Thursday, November 13, 2008

Major # 11

Dumb Type (Multimedia performance company) Kyoto
Ikeda Ryoji - sound artist
Takao Kawaguchi - dancer, choreographer, performer, translator, cultural activist, theatre
http://www.kawaguchitakao.com

D.D.D @ Superdeluxe March 2004 Tokyo
raw space, low ceiling underground space
appropriating pro-wrestling

D.D.D is a physical and audio and visual performances that talks about heart muscles and number of heartbeats left before it stops. maleness, sexuality, vital energy, exhaustion, physical limits of the body, narcissism

7 rounds boxing match, wrestler storms in, Fuyuki Yamakawa: Khoomei Mongolian throat singing, heart beating
heartbeat sound picked by electric stethoscope amplified, connected to light bulbs which flicker

Pseudo-science + humour
Medical camera used at hospitals, inserted into body through the mouth

Ka Fai is influenced by Dumb Type

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