y/n "I won't be fooled like you"
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- y/n
- subsidy category
- Startup Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
Reiwa 3(2021) 1st Startup Grant
Business Overview
y/n "Don't be fooled like you" Lecture performance based on research on the history of Japanese magic. Starting from the historical fact that a troupe of conjurers, Sumida Kawanamigoro, who was issued Japan's first passport, toured overseas under the guise of the Imperial Japanese Troupe, the story/deception about personal identity, historical facts, and what secures their "truthfulness" is developed with magic demonstrations. Composition and direction: y/n (Kiyoshi Hashimoto + Kenta Yamazaki) Performance: Kiyoshi Hashimoto Sound and lighting: Yokai Sakurauchi (Futon/Seinendan) Main visual: Takuya Yamabata Advertising art: Masahiro Okabe (voids) Production: Someyafunimu
- Period of Activity / Project
- Friday, December 17, 2021 - 19th (Sun)
- Venues
- SCOOL (Mitaka City, Tokyo) * Information such as project outline is provided by organizations and individuals that provide subsidies.
Profile
[y/n]
A unit composed of director and actor Kiyoshi Hashimoto and critic Kenta Yamazaki of Drama Turku (formed in 2019). Aim for sustainable activities by developing performance projects based on research and documentation. y/n implies dichotomy, contradiction, state before reaching an answer, unsearchability = invisibility, anonymity, personal desire, circle. Works include Coming Out Lessons (February 2020) and Sex/Work/Art (February 2021).