YASUNORI & MISHIKO SHIOBARA
(Vis-a-Vis Studio)
Tokyo, Japan
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An environmentally-friendly performance. Yasunori arranges people into a "growing
civilisation". An identification with the natural environment of the simple,
untouched world of nature which is drawing further and further away from us,
yet remains sacred to the Japanese consciousness. Tea is prepared on a round
table. In turn, members the audience are invited up to the table in pairs in
order to try the tea. Then the performer positions them face to face in various
parts of the hall among the spectators. The performance concludes with "live
sculpture", where all those who so desire can touch the performer's naked
body.
During a trip to the countryside, another performance occurred naturally, as
if spontaneously, and prolonged the process of creating living art. It must
be said that it seemed more organic on the backdrop of hills, fields and forests
in the Belarusian countryside. Fields turning yellow, a far-off strip of woodland,
clouds floating over the earth and hills, two figures standing by a campfire,
the way they looked into each other's eyes, and the spatial sounds of nature's
speech - everything was a continuation, art, a journey.
by Viktor Petrov

English translation: Mark Bence