Performance
Nanako Matsumoto & Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
Sticky Hands, Stitched Mountains
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Deep in the densely forested mountains,
a chance encounter of yamamba and Temahahoi
Since ancient times, the deep mountains have often been depicted as a place inhabited by marginalized and unknown beings. In Japanese folklore, yamamba is a type of yokai (supernatural being or spirit) that appears in the form of an old woman living in the mountains. In the Taiwanese Indigenous Atayal oral story, a community of women live deep in the mountains in a place called Temahahoi. What if these mountains of Japan and Taiwan were connected across borders, and yamamba and the Temahahoi people met?
Sticky Hands, Stitched Mountains is the first collaborative project by Nanako Matsumoto, a Tokyo-based dance artist and member of team chiipro, and Anchi Lin, a contemporary artist from Taiwan also known by her Indigenous Atayal name Ciwas Tahos. Matsumoto’s “yokai body” methodology, which constructs texts and choreography based on meticulous research, combines with the queer approach through which Lin explores culture and gender identity, to create a transnational mountain in the theater. What voices will these women use to tell their stories?
10.12 (Sat) 14:00
10.13 (Sun) 14:00 / 18:00 ★
10.14 (Mon) 14:00 ★
★ Post-show Talk
Duration: 60 min (TBD)
Japanese, English, Chinese and Atayal with Japanese and English surtitles
Advance tickets:
Adult ¥3,000
Youth (25 and under), Students ¥2,500
High School Students & Younger ¥1,000
Pair ¥5,500 (Advance tickets only)
Day tickets are the same price as advance tickets.
Seating: Unreserved
Nanako Matsumoto
Tokyo, Japan
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Born in 1992 in Osaka, Nanako Matsumoto is a dance artist who works with performance and language; both separately and in various combinations. Driven by an interest in dance as a means to critically engage with the body she creates stage works as well as writing and engaging in volunteer work as a form of public action. In recent years she has created dance works as co-leader of performance unit team chiipro; two of which have been presented at Kyoto Experiment 2021 Autumn and Kyoto Experiment 2022. Matsumoto’s performances are characterized by the use of text based on meticulous research and deal with the intersection between the physical sensations and memories of her own body and various historical, societal, anthropological, and geographical contexts. In recent years, she has been exploring the idea of a "yokai-body", a term coined by herself and defined as a state of transformation achieved by layering multiple images related to a certain place onto the body. She is The Saison Foundation ‘Saison Fellow I’ from 2023-2024.
Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
Taipei, Taiwan
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Anchi Lin, Atayal name is Ciwas Tahos, based between Taipei Taiwan, and Naarm (Melbourne) Australia. New media and performance artist of Atayal/ Itaṟal and Taiwanese Hō-ló descent. Ciwas's body-centered practice weaves the Indigenous Atayal worldview through performance, moving images, cyberspace, ceramics, and kinetic installation to claim a self-determined queer space. Her work is an exploration of cultural and gender identity; using her body as a medium to trace linguistic and cultural experiences of displacement to seek out new forms of understanding. Ciwas’s most notable art project is mgluw tuqiy na Temahahoi (Finding Pathways to Temahahoi). Most recently, Ciwas was awarded the Biannual Prize of Pulima Art Award and was selected as the inaugural Artist for the Australia-Taiwan Friendship Year Arts Exchange Partnership for 2023. In 2023, their work was exhibited at the 2023 Arts Electronica Festival in Austria, the Taiwan Austronesian Art Triennial in Taiwan, and Proto-zone13 at Shedhalle in Switzerland. Ciwas completed an MFA in New Media Art at Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan) and BFA in Visual Art at Simon Fraser University (Canada).
Artistic Concept & Performance: Nanako Matsumoto & Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
Choreography: Nanako Matsumoto
Video Concept & Design: Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
Video software Design & Technical Support: Bih Ru Wang
Surtitle design & Technical Support: Daichi Abe
Atayal Language Consultant: Apang Bway
Choreography Support: Kengo Nishimoto
Sound Design & Operation: Mina Hayashi
Lighting Design & Operation: Kana Watanabe
Stage Manager: Kodachi Kitagata
Production Coordinators: Yuko Kuroda, Mana Okuyama (THEATRE E9 KYOTO)
Research Cooperation: Alak Akatung, Junya Kouno, Kobayashi Zoen Co., Ltd., Sakujiro Shimomura, Keita Tanaka, Jing-Yao He, Yasuko Yokoshi, Zhao-Cheng Lin, Temu Nokan
Residency support: KYOTO ART CENTER
Supported by Japan Foundation for Regional Art Activities [Thinking about the body, history and identity through the performing arts]
Co-Production: Kyoto Experiment, The Japan Foundation, Taipei Performing Arts Center
Co-Organized by The Japan Foundation
Organized by Kyoto Experiment
This work was produced for the Japan Foundation‛s International Creations in Performing Arts 2024.Taipei Performing Arts Center has supported the research process of “Sticky Hands, Stitched Mountains” as part of the ADAM - Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance in 2024
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