Theater Commons Tokyo is a project to create a collective space for society that harnesses the collective wisdom of theater. By using theater – that is, by applying theatrical ideas – in the context of everyday life and the urban space, it aims to propose a model for theater(s) to come. Theater Commons Tokyo and its artists use the imagination of theater to create experiences in which diverging elements and time periods intersect, and the ordinary is defamiliarized through dialogue and discovery.
This time around, in addition to offering theatrical productions by Mark Teh/Five Arts Center［Malaysia］, Kamome Machine and others, screenings by visual artists Bouchra Khalili [Morocco/Germany] and Hikaru Fujii, and lecture-style performances by Julien Fournet (L’Amicale de Production) [France], Yasumasa Morimura and Hsu Chia – Wei [Taiwan], we hosted workshops by Meiro Koizumi, children’s workshops by Theater Artemis [the Netherlands] , as well as assemblies, symposiums and more at multiple venues.