Stilllive: Performance Art Summit, Tokyo 2021-2022
Stilllive: Performance Art Summit, Tokyo 2021-2022 "Tribute of Performance Anthology"
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Yuki Kobayashi
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
Reiwa 3(2021) 1st Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
"Stilllive" is a performance art platform established by Yuki Kobayashi in 2019. The participating artists are from different genres and come together through the common language of "body" with the aim of cross-cutting activities, and engage in workshops and shows every year. This time, Stilllive: Performance Art Summit, Tokyo 2021-2022 was held as follows: "Hygiene, Transformation, and Hospitality" in October 2021, and "Parallel Fluxorum: Conviviality Session," "Aliens Normal: Evolution of the Planetary City," and "Awakening and Enchantment: Dialogue with the Unseen" in March 2022, the fourth time the Summit was held, to deepen the discussion on the current position of Stilllive as a platform, with the theme of "Tribute of Performance Anthology," referring to the 1960s, which had a great influence on avant-garde expression in contemporary art, music, and theater. Since the 2000s, there has been active discussion of the “performative turn, ” which refers to the tendency of contemporary art and performing art to mutually expand, and the genres, expressive methods, and practices faced with collectivity in the ’ 60s are worthy of reference now that there are restrictions on gathering. In a way that reciprocates with past performances, it temporarily bundles together all the subjects and intersections of expression represented by the community named Stilllive. The meaning of Stilllive as a place for collective collection may have been glimpsed through this practice. Based on these themes, we were able to reconsider the current form of performance, take on new forms of expression based on our activities over the past two years, and attempt to expand the possibilities of future performance expression.
- Period of Activity / Project
- October 11, 2021 - 17 March 2022 14 - 19
- Venues
- Goethe Institute Tokyo
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Profile
Yuki Kobayashi (Contemporary artist and performance artist)
Born in Tokyo in 1990. After attending Kapiola Community College, Hawaii State University in 2008, he went to England in 10. After graduating from the London University of the Arts Central St. Martins in 2014, she became the first Japanese to enter the Royal College of Art, Department of Performance, and completed her Master's degree in 2016. Using his own body as a neutral three-dimensional object, he questions gender, disability, and racial stereotypes, doubts the indefinite social code of freedom and equality, and explores the meaning of human existence. He has presented many performances at art exhibitions, dance halls, and festivals in Japan and abroad. In 2019, he founded and manages the performance art platform "Stilllive."