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F/T in the City Performance Series
"Family Regained: The Picnic"

Genre:
  • Visual Art / Media Art ,
  • Exhibition / Screening ,
  • Lecture / Symposium
(c) Eiki Mori Courtesy of KEN NAKAHASHI

A same-sex couple and their child form a new portrait of the family

The photographer Eiki Mori has investigated the line between the personal and the public in such work as “intimacy” (2014), a photo-book that used his own lovers and friends as models. The subject of this new work is developed from his series “Wedding Politics” (2013–16), featuring photographs of same-sex couples on the streets of the city. Mori will now zoom in further on today’s concepts of “family” by ostensibly starting his own with another man, a scenario that will be explored through a short film, talk, and exhibits showing the film being made.

Running Time: Talk / 90 min. (TBC), Screenings / 20 min.
Language: Performed in Japanese

F/T in the City Performance Series

This highly diverse art and performance series unfolds in various places around Tokyo and its surrounding area. Bringing audiences into contact with local history, culture and communities, the site-specific events shape a new relationship between spectators and participants.

Dates

Talk: Resonating Family
Friday, November 3 2017, 18:00-19:30 *Box office and doors open 30 minutes before.
Venue: Owlspot Theatre (Meeting Room B)
Today there are many kinds of partnerships in addition to the conventional form of marriage. Photographer Eiki Mori, who has conceived, directed and performed this work, is joined by the actor and artist Mai Endo, who is also appearing in the F/T in the City Performances Series, to discuss new concepts of family as well as the past and future of marriage.
Speakers: Eiki Mori (photographer), Mai Endo (actor, artist, Nijyuni-kai)
Moderator: Miho Sakurai (dramaturge)

Screenings
Venues: Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park, Toshima City Office (adjacent to 1F Information Counter)
Saturday, November 4 2017, 17:00-20:00
Sunday, November 5 2017, 17:00-20:00
Monday, November 6 2017, 17:00-20:00
Tuesday, November 7 2017, 17:00-20:00
Wednesday, November 8 2017, 17:00-20:00 (Toshima City Office only)
Thursday, November 9 2017, 17:00-20:00
Friday, November 10 2017, 17:00-20:00
Saturday, November 11 2017, 17:00-20:00
Sunday, November 12 2017, 17:00-20:00

*Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park; This screening takes place outdoors.
*No audience seating. Standing only.

Cast & Creative

Conceived, Directed and Performed by Eiki Mori
Performers: Daisuke Watanuki, Kaoru Kirita
Costumes: MOTO GUO
Video: Meidai Takahashi
Video Technicians: Nobuhiro Matsuzawa, Eiji Torakawa
Flyer Design: Tadashi Ueda
Production Coordinators: Mayuko Arakawa, Toshifumi Matsumiya (Festival/Tokyo)
Interns: Minako Iwai, Asuka Noguchi, Aoi Hashimoto, Saki Yokomi

Presented by Festival/Tokyo

Tickets

Talk
500 yen (priority to reservations)
*Please see here for reserve tickets

Screenings
Free (no reservation required)

Contact

Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee office
4F 5-24-12 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0031 Japan
TEL: 03-5961-5202
E-mail: contact@festival-tokyo.jp

Period

Friday, November 3 - Sunday, November 12 2017

Venues

Owlspot Theatre (Meeting Room B), Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park, Toshima City Office (adjacent to 1F Information Counter)

Credit

Organized by
Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee,
Toshima City, Toshima Future Culture Foundation, NPO Arts Network Japan (NPO-ANJ),
Arts Council Tokyo & Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)

Festival/Tokyo 2017 is organized as part of Tokyo Festival 2017.