video – OLTA https://olta.jp/en オル太 OLTA website Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:01:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Online Video Release: “The Japanese Ideology Chapter 7” https://olta.jp/en/currently_on_view/nipponideology7video/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:39:12 +0000 https://olta.jp/?post_type=currently_on_view&p=3685 A video of “The Japanese Ideology Chapter 7”, which was performed in 2024 at Uraga Dock in Yokosuka, will be released on January 28 via the link below.
 
https://youtu.be/qaQkHSI2qU0
 
The Japanese Ideology Chapter 7

]]> Living Conditions https://olta.jp/en/works/living-conditions/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:32:22 +0000 https://olta.jp/?post_type=works&p=3545 Installation, Single channel video, sound 69 min.45 sec. 2024
 
This video work is based on MEGUNINJA’s childhood memories and research into housing complexes (danchi) and new towns across Japan. The script was developed from this research, and the film unfolds within an installation constructed inside the museum.
Housing complexes and new towns were originally planned as logistical infrastructures to support the production, distribution, and consumption of capitalism, aiming for the efficiency of labor, transportation, and utilities. The work explores how the realms of home and everyday life can be represented within such geopolitical spaces.
Through this research, the project overlays the cavern-like image of the “coal mine” — a symbol of Japan’s postwar transformation in industrial and social structures — onto the danchi, revealing how collective housing has been intertwined with labor and mobility. In particular, it focuses on Homii Danchi in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, which was shaped by former coal miners who transitioned into the automobile industry after the mines were closed.
The installation takes as its model the Harumi Apartment Complex (completed in 1957, demolished in 1997), designed by architect Kunio Maekawa. It extracts and reinterprets elements that symbolized modern living at the time, such as exposed piping structures, the stainless-steel kitchen designed by Miho Hamaguchi — the first of its kind introduced in public housing — and the adoption of elevators.
The video was filmed mainly within the art set modeled after danchi infrastructure, using the motif of “piping = infrastructure” as a central visual and conceptual element.
 
Actor
Tomoko Ando
Yuka Nakagawa
Aya
Ness Roque
Wataru Naganuma
Tatsunori Imamura
Meguninja
Toru Inoue
Takafumi Saito
Yoshiro Hasegawa
Keigo Mikajiri (contact Gonzo)
Takuya Matsumi (contact Gonzo)
Machiko Chiba
Ryosuke Katsube (dots architects)
Mone Kitazato
Volunteers of Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
 
Location
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
 
Research Support
JUNTOS, Choi Yong Ri, Nonprofit Organization TORCIDA, Mojiko Art Platform, Fumiko Orikasa
 
Equipment Support
Takuya Matsumi (contact Gonzo)
 
English Subtitles
Lillian Canright
 
Filipino Subtitles
Ness Roque
 
Set Design & Production
Yoshiro Hasegawa
 
Props & Set Production
Takafumi Saito
 
Lighting
Tatsunori Imamura
 
Sound & Recording
Toru Inoue
 
Cinematography & Editing Assistant
Yui Kiyohara
 
Writing & Editing
Meguninja
 
Direction & Editing
Jang-Chi
 
A Video by OLTA: Jang-Chi, Meguninja, Takafumi Saito, Toru Inoue, Yoshiro Hasegawa
 
『Hyper Popular Art Stand Play vol.4, Activity at Tama New Town』
Single channel video, sound 30 min 33 sec. 2019
 
Exhibition: ”Potential not to be and not to do Anarchism as alternative art and other ways of life”
 
Artist: Neo-Impressionism, Monte Verità, Situationist International and Asger Jorn
Collective Actions, Coop Kitakagaya (adanda + contact Gonzo + dot architects + remo + FabLab Kitakagaya + ichimaruni 102 + REUNION STUDIO), Hiroyuki Oki, OLTA
 
Date: 2024.10.12－2025.02.16
Venue: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Opening hours: 10:00－17:30 (Admission is until 17:00)
Closed = Mondays (except national holidays)
 
Organizer：Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Cooperated by Galerie Molitor
 
Website: https://www.museum.toyota.aichi.jp/en/exhibition/anarchism_and_art?t=2025
Tokyo Art Beat: https://www.tokyoartbeat.com/articles/-/olta-toyota-interview-202411
 
 
Related Event: 『Spectacle Firing』

]]> 「Potential Not to Be and Not to Do; Anarchism as Alternative Art and Other Ways of Life」 https://olta.jp/en/currently_on_view/%e3%80%8c%e3%81%97%e3%81%aa%e3%81%84%e3%81%a7%e3%81%8a%e3%81%8f%e3%80%81%e3%81%93%e3%81%a8%e3%80%82%e2%80%95-%e8%8a%b8%e8%a1%93%e3%81%a8%e7%94%9f%e3%81%ae%e3%82%a2%e3%83%8a%e3%82%ad%e3%82%ba%e3%83%a0/ Sat, 09 Nov 2024 22:00:13 +0000 https://olta.jp/?post_type=currently_on_view&p=3516 Artists
Paul Signac, Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Moholy-Nagy László, Asger Jorn, Ilya Kabakov, Hiroyuki Oki, Olta et al.
 
Venue
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
 
Schedule
Oct 12 (Sat) 2024-Feb 16 (Sun) 2025
Opening Hours Information
Hours
10:00-17:30
Closed
Monday
Open on a public holiday Monday.
Closed from December 28 to January 17.
Fee
Adults ¥1500, University and High School Students ¥1100, Junior High School Students and Under free.
 
Website https://www.museum.toyota.aichi.jp/en/exhibition/anarchism_and_art

]]> MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2024 https://olta.jp/en/currently_on_view/meet-your-art-festival-2024%e3%81%ab%e5%8f%82%e5%8a%a0/ Sat, 09 Nov 2024 20:51:37 +0000 https://olta.jp/?post_type=currently_on_view&p=3504 EVENT NAME
MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2024
ART EXHIBITION
SSS: Super Spectrum Specification
 
SCHEDULE
Friday, October 11, 2024 – Monday, October 14, 2024 (National Holiday)
11：16:00 – 21:00
12 – 14：11:00 – 20:00
 
EVENT SITE
Warehouse Terada G1 Building
 
【Artists & Performers】
Aguyoshi,Antonis Pittas,OLTA,Sachiko Kazama,kamomemachine,GROUP,God Scorpion,contact Gonzo,Chia-Wei HSU,Motoyuki Shitamichi,tomotosi,Ayaka Nakama,Pak Boma,Shōei Matsuda,EXPO’70 OSAKA みどり館アーカイヴ,MES,Maki Morishita,suzuko yamada architects
curator：Yoshida Yamar,Yurika Kuremiya,Takuya Tsutsumi
 
WEB SITE
https://avex.jp/en/meetyourart/festival/
 
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/meet_your_art/?locale=ja_JP
 
OLTA WEB SITE
https://olta.jp/en/works/standplay/

]]> The Japanese Ideology https://olta.jp/en/works/the_japanese_ideology/ Sat, 24 Feb 2024 02:54:44 +0000 https://olta.jp/?post_type=works&p=3394 Presented by OLTA, a Tokyo-based artist group that has developed humorous and provocative works through negotiating the systems of visual/performing arts and sociological/folklore fieldwork, The Japanese Ideology encompasses six chapters of a performative analysis of the everyday forms that the ideology takes. “There seems to be a kind of arbitrary emotion that dominates life in Japan today. […] It is up to us to take on this boring but very urgent duty of exposing the staging of this desperate and stupid tragicomedy in our present society, not just in Japan.” (Jun Tosaka, The Japanese Ideology, 1935) In The Japanese Ideology by OLTA, will this “boring” performance transform into an “interesting” one? Or will it “drag down those who think they have been freed from the Japanese ideology and pull them back in”? (Yoshimi Takeuchi, The Japanese Ideology, 1952)
 
Chapter１　The Significance of Dream
Chapter２　The Liberation of Gestell
Chapter３　The Right of Death
Chapter４　The Acquisition of Calm
Chapter５　The Rebellion of Voice
Chapter６　The Truth of Ideology
 
Text: Meguninja
Direction: Jang-Chi
Performers: Toru Inoue, Yuka Uchida, Kaoruko Oyama, Yuki Kikuchi, Takafumi Saito, Reiko Takayama, Yuka Nakagawa, Meguninja
 
Scenography: OLTA
Stage Design: Yoshiro Hasegawa
Music: Takako Minekawa, Toru Inoue
Illustration: Takafumi Saito
Costume: Toru Inoue
Lighting: Takayuki Fujimoto (Kinsei R&D)
Video: Yoshiro Hasegawa, Meguninja, Yuka Nakagawa, Rudo Takebe, Kazuhide Shibata
Projection: Ludo Takebe, Kazuhide Shibata(Kanagawa)
Sound: Semmei Kai, Sosaku Wakatsuki (WHITELIGHT.Ltd)
Promotional Design: Deokjun Yoon
English Subtitles: Kei Ota
Korean Translation: Keunha Cho
Direction Assistant: Ami Yoshida(Kanagawa)
Management: Kumi Hiraoka(Kanagawa), Yuko Takeda(Kyoto)
Commissioned and Produced by Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting
Co-produced by ROHM Theatre Kyoto
Research Support: Tatsuki Hayashi, Nohana Izumikawa, Rika Uechi, Shohei Nakamura, Umihiko Matsuo (Okinawa), Deokjun Yoon, Keunha Cho (Korea), YCAM InterLab
Cooperation: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]
Sound provider: Jun Tsutsui
 
YPAM2023 Direction
Date: 2023.12.9(Sat)－17(Sun)
Venue: BankART Station
 
ROHM Theater Kyoto (https://rohmtheatrekyoto.jp/en/event/116257/)
Date: 2024.1.13 (Sat)、1.14. (Sun)
Venue: North Hall

]]> Safari Firing https://olta.jp/en/works/safari-firing/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 05:55:10 +0000 https://olta.jp/?post_type=works&p=3311 Participating artists
INOUE Toru
OLTA
KANIE Naha
HYUN Woomin
contact Gonzo
TAKAMIZAWA Shunsuke
HYAKUTOU Takeshi
MINEKAWA Takako
 
Firing” is a performance event to practice and verify “how it is possible to make fire in a public place. This project, conceived and initiated by MEGUNINJA, began with an artist meeting at the Tama River, was held a second time at a campfiring in Tokyo, and moved to a remote island in Tokyo. The keyword is assumed to be “fire,” but it does not necessarily mean actually making a fire. The performance will be intermedia.
 
Information
Date: 9.13, 2022
Venue: Kozushima Terramachi (998, Kozushima-mura, Tokyo)
 
website

]]> Cultivate House: Uncertain Generation https://olta.jp/en/works/cultivate-house-uncertain-generation/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:01:24 +0000 https://olta.jp/?post_type=works&p=3161 Olta built a temporary house on a piece of land unused for several years, and while living there, and sought out a model of farming different from the highly industrialized one of investment and recoupment. This project was reconfigured from a previous endeavor according to the specific features of the land in Moriya City. Cultivate House functions as an actual house with a “barn” for storing tools as well as beds and a composting toilet. Part of the wall opens out toward the field like a stage. In the fields, an experimental method of no-till farming using companion plants and grass mulch and grew crops using native species instead of F1 hybrid seeds that only yield a one-off crop. Observing the process of the crops growing, we have created prints on artificial materials found at the site like plastic and aluminum cans. We have also used the bamboo and arrowroot growing wild on the land to make objects. We cook and eat the crops, and use rice bran or husk to turn human waste into compost.
Over the course of this project that proceeded as if stitching up the gaps within industrialized agriculture, there emerged prints, frottages, drawings, and harvested crops, all unfolding at the field and hut.
 
https://www.arcus-project.com/assets/pdf/ARCUS_Project_Activity_Report_2020-2021.pdf
 
“Cultivate House: Uncertain Generation”
Period: February 2, 2022 (Wed) – March 14, 2022 (Mon), 13:00 – 17:00
Location: Moriya City, Ibaraki Prefecture (will be announced to those who inquire)
Details:
1. Interior of the “Cultivating House
2. harvest of agricultural products (carrots, radishes, etc.)
3. pottery works baked with rice husk smoked charcoal, bamboo works, print works, aluminum can journal, etc.
4. tea made from radish and carrot leaves
Equipment: shoes that can get dirty, warm clothing
 
“ARCUS Project 2020-2021 IBARAKI Artist-in-Residence Program”
Resident artists: Ieva Raudsepa (Latvia), millonaliu [Klodiana Millona & Yuan Chun Liu] (Albania/Taiwan), OLTA (Japan)
 
“Cultivate House: Uncertain Generation”Press Release

]]> Take Don Quijote’s cue from a… https://olta.jp/en/works/take-don-quijotes-cue-from-a/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 02:15:45 +0000 https://olta.jp/?post_type=works&p=3495 Exhibition: occultic yo soy
Curation: Maaru Hiyama
Artist: OLTA, Yuki Harada
Date: 10.29-12.12 2021
Venue: Decameron
http://decameron.jp/

]]> Hyper Popular Art Stand Play ”From dawn to dawn” https://olta.jp/en/currently_on_view/standplay_dawn/ Thu, 05 Nov 2020 08:10:06 +0000 https://olta.jp/?post_type=currently_on_view&p=2810 Date:
November 7th(Sat.)-29th(Sun.)　※Open only on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and 23rd (Monday / holiday)
Time:
10:00〜19:00
Venue:
Next to Hojo Komuten (Address:3-22-10 Higashimukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 131-0032)
About appreciation:
Free admission, advance reservation system (90 minutes replacement system, capacity of 15 people each time)

Please apply from this application form to see the exhibition.
Application form
https://airrsv.net/fanfan-practice2020/calendar
 
Related events:
Artist talk
Date: Sunday, November 8th, 19:30-21:00
Venue: Next to Hojo Komuten
Speakers: OLTA, Aki Aoki (Director of “Fantasia! Fantasia! -A town where the way of life has become a form”)
Guest: Hiroki Yamamoto (cultural researcher / artist)
Participation fee: Free (advance application required, capacity 15 people)
 
http://fantasiafantasia.jp/
E-mail：info@fantasiafantasia.jp

]]> 《RAM PRACTICE 2020 – Online Screening》 https://olta.jp/en/currently_on_view/web%e4%b8%8a%e6%98%a0%e3%80%8aram-practice-2020-online-screening%e3%80%8b%e3%81%ab%e5%8f%82%e5%8a%a0/ Sat, 28 Mar 2020 01:31:19 +0000 https://olta.jp/?post_type=currently_on_view&p=2586 We participate in a web screening hosted by RAM Association. You can see our new work “Stories at the Cultivate House” for 3 days only. Please apply from the following website.
 
“RAM PRACTICE 2020 – Online Screening”
 
｜Screening Dates｜9:00 Friday 27th March – 26:00 Sunday 29th March JST
｜Viewing Method｜A link will be sent to those who successfully submit this form.
｜Fee｜Free
｜Artists｜
Takashi Kuraya / Taiyo Kobayashi / Yuji Sakamoto / Joyce Lam / Ayumi Tsuchimoto / Yuka Yamato / Takao Yoshida /
Sophi Elsamni / Shintaro Kawakami / Miku Sato / Eclipse Project / Naoki Okada /
Natsumi Aoyagi / OLTA / Naha Kanie / Woomin Hyun / Ishu Han
｜Sound mastering｜ Ryota Fujiguchi
｜WEB｜http://geidai-ram.jp/rampractice2020/
Organised by RAM Association, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts.
Supported by Program for Cultural and Art Promotion Utilizing Universities (2019) , Agency of Cultural Affairs.
For enquiries, please contact geidairam@gmail.com

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