installation, and performance.

5.20.sat,21.sun
13:00-13:40

Part I: Collaborative Performance

A new collaborative performance with actor Amane Nekomura will be held at the exhibition site.
The body of Nekomura Amane will create a new work space in response to the video projection by Masateru Tani and the works on display.

Amane Nekomura

Actor of SPAC (Shizuoka Performing Arts Center).
He is the leader and director of the theater company OTONOYA, and a Japanese dancer. Lecturer at Keio University. Born in Tokyo, graduated from the University of Tokyo.
His representative works include “Onishimono-no Ai”, “Hagoromo”, and “Watashi”, a play for women with developmental disabilities. She has given many recitation theater performances and workshops at temples and shrines and in children’s wards. She is a master dancer of the Hanayagi school of Japanese dance.

Past Collaborative Performances

Part 2: Live Painting

I call the act of drawing in the mirror-like effect of a camera and projector “Spread follow”.
The artist momentarily selects fragments of variously changing images projected on paper and applies paint to them.
The artist’s own body shifts slightly as the images reflect the artist’s own movement, and the light is affected by this shift, as if trying to find the right moment in time to paint.

5.20.sat,21.sun
13:50-15:00

We will have a talk event with Tetsuya Miyata, a critic of the history of Japanese modern art thought.
No admission fee will be charged during the talk event.
Miyata’s newly published books and other items will also be on sale during the exhibition.

Tetsuya Miyata

Research on the history of Japanese modern art thought.
After working with Okakura Kakuzo, Miyagawa Torao, and Hariu Ichiro, he arrived at Japanese avant-garde art after the defeat in World War II.
He explores the “present” of culture through the intersection of dance, butoh, music, design, film, literature, philosophy, criticism, research, and thought.

*Admission fee will be charged only during the performance event hours.

Born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. Graduated from Shizuoka University, Graduate School of Art Education.
From 2012 to 2017, he had worked in Shizuoka as an instructor at the workshops of Shizuoka Prefectural Museum.
In 2018, he was a member of the PixCell production team at SANDWICH in Kyoto, where he assists in the production of artworks.
Currently, he operates an after-school daycare service based in Kobe City, centering on physical and artistic rehabilitation.
He is also active as an artist and conducts workshops in various locations, focusing on the fusion of art and education.

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