Interview Show
Feb,2007
Festival : Winter summit 2006
Komaba Agora Theater (Tokyo, Japan)
Something happens, someone memorizes it, someone dictates it, and then what comes next?
This is an interview show where an encounter happens with excitement! We inquired the moment when a memory is going to be released from fixation caused by verbalization. Based on this inquiry we performed the show by introducing various elements including words (interviews on stages, exchange of messages through internet, quotes from various authors, questionnaires filled out by many people), images, music, food and drink.
For this work, I interacted with many people by asking them their personal memories in three ways. To begin with, I send questionnaires to 100 people (3 years old to 65 years old) to survey personal memories. Secondly, I visited the Sumida Kuritsu elementary school and held a workshop with 50 students in third and fourth grades. Finally, I conducted interviews with several undergraduate students in the University of Tokyo.
Through these activities I tried to find out impressive memories of people and I kept on thinking how we can release these people from their memories.
Based on these inquiries, I constructed an interview show. I asked three of the university students which I held interviews with to take part in the show. Also I asked some artists to join us.
Performer
Guide & Interviewer ……… Miyuki KAWAMURA
Interviewee…………………Masao MORITA ( Junior Student, University of Tokyo )
Yusuke KOISHI ( Junior Student, University of Tokyo )
William TOKUHISA ( Voice Performer)
Kenichiro MOGI ( Brain Scientist, SONY CSL )
Voice Performance………William TOKUHISA
Waiter & Singer……………Hidemori YAZAKI ( Junior Student, University of Tokyo)
Observer or the guards at the gate of memory “Rose & Mary”
“Rose” …………… Ryoko W.UNO (Linguistics)
”Mary”…………………………...Kanade YAGI ( Artist )
Symposium participant………Audience
Staff
Script, Direction………………......Miyuki KAWAMURA
Assistant Direction…………….....Kanade YAGI
Video image……………………...Masako NODA ( Video Artist )
Photo ( sliding projector)……......Miyuki KAWAMURA (Artist)
Music……………………………..Kazuya HORIGUCHI (Media Artist)
Lighting………………………….Yoshiyuki HAGIWARA
Support…………………. …….....Company Sargasso
Cooperation…………… ………..CONTEMPORARY ART FACTORY
Organize……………………….....AGORA Theater
