“TRANSMISSION PANG PANG” is a project that examines the ways of tradition and transmission in modern times through the play of board games. Since 2017, “OPEN CIRCUIT”, curating unit based in Seoul, Korea, and OLTA have jointly launched a project and have observed festivals and folk songs in various places. Based on “Snakes and Ladders” familiar in ancient India from acts and songs transmitted from oral history, OLTA and OPEN CIRCUIT produce their own board games, and play board games with audiences by improvisation. The cards used in the game include gestures of festivals and folk songs, tools used for the festival, and actions such as drinking, and the player actually plays while altering various gestures and tools drawn on the drawn cards.
 
Past performance
“TRANSMISSION PANG PANG along Arakawa River”(BRÜCKE coffee, Tokyo, 2020）
“TRANSMISSION PANG PANG DAIJOSAI” (Cultivate House, Chiba, 2019)
“TRSNSMISSION PANG PANG in ITAEWON”(5%, Seoul, 2019)
“TRSNSMISSION PANG PANG in OKINAWA”(BARRAK, Okinawa, 2018)
“TRSNSMISSION PANG PANG”(ELEPHANT SPACE, Seoul, 2017)
“TRANSMISSION PANG PANG ν”(Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, 2017)
 
 
TRANSMISSION PANG PANG along Arakawa River
2020. 7. 24(Fri）, 25（Sat）, 26（Sun）
meeting time：12:30（until the end of the game）
meeting place：BRÜCKE coffee（2-17-11 Odai, Adachi-ku, Tokyo）After, move to Arakawa River
Entry：¥1500 ＋1 Drink
way to participate：Google form（https://bit.ly/2ZfJeTk）or Email(mail@olta.jp)
Video:(YouTube:oltavideo)
7.24：https://youtu.be/V9SSboTNRxM
7.25：https://youtu.be/DeyhHvc1uEY
7.26：https://youtu.be/tUSQNuHbNwA
 
In “TRANSMISSION PANG PANG along Arakawa”, while COVID-19 makes it difficult to move and gather, we try to play by relaying BRÜCKE coffee and on the street in Arakawa on the Internet. Participants is mapped with tracking to see where they are and live coverage in the cafe is delivered online.In addition, in BRÜCKE, new prints of “TRANSMISSION PANG PANG DAIJOSAI” be exhibited.
Holding method:
Participants are divided into groups of 3 to 4 to play outside. At the cafe, the board game and the play situation at each place are relayed and the game progresses. Also, if you guess the winner, you can get OLTA rice.
 
TRANSMISSION PANG PANG along Arakawa River
2020. 7. 24(Fri）, 25（Sat）, 26（Sun）
meeting time：12:30（until the end of the game）
meeting place：BRÜCKE coffee（2-17-11 Odai, Adachi-ku, Tokyo）After, move to Arakawa River
Entry：¥1500 ＋1 Drink
way to participate：Google form（https://bit.ly/2ZfJeTk）or Email(mail@olta.jp)
Video:(YouTube:oltavideo)
7.24：https://youtu.be/V9SSboTNRxM
7.25：https://youtu.be/DeyhHvc1uEY
7.26：https://youtu.be/tUSQNuHbNwA
 
“TRANSMISSION PANG PANG DAIJOSA”
TRANSMISSION PANG PANG DAIJOSAI played at the field of “Cultivate House” through the rice field project of OLTA, in addition to the cards he has produced so far, he reads a sentence quoted from “Honyoshi of Oren Festival” (Shinobu Orikuchi). Guidance from.
Date: 2019.September 14(Sat), 15(Sun), 16(Mon), 14:30-17:30
Each day: Capacity 10 people
Place: Katori city, Chiba
Participation fee: 2000 yen (with pick-up from Tokyo, souvenir)
Pickup and drop-off location: Shinagawa Station Takanawa Exit (12:00)
September 16(Mon) Guest: Reiji Ando
 
 
“TRANSMISSION PANG PANG IN ITAEWON”
Collaboration with OPEN CIRCUIT
Interview with the people in Itaewon, a city of multinationals, in Seoul, to hear about the culture, history, and ordinary life of the people who moved there. The content of the interview is written on the card with a model of Yunnori, a traditional board game played in Korea, and the game goes on to tell the story of the other people living there.
Date: 2018 December  31th, 2019  January 5th
Venue: 5%, 90, Usadan-ro 10-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
 
 
“TRANSMISSION PANG PANG IN OKINAWA”
Collaboration with OPEN CIRCUIT
Workshop : Produce the equipment used for the performances.

Date : April 21 2018 14:00-
 
Performance
Date : April 27 2018 18:30-21:00 /April 28 2018 18:30-21:00/April 29 2018 17:00-19:00
Venue : BARRAK, Beach in Okinawa

Venue configuration : BARRAK

 
 
“TRSNSMISSION PANG PANG”
Collaboration with OPEN CIRCUIT
Date: December 16, 17 2017
Venue: ELEPHANT SPACE , Seoul
 
 
“TRANSMISSION Pang Pang ν”
Collaboration with OPEN CIRCUIT

Jointly conducted a project to research contemporary ways of tradition through festivals and folks arts in Japan, Korea and East Asia since 2017 with OPEN CIRCUIT. They played the performance “TRANSMISSION PANG PANG (ν)” from previous research through imitation of gestures.

 
 
“Transmission Pang Pang” Document Book
Design direction: edition.nord consultancy
Design: Misako Taoka
Cover design: Shin Akiyama/edition.nord
Design assistance: Keiko Miyahara, Yasuhiro Abe, Chihiro Suwa, Yuka Imoto
Printed and bound: poncotan w&g
Published: OLTA
1260page
Price: 22000yen(tax included)
 
Selling web site（base）
Received MERIT Award in the Publication Design category at NY ADC 99th Annual Awards
NYADC

Camp : Space became Lion
: Lion Dance X Gipeun Zam(Big Sleep)
OLTA X Miwangsung project
 
“Camp:Space became Lion” is the collaboration work with Korean theater group “Miwangsung Project” and showed at the 16th Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival. There was a “Practical small theater” in the Panorama Shopping Center of Garibong-dong in Seoul. The theater was performed to educate the factory workers, authorities demolished the roof in the middle of the theater. “Lion Dance” was a parade with the audience at the Garbing market at the first of the performance. After parade, there was the theater performance “Gipeun Zam(Big Sleep)” at the abandon building which was next to the place of Panorama shopping center. 
 

 

 
16th Seoul Marginal Theater Festival
Performance Date: 15th – 17th July, 2014 19:30-21:30
Venue: Garibong-dong Seoul KOREA
Video:  65min.31sec.
Duration：July 15th – July 17th, 2014 19:30 – 21:30
 
Artist in Residence
SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, KOREA
Duration : April – August 2014
sema nanji artist residency
Exhibition : Crossing Distances
Date : June 19(Thu) – June 22(Sun). 2014
Venue : SeMA Nanji Residency hall（ソウル、韓国）
Artist:Alfred Lenz, OLTA, Cristiano Tassinari
 
Exhibition：OLTA Drawing Research Exhibition
Duration : 14. 7.21. ~ 14. 8. 5.
Venue：OPEN CIRCUIT, Seoul, KOREA
http://www.opencircuit.co.kr/?page_id=40
DESCRIPTION : OPEN CIRCUIT AND OLTA HELD THE EXHIBITION OF OLTA’S UNRELEASED DRAWINGS ABOUT RESEARCH FOR THEIR WORKS. OLTA USUALLY MAKE MANY DRAWINGS AND USE THEM TO COMMUNICATE WITH MEMBERS, BUT WHICH ARE NOT  THEIR FINAL WORKS. EVEN THOUGH THE DRAWING ARE NOT FINAL WORKS, WE, OPEN CIRCUIT AND OLTA, THOUGHT THAT THE DRAWINGS SHOW THE PROCESS OF WORKS WHICH GIVE UNDERSTANDING AND IMPRESSION OF THEIR WORKS TO PEOPLE . SO, WE SELECTED THE DRAWINGS TOGETHER AND HELD EXHIBITION. ADDITIONALLY, WE HAD ARTIST TALK WITH ART LOVING PEOPLE THAT GIVES CHANCE TO UNDERSTAND OLTA’S WORK.
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Screening: Maebashi Media Festival 2015
Date: June 27/28 2015
https://maebashimediafestival2015.jimdo.com
 
Screening: COVERED TOKYO : Hikarie, 2014
2014.10.29.Wed – 11.10.Mon
Shibuya Hikarie 8F 8/
http://coveredtokyo.com/ja/
 

“GENSHI Man” evokes a new world from atoms in the future. It depicts the relationship between nature and the body appearing in primitives and dances, and gestures such as burial. 
 
 
installation “Digestion of the earth”
Collaboration with: Alicia King(Australia), Andreas Greiner(Germany). CasimiroValentim Pereira Zecaruno(East Timor)
Inspired from the basic part of a house scattered in Fukushima due to a tsunami, the landscape is represented as a toothed frame. Water circulates, and polyacrylates and crystals of the absorbent used in disposable diapers etc. propagate during the display period. The windows of the venue are removed and the agar medium is cultured using window glass.

 
Exhibition : TOKYO STORY 2013 PART1 “Now, Here”
Date：2013 March 9 – April 29
Venue：Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
https://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp/en/archive/exhibition/2013/20130309-4700.html
 
 
Performance “DOGU Man”
 

 
Date：October 26, 2012
Venue：the plaza of the United Nations University, Tokyo
Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama
 
 
Performance, Exhibition “GENSHININGEN. Cave”
 

 
Date: June 3 – July 3, 2012
Venue: chateau2F, Tokyo
https://artfullaction.net/gallery-event/ゲンシニンゲン-cave/
 
 
Performance “GENSHININGEN”
 

 
Performance “GENSHININGEN”
Live Event: Benki X GENSHININGEN
Date : March 31, 2012
Venue: WOMB Shibuya, Tokyo
 
 
Video “GENSHI Man – DOGU Man”
2012 – 2013
25 min.
 
Exhibition: “Distant Observations Fukushima in Berlin”
Date: March 8 – April 27 2014
Venue: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien,Berlin, GERMANY
http://www.pj-fukushima.jp/info/docs/%C2%83x%C2%83%C2%8B%C2%83%C2%8A%C2%83%C2%93Flyer_Fuku%20shima_final.pdf
 
Exhibition: “Hibino on side off side Katsuhiko Hibino”
Date: July 20 – October 6 2013
Venue: TARO OKAMOTO MUSEUM of ART,Kawasaki, Kanagawa
http://www.taromuseum.jp/index.htm
 
Exhibition: “Why live not for Art II-9 collectors reveal their treasures”
Date: July 13 – September 23 2013
Venue: TOKYO OPERA CITY ARTGALLERY, Tokyo
http://www.operacity.jp/ag/exh154/
 
Exhibition: TOKYO STORY 2013 PART1 “Now, Here”
Date：2013 March 9 – April 29
Venue：Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
https://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp/en/archive/exhibition/2013/20130309-4700.html
 
 
 
Performance “FUTURE PRIMITIVE”
Date: March 7, 2014 20:00-20:30
Live Event: COVERED TOKYO: PARK NIGHT, 2014
http://www.coveredtokyo.com
 
 

Public Sculpture
September 23th – 25th, 2011 10:15～12:00／13:00～17:45
 
Exhibition
September 23rd – October 3rd, 2011

Venue: TARO OKAMOTO memorial museum, Tokyo JAPAN
http://www.taro-okamoto.or.jp

Produced huge lanterns at the entrance of a glass theater facing the main street. Inside and outside of it, the performer walk around and move quietly and slowly. Haniwa  are clay figures in the shape of men, women or animals especially horses. They were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Tumulus period.
Performers play what can be imagined from Haniwa and some objects in a coffin as the Soil Spirits (Haniwa, Dogu (Clay doll), Shaman, Bell man, Tied man, Flash, Space, Aubergine Spirit).
 

 
Exhibition and Performance: Soil Sprits
Duration: August 7th – 21st, 2011
Venue: NHK Yokohama / KAAT Atrium, Kanagawa JAPAN
Taro Okamoto:The Man -The 100Th Anniversary of His Birth Exhibition Related Program
Yokohama Triennale 2011 Cooperation Program
 
Performance: Tumulus Sprits
 

 
Live event: DAIKANYAMA ART STREET : NOT AUTHORITY,BUT ART
Duration: August 20th – 26th, 2012
Venue: Daikanyama, Tokyo JAPAN
Performance date: August 25th and 26th 12:30/15:00/17:30

In Tokyo, where the aftershocks of the Great East Japan Earthquake continue, we image a potato as a heart of the earth from the vibration. The vine of potato extand, and it spread like a blood vessel in the ground. In the performance “Nito pour, OLTA set”, Kento Nito applies plaster and hardens OLTA with driftwood.
Performance: Nito pour, OLTA set
Collaboration: NITO Kento

 
Exhibition: NEXT-TWS 10!年
Duration: July 7 – October 2 2011
Venue: Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
Organize：Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Tokyo Wonder Site

The installation are using primitive materials such as soil, straws, woods, and bamboos along with contemporary materials such as laser discs. Eight members play each role of offerings (Rabbit, Dog, Rooster, Eggplant, Meteorite, Hole, Hitter, Beautiful sacrifice
) at the work. They set up a scaffold, wear costumes that become animals and spirits, and perform festivals.
In a space that feels from primordial to modern, and near the future, it is not a modern formal festival, but ordinary life itself becomes a festival, combined with the image and media of the consumer society.
On March 11, 2011, Great East Japan earthquake occurred during the performance. Performers of Dog, Eggplant, Hole, danced while the earth shook.
 

 
Duration: February 5th- April 3rd, 2011
Venue: TARO OKAMOTO MUSEUM of ART, Kanagawa
The 14th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art
Taro Okamoto Prize Award “Soil Shrine”
http://www.taromuseum.jp/index.htm

“OILY – OLTA ～log project～” is the early work of OLTA published on the youtube. They document to purchase a log at the Hardware store, carry it about 25 km from the suburbs (Hashimoto, Sagamihara City) to rural area(Aone, Sagamihara City) and build the mountain.
Date：August 18-19 2009
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