藝術身体研究所＜人体の可能性を探るサイト＞
Seeking Possibilities of The Body
By using words, we describe things and tell ohters how we feel. On the other hand, it is also true that some important things are left untouched or cut into pieces by words. We are used to think and assume very easily according to our own habits. Analyzed suspiciously and reduced as a result of it, we are violently thrown into cages. Though we really desire to deliberate ourselves, the opposite happens daily.
One of our main activities is a performance, which includes butoh, mime or happening. A performance happens instantly, and only people on the spot can feel the generated atmosphere. That’s most thrilling about performances and also about workshops. I believe there is something that can be future language.
However, once we name it loudly butoh or mime, the atmosphere dissapears, and now it may look just like a stone on the road. Information surely leads people to opportunities, but often deprive people of them.
Art and Body Laboratory thinks that body is art and art is body. This laboratory keeps trying to get quietly close to the secret of our body. As our body are reborn momently, we are reborn momently. Why don’t we say ‘Nice to meet you’ at every moment? That seems beautiful and fragile. Almost too beautiful and fragile. When we think the world as the extension of our bodies, and as long as our each body as a small universe keeps connection to it, we still have hope. Why don’t we say ‘Good bye’ at every moment?
We have performed All-the-World-Is-Theater Project and had temporary workshops like Painting Myself. All activities of Art and Body Laboratory are commonly based on the body as our origin.
The possibility of human body and life will change the world. In this website, you will feel someone’s hand, eyes and senses through pictures or movies given to us by hand. Even if the event happened in the past, it can happen also at this moment. Or, can't it be also a sign that leads us to other paths to run across? We are going to start this website with this idea, as a study.
The truth quivers to change, and you and I link to each other at the very moment.
April 1st, 2009
Iida Koichi, Art and Body Laboratory
One of our main activities is a performance, which includes butoh, mime or happening. A performance happens instantly, and only people on the spot can feel the generated atmosphere. That’s most thrilling about performances and also about workshops. I believe there is something that can be future language.
However, once we name it loudly butoh or mime, the atmosphere dissapears, and now it may look just like a stone on the road. Information surely leads people to opportunities, but often deprive people of them.
Art and Body Laboratory thinks that body is art and art is body. This laboratory keeps trying to get quietly close to the secret of our body. As our body are reborn momently, we are reborn momently. Why don’t we say ‘Nice to meet you’ at every moment? That seems beautiful and fragile. Almost too beautiful and fragile. When we think the world as the extension of our bodies, and as long as our each body as a small universe keeps connection to it, we still have hope. Why don’t we say ‘Good bye’ at every moment?
We have performed All-the-World-Is-Theater Project and had temporary workshops like Painting Myself. All activities of Art and Body Laboratory are commonly based on the body as our origin.
The possibility of human body and life will change the world. In this website, you will feel someone’s hand, eyes and senses through pictures or movies given to us by hand. Even if the event happened in the past, it can happen also at this moment. Or, can't it be also a sign that leads us to other paths to run across? We are going to start this website with this idea, as a study.
The truth quivers to change, and you and I link to each other at the very moment.
April 1st, 2009
Iida Koichi, Art and Body Laboratory