Casting “my voice” into the city

With “Wedding Politics,” which posed the reality of same-sex marriage through photography and performance, and “Family Regained: The Picnic” at F/T17, where passersby were asked to take family snapshots of a male couple and their apparent child, Eiki Mori has continued to insert directly experienced questions into public space. For this new work, he departs from his previous reliance on photography and video to inquire into LGBT+ issues and the nature of diversity through reading poetry that incorporates his own experiences and feelings. The performance comes about only when someone witnesses and takes notice of it in a park or alleyway. What kinds of encounters will emerge from Mori’s voice?

Running Time: 30 min. (TBC)
Language: Performed in Japanese (with partial English translation available)