"MIRAGE" Performance at Ars Electronica Festival

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

GRINDER-MAN

subsidy category

Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2013 Phase II Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Grant (Single Year Grant Program)

"MIRAGE" (2012)

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Business Overview

"MIRAGE" is the world's first immersive performance art. This work was created by the art performance group GRINDER-MAN by applying the SR system (alternative reality technology) developed by the Adaptive Intelligence Research Team at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (RIKEN BSI). It was premiered at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Koto Ward, Tokyo) in August 2012 to great acclaim. His reputation has borne fruit across the ocean, and he has been invited to participate in the Ars Electronica Festival, one of the world's leading media art festivals held every September in Linz, Austria. The 2014 Ars Electronica Festival will take place in the city of Linz. GRINDER-MAN will present "MIRAGE" at Mariendom (The New Cathedral) in the center of Linz.

implementation period

Thursday, September 4, 2014 ~7 (Sun) Linz/Austria

Place of implementation

Ars Electrnioca Festival 2014 (Linz)

Profile

【GRINDER-MAN】
GRINDER-MAN is a group that aims to create performance art with the theme of "now and here". He actively incorporates two elements into his expression: the timeliness of the present and the chance that the performer and audience are present here. The members are Hitoshi TAGUCHI, a contemporary art director, and Izu Makiko, a contemporary dance choreographer. We are engaged in a wide range of activities that are not bound by existing categories, from the presentation of public performances, to the provision of expression such as direction and choreography, to the direction of stage spaces such as music, lighting and video, to casting and production.