“It’s like we’re bugs. That’s right. We are. Laborers are bugs. Once you say it, it becomes real.” OLTA’s latest work dives deep into the ideological currents that flow from modernity to the present.
OLTA’s latest work, Eternal Labor, poses deeper questions about the ideologies that connect the modern era with contemporary times, a topic the collective has explored since GHOST OF MODERN (2013), which traced negative legacies throughout the world. After wide-ranging research in the Japanese archipelago and the Korean Peninsula, this collective now portrays the divisions and continuity between the era of the Japanese Empire and today, and the labor and exploitation that took place behind the scenes during economic development, projected onto the bodies of contemporary women. Focusing on issues within society such as women who have been objectified, bodies that can become pregnant, sexual discrimination, and power structures, the collective zeros in on what is at the root of labor that is devoid of meaning and lifestyles of consumerism through both an exhibition and a performance, as well as through the timeless and universal multilayered perspective and humor that is OLTA’s hallmark.
 
World Premiere
Aichi Triennale 2025: A Time Between Ashes and Roses – Performing Arts Program
Venue: Aichi Arts Center, Small Hall Dates: October 10–19, 2025 (Closed on the 14th) Running Time: 120 minutes
 
https://aichitriennale.jp/artist/olta.html
 
Cast:Ando Tomoko, Chong Ami, Mikajiri Keigo, Ota Kei, Inoue Toru, Saito Takafumi, Meguninja
Script:Meguninja
Direction:Jang-Chi
Stage Design:Hasegawa Yoshiro
Costume & Illustration:Inoue Toru
Props:Saito Takafumi
Sound Design:Inoue Toru, Masuda Yoshiki
Game Development:Usami Nao, Shibata Kazuhide
Lighting:Fujimoto Takayuki (Kinsei R&D)
Sound:Masuda Yoshiki
Video:Shibata Kazuhide, Takebe Ludo
Stage Manager:Sato Megumi
Translation:Ota kei
Logo Design:Yoon Deokjun
Production Coordinator:Shimizu Satomi
Cooperated by precog Co., Ltd.
Resarch Support:Mojiko Art Platform, Tantan Village
Supported by The Saison Foundation
 

 
Related articles
・A Dialogue between OLTA and River Lin on movements and behavior in Eternal Labor (OLTA’s new play), and social issues
https://in-transit.org/en/knowledge/eternal-labor/

The seventh chapter of The Japanese Ideology continues OLTA’s performative analysis of how ideology manifests in everyday life, this time set in the naval port city of Yokosuka.
The performance is presented at the historic Uraga Dock, a vast brick structure built in the modern era for shipbuilding and repair. Audience members are invited to move freely through the space, experiencing the work from shifting perspectives.
This chapter explores how the souls and spirits of individuals who perished in war transform into ideology. Beginning with a scene set in the nearby Kamome Danchi housing complex, the narrative unfolds toward the Tokyo Trials and the Junkoku Shichishibyō, a mausoleum dedicated to the seven Class-A war criminals enshrined there.
 
Video: https://youtu.be/qaQkHSI2qU0
 
Venue: Uraga Dock (4-7-1 Uraga, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture)
Date: 2024 December 14 (Saturday) and 15(Sunday)
Performance: 15:30– (70 min.)
Fee: 3,000yen
Language: Japanese performance with English synopsis provided.
 
Staff, Cast and Credits
Script:MEGUNINJA
Direction:Jang-Chi
Cast:INOUE Toru, UCHIDA Yuka, KIKUCHI Yuki, SAITO Takafumi, TAKAYAMA Reiko, NAKAGAWA Yuka, MEGUNINJA, HASEGAWA Yoshihiro, Ivan Timbrell
Scenography:OLTA
Stage Design:HASEGAWA Yoshihiro
Music, Costumes:INOUE Toru
Props:SAITO Takafumi
Sound:ISHIUCHI Kazuki, YAMAGUCHI Takahiro
English Translation:OTA Kei
 
Art Festival|SENSE ISLAND／LAND 2024
Organizers|Yokosuka City, Sense Island Executive Committee (Yokosuka Visitor Promotion and Attraction Committee, Abstract Engine Co., Ltd., TRYANGLE Inc.)
Special Sponsor|Panasonic Entertainment & Communication Co., Ltd.
Special Support|Peatix Japan K.K.
Support|USHIO LIGHTING, INC., Kannonzaki Park Center, Yokosuka seaside Partners Supported by|The Saison Foundation
YPAM Fringe
 
Article
The Japan News

“Spectacle Firing” is a related event of the exhibition “Potential not to be and not to do Anarchism as alternative art and other ways of life” at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
 
Curator: Meguninja
Guest Artists: Masamitsu Araki,Eri Kunimatsu、Marina Lisa Komiya
Organizer: OLTA

 
Date: 2025.1.18 14:00-until sunset
Venue: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Garden
website: https://www.museum.toyota.aichi.jp/event/spectacle-firing

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』

OLTA&Leif Holmstrand
 
Venue
Umewaka Noh Theatre
2-6-14 Higashinakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo-to
 
Live streaming
MALMÖ KONSTHALL（Sweden）
https://malmokonsthall.se/en/evenemangs/live-performance-leif-holmstrand-olta/
 
Date
2024.4.28（SUN）19:00-19:45
Sweden 12:00-12:45
 

 
OLTA and Leif Holmstrand are collaborating again. The performance piece is realized on a Noh theater stage (Umewaka Noh Theatre) in Tokyo and broadcasted live and shown at Malmö Konsthall. The performance at the konsthall is part of the program in connection with the exhibition “Leif Holmstrand ‒ Life of the Termites: The End” . Holmstrand and OLTA have previously performed together, then with the ten-day long performance work “Fake Bones” at Lilith Performance Studio in 2015.
 
“Amplifying breath and body” , a collaborative performance by OLTA and Leif Holmstrand, consists of several previous works.
The framework of this work, “Stand Play vol. 2,” was presented as a performance piece in Poland in 2018, and was based on the concept of creating actions and words from newspapers and caricatures published abroad in the early 20th century, and revealing the human body manipulated by information through the imitation of images created through the media. The concept of the project was to reveal the human body manipulated by information through the imitation of images created through the media. The performers wear masks representing animals. The performers are tied to a cradle-like structure made of sponge, which was invented in 2015 for “Fake Bones,” a collaborative performance with Leif Holmstrand, and while they cannot see what is ahead, they move forward as if in a “blind man’s fable. The performers are chained to a sponge cradle-like structure.
The performers signal to each other with gestures and cryptic language, falling asleep and waking up repeatedly amid the ambient sounds of a racecourse, a market place, or any other place in the city where frenzy and relaxation are repeated.
Leif Holmstrand created a new dress for this performance. The sound installation with bells suspended from speakers connected to microphones is a remodeled version of Inoue’s “Inner Loop,” a piece presented in Bangkok in 2018, for this performance. The sound of the bell is synchronized with breathing, and the positional relationship between the performer and the mechanism causes feedback of the sound, which is amplified steplessly.
The small voices of individuals are amplified and eventually taken over by the enthusiasm of the crowd.
 
Leif Holmstrand
Leif Holmstrand, born in 1972 andliving in Malmö, is a writer, artist andmusician. He made his debut in 2002with the poetry collection“Stekelgång” , the same year hegraduated from the Malmö ArtAcademy.Since then, he haspublished some forty literary works,most recently “Kartritartornet” (2023). During Malmö Konsthall’s exhibition,Holmstrand’s large book of poems “Community” , which he has worked onfor 25 years, will also be released, this time by his own publishing housePa-Parant.
 
www.leifholmstrand.se

This exhibition presents sculptures scattered across the space that embody human consumption and desire as icons of capitalism. Treating the endlessly accumulating paper bags as a form of capitalist “nature,” the artist allows daily drawings to emerge on their surfaces, while saturating and reshaping the excesses of modern material desire with concrete and urethane foam.
 
Dates: January 19 (Fri) – February 11 (Sun), 2024
Hours: 12:00–19:00
Open: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays only
 
会場：CAPSULE（B1F, 2-7-12 Ikejiri, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo）
https://capsule-gallery.jp
 

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

Date
February 13 – February 19, 2023
 
Venue
Choube-e (818 Kouzushima-mura, Tokyo)
 
Based on the island of Kouzushima where the gods of the Izu Islands are said to have gathered, art project HAPPY TURN/Kouzushima aims to engage with people who have diverse connections to the island for mutual learning about the lives, ideas, and ways of thinking of each person. As part of the Artist Program in Kouzushima, in the spring of 2022 artist group Olta was invited to the island and has continued to create works through research into Kouzushima’s history and cultural landscape. “Hyohaku to Henreki” comprises an exhibition and performance showcasing the results of the program, and will be located in “Choube-e,” a vacant house on the island. In this exhibition, inspired by a story about a local belief revering flotsam that washes up on the island as gods, the artists ponder not only the history of Kouzushima, which still boasts unique customs, but also its relationship with other countries across the ocean.
The works, created through a series of interviews with islanders, literature research and by flotsam actually collected from the island, should provide an opportunity to consider the island’s rich natural surroundings, its myths, and relationships between people in terms of connections to island life up to the present day.
 
Organized by
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Shimaclass Kouzushima (General Incorporated Association)
 
https://www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp/en/events/56184/

“Once a nation of God. Is this life now a penance? We were born and live in this country. Nippon, God’s country, which kept running to stay ahead of the rest of the world. How might we enjoy or endure this society now? The enframing of ideologies that emerge from institutions called home, school, and workplace”⸺OLTA, an artist collective working across disciplines, is undertaking a performative analysis, over two years at YPAM, of the forms that “Nippon (Japan) Ideology” takes in everyday life. This project looks to an aggregate of sensations created from subconscious wordings, invisible anxieties and desires, as well as ideologies that are reproduced and mobilized daily through education, the Constitution, advertisements, web browsers, and even convenience stores, fast food restaurants, and supermarkets. Has the ideology of Nippon become indestructible? OLTA will present a work-in-progress this year.
 
※This performance has been cancelled on the first day, 12.9, due to the illness of one of the performers, and changed to a video-based screening format on 12.10 and 12.11.
 
Text, Concept and Scenography: OLTA

Dramaturgy: Tatsuki Hayashi

Direction: Jang-Chi

Performers: OLTA (Toru Inoue, Kazuhide Kawamura, Takafumi Saito, Yoshiro Hasegawa, Megu Ninja)

Guest Performers: Miho Inatsugu, Yuka Uchida, Kaoruko Oyama, Yuki Kikuchi, Riki Takeda, Yuka Nakagawa, Pijin Neji, Takako Minekawa

Robot Creation: Muku Kobayashi

Songs: Takako Minekawa and Toru Inoue

Lighting: Ludo Takebe, Takayuki Fujimoto (Kinsei R&D)

Video: Ludo Takebe

Sound: Yumeka Hamada and Masatoshi Kato (MUSA ENTERPRISE)

Sound and Surtitle Operation: Mami Okita (MUSA ENTERPRISE)

Video Technical Support: Kazuhide Shibata

Cooperation: Maya Matsuoka, Kei Nakamura, Mitsuru Tokisato

Special Thanks: Yasunori Ikunishi, Hiroko Okada

Management: Kyoko Iikawa, Satoko Shibata
 
Organized by Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication

Co-organized by Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting Executive Committee

Supported by the “ARTS for the future! 2” program of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
 
YPAM website: https://ypam.jp/programs/dr80?lang=ja
 
Venue
KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Large Studio
281 Yamashita-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0023
 
Date
12.9 Fri 18:00 – 20:50
With a 20-minute intermission
12.10 Sat 13:30 – 16:40
With a 20-minute intermission
12.11 Sun 13:00 – 16:10
With a 20-minute intermission
 
Language: Japanese
Translation: English subtitles
 
Ticket
Audience: ¥2,500
Professional: ¥1,000

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

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

Having researched the history of coal mines and miners in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, OLTA with this game / playing installation work (the experience can be completed with either one alone, in any order) questions the “gods” believed in and the “labor” dedicated to them in the present Japan, which has passed from the world of mythology to the age of modernization, and has been swept up in the postponed Olympics and the normalized state of emergency after the nuclear accident in Fukushima.
 
Game:
This is a game work that takes as its theme the social groups that supported modernization in the harsh labor environment of mining, and reads modern and contemporary history from the life and customs there, or from the traditions of festivals rooted in the land. The audience can download the game themselves and experience it using their own PCs. Players meet nine residents who are trying to organize a festival. Using the “Hitachi Mine” (closed in 1981), which was one of the largest copper mines in Japan, the mining city of Hitachi (Ibaraki Prefecture), which developed from the Hitachi Mine, and the “Hitachi Furyu Mono,” a giant float and karakuri puppet show, as specific clues, the player walks around the terrestrial world, simulating a different world of “exploring life in a mine. Once the exploration is complete, the festival begins. The floats respond to the player’s voice and proceed into the darkness of the underground world.
 
Land of the Living GAME〈TRAILER〉

 
【Live talk①】Aida Family (Makoto Aida, Hiroko Okada, Torajiro Aida)
https://youtu.be/3K_v156Y_Ok
【Live talk②】Natsumi Aoyagi × Ryota Yamada

 
Playing Installation:
What kind of “mine” is the city in which we live? How do we use and are we made to use our bodies and words, where are we transported to, and what are we digging up and burying there as if that is what our lives are about? The audience inside the theater will be seated inside the installation, and the audience outside the theater will be looking inward through images, both experiencing a journey that opens up a new vision of nature/city/labor.
 
YPAM2021 Direction, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Yokohama / Kobe Art Village Center, Hyogo / BUoY, Tokyo

Exhibition: occultic yo soy
Curation: Maaru Hiyama
Artist: OLTA, Yuki Harada
Date: 10.29-12.12 2021
Venue: Decameron
http://decameron.jp/

The film was shot in a factory in downtown Tokyo, and the video and installations were exhibited. It was learned that the 1911-1930 construction of the Arakawa spillways saw the river enormously expanded by human hands, particularly Korean and Chinese immigrant workers. Many Koreans were then murdered as false rumors spread in the immediate aftermath of the Great Kantō Earthquake of September 1, 1923. The Tokyo Skytree has brought big changes to this urban landscape, which is now packed with condominiums. Its inner workings remain, built on racial and economic divisions and a history of many people’s hardships. The Installation references the sketches collected by Kon Wajiro of temporary barrack structures built in the wake of the Great Kantō Earthquake, as well as the stage design by Murayama Tomoyoshi for a production of Georg Kaiser’s “From Morning to Midnight” — featuring work by Kon Wajiro and his team, “From Morning to Midnight” was staged at Japan’s first dedicated theater for “Western-style” shingeki plays, Tsukiji Shōgekijō, which was built in Taishō 13 (1924), the year after the earthquake.
 
Performers: Tagami Aoi, Hoshi Budō, Saitō Takafumi, Kawamura Kazuhide, Inoue Tōru, Yonezawa Erika, Nakajima Yurie, Endō Jun’ichirō, Hasegawa Yoshirō, Meguninja
Production:
Stage design, CG design: Hasegawa Yoshirō
Stage production, Props, Wardrobe: Olta
Landscape photos: Hoshi Budō, Meguninja
Manga: Saitō Tanshō
Sound, Recording: Inoue Tōru
Filming, Film editing: Agata Kenji
Scenario, Film editing: Meguninja
Direction: Jang-Chi
 
Exhibition: “Chōshū geijutsu sutando purē: Yoake kara yoake made” (From Dawn to Dawn: A Hyper Pop-Art Stand Play), Fantajia! Fantajia! Ikikata ga katachi ni natta machi (Fantasia! Fantasia! Cities Formed from Ways of Living)
Date: 7-29 Nov 2020
Venue: Hōjō Kōmuten Tonari (3-22-10 Higashi Mukōjima, Sumida Ward, Tokyo)
Support: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Ureshii yokan, Ltd.

Organized by Marina Komiya and MEGUNINJA
 　
58 texts from Sontag Susan’s “Notes on 《Camp》” will be read together with the audience, and the performance will be accompanied by an element of happening by the artist, poet, and curator. No photography will be done, and the traces will be published in the form of a newspaper. The demand for camping is increasing in the Corona Disaster. Away from the global Internet space, local bodies are placed in the darkness. Each recalled fire is started on the spot or remotely, such as online. Its appearance can only be known by actually seeing it.
 
Performer: Akira Aoki, Ayaka URA, Kanie Naha, KIROKUGAKARI(Manami Seki+Akiko Tamaki), Daisuke Kuroda, Marina Komiya, Aoi Tagami, Takuya Takemoto, MEGUNINJA, Shota Yamauchi, Yuu Yamamoto, Ad Mornings(Taro Karibe, Ayumi Tsuchimoto, Yuka Yamato, Zoé Schellenbaum, Jang-Chi, etc.)
※※Performers Kirokugakari(Manami Seki+Akiko Tamaki), Daisuke Kuroda were not at the venue.
 
Open: September 17.2020 22:30ー5:00
Venue: Certain location in Tokyo (outdoors)
Entrance fee: ¥2000
Admission limit: 50 people
Planner: Marina Komiya, MEGUNINJA
Management: OLTA
 
The man-made island, reclaimed in the middle of the city, had been given such sounding words as “dream” and “peace”. It used to smell of garbage and flies flying around, on the other hand, it was a primary camp for prisoners of war and war criminals. And the remains of war were hidden in the bushes. A few small groups of people were BBQing at the campsite.
Susan Sontag, in her “Notes on Camping,” described “camp” culture in 58 entries. Camp” as an artificial and urban sensation.
In order to tease out the senses–especially the living and powerful senses–with words, we must avoid judgment and behave flexibly. (Susan Sontag, “Notes on ‘Camp,'” translated by Yasuya Takahashi, Hiroshi Izubuchi, Kimi Yura, Hiroshi Ebine, Joichiro Kawamura, and Tetsuo Kishi)
What can we entangle from the 58 items that follow? I move little by little. Someone’s voice is heard. Reactions continue to chain together until morning. I don’t know whether it is stopping or moving. Something seems to be happening, but it is not. Time moves little by little. Something invisible is happening in an invisible place.
Shalek: I’ve finally done it, I’ve finally made it this far. Again, what interests me here is the overall humanity, this one thing. But this, this scene, what is this, culture? It reminds me of a shopping district in downtown Vienna that was burned to the ground, no wonder it was destroyed. This is a pity, and a photo cannot do it justice. …… (Karl Krauss, “The Last Days of Humanity,” translated by Nori Ikeuchi)
How can we notice the anomalies in the uniformity and social order brought about by the state and the city? Karl Krauss published the critical journal “Die Fackel” (The Torch) from 1899 to 1912, which reported on the society of the time through satire. The articles were drawn from letters and street voices, and were later collected into a play, “The Last Days of Mankind”.
How will the fire that the people gathered there try to start be lit in the darkness? The torch of poeticism, ironic criticism, and resistance to assimilation will be lit.
 
During the campfiring, the performers’ performances were recorded using prints.
1 Before the start of the performance
Visitors were given curing blue mats cut to a length about their height. Visitors lay on the mats as if they were surrounding a campfire.
 
2 KIROKUGAKARI
KIROKUGAKARI
There was no recorder at the venue and the performances were made remotely. 3 different performances were made by the audience at 23:00, 2:00, and 4:00. There were several coincidental connections with other artists.
After the three performances, I engraved three times on one plate. I used as motifs the letters projected in a smart phone, the performer Yu Yamamoto, a red vest, a letter about the mechanism of combustion, and a thin stick on fire.
 
3 Ayaka Ura (1)
The clay was handed to the participants as the artist mumbled her memories and feelings about the clay. While kneading the clay with their fingertips, the participants watched the fire in the center of the room and the artist’s movement.
 
4 Aoi Tagomi
I heard a squeaking sound. It was shortly after the performance near the fire, and visitors were enjoying conversation near the fire. The squeaking sounded like a monkey, a creature that should not be here. I listen carefully and go toward the voice. Away from the fire, I reach a tree that is not well lit. The voice comes from the top of the tree. I see a hand with rubber gloves on, and for a moment, I can see a hand around the trunk. If I listened carefully, along with the squeaking, I could also hear insect sounds like bleeps and bibbies. I also thought I heard a bird call, “foo,” but I could no longer tell which voice was that of Heki Tagomi. In the darkness, where there was little light, I could hear countless sounds.
 
5 Ad Mornings(1)
Around the campfire, short canvases were placed in a circle. The canvases were numbered and the time was painted on them.Ad Mornings record campfiring. They were recorded on those canvases. Three people were writing on those canvases, squatting side by side. The bonfire in the center was illuminating Ayaka Ura, who was performing, but at the same time the people recording were also illuminated, and large shadows were stretching out.
 
6 Akira Aoki
Aoki put a sticker on a park sign that read “You must talk campy. client” and began talking with Ura Ayaka about CLIENT. When Aoki told Ura to talk to campy, Ura said, “It’s hard to talk to campy, it would be perky.” He said.
 
7 Daisuke Kuroda
The artist was performing throughout the show with his presence removed. The audience was instructed to put the food they were given into a bonfire in the center of the room. Actually, I was made to play the role of clapping my hands to interrupt the conversation during the performance, but no one seemed to notice.
I watched it and carved the central fire, palm and mushroom on the screen.
A few hours later I heard the conversation, “That’s not the real Mr. Kuroda, that’s a totally different person.”
 
8 Takuya Takemoto
Takuya Takemoto’s performances, which move back and forth across the venue at a speed that makes it difficult to tell whether they are moving or standing still, are so integrated with the landscape that we sometimes lost track of them. Just when I thought I had finally found him, I witnessed the moment when the artist’s silhouette was assimilated with the surrounding grove of trees by a distant lightning flash.
 
9 Ayaka Ura (2)
As Ura Ayaka said, “I am holding hands with the fire” in the ongoing narrative while holding a wooden stick over the fire, she walked around the perimeter in circles, guided by the movement of the fire. Smoke was rising from the end of the wooden stick that she was holding.
 
10 Shota Yamauchi
Yamauchi captured Fahrenheit 451 and projected the burning of each captured photo on the screen using a projector. The photographs, which became the burning dregs of the Fahrenheit 451 captures one after another, were scattered around the area.
 
11 Marina Komiya
She came in a cloth-like garment. Eventually, her neck was pulled back into the cloth, and her head was also hidden. Lighting shone from inside the cloth. The light vaguely reflected the lines of the body on the surface of the clothes (cloth). The artist talked about clothes, nakedness, membranes, holes, rivers, and boundaries. I was impressed by the words, “They do not melt together, but increase.
 
12 Yuu Yamamoto
Yuu Yamamoto’s All Night Yu Yu Wide broadcast ended at an empty kitchen. When ending an online conference, it would be nice if zoom had a function to disconnect while fading out slowly. He said something like that at the end.
 
13 Kanie Naha
Ayaka Ura was building a bonfire in the center of the room. The artist lay right next to the fire. He seemed to be taking his time to decide the distance from the fire. He began sign language while listening to the audio recorded and stored on cassette tapes at the venue. By the time the tape finished playing the most recent notes and the artist opened his eyes and got up, the sky had begun to lighten a little.
私はうらあやかの足元と細い棒、実際の火はではなく炎のようにも見えるカニエ・ナハの手を版画に彫った。
 
14 Ad Morning(2)
After all the performances, Ad Morning came to distribute newspapers. They were constantly recording what was happening, so I guess they had just finished printing and came here, including even the events that had just occurred. A curing blue mat was laid out on the ground, and a bundle of paper divided into three pieces was placed on it. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that the printed contents were all different. Ad Morning took one sheet from each of the three bundles, rolled it into a cylinder, and tied it closed with a string. Soon, the visitors did the same, taking three newspapers as well. The cylindrical newspapers were distributed to the visitors.

“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

OLTA, who have cut their daily life from a humorous and critical glance and play unconscious behavior in the city as a person and thing, perform “Hyper Popular Art STAND PLAY” in Kyoto near the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
“Hyper Popular Art Stand Play” , which has been developed since 2017, creates stories through the functions of cities and the gestures and conversations of people in those environments.
The stage designed from the structural model of the New National Stadium JAPAN is reproduced in the theater, and “acting by ourself” and “watching what they perform” stand up in a nested structure among the actor and the audience, the city and the theater.
 
Venue: ROHM Theatre Kyoto, North Hall
Date: 2020. 2/8(Sat) 15:00, 2/9(Sun) 18:30, 2/10(Mon) 19:00, 2/11(Tue) 14:00
 
Concept, Script, Costumes, Stage & Art Direction: OLTA
with: Mayumi ARAI, TAKAHASHI ‘Takakhan’ Seiji, Akiko TAMAKI, Yu YAMAMOTO
 
Director: Jang-Chi
Actors: Mayumi ARAI, Toru INOUE, Kazuhide KAWAMURA, Takafumi SAITO, TAKAHASHI ‘Takakhan’ Seiji, Akiko TAMAKI, Yoshiro HASEGAWA, MEGUNINJA, Yu YAMAMOTO
 
Stage Design: Toru INOUE, Yoshiro HASEGAWA
CG Design: Yoshiro HASEGAWA
Sound Design: Toru INOUE
Video: MEGUNINJA
Illustration: Toru INOUE, Takafumi SAITO
Character Design(Video): Tansho SAITO
Flyer Design & Illustration: Yu YAMAMOTO
Costumes Assistant: Shie MINAMINO
Producer: Eriko KAMIMURA
 
Lighting: Takayuki FUJIMOTO
Sound: Masatoshi KATO
Movie: Ludo TAKEBE
Technical System(Movie): Mitsuru TOKISATO
Technical Assistant: Yuka YAMATO
 
Video Announcement

“Stand play vol.7 Tekiya quoits”
 
Throw a ring made of pylon-related items, such as pylon weights and sign ropes, into the pylon and get a prize every time you succeed. The prize is the original picture of the author of the stand play manga “Oku-chan”: Saito Tansho. The event was held at honkbooks at “NORAKUMA MALL #Uru”.
 
“NORAKUMA MALL #Uru”
Venue:theca (in honkbooks)
Date:February 29 (Saturday),2020 12:00-20:00
 
https://honkbooks.com/norakumauruu/
 
 
“Stand Play vol.6 New Year’s first sale by sandwich man”
 
SAITO Takafumi and TAKAHASHI ‘Takakhan’ Seiji dress as a sandwich man in Kyoto and Osaka, and try to sell tickets for the performance of “Hyper Popular Art STAND PLAY” on the street. During OLTA’s stay in Kyoto, they went from the residence to the Kyoto Art Center at the rehearsal as a sandwich-man for 3 weeks.
 
Date & Venue: 4th January2020 Kyoto
　　　　　　 5th January2020 Osaka
 
spacial thanks: TAKAHASHI ‘Takakhan’ Seiji, Eriko KAMIMURA
 
 
“Stand play vol.5 Delivered by Uber Eats”
 
A delivery man carrying a Uber Eats backpack delivers a meal at OLTA FARM KITCHEN / sheep studio (Sumida-ku) to the client. The situation will be shown on the screen of the venue in a live broadcast. The client draws a text or drawing instead of the price and gives it to the delivery person.
Date: December 14, 2019 (Sat) 17:30-19:30
Cooperation: AOKI Akira
 
Fantasia! Fantasia!: A community where lifestyles are made real
Date: November 20,(Wed) – December 20,(Fri) 2019
With this project we will develop a “learning forum” through tie-ups with cultural hubs around the Bokuto area (the northern part of Sumida City in eastern Tokyo), and through art-based thinking. We will use the implementation and verification of the project’s learning programs to think about the creativity needed for well-being, and to consider the value of local cultural resources from a moderate perspective.
https://www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp/en/what-we-do/creation/hubs/fantasia-fantasia/30841/
 
Open studio dates:
November 23, 2019 (Sat) 10:00-17:00
December 6, 2019 (Fri) 13:00-20:00
December 14, 2019 (Sat) 10:00-17:00
Venue: sheepstudio (3-20-9 Kyojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo)
Price: Free
Organizers: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo, Ureshii Yokan
Cooperation: sheepstudio AIR
https://www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp/ja/events/39904/
 
Learning Lab # 05
“Search things “in Sumida”
Date: December 21, 2019(Sat) 15:00-17:00
Price: Free
 
 
“Stand Play vol.3”
 
Walk around the area with the audience and Takahashi ‘Taka Khan’ Seiji’s guide around Osaka, and collect “Hyper popular art Stand Play” by shooting with a smartphone and description of the situation at the city.
 
Date : 2019. January 12  19:00－22:00 / January 14 12:00-15:00
Venue : Sekai / Osaka City Konohana-ku Shikanjima 2-2-9
 

Hyper Popular Art Stand Play

OLTA develop from 2017 and investigate the phenomena that cause laughter in everyday life.
They will clarify the unconscious gesture of the body that occur in urban life and the random situations brought about by artificially set up temporary street objects.
 

This is a participatory event organized by two collectives, Artist Collective “OLTA” and Practitioner Collective “Kohonya”. Over one book, participants read out with each other in order and at the same time draw with clue of the words. Create a new margine by reading letters, listening to sounds, expressing them in lines and forms, get sucked into the world of books, trying to get away from them, and opening up relationships with a book. What they draw on are materials for example used books, a piece of wood, stones, so it start with the selection of drawing tools.The drawing I drew crossed over to another hand before I knew it, and add the touch, a new form come back.It goes around drawing like it goes around a book with reading out. Anyone can participate.Anyone can participate.
 
 
Daily drawing, Daily page vol.35
Date:24th October(Sat)2020 13:00-16:00
Book:Demura Shinichiro “Kogeitan”
Venue:Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Square, Online(Periscope on Twitter)
https://https://honkbooks.com/dddp-35
 
Tokyo-shi(history/peom) archive ZIN
Printing Biding: Hand Saw Press(RISOGRAPH)
Published:OLTA kohonya honkbooks
18p A3
Price: 2500JPY(sold out)
 
 
Daily drawing, Daily page vol.34
Date:21st September(Mon)2020 21:00-2300
Book:Toson Shimazaki“The Broken Commandment”
Venue:Online(zoom,MagicalDraw)
https://https://honkbooks.com/dddp-34
 
 
Daily drawing, Daily page vol.33
Date:23rd May(Sat)2020 16:00-18:30
Book:Chuya Nakahara“Yagi no uta”
Venue:Online(Zoom, MagicalDraw)
https://https://honkbooks.com/dddp-33
 
 
Daily drawing, Daily page vol.32
Date:26th April(Sun)2020 16:00-17:30
Book:Souseki Natsume“Ten Dreaming Nights”
Venue:Online(Zoom, MagicalDraw)
https://honkbooks.com/dddp32-2
 
 
Daily drawing, Daily page vol.31
Date:24th February(Mon)2020 14:00-16:00
Book:Writing by MARY SHELLY translated by Morishita Yumiko“Frankenstein”
Venue: kohonya honkbooks
https://honkbooks.com/dddp31
 
 
Daily drawing, Daily page vol.30
Date:15th December(Sun)2019 18:00-20:00
Book:Yun Dong-ju“Sky Wind Stars and Poetry”
Venue: kohonya honkbooks
https://honkbooks.com/post/dddp30
 
 
Daily drawing, Daily page vol.29
“GEIDAI BIBLIOSCAPE 2019”
Date:6th September(Fri)2019-8th(Mon)
DAY1 6th September(Fri)13:00-19:00
DAY2 7th September(Sat)10:00-17:00
DAY3 8th September(Sun)10:00-17:00
Book:Tatsumi Hijikata“yame ru mai hime”
Venue:Tokyo University of the arts, University Library bldg.B
Direct:Tokyo University of the arts University Library/GRADUATE SCHOOL OF FILM AND NEW MEDIA, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS/RAM Association, kohonya honkbooks
http://geidai-ram.jp/geidaibiblioscape2019/
 
 
Daily drawing, Daily page vol.28
Date:21st March(Thu)2019 13:30-17:00
Book:Ango Sakaguchi“Isi no omoi” “In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom” “The Idiot”
Venue: Matsudai Nohbutai
https://honkbooks.com/dddp28
 

Documentation of the activity of “Cultivate House” at the summer in 2019
 
AOMORI EARTH2019: AGROTOPIA –WHEN LIFE BECOMES ART THROUGH LOCAL AGRICULTURE
Period 5 October – 1 December, 2019
Opening Hours 9:30－17:00（Last admission at 16:30）
Closed 28, 15 October 25, 11 November
Venue Aomori Museum of Art
 
Executive Committee for Aomori EARTH2019 will hold “AGROTOPIA –WHEN LIFE BECOMES ART THROUGH LOCAL AGRICULTURE”. This exhibition introduces contemporary art works mainly and try to expand the possibility of art through local agriculture.
 
OLTA Opening Performance
Date: 5th October 13:00- 13:45
 
http://www.aomori-museum.jp/en/event/88/index.html
 
 
“Cultivate House” Document Book 2019
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Design direction: Shin Akiyama
Design: Keiko Miyahara, MEGUNINJA
Editing and production: OLTA
Grants: Ogasawara Toshiaki Memorial Foundation
Published by OLTA
Publication: date: November 8, 2021
Special edition of 20
Selling web site（base）
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contents
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1_ building
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01 flyer
02 record the volume of poo
03 bamboo slips
04 blueprint
05 steel frame drawing
06 wooden part of the drawing
07 tool, function
08 “AOMORI EARTH2019: AGROTOPIA—WHEN LIFE BECOMES ART THROUGH LOCAL AGRICULTURE” Installation view (Aomori Museum of Art, Exhibition Room C)
09 layout of woodblock lithographs
10 woodblock lithographs
11 parts
12 earthenwares
13 prints, paintings
14 woodcut lithographs of the House wall
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2_ life
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01 eat
02 record of a stay
03 drawing
04 document photos
05 fixed point photography
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朗読本：土方巽「病める舞姫」
素材：土粘土、木炭、石、木、水、他

「GEIDAI BIBLIOSCAPE 2019」
｜会期｜ 2019年9月6日［金］－ 8日［日］＊東京藝術大学藝祭期間中
｜時間｜
DAY１（9/6金） 13:00 – 19:00
DAY２（9/7土） 10:00 – 17:00
DAY３（9/8日） 10:00 – 17:00
｜会場｜ 東京藝術大学附属図書館B棟（東京都台東区上野公園12-8）
｜URL｜ http://geidai-ram.jp/geidaibiblioscape2019/
｜企画｜ 東京藝術大学附属図書館, 東京藝術大学大学院映像研究科, RAM Association, コ本や honkbooks
｜助成｜ 2019年度文化庁「大学における文化芸術推進事業」

 
Cultivate HouseーOPEN HOUSE
Date: 30th August- 16th September 2019 12:00-18:00
Venue: Katori city, Chiba, JAPAN
Grant: iStyle Art and Sports Foundation
Cooperation: Aomori Museum of Art, RAM Association

Installation using prints in the artist in residency “2019 Craft Taitung Creator Exchange Program”. “About the experience he found the foot print of the wild pig when he walked in the mountains in Changon, Taitung, Taiwan, and about the technology close to nature by the Taiwan aborigine”, “Conversation using handwritten notes on the smartphone, to communicate each other’s Chinese characters are Japanese and Taiwanese”,”Conversation in the meeting hut that was straw-made roof in Puyuma Nanwang Elementary School.About these straws.　Rice plant or imperata cylindrica”.
In these unrealized experiences, communication, and imagination processes, “creating sculptures of wild pig with he sew tree bark thinly stretched with Ami tribe’s traditional techniques”, “Reproducing handwritten notes on the smartphone”,“ Incorporating the local wood cypress and zelcova he used as printing plate as pedestal and frame”and so on, put on handwork and materiality of print process, adding thickness and physicality to the image.
 
Artist in Residence:
Craft Taitung Creator Exchange Program
 
exhibition：2019 Craft Taitung Creator Exchange Program「即刻手感」駐村成果展
 
Date：2019.6.29ー7.12
Venue：Library of Cultural affairs Department,Taitung Country
 
Collection：Taitung Country Cultural Affair Department

Collaboration work by three female artists, CHIHO IWAKAWA, Takako Minekawa,  and MEGUNINJA
Curation : MEGUNINJA
 
Sound Installation and Live Event : piping pipe
Date：April 18, 2019 17:00-23:00
(Live: 18:00-19:00,20:30-21:30)
Venue：Asakusabashi Tensai Sansujuku
https://meguninja0.wixsite.com/pipingpipe
 

「この絵画、このページ」

アーティスト・コレクティヴの「オル太」、プラクティショナー・コレクティヴの「コ本や」との２つのコレクティヴによる共同企画の参加型イベントです。一冊の本をめぐって、順に参加者は朗読しあい、同時にその言葉を手がかりにドローイングを描きます。文字を読み、音を聞き、線や形に表して、本の世界に入り込んだり、少し離れてみたり、一冊の本との関係性を開いていくことで、新しい余白を立ち上げていきます。何に描くかは、古本や木片、石といったマテリアルにも描くこともあり、画材選びから始めていきます。自分が描いたドローイングがいつの間にか他の手に渡り筆が重ねられ、新しいかたちになって戻って来る。朗読で本が巡るように絵も巡る。誰でも参加可能。
今回は、「アート／ブックのとても大きな部屋：読む・作る・考える」に合わせて、新潟県で生まれた坂口安吾の自伝的小説『石の思い』から始まり、代表作の『桜の森の満開の下』に至るまで、農舞台で安吾と出会いましょう。
 
｜日程｜　　3/21(木) 13:30－17:00
｜朗読本｜　坂口安吾著作（『石の思い』『桜の森の満開の下』『白痴』）
｜場所｜　　まつだい「農舞台」
　　　　　　〒942-1526 新潟県十日町市松代3743-1
｜参加費｜　ドネーション制
｜対象｜　　子どもから大人まで
｜企画｜　　オル太, コ本や honkbooks
 
https://honkbooks.com/post/183582381801/dddp28

 
ルール：参加者が参加者によって指示された読み方で読み、描き方で描く。
 
1 桜の森の満開の下
本を読む人:井上徹 提案者:斉藤隆文　読み方:2人で一緒に読む(井上、斉藤) 描き方:一回筆を置いたら支持体から離さない、一筆描き
2 桜の森の満開の下
本を読む人:飯岡幸子 提案者:ゆびな　読み方:1人で真ん中で読む　描き方:色んな色を使う
3 桜の森の満開の下
本を読む人:だつお 提案者:村田萌菜　読み方:場所は自由、一行づつ飛ばして読む　描き方:利き手と反対で描き
4 桜の森の満開の下
本を読む人:Jang-Chi 提案者:和田信太郎　読み方:遠いところから大きな声でゆっくり　描き方:このテーブルから離れる
5 桜の森の満開の下
本を読む人:長谷川義朗 提案者:秋山伸　読み方:雪を額に付けて、口を閉じないで読む　描き方:雪を握りながら読む
6 桜の森の満開の下
本を読む人:川村和秀 提案者:松浦昇　読み方:棒読みでめちゃくちゃ早口　描き方:眺める
7 石の思い
本を読む人:メグ忍者 提案者:中島あかね　読み方:読んだところを行ったり来たりしながら読む　描き方:外で紙をお腹の上に乗せて描き
8 石の思い
本を読む人:中島あかね 提案者:メグ忍者　読み方:読んだところを行ったり来たりしながら読む　描き方:画材を使わないで描く、皆んなで歩きながら
9 石の思い
本を読む人:松浦昇 提案者:川村和秀　読み方:出来るだけ感情的に読む　描き方:声を出しながら描く
10 石の思い
本を読む人:村田萌菜 提案者:長谷川義朗　読み方:すごくゆっくり読む　描き方:全員で１つの紙に描く
11 石の思い
本を読む人:秋山伸（描く人） 提案者:Jang-Chi 読み方:皆んなで読む　描き方:秋山さんが描く
12 石の思い
本を読む人:和田信太郎 提案者:だつお　読み方:名詞を強調しながら早口で読む　描き方:1段落につき1人1ストロークごと描く

Held a solo exhibition "Hands of Waves" on the theme of "the sea" that he has been thinking since the Great East Japan Earthquake. In the solo exhibition, micro plastic samples were collected at Omori Beach (Tokyo) and Kujukurihama (Chiba), and used as the material of the work to produce three-dimensional works reminiscent of "the sea" such as surfboards and Kamaboko(processed fish paste).
 In micro plastic, mass-produced plastic flows out into the sea as waste, is trapped in waves, becomes powdery, and is accumulated inside life in the food chain. Citing from Federico Fellini's movie "Kasanova", this cycle was newly conceived from the scene where the main character Casanova and the participants go around the womb using a projector in the cage of a creature.
The installation is a narrative works that breathes into the immobile creatures of the sea and revives again while collecting large and small units and recovering the spread of incised material.

 
Exhibition：Hands that Swallow Even the Waves
Date：January 30 – February 10, 2019
Venue：Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo
http://www.ongoing.jp/ja/artcenter/gallery/index.php?itemid=685

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” 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.
 
 

The artist's book, “Machines dwell in humans” examines stones and pigeons, nieces, bows and songs. A book depicting ancient customs and beliefs and contemporary matters, and depicting illustrations.

In the video of the monitor, the history of the modern Olympics is referred to from photographs and caricatures published in the newspaper, and actions and language in urban stadiums such as market and racetrack are shown  as humanity’s actions that has continued since ancient times. Three performers imitate gestures in response to the images on the monitor, using sponge objects that represent the city in a humanoid shape and color cones and masks  that symbolize the myths.
 

Hyper Popular Art Stand Play

OLTA develop from 2017 and investigate the phenomena that cause laughter in everyday life.
They will clarify the unconscious gesture of the body that occur in urban life and the random situations brought about by artificially set up temporary street objects.

 

 
Produced by OLTA
 
Date : 2018. October 19th  17:30－ (Duration : about 40min.)
Venue : BWA Awangarda, Wroclaw, Poland
https://bwa.wroc.pl/?tf_events=performans-stand-play-vol-2Theater
 
Exhibition: Limited Vision
Duration: October 2018
Venue: National Forum of Music(Wroclaw, POLAND)
https://limitedvision.weebly.com

A sound installation exhibited at “Bangkok Biennial 2018 BARRAK:survibes”. From the two suspended speakers, the sound of the Sansab canal(คลองแสนแสบ), which separates the Buddhist area and the Islamic area, are popular as a tourist destination in Bangkok. Attach the bell purchased at the market or temple to the vibrating part of the speaker, and the bell will make a noise each time a large noise is emitted.
Vimeo：https://vimeo.com/332837500

 
Performance in the “souvenir” installation. Sounds of breathing and stamping on the ground and sounds of hitting the body are collected by a microphone.After those sounds was pronounced from the speaker of the installation. The performer’s movement causes the speaker to howling and generates noise.
Vimeo：https://vimeo.com/332837030
 
Exhibition：Bangkok Biennial 2018 “BARRAK:survibes”
Date：2018 September 1 ー 24
Event Date: September 14 ー 16
Venue：White Line(Bangkok,Thailand)

“Stand play” is an attempt to describe things and situations that produce laugh from ordinarily life, and to replay the relationships created by the city’s functions and the body expanded by the media.A performer who put on a tabi(traditional Japanese socks), focusing on the simple use of things such as pylons and plastic bottles in the city, actions on groups such as betting, functions of signals and disaster prevention radios, and people’s gestures and conversations in those environments. They play a social role brought about by laughter in Noh theater.
 

Produced by OLTA
Video Camera : IIOKA Yukiko, MURATA Moena
Video Edit : IIOKA Yukiko, MEGUNINJA(OLTA)
Date : 2018. July. 23th（ Mon.）
Venue : KAWASAKI Noh Theater (JAPAN)
Organized by：OLTA, Drawing lab Wroclaw, Limited Vision
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

paper, cloth, pen, colored pencil, thread, ink

 
Exhibition：BARRAK INDEPENDANTS
Date：June 15ー24, 2018
Venue：BARRAK, OKINAWA
https://www.barrakindependands.com/home

Exibition:Oborogena gaisensu -Herikustumeita niku-
Date：May 22 – June 17, 2018
Venue：honkbooks, Tokyo
https://honkbooks.com/saito-takafumi/
May 27 (sun)18:00-19:30
Talk Event
guest:KANAGAWA Shingo（photographer）
admission：￥500
June 3 (sun)
18:00-20:00
workshop event”How to eat”
guest:Ryouta Yamada（poets）
admission：￥1000
 
June 16 (sat),17(sun)
15:00-15:20 19:00-19:20
artist talk
admission:free
 
 
Exhibition：Oborogena gaisensu
Date：December 2 – 13, 2015
Venue：Art Center Onging, Tokyo
6,Dec (sun)
Pre Ongoing School
Artist talk
admission：￥1500 (with cake and one drink)
13,Dec (sun)
15:00～
Workshop event
admission：￥1000（with one drink）
https://www.ongoing.jp/tag/video/oboroge/
 
 

Collaboration with OPEN CIRCUIT
“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 cards.
 
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

Collaboration with OPEN CIRCUIT
“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 cards.
 
Date: December 16, 17 2017
Venue: ELEPHANT SPACE , Seoul
 
 

Sound installation with multiple speakers and live performance using a microphone. A table tennis table and a motor etc. are installed in the hall, the sound of those sounds and the action performed there is recorded, it is made to sound again by several speakers live, and it mixes with the sound of the microphone performance.
Vimeo : https://vimeo.com/332844583
 
Event : Draw!The Party!From White!
Date : 2017 December 23
Venue : The Cave. (Yokohama,Kanagawa)

Stand Play : Lottery Stand

Hyper Popular Art Stand Play

OLTA develop from 2017 and investigate the phenomena that cause laughter in everyday life.They will clarify the unconscious gesture of the body that occur in urban life and the random situations brought about by artificially set up temporary street objects.

Exhibition：Twenty Year’s of the TARO Award/Twenty Enfants Terrible
Date：2017 March 12ー June 18
Venue：Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Tokyo
 
3331 Art Fair
Date：2017 March 17ー20
Venue：3331Arts Chiyoda

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.

Styrofoam, back light film, LED lighting, acrylic board, cage, bondage, etc.
“Port island” is an uninhabited island made by dredge soil located in the middle of the Port of Nagoya. Inspired from a discovery of a skeltonized bird, keywords of the work are “uninhabited island” and “bones”.The venue was formerly on arthopedic clinic, which strangely links to OLTA’s background that have been exhibiting works related to bodies.
In this work, a room in which a person resides was interpreted as an inhabited island, and details of the room were collected as photographs. Various objects of the room were abstracted and converted via various transformation methods, such as the 3D printer or paper-craft software, which then became returned inside the room. The room also has radiographs scattered around, taken by finding rugged surfaces of the orthopedic clinic and turning the area into a light box. Viewers will be swaying back and forth between somebody’s room and elsewhere, creating a platform of recreation and reunion.
 
Exhibition : Assembridge NAGOYA 2016 Exhibition
PANORAMA GARDEN Discovering Signs in an Alternative Ecosystem
Duration : 2016 Sep. 22th – Oct. 23th
Venue : Around the Nagoya Subway TSUKIJIGUCHI Station to NAGOYAKO(Port of Nagoya)Station area
Document pdf
http://assembridge.nagoya/2018/wp-content/themes/assembridge/pdf/AN2016_Document.pdf

iron, video film, container, bell, paper, wood, motor, etc
 
“Walking Cascade” is an attempt to intervene in the exchange of act and appreciation through physical and digital media records. In the newly devised stage, videotape films continue to run around, like a waterfall. The two elements of the waterfall, the reflection of water as it falls and the precipitation after it has fallen, account for the diffusion and accumulation of information in the network.
 
OLTA gives a performance inspired by Rokusai Nenbutsu Odori, a traditional Japanese Buddhist folk dance that is performed mainly by farmers in Western Japan. In spite of its variety of forms and traditions, it is often the case that a group of a few people visit each house in a village and dance all night accompanied by drums, bells, and flutes.
 
In their performance, the members dance to the sound of their own voices and original instruments improvised from the objects such as video cameras, smartphones, bells, reels, plastics and etc. One person chants 5 words “stream of water-traveling-in motion-group-flow down” each of which has its own image of movement and gesture. Performances are reproduced from the coordination and difference of collective arrangements with speech, instruments and gestures.
 
Performance is played using three structures and two screens. The performers are divided into three dancers and three recorders, and the recorded tape is played back, rewinded, fast-forwarded, and edited by changing the tape on the spot.The continual transformation and updating of the meaning are actualized on site through the performance and its subsequent replay; through the video on which the performance is recorded and its replay; and through the bodies of the viewers encountering the installation.
 
Exhibition : BUSAN BIENNALE 2016 Hybridizing Earth Discussing Multitude
Project 2- F1963
Exhibition Period : 2016. 9. 3. – 2016. 11. 30.
Exhibition Venue : Busan Museum of Art, F1963(KISWIRE Suyeong Factory), KOREA
 
http://www.busanbiennale.org/BBOCen/index.php?pCode=MN2000154&pg=3&mode=view&idx=2090
 
 

“Walking Cascade-Replay” 

“Walking Cascade-Retrospective”

 

 

Exhibition : Expanded Memory
Exhibition Period: 2017. 11. 4. – 2017. 11. 18.
Exhibition Venue: Sansumunhwa, Seoul, KOREA
http://sansumunhwa.com/expanded_m/

 

 
 

Exhibition : Cartanative Space

Date : 2016.06.24［Fri］ – 2016.07.30［Sat］

Venue : nap gallery, Tokyo

http://napgallery.jp/en/exhibitions/cartanative-space/

Exhibition：Beyond the tangible
Duration：2016 June 3rd – July 3rd
Venue：Zuiun-an
Curation：YOSHIOKA Emiko
Cooperation： NISHIEDA FOUNDATION, Kyoto Seika University
https://www.n-foundation.or.jp/2016-1
 
“Reproduced laughing”
Laughter has human nature and social role, and many philosophers have defined humans as “animals who know to laugh” since ancient times. Henri Bergson writes that laughter can be assumed to be two conflicting, stiff feelings in one human being. Focusing on the group nature and social role that laughter has, we reproduced the laughter phenomena and gestures we witnessed in various places in everyday life with voice and gestures.
 
“My QR code”
The QR code drawn on the body connects to the SNS Line account “laughing”. There, you can see the video taken on a daily basis with a theme of laughter.
 
workshop”Laughing replica”
In the video work of the exhibition, OLTA looks for the nature and phenomena of “laughing” in the society, the self and others, and the emotions and functions caused by “laughing”. In the workshop, while touching the world of the works of OLTA and thinking about “laughing”, each expresses the image of “laughing” with a drawing or a mask.
 
Date：June 18th 14:00-18:00
Venue：Zuiun-an

ARTIST WORKSHOP @KCUA  Pawel Althamer + Artur Zmijewski
Exhibition : House of Day, House of Night
Duration : 2016.1.9 (Sat) – 2.7 (Sun)
Venue : KYOTO CITY UNIVERSITY OF ARTS ART GALLERY @KCUA
Artist: Pawel ALTHAMER, Artur ZMIJEWSKI, OLTA, NISHIYAMA Yukiko, NIWA Yoshinori, MASUMOTO Yasuto, MATSUDA Masanori, Sho Minase
http://gallery.kcua.ac.jp/exhibitions/20160109_id=7860#en
http://gallery.kcua.ac.jp/projects/20150706_id=6203#en
 
“Crucifixion of bread”
Mix flour and stick to bamboo. We make fire at the riverside of Kamogawa, Kyoto and bake flour, and make “Crucifixion of bread”. We will carry it from Arashiyama to the waterfall of Kuuya and make it hit the waterfall.
 
“Untitled”
Based on the concept of meaninglessness, we combine several pieces of origami to create a Buddha statue. At a shrine or temple, priests burn old charms and other things with praying once a year. We bring it to temple (Setsubun festival) in Kyoto and burn it.

Photographed the film work “The Ghost Trio” by Samuel Beckett at Nishijima Residence. At the billiard Yamazaki of Nishiogikubo in Tokyo, put the number of the person and the layout figure in the script of “The Ghost Trio” to the number of the ball and play 8-ball. The ghost trio set in the room is extended to the city with the trajectory of the ball.
 
Date : 21-25. Oct.2015. 14:00-21:00
Duration of research: 1-31.August,
Venue : Pool hall YAMAZAKI(3-19-6, Nishiogikita, Suginamiku, Tokyo), Nisiogi Residence(4F, 3-18-10, Nisiogikita, Suginamiku, Tokyo)
http://teratotera.jp/events/西荻レヂデンス-∥-幽霊トリオをうつ∥/

 
Collaboration with Leif Holmstrand
The huge cradle, which is a pair of two people, has a shape in which the two upper bodies are united. In the cradle, bones made of sponges and ropes, imitations of the bones of a baby carriage, baby carriages, and a combination of them are added, and they are hardened with gypsum and clay. As the performance progresses, the structure of the cradle repeatedly transforms collapse and reconstruction.Based on fake bones that are made as dog food and toys, they are made from various materials such as plaster and sponge, and reproduced. FAKE BONES is transported, consumed, exchanged and produced as a substitute for labor and money.Share, bond and crawl on the same diapers as each other. It carries food, debris, firewood etc. falling on the floor and creates a new circulation in the hall.
 
OLTA & Leif Holmstrand
Performance : FAKE BONES
Date: Sep 17th – 26th, 2015
Duration: 2h
Place: Lilith Performance Studio, Bragegatan 15, Malmo, SWEDEN
Review of FAKE BONES in Sydsvenskan (in Swedish)
www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur–nojen/scenkonst/scenrecensioner/utflippat-verk-om-sokandet-efter-ben/
In FAKE BONES, magic rituals around eating, physicality, birth and death are faked.
Here ritual cooking, cooking shows, oracle activities and dissolution of both time and personality are faked in an ongoing process. Plastic bones, rawhide bones for dogs and boned strollers are present.
For several weeks, they will on site create an universe with common interests related to biology, shamanism, radioactive mutations, fantasies of the body, eating, dissolve the ego boundaries, bio-politics and an open eye for beauty and reproduction of weirdness, where Holmstrand’s imagery melts together with OLTA’s.
The visitors are invited to their common organism in which Leif carefully disassembles several prams and cook them, fry, boil, bake them with more possible food. The pram food is served to the audience and to OLTA, that builds and improvises along with Holmstrand in a long fragmented collage like cycle where sound, voice and poetry becomes a central element.
In his art, Leif Holmstrand (born in 1972, lives and works in Malm?) combines traditional textile art with a fascination for horror movies and burlesque popular culture. In crochet and knitting, Holmstrand creates objects, covers and clothing impossible to wear. He coats and wraps objects and bodies in rope, yarn and cord. His works are characterized by an abnormal and paranoid corporality with a dark relation to sexuality and the surrounding world. The themes in his works are similar irrespective of mode of expression: a dreamlike dissolution of gender, where he tries to find and stretch the cultural and biological boundaries of the body. 
In OLTA’s work the man’s relationship to nature, the primary conditions of existence and the Japanese culture and pop culture are recurring starting points. 
OLTA consists of seven artists born in the 80s, which all lives and works in Tokyo.
The Art Collective was formed in 2009 and since then the group have made a series of solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in Japan.
 
Lilith Performance Studio
lilithperformancestudio.com
Leif Holmstrand
www.leifholmstrand.se
 

Tokyo is changing rapidly. Regulations may increase and it may become stricter to express freely. At the river side is no longer able to fire. Mankind began with the creation of a fire. She would like to think about how it is possible to fire in a place where it can not fire.

Date: 2017 May 14 16:00-19:00
Venue: Tama River green area (nearest station: Keikyu Rokugodote)
Contents: survey, observation, reconnaissance, creation, cooperation, meeting, reading, eating, shooting, recording, writing, writing, depiction, action, exercise ...
Participants: Kanie Naha, KIMURA Nao, DOKUYAMA Bontaro, YAMAMOTO Yuu, WATANABE Atsushi, una, OLTA
Curation: MEGUNINJA

“Landscape with an Eye see a Landscape”  is the motif of the the  “Landscape with an Eye” by Aimitsu who is Japanese  painter. Since 1935, he began to draw a series of lions, carrying his child back to Ueno Zoo in Tokyo. A work drawn in a form that seems to be a lion is “Landscape with Eye” and was exhibited in 1938 at the “8th Independent Art Exhibition” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. We see the landscape in paintings, but in this painting the landscape (work) is watching us (the audience). Through the tale of a work called “Landscape with Eye”, we launch the scene we are watching now.
 
Exhibition: TWS-NEXT @tobikan – Missing Panther
Date: 2015.02.19(Thu) – 2015.03.07(Sat
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gallery B, B3F space 
Organize: Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
https://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp/en/archive/exhibition/2015/20150219-4724.html
“Landscape with an Eye”
http://search.artmuseums.go.jp/records.php?sakuhin=4649

Les anneaux d’un serpent sont encore plus compliqués que les trous d’une taupinière.
────“L’Autre Journal”n°l, mai 1990, Gilles Deleuze
 
Represent a state of thought suspension and dysfunction in urban life as a brain-dead city.
 
Foundation of radio wave
Water is poured into the skull from the radio tower modeled on Sky Tree, and the heart squeals the sound, representing the city’s body. The skull and heart become aluminum sculptures.
 
Gramophone of lung
Sounds of traffic lights, warning sounds and environmental sounds that regulate the city. The form that links the lung tube to the horn of the gramophone is an image that is closely related to the body and media and has been extended to inorganic.
 
Zero yen note
The design is based on the absence of urban dysfunction. The signs of fog out, traffic lights that do not copy the humanoid between the brains, emergency buttons that are not pushed, and overturned war abandonment. “Zero yen note” is the hommageof the work ” The great Japanese zero yen note” by Genpei Akasegawa.
 
Exhibition: Snake Spiral
Duration: February 6 – March 8 2015
Venue: Nadiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
http://www.nadiff.com/gallery/olta.html
 
Talk Event: 
Guest: Kato Yoshihiro/Zero Dimension
Date: February 28 2015 18:00-20:00

Landscape ripping-Spectacle catapillar tower-(2014)
Collaboration work by Datsuo and MEGUNINJA
Video：10min.
Photo：Inkjet print
Rebuild the relationship between cities and towers. The magnificent worm tower that crawled from the ground of the city spreads the roots in the ground without hesitation and destroys the landscape. Nourishing tower radio waves, worm towers will continue to proliferate, new worlds will prevail.
 
 
Exhibition：shibukaru2014
Date：October 17ー26, 2014
Venue：Shibuya PARCO
 
Exhibition：MEC Award 2015(Media Explorer Challenge Award 2015)
Date：March 7ー29, 2015
Venue：SKIP CITY Visual Museum, Saitama, JAPAN
 
 

Landscape ripping-Bug delier barrier-(2012)
Collaboration work by Datsuo and MEGUNINJA
Video：5min.57sec.
Dome：130×200cm
Performance：1h30min.
 
In the city of Shibuya, a small transparent mass intersects with the lattice dome.
Pictures are drawn one after another in the view seen through the lens in the city of Shibuya.
The lines connect the world by drawing on the landscape.
Blow a whistle in a crowd. The conversation is being conducted by a whistle.
A small transparent mass made by two people meets a lattice dome, and several layers overlap.
 
Exhibition：shibukaru2012
Date：October 19ー29, 2012
Venue：Shibuya PARCO
 
Performance：PARCO destroyed, barrier free skype
Date：October 21 15:00-16:30
 
Datsuo / Aoyagi Natsumi
https://datsuo.com

Collaboration work by Byungseo Yoo and SAITO Takafumi
 
In this exhibition, they create works that mention political themes while securing the madness common to them. They catch the raw eggs, but one after another, they fall from the other hand and crack, and the ground becomes dull and dirty, and two moped cars with two riders pass by. A work that can be said to be a metaphor of the relationship between them, such as an image of hitting metal bats, is presented.
 
Exhibition：When a dog heads west, the tail points east.
Date：July 30 – August 10, 2014
Venue：Art Center Onging, Tokyo
https://www.ongoing.jp/artist/takafumi-saito/
 
 
《Yakete kekko》
Video : ２min.26sec.
 
Screening：Experimental Film and Video Festival In Seoul
LAB Program 1  Space Cell 　Program 1  （Artist Collaboration）
Date：August 4 – September 4, 2014
Venue：KOREAN FILM ARCHIVE  Theatre No.2、Seoul
http://cargocollective.com/exis2014/____Spacecell-1
 
Screening：COVERD TOKYO:Hikarie
Date：November5-10, 2014  11:00-20:00
Venue：Hikarie, Tokyo
 
개가 서쪽을 바라보면 꼬리는 동쪽 when a dog heads west, the tail points east _유병서 & 다카후미 사이토 Yoo, Byung-Seo & Takafumi Saito
Korea & Japan / 2014 / Color / Sound / 30 mins / Single Channel digital(4 episodes)
Description
드로잉과 조각, 영상과 퍼포먼스의 복합장르로 구성된 필름 퍼포먼스. 일본의 젊은 작가 다카후미 사이토와 유병서(한국)가 한-일간 정치적 관계에서 파생된 역사적 사건, 재앙을 모티브로 공동작업을 선보인다.
퍼포먼스는 2014년 8월, 도쿄 소재의 갤러리 art center ongoing 에서 진행된 전시 <개가 동쪽을 바라보면 꼬리는 서쪽>을 서울에서 재현하는 것으로, 이 두 개의 프로젝트는 서로 댓구를 이루며, 계속 진행될 예정인 두 작가의 공동작업의 연장선상에 놓인다. 한-일 양국에서, 특히 젊은 세대를 중심으로 급속하게 확산중인 우경화 현상을 비평적 지점으로 삼는 이 작업은 역사적 사건의 예술적 재현, 첨예하게 대립중인 한-일간의 현실정치 상황에서의 예술의 가능성에 대해 다루고 있다.
This film performance uses various forms of media such as drawing, sculpture, moving image, performance. Takafumi Saito and Yoo Byung-Seo present this collaboration project that was motivated by historical events originating from the political relationship between Japan and Korea. This is part of an ongoing performance project shown for the first time at an art center in Tokyo. The duo deal with the possibility of artistic intervention and how artists change deeply divided political representations.

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/
 

Drawing, Performance
In Korea, there is a ritual “Gut” involving offerings and sacrifices to gods, spirits and ancestors. The ceremonial shaman, Mudan, spins in ritual. It held in 12 parts festivals. 
The last of the 12-Shi (Chinese zodiac) was chicken, dog and pig. 
The image “Divide into 12 equal circulations” add the last animal of the Chinese zodiac to the circle.
 
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
 
16th Seoul Marginal Theater Festival
Title： Camp:Space become Lion
Collaboration with Miwansung Project
Duration：July 15th – July 17th, 2014 19:30 – 21:30
https://vimeo.com/manage/203779988/general
 
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/
 

“Tiger Alive?” Is taken from Nam June Paik’s works”. “Tiger lives” is an image work that uses a common image of the culture and history of South and North Korea, and the words “Kill” and “Kiss” are put into equation in the drawing of “Paper TV Show 1974”. In Korea during the Japanese colonial period from 1910 to 1945, there were built many buildings such as Joseon Jingu which was in Namsan(Nam Mountain), the main bank of Joseon Bank (now the main bank of Korea Bank), Gyeonggi Station (now the former station of Seoul Station). In Seoul, they visit the building carrying the figure of a tiger that has been divided into four. They dismantle the tiger as a symbol of Kill and Kiss.
 
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
 
16th Seoul Marginal Theater Festival
Title： Camp:Space become Lion
Collaboration with Miwansung Project
Duration：July 15th – July 17th, 2014 19:30 – 21:30
https://vimeo.com/manage/203779988/general
 
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.
 
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/

After producing “Tiger Alive?” In Korea, they tries to kiss the Japanese Parliament, but they are stopped by security guards. Instead of not being able to kiss, they say “Tiger Alive!”
 
Exhibition: TWS-NEXT @tobikan – Missing Panther
Date: 2015.02.19(Thu) – 2015.03.07(Sat
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gallery B, B3F space
Organize: Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
https://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp/en/archive/exhibition/2015/20150219-4724.html
“Landscape with an Eye”
http://search.artmuseums.go.jp/records.php?sakuhin=4649
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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
 
16th Seoul Marginal Theater Festival
Title： Camp:Space become Lion
Collaboration with Miwansung Project
Duration：July 15th – July 17th, 2014 19:30 – 21:30
https://vimeo.com/manage/203779988/general
 
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
Date: 2014.10.29.Wed – 11.10.Mon
Shibuya Hikarie 8F 8/
http://coveredtokyo.com/ja/
 

5min.31sec.
There is a market where our daily lives connect to others. We made the costume “KOGI Man”. Kogi(Korean word) means meat. We bought vegetables and fishes at the Jungang market and attach to the costume by the skin of the pig. 
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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
 
16th Seoul Marginal Theater Festival
Title： Camp:Space become Lion
Collaboration with Miwansung Project
Duration：July 15th – July 17th, 2014 19:30 – 21:30
https://vimeo.com/manage/203779988/general
 
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
 
Exhibition: TWS-NEXT @tobikan – Missing Panther
Date: 2015.02.19(Thu) – 2015.03.07(Sat
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gallery B, B3F space
Organize: Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
https://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp/en/archive/exhibition/2015/20150219-4724.html
“Landscape with an Eye”
http://search.artmuseums.go.jp/records.php?sakuhin=4649
 
Screening: COVERED TOKYO : Hikarie, 2014
Date: 2014.10.29.Wed – 11.10.Mon
Shibuya Hikarie 8F 8/
http://coveredtokyo.com/ja/
 

we draw the wall painting with the artist Han Seokhyun and Byungseo Yoo at the street in Itaewon, Seoul. Free Live paintings on the first day was rejected by the residents nearby. Because a messy impression of wall paintings detracts from the landscape.
 On the second day, we draw a rose. It is a homage of the work of Joseph Beuys”We won’t do it without the rose”.
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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：COVERED TOKYO : Hikarie, 2014
2014.10.29.Wed – 11.10.Mon
Shibuya Hikarie 8F 8/
http://coveredtokyo.com/ja/

“I Like Korea and Korea Likes me”
Put up the placard “I Like Korea and Korea likes me” at the parade of anti-hate speeches held at the same time in Tokyo and Seoul (Korea). The text  is inspired from Joseph Beuys’s work title “I Like America and America Likes me”.
After that, similar message on both sides of the placard in both languages are draw, and walk through Tsuruhashi, Osaka(Japan) and Gwangju (Korea).
 
“We won’t do it without the rose”
We draw the wall painting with the artist Han Seokhyun and Byungseo Yoo at the street in Itaewon, Seoul. Free Live paintings on the first day was rejected by the residents nearby. Because a messy impression of wall paintings detracts from the landscape.On the second day, we draw a rose. It is a homage of the work of Joseph Beuys”We won’t do it without the rose”.
 
“KOGI Man”
There is a market where our daily lives connect to others. We made the costume “KOGI Man”. Kogi(Korean word) means meat. We bought vegetables and fishes at the Jungang market and attach to the costume by the skin of the pig.
 
“Tiger Alive?”
“Tiger Alive?” Is taken from Nam June Paik’s works”. “Tiger lives” is an image work that uses a common image of the culture and history of South and North Korea, and the words “Kill” and “Kiss” are put into equation in the drawing of “Paper TV Show 1974”. In Korea during the Japanese colonial period from 1910 to 1945, there were built many buildings such as Joseon Jingu which was in Namsan(Nam Mountain), the main bank of Joseon Bank (now the main bank of Korea Bank), Gyeonggi Station (now the former station of Seoul Station). In Seoul, they visit the building carrying the figure of a tiger that has been divided into four. They dismantle the tiger as a symbol of Kill and Kiss.After producing “Tiger Alive?” in Korea, they tries to kiss the Japanese Parliament, but they are stopped by security guards. Instead of not being able to kiss, they say “Tiger Alive!”
 
“Divide into 12 equal circulations”
In Korea, there is a ritual “Gut” involving offerings and sacrifices to gods, spirits and ancestors. The ceremonial shaman, Mudan, spins in ritual. It held in 12 parts festivals.
The last of the 12-Shi (Chinese zodiac) was chicken, dog and pig. The image “Divide into 12 equal circulations” add the last animal of the Chinese zodiac to the circle.
 
“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（Seoul, KOREA）
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.
 
Video Screening
COVERED TOKYO : Hikarie, 2014
2014.10.29.Wed – 11.10.Mon
Shibuya Hikarie 8F 8/
http://coveredtokyo.com/ja/

 
“GHOST OF MODERN” takes place in various abandoned sites born of the ideologies of modern society. Ghosts go from city to city, causing the historical problems and distortions in the background of western modernization to emerge as current issues. We ask people’s whereabouts from the events that could occur in various places. “GHOST OF MODERN” produced in the winter of 2013 is a ghost that wears a rag of felt visit German ruins, geodetic observation towers, concentration and extermination camps, Chernobyl nuclear power plants,an unnamed tree in a public complex in Szczecin(collaboration with PLATEROWKA by Natalia Szostak) and Kiev ‘s Independence Square and move from town to town. The work consists of video installations and drawings.
 
Project Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Tadeusz Kantor
Homage to Kantor -Theater of Death
2015.10.10 (Sat) – 11.15 (Sun)
Artists : Pawel ALTHAMER, ISHIBASHI Yoshimasa, OLTA, Artur ZMIJEWSKI, NIWA Yoshinori, Miroslaw BALKA, MATSUI Chie, Joanna RAJKOWSKA
Venue(s)：@KCUA1, 2
Curated/planned by Kyoto City University of Arts ART GALLERY @KCUA and Akiko Kasuya
Organized by Kyoto City University of Arts
KYOTO CITY UNIVERSITY OF ARTS ART GALLERY @KCUA
https://gallery.kcua.ac.jp/en/archives/2015/2495/
Performance : Awake(GHOST OF MODERN)
Date：2015, October 11th(Sun.)
Venue : @KCUA2
 
Performance : GHOST OF MODERN in OMOTESANDO
Date：2015. May 16th
Venue：Omotesando, Yoyogi park, Tokyo
 
Exhibition: FAKE HIKERS
Date: Oct 27th – Nov 3rd, 2014
Place: MMCA Residency Changdong, Seoul, KOREA
https://stampsy.com/stamp/16719
 
TOKYO STORY 2014 Part 2
Date : 2014.06.14(Sat) – 2014.07.21(Mon)
Venue：TWS Hongo / TWS Shibuya
 
Exhibition: Distant Observations Fukushima in Berlin
Date: March 8th – April 27th, 2014
Place: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, GERMANY
Artist in Residence:
Tokyo Wonder Site Exchange Residency Program(Delegation) / Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, Berlin 2013-2014
Place: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
 
Performance: PLATEROWKA and GHOST OF MODERN
Collaboration with Natalia Szostak
Date: January 5th, 2014
Place: KANA Theater, Szczecin, Poland
http://www.nataliaszostak.com/olta.html

“Doki Man”
The video was filmed in the sea in front of the Mihama and Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui, JAPAN. Wear pottery made of clay and dive into the sea. Gradually the clay dissolve in water and the pots collapse.
 
Video “DOKI Man – Oi”
2013
6 min. 30 sec.
 
Video “DOKI Man – Mihama”
2013
3 min. 51 sec.
 
Exhibition: Hibino on side off side-Katsuhiko Hibino
Date: 2013 July 20 – October 6
Venue: TARO OKAMOTO MUSEUM of ART,Kawasaki, Kanagawa
http://www.taromuseum.jp/index.htm
 
“Shell Old Man”
It was installed in a fountain in front of a department store near a station in Kashiwa City, Chiba, where many shell mounds have been excavated. The barnacle eyes, deformed shells and natural sedimentation represent the world of diffused radiation after 3.11.
 
Exhibition: KASHIWA WAKUWAKU DEPARTMENT STORE
Date: October 16 – 29, 2012
Venue: Artline Kashiwa, Chiba

“ORGANELLA” had presented at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,Kanazawa in 2013. During the exhibition, OLTA had performed at the museum.ORGANELLA was based on the idea of evolution and the memory of life in the ancient time. With the idea, they had created a large scaled object and performed around, on and in it.
They aimed how people could share any close connections by searching solutions of how they could disconnect the many boundaries such as between landscape and body, subjectivity and objectivity, performer and audience ,and even the ancient time and the future through the performances.
 
ORGANELLA
The organs and earth strata are two sides of the same coin.
Like a great wave, they billow and twist.
Within that wave, biological memory arrives at me.
ORGANELLA
A word meaning little organ in a cell.
A “vessel” by which cells live in symbiosis.
The awesome, deep in biological memory, cause me to tremble.
ORGANELLA
In this vessel, gathering cells wriggle and squirm.
Eventually, they overflow from the body wall
And, wandering about, transform into premonition of a new body.
 
The performance played in the rain. The scene of the day was like a three-dimensional objects, which was expressed to wave the evolution of life, like swimming in the ocean. The drawing is “Swimming in the Boreal Sea” (2013). A person who is embedded in the daphnia goes back to the memory of the fetus and dreams of the origin of life.
 
http://www.olta.jp/organella/english.html
 
Group Exhibition : “Visceral Sensation-Voices So Far,So Near”
Period : Saturday April 27,2013-Sunday September 1,2013
Venue : 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,Kanazawa
Artist : Louise BOURGEOIS / CHO Shinta / Nathalie DJURBERG ＆ Hans BERG /KATO Izumi / KUSAMA Yayoi / Ana MENDIETA / NAKAGAWA Yukio / Saskia OLDE WOLBERS / OLTA / Pipilotti RIST / SHIGA Lieko / Bill VIOLA / WATANABE Kikuma
https://www.kanazawa21.jp/data_list.php?g=78&d=114

530×455mm, oil on canvas
When I sit in the chair in the dining room, the dog my family used to have comes crawling on the floor. He stretches his back as if he is a long table, and he invites me to a noble dogfood tasting party.
 
2273×1620mm. oil on canvas
At the feet, there is a puddle of bed wetting. it reflects the light and gleam that the TV gives out.
 
1620×1303mm, oil on canvas
I. that lost myself in the forest, am another forest
 
Date：October 14ーNovember 11, 2012
Venue：akibatamabi21, Tokyo
http://www.akibatamabi21.com/exhibition/121014.htm

This work is themed around a seafood restaurant the artists uncle is running in Obama City, Fukui Prefecture. It all started with arequest to create a sign to be put up at the storefront, eventually resulting in a large picture crammed with various images related the region, ranging from the japanese mermaid legend “Yaobikuni” to US President Obama(for the similarity of names),and the”Sabatora Nanachan” character advertising a local fish specialty. Avideo shows the uncle as he talks enthusiastically about the restaurant’s past and future. The prosperous sea that he is so proud of is at once a place where the generation of nuclear power has been supporting the regional economy. Personal history revolving around the sea and the family,and the raw politics of nuclear energy flow together to define a peculiar vision that could only be realized through a blood relationship,and based on which this work was constructed.
Text by Mika Kuraya
 
Exhibition：TOKYO  WONDER SITE EMERGING 2012
Date：August 4ー26, 2012
Venue：TOKYO WONDER SITE Hongo

Collaboration work and exhibition with three members of alternative space “Gell alterna”.
11 members of OLTA and Gell alterna became fictional authors, and they wrote a story. An exhibition based on the produced story was held.
https://gellalterna.wixsite.com/gellalterna/blank-4

“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
 
 

wood, water, hose, single pipe, etc
(H)4500×(W)4300×(D)20200mm
Date：March 20 – 23, 2012
Venue：Tama Art University
 
Exhibition：The Changes of Everyday
Date：March 26ー31, 2012
Venue：BankART Studio NYC, Yokohama
https://sites.google.com/site/nichijounohenyou/home

Mixed media, variable size

Styrofoam, Lacquer liquid, Soil clay, Concrete block, Wire mesh, Sand clay, etc

The house sheds tears, and the tears make it to the sea. The sea eventually begins to swallow the city and swirls. Clay is packed tightly in the wire mesh. It's true that it's someone, but I don't know who it was. There is no footprint, someone leave.

Bringing the faces of six people to create a mobile gallery. It will be held in various places from 2011.
 
Art Fair Tokyo 2014, 2014
 
“WakuWaku SHIBUYA” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, 2011
 
Bigakko、island laputa, 2011

At the work “Bagworm studio”, one or two people take turns replacing, and draw pictures on plastic board, dice and matches every day.
Familiar objects in the Japanese farm such as a scarecrow, bagworm, eggplant, and a wild bore are reproduced by putting a vinyl tape on a metal plate.
Exhibition: “Golden Nostalgia”
Duration: November 23 – December 25,2011
Venue: nap gallery, Tokyo
http://napgallery.jp/en/artists/olta/

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

Exibition“Moeru Yamada to Nekomanma”
June 19th – July 25st, 2010
Opening Hours 12:00 – 19:00 (Friday Saturday at 20:00)
Venue Akibatamabi21, 3331 Arts Chiyoda 201,202

Opening event “Honki・CLUB☆Inasaku”
June 19th 18:00 – 20:00

Symposium “Gokigen☆YOU”
July 3rd 17:00 – 19:00
Panelist=Satoimo senpai(Kousai Hori・Professor at Tama Art University)×Nekomanma Yamada(Noi Sawaragi)×OLTA
 
http://www.akibatamabi21.com/exhibition/100725.htm

Dressed up by young people in the countryside, unarranged environments that spread to the suburbs are reproduced , influenced by pop-culture and sub-culture of Japan.
Music Videos  “INASAKU ondo”
 

 
The 4th Emerging Artist Support Program 2009
Duration: March 6 – April 25 2010
Venue: Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo
https://tokyoartsandspace.jp/archive/exhibition/2010/20100306-5066.html
March 6: 17:00-19:00
Opening Event: “Club☆Harvest”,
April 25: 17:00－19:00
Closing Event: “Dedication☆Night” 
OLTA presents their seventh exhibition, “Rice Field”, a presentation of dynamic and energetic pieces, inspired by the growing of rice. The event will include an opening party “Club☆Harvest”, an even to pray for a good harvest, and also will include a closing party “Dedication☆Night”. 
 

“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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