A New Encounter with Ko Murobushi“Faux Pas”
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- Ko&Edge General Incorporated Association
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- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- long-term
FY2024 1st Term Creation Grant Category III Projects that contribute to the improvement of the artistic creative environment [Long-term grant] [Single-year grant]
Project Overview
[Year 1: Project Overview]
This project aimed to further promote the creation of art and culture in Tokyo, and this summer, participants shared the production process of Ko Murofushi's exhibition held in Vienna this summer through expert workshops, lectures, and practical guidance. Kei Osawa's 'Records of Dance—From Archives to Exhibitions,' the dialogue between Emmanuel Uin and Tatsuro Ishii, 'The Current State of Dance—France's Challenge and Transformation,' Emmanuel Uin's workshop 'Faux Pas,' Susumu Kihara's exhibition 'After Getting Scratchy—Creating the Ko Murofushi Exhibition While Getting Blurry,' Hidehiko Narita's photo workshop 'Photographs as Records,' and others... While sharing various activities leading up to the exhibition, such as dialogues around 'Anti-Dance' and presentations starting with catalog production, the organizers were able to gain many hints about curation and exhibition throughout the process.
Period of Activity / Project／Venues
Date: Friday, July 12, 2024
Venue: Ko Murofushi Archive (Shinjuku, Tokyo) Lecture Dance Records From Archive to Exhibition Kei Osawa
Date: Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Venue: Ko Murofushi Archive (Shinjuku, Tokyo) Dialogue: The Current State of Dance - France's Challenge and Transformation - Emmanuel Huin × Tatsuro Ishii
Date: Thursday, August 8 – Saturday, August 10, 2024
Venue: Terpsicol (Nakano-ku, Tokyo) Workshop Faux Pas / Missed Steps Emmanuel Uin
Date: Saturday, August 24, 2024
Venue: Ko Murofushi Archive (Shinjuku, Tokyo) Workshop: After Missing the Step—Making a 'Ko Murofushi Exhibition' While Sketching Blurry Hands—Susumu Kihara
Date: September 21 (Sat) – 22 (Sun), 2024
Venue: Mitsufusa Narita (Mitaka City, Tokyo) Workshop: Photographs as Records Hidehiko Narita
Date: Friday, November 1 – Sunday, November 3, 2024
Venue: Morishita Studio (Koto-ku, Tokyo) Self-Research Why you dance?
Dates: November 16 (Sat), November 23 (Sat) – 24 (Sun), 2024
Venue: Ko Murofushi Archive (Shinjuku, Tokyo) Symposium Anti-Dance and Deleuze Yuma Ochi, Shinichi Takeshige, Hanako Takayama, Kunichi Uno, Chiaki Hori, Harumasa Tsukiji, Takashi Niyuya
Date: Friday, February 7, 2025
Venue: Ko Murofushi Archive (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) Lecture Through Archive Footage Keisuke Sakurai
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2025
Venue: Ko Murofushi Archive (Shinjuku, Tokyo) Dialogue: What Can Be Seen from the Catalog—Rereading Butoh Kazuko Kuniyoshi× Yoshifumi Okamoto
[Year 2: Project Overview]
He held exhibitions about Ko Murofushi at the Impressanz Vienna International Dance Festival and in Tokyo. Both exhibitions featured archival materials such as posters, photographs, video works, and related books, as well as symposiums that encouraged multi-layered dialogue. Additionally, alongside the exhibition, various textual materials, including exhibition catalogs, were incorporated as components of the exhibition space as devices that form the underlying current of thought. Through this multidisciplinary approach, we have created opportunities to encourage deeper reflection on the subject of the "body," while also reconsidering Tokyo's cultural appeal as a hub for Butoh, contributing to enhancing its dissemination power.
Period of Activity / Project／Venues
[Exhibition Vienna]
Date: July 15, 2025 (Tue) – August 10, 2025 (Sun)
Venue: Odeon Theatre / Foyer Spitze Eierbose (Vienna, Austria)
[Symposium Vienna]
Date: Monday, July 28, 2025
Venue: Odeon Theatre Spitze (Vienna Austria) Symposium Murofushi Ko's Missteps: From Subordinate to Utopian Body Tomo Koshi
Date: Monday, July 28, 2025
Venue: Odeon Theatre Spitze (Vienna Austria) Symposium We Are Breathing and Standing Corpses Shinichi Takeshige
Date: Monday, July 28, 2025
Venue: Odeon Theatre Spitze (Vienna Austria) Symposium Slashing the Body of Kronos: Murofushi Ko, Time, and the Poetics of Disappearance Romina Ahtz
Date: Monday, July 28, 2025
Venue: Odeon Theatre Spitze (Vienna Austria) Symposium Questioning Dance: Murofushi Ko Katia Centontze
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Venue: Odeon Theatre Spitze (Vienna Austria) Symposium Seismologist of Senses Chiaki Hori
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Venue: Odeon Theatre Spitze (Vienna Austria) Symposium Body as a Dancehall, Body as a Dissection Table Steven Barber
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Venue: Odeon Theatre Spitze (Vienna Austria) Symposium A Specific and Undefinable Disease Kunichi Uno
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Venue: Odeon Theatre Spitze (Vienna Austria) Symposium The Remains of Fragmentation Hanako Nishiyama
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Venue: Odeon Theatre Spitze (Vienna Austria) Symposium Montage of Lost Things Kenichiro Ezawa
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Venue: Odeon Theatre Spitze (Vienna Austria) Symposium Headless Sovereignty = Governing Frederick Pouillaud
[Exhibition Tokyo]
Date: Saturday, February 7, 2026 - 15th (Sun)
Venue: Murofushi Ko Archive Shy (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo), Tiroir (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
Symposium Tokyo
Date: Monday, November 9, 2025
Venue: Murofushi Ko Archive Shy (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) Symposium Dance's Spectacular Turn and Addiction as a Method of De-Creation Christine Greiner
Date: Monday, November 9, 2025
Venue: Murofushi Ko Archive Shy (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) Symposium Dance Minus Dance: Silence as External in the Works of Murofushi Ko Juli Dunn
Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
Venue: Murofushi Ko Archive Shy (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) Symposium Arto and Hearless Hoichi Uno
Date: Saturday, December 27, 2025
Venue: Murofushi Ko Archive Shy (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) Symposium Murofushi Ko in London: Exploring Antonin Arto's Remaining Works and a Rebellious Bodily Steven Barber
Date: Saturday, December 27, 2025
Venue: Murofushi Ko Archive Shy (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) Symposium Embodiment Outside: The Intersection of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Murofushi Ko Romina Ahatu
Date: Saturday, December 27, 2025
Venue: Murofushi Ko Archive Shy (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) Symposium Arto's Caie Kunichi Uno
Date: Friday, February 13, 2026
Venue: Murofushi Ko Archive Shy (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) Conversation Hokuryukyo Night: A Talk by Butoha Shika and People Related to Hokuryukyo Yukinari Inou, Toshiaki Kato, Yoshifumi Okamoto, et al
Date: Saturday, February 14, 2026
Venue: Murofushi Ko Archive Shy (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) Symposium Untitled Chiaki Hori
Date: Sunday, February 15, 2026
Venue: Murofushi Ko Archive Shy (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) Symposium Swing the Revolution: Murofushi Ko's Grammatical Mis/Step Juli Dunn
Date: Sunday, February 15, 2026
Venue: Murofushi Ko Archive Shy (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) Symposium On Generation and the Language Belying Generation: Kun
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Profile
[Ko & Edge, a general incorporated association]
Established in 2016, this archive aims to make publicly available and preserve the materials left behind by Ko Murofushi.
Drawing on the diverse texts, videos, and books left behind by Ko Murofushi, we broadly explore reflections on dance and the body, planning and implementing a variety of projects that include symposiums, publications, video productions, and even dance and theater practices.