ROJI(talkshow)
Circular Installation ”Selfservice” ©Ryo Iwase
SAMPLE Workshop 2020 “OUTPUT”
Shu Matsui is launching “Shu Matsui’s Observation Room,” a study group for contemplating society through theater.
People of any age, gender or location can join. The aim is to form a group of people who do not put emphasis on economic efficiency or productivity, who do away with social titles, and are able to transform themselves into “others” and participate in the community. The group will engage in work that satisfies on an intellectual level in a half playful, half serious way. By viewing ourselves with an objective eye as a “sample,” the aim is to lower the hurdles of crafting things and provide a place where even those who are not usually involved in creative activities can have fun and be productive in a way new to them.
Through a balanced give-and-take exchange transcending barriers between participants and creators, the group will create works with the aim of generating a cycle of creativity and will release a chronicle of the group’s activities in the form of video and text at a screening.
First year project outline
(1) The launch of the Observation Room
Details: The Observation Room will be launched and online events and talks with guests will be held
Date: Occasional
Venue: ROUTE BOOKS, others
(2) Research and creation in the Tokyo metropolitan area
Details: Participants will carry out creative work
Date: August 4 – 31
Venue: AIR3331
3) SAMPLE Workshop
Details: Various workshops will be held
Date: September 19 – 22
Venue: Loftwork
Second year project outline
(1) Operation of the Observation Room
Details: Members will be recruited, and online events and talks with guests will be held.
Date: Occasional
Venue: Premised in principal on online delivery
(2) Fieldwork towards a self-sufficient community
Details: Members will experience decapitalist thinking and lifestyles, and use this as pointers for creative activities
Date: August
Venue: Self-sufficient community SAIHATE (Kumamoto Prefecture)
(3) Research and installation production
Details: Themes contributed by each member will be researched and outcomes presented together, installation venue will be set up
Date: Pending
Venue: Pending
Third year project outline
(1) Research for Shenzhen
Details: Research and interviews on the special economic zone and technology hub of Shenzhen and on Chinese society
Date: To be decided
Venue: To be decided
(2) Archive editing and screening
Date: March
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan area
quinada Ltd.
Management company handling Shu Matsui’s activities as a playwright/director/actor/writer. Also looks after production of theatrical performances, ticket sales, sale of merchandise, translation, etc.
Shu Matsui (Director, Writer, Actor)
Born in Tokyo, 1972. In 1996, Matsui joined Oriza Hirata’s theater company Seinendan as an actor, until he set up his own company SAMPLE in 2007. In 2017 he began producing as a solo artist.
He thematizes the complexity of human beings with fictitious expressions mixed with reality. Matsui depicts as “samples” of fast-changing modern society human beings unable to separate truth and lies, and behaving out of character at times. Matsui aims for the atmosphere, words, physical expression of his works to function as “resistance guide for surviving the haphazardness of real world”.
Matsui is active in wide range of projects including production, workshops, magazine editor, art festivals and more.
His works have begun to be translated into other languages, including “SHIFT” and “BURNING UP CALORIES” into French and “THE BASEMENT” into Italian and Korean.
His “PROUD SON” has won the 55th Kishida Prize for Drama in 2011. In 2016, “TAKE-OFF” was performed at 2016 Kuandu Arts Festival (Taiwan). In 2018, “PROUD SON” was performed at Festival d’Automne à Paris (France).
Miyoshi Sachiko
Producer
quinada Ltd.
150-0012
PANGEA TOKYO, Hiro 2-14-27,Shibuya-ku,Tokyo
Tel： +81-(0) 90-9393-0809
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