Takuo Miyanaga Direction

In 2013, “play” that I encountered was in “daily life.” “Story” and “play” lie in the fact that people live there. It was a visit to and life on Shodo Island — I went there to participate in Setouchi Triennale — that reminded me of the simple truth. Light, sound, the sea, winds, ports, islands, people, space and time. Encounters with plays are often in “quotidian” moments: embarrassment at taking a picture with a friend that you meet for the first time in a long time, excitement at wearing your favorite clothes for a date, or finding a word flowing in Twitter comforting on a crowded train. These emotions are all coming from having a “relationship” with the world. In 2014, the “play” that I want to encounter is in “relationship.” This time I would like to produce a “play” that is born from “relationship” through photography, clothes and words.

Takuo Miyanaga
(Presenter / Producer)
Born in Tokyo in 1981. The representative of “ZuQnz,” a planning and producing unit. He was involved in the production of performances and related projects of Seinendan from 2007 to 2011, and founded a theatre company “mamagoto” with Yukio Shiba in 2009 as its executive producer. Other works that he has engaged in include the producing of “toi,” a unit with Miyuki Kurokawa (InnocentSphere) and live performances of a music unit “kuchiroro.”

Hideaki Hamada × Kai Takizawa × Yukio Shiba

『Haru and Mina』（2012）
Photo: Hideaki Hamada

theater of seaport by mamagoto
Photo: Hideaki Hamada

An Exhibition Called “Play”

Yokohama Creativecity Center 1F

2.11 Tue 10:30–19:00*
2.12 Wed – 2.16 Sun 09:30–19:00

Exhibition, admission free, reservation not required

*Admission only for TPAM registrants from 15:00 to 16:00 (during the reception).

*Opening live music performance by OK?NO!! at 12:00 and 16:00

Photographs are gifts to the future.
There is someone in the future beyond the lens you are looking into.
This is “theatre” in the form of photo exhibition.

Clothes have their own stories.
Anyone who wears them becomes the protagonist of the stories.
This is “theatre” in the form of clothes exhibition.

I have questions that I want to ask you.
The questions do not require answers.
This is “theatre” in the form of word exhibition.

Space Design: Ryoko Ando (design musica)
Composition: Misaki Kitamura (KUROHIGE)
Translation: Katsunori Obata
Cooperators: Yosuke Kuramochi (ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE), Urara Tsukuni (Kamiguse), Yukiko Hamano, Tomoko Shinoduka, Hatsumi Kakinoki, Masahiro Oishi, Momo Sakamoto, Tomomi Ikeda and more

Hideaki Hamada

Born in 1977 in Awaji Island, Hyogo. Based in Osaka. After having exhibitions in Asia and Europe, he published a photobook Haru and Mina in Taiwan. His photography has been on such magazines as KINFOLK (U.S.) and THE BIGISSUE (Taiwan), and he has also been actively working for magazines, advertisement and ceremonial photography in Japan. An official photographer of the Hishio no Sato and Sakate Port Project in Setouchi Triennale 2013.

Kai Takizawa

Born in 1979 in Kanagawa. Graduated from an apparel / design school in 2001, and engaged in performing arts, films and promotion videos. After working on a freelance basis, he established with the current members PHABLIC×KAZUI within a graphic production company HANDS WORKS.CO in 2008, and has been working on custom-made clothes and accessories as well as costumes. He also designs graphics on his own website and for other projects.

Yukio Shiba

Born in 1982 in Aichi. Director / playwright / the leader of a theatre company “mamagoto.” Won the 54th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for Our Planet in 2010. His works are characterized by plays that scoop up subtle details of daily life and direction with elements that are brought from outside of theatre such as loops and sampling. Among his works are Walking in which performers keep walking all the time, a rap musical Our Planet, and Repetition and Continuation in which a monodrama is looped to perform a large family, which depict the universal from a new points of view. He has been active across Japan including participation in Aichi Triennale and Setouchi Triennale.