Participants Up to Date

Super barrier-free rock♫ A super barrier-free rock and roll band that prays for world peace for the happiness of future children and all of us

Expressions through our bodies. It is an activity that begins with putting hands and hands together, and then expresses it together with the whole body and expands communication while feeling the warmth. Regardless of disability or age, we will freely connect with each other and create expressions as we feel.

We practice performance art as a means to freely respond to the reality of society with a variety of sensibilities and creates a new community where artists and audiences can experience the same atmosphere at a specific site. We build a language.

Balinese Dance. In order to bring the charm of traditional Balinese dance to new discoveries and encounters, we are working with core talented people in the Balinese dance world (gamelan, wayang, dancers) and 6 Japanese planning and public relations people. Sandi means “code” or “secret” in English. It means that all of us will be pioneers in Sutasoma development.

The concept of the theater company “Swimmy is still on a journey” is “an aquarium with only a frame.” This is a theater club that operates mainly in Ishinomaki City. We hope that theater culture will permeate the region and that theater will become a colorful part of daily life.

A folk performing art created by Japanese people who have been dancing at Warabi-za theatre company.

It started in 2012 after receiving Randoseru school backpacks as relief supplies. Its activities aim at preventing memories of the Great East Japan Earthquake from weathering. It has traveled to 20 destinations in Japan, Canada, and 8 countries in Southeast Asia, and is currently in a process of establishing its base in Mano Ward,Ishinomaki City, Japan.

Nice to meet you, we are RAN＊LENO. Two people with completely different types performed together live, and that was how the duo was formed. While Mako-chan plays various musical instruments, SAKUYA uses a wide range of voices as a vocalist. Listen to our resonant musical soul! We hope that you can detox your daily fatigue.

Hachijojima Taiko ♫ If you beat the drum and attract people, I’ll have something to say too!

Songs and dances. Elderly dance-loving Obāchan　(grandmas) dance with lots of energy and smiles. All choreography is our own work!

Delicious Vietnamese food prepared by the energetic Momo-chan, a celebrity from Ishinomaki City, and friends from Vietnam! Sorry for being sold out every year!

Enjoy the traditional taste of Bangladesh!

Born and raised in Chiba Prefecture, and moved to Ishinomaki after marrying his wife. Occasionally appears around DAIS on his bicycle which is his hobby. His main job is a real estate agent in town. Happened to come across “DAIS” when he decided to utilize a vacant old house with farmland.

This is MON. I’m from Myanmar. I am 23 years old. I have been working in Japan since I was 19 years old. I currently live in Chitose City, Hokkaido.

I am currently just a student who aspires to be an artist(in my whole life). I’ve been desiring to visit the world, connect and communicate my heart to the people and places, and learn more about it. Through this process, we discover the roots of humanity within our differences, the structure of the world, the way we exist, etc., and by communicating this to others as art, I believe that we can share and find a way to co-exist in this complex world.

We use local ingredients and interact with local people (regardless of whether you have a disability or not). We would like to work with everyone and spread the local food.

Singing and reading (a cappella). I’m SAKUYA., a multi-artist from Higashi Matsushima City. I would like to try my hand at a cappella and recitation, which I have continued to do during the COVID pandemic, solo for the first time in the great nature of the Mano area ^^

Based in Sendai City, he mainly plays the Shinobue Flute and Taiko drums. A former Warabi-za member, he became an instructor for the Japan Taiko Federation.

The Mano Ward mayor next door, relied on by everyone in the region. He loves farm fields and music.

A reliable neighbor who knows everything about farm fields and agricultural machinery.

Special Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Kyushu University). Specializes in art education and art management. After working as a middle and high school art teacher for 10 years, Kajiwara completed graduate school at Gunma University (education). Co-representative of the “Field Trip Project Executive Committee” to convey memories of the Great East Japan Earthquake. She practices and researches art projects that involve collaboration between people affected by disasters and disabilities, and those who are not. Her writing includes: Chie Kajiwara (2020) “A study on art education related to society II: Through the analysis of appreciation classes with the theme of disasters”, Japanese Art Education Research Collection, No. 53, pp. 131-138., etc.

I love farm fields and I love vegetables. Through Teawasanohara activities, we happened to gather at DAIS. Food is to receive life in order to live! While enjoying the activities at DAIS Farm, I would like to value encounters and connections and spread understanding of children and people with disabilities.

Gathering at DAIS Farm through my son’s connections! I work harder at weeding and roasting sweet potatoes for my son and everyone else than when I am at home. My main goal is to eat DAIS’s chestnuts (o^^o)

Born on April 7, 1997 in the Year of the Ox. Currently attending Daini Hitakamien, a facility for people with severe mental and physical disabilities. My favorite tasks are pulling out empty cans and playing drums as an art activity. I have met Teawasenohara and had a happy time surrounded by everyone’s smiling faces. I’m looking forward to Jabara and roasted sweet potatoes at DAIS. I worked hard on weeding and harvesting♪

After graduating from Miyagi University of Education’s Teacher Training Course for School Teachers for the Disabled, she worked as an elementary school teacher in Iwate Prefecture, and then as a classroom teacher at a support school and other schools, educating children with disabilities. She is the mother of a child with severe autism and intellectual disabilities. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, she has continued to work with children with disabilities and their families in Ishinomaki City and Higashimatsushima City through “Teawasenohara” activities, expanding the circle of activities in cooperation with welfare facilities and organizations in and outside of the prefecture. She has learned a lot from activities in which diverse people create expressions together, and now spends her time feeling that “expressing oneself” is indispensable for living.

Born on Friday, August 13, 1999. I am working hard at a living care facility, Kyoseien, removing labels from plastic bottles. I take pride in my work as a member of the management committee of Teawasenohara. At DAIS’s field, we worked hard digging potatoes.

Chodo-Festival Director. Born in Kobe. Belonged to Warabi-za for three decades, and currently a specialist instructor for artistic activities for people with disabilities.

Her nickname is Fumi Chan. Belonged to Warabi-za company for three decades. Currently works at a welfare facility for people with disabilities.

Director of MOST and the curator of Crossing Border Border Crossing International Festival of Intermedia in Hong Kong, and has been contributing writer for UP ON Chengdu International Live Art Festival, Kunming Biennale, Gwangju Biennale South Korea catalogue, Tashkent Biennale. He has made resentations at ARCO Madrid Art Expert International Forum, Guangzhou Triennial, Tashkent Biennale, Lianzhou Photo International Festival, Above the Clouds International Festival, Swift Media International Forum, etc. His writings have been published in journals such as Hinge-Hong Kong, Avantgarde China, Variance-Scotland, LEA- MIT on-line Media Journal, MAAP International Media Festival Singapore, Art 99 Taipei, to name some. His contributed curatorial projects include Xian Art Museum, HK Art Museum, Vietnam Art Museum Ho Chi Minh City, National Art Gallery Kuala Lumpur, ITPARK Artspace Taipei, Wha Shan Art District Taipei, Chaiyi Warehouse, Substation Singapore, BASH Beijing, Old Ladies House Macau.

Born in 1971, Béatrice Didier studied at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, taught and worked on several projects in performing arts. The encounter with Monica Klingler and then Boris Nieslony in 2005 brought her to Performance Art, which then became her main artistic medium. In solo or in group, Béatrice Didier has performed in many galleries/museums/academies or in the context of platforms, festivals, residencies throughout Europe as well as in Mexico, China, India, Myanmar,… Since 2014, Béatrice Didier has exhibited her work in Performance Art at Atelier Salzamt in Linz, 10/12 in Brussels and in the context of UPON festival in Chengdu. These projects brought her to create installations directly connected with her actions/ performances. Béatrice Didier is also member of PAErsche in Germany, Ricochets in Belgium and was curator/co-organiser of the platform ACTUS. and She also continues to develop an educational practice via performance art workshops.

Yuzuru Maeda (Japan) graduated from the LaSalle Collage of the Arts, Singapore in 2009 with a degree in music / composition. Since 2010, Maeda has been active with the Zentai Art Project and has created music video production, performance art, and music performance with the theme of Zentai in Asian countries. She organized the Zentai Art Festival since 2014 and hosted three exhibitions and performance events in Singapore. Maeda is also the organizer of a performance art event “Performance Resource Orchestrator” every year in Singapore since 2017. Maeda’s recent performances include Back Art Performance Art Biennale (Bangladesh), Asian Art Biennale (Bangladesh), 2017 Artregems International Performance Art Festival (Taiwan), and Sound art network (Singapore).

Miri Hamada (Japan) is an artist born in Kochi, Japan in 1992. She studied fine art in Musashino Art University then had stayed in Mexico City for 2 years. Mainly her work is performance and installation. She shows dynamic imagination with ordinary things in our life. The audience may find his own narrative which related with their experience or be confused because of her actions which are un clear their object. But this confusing will take them another imaginary place where is new for us.

Currently enrolled in the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Tama Art University. Creates sculptures emphasizing embodiment. Main exhibitions include “Namaensou (Live Music)/ Art Center Ongoing” and “The protagonists of a stopped era/ Museum of Art Students Fallen in Battle”.

Based in Toronto and Japan “I am an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is comprised of the exploration of nature and plausibility in contemporary society, and hinges on all kinds of double meanings. The duality of my approach is reflected by my life spent in Asia and North America, in juxtaposing and intermingling milieu of disparate and diverse cultural contexts such as critical social and environmental issues, Japanese heritage and pop, Renaissance / Baroque painting methods and ideologies. My work emphasizes process in terms of creativity, production and collaboration, and attempts to approach an understanding of context and environment.”

Born in Gunma Prefecture in 1979. Lives in Maebashi City. In 2005, graduated from the department of sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tama Art University. He creates drawings and performance art by perceiving the four elements that are the origin of the word “Kaku” in primitive actions: Consciousness = Writing, Result = Drawing, Action = Scratching, and Potential = Lack. Exhibitions and performances include “effect” rin art association (2021, Gunma), “International Performance Art Biennale in Vancouver” Ground Floor Art Center (2019, Canada), “borderman” Art Center Ongoing (2019, Tokyo).

TAKUMICHAN (Japan) works mainly with performance to create “transforming-meditation” that articulates the relationship between images and human beings. His recent works have been presented as part of blanClass Live Art, 2016-2018 and the Nishiogi Visual Festival, TERATOTERA, 2017 among others. As an actor traversing various fields, Takumichan’s main performances have been part of “Shimatsu wo Kaku” (a durational, interdisciplinary and collaborative work based on Daisuke Kishii’s theatrical play), a collaborative creative performance of a piece by Mr. Wang Chung at Tokyo Arts Festival APAF International (2017), and sons wo: “City II” (2016) among several other productions. Takumichan has also been a main “signboard” actor in the theater unit Sanzan and a core-member of the Yoshihara Art Service (2013-2016). Takumichan’s awards include the Yokohama Dance Collection 2016 Jury Award (as Aokid  Hashimoto Takumi) and the SICF 19 (Spiral Independent Creators Festival 19) PLAY Akane Nakamura prize. In recent years, Takumichan has expanded the range of activities he is involved with his cross-disciplinary work taking place across art project spaces, art galleries, theaters, live houses and alternative spaces.

Evamaria Schaller (Austria), born in Graz / Austria, lives and works in Cologne and Austria. Until 2011 she studied Videoart and Performance with Prof. Julia Scher and Prof. Matthias Müller at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. After her graduation she received numerous prizes, awards and scholarships for her artistic work, which oscillates between performance and video art. In her Live-Performances she deals with everyday actions and its absurdity. Schallers own body is her measure. In her examinations she reflects and intervenes with site specific conditions and creates actions or installations through simple, clear gestures. She transforms and decontextualises daily materials or found footage. Evamaria Schaller is co-founder of the PAErsche Aktionslabor in Cologne (2010) with which she initiates international performance art meetings. The gift, hospitality and encounter are important to her to pass on through PAErsche and performance art itself. She describes her artistic process as an attempt to translate “time into images in space”. She shows her performance art internationally. She has participated in various performance art festivals and encounters (a.o.) in China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Morocco, Turkey, Poland, Russia, France and Austria.

Develops critic activities centered on theater and performance. Received the third year’s Grand Prize at the Critical Reconstruction Academy for “Genealogy of chelfitsch(es): About the new〈Flock〉
”. Published a monthly series of reviews on performance and post-theatrical culture “Last month’s edition” of the theatrical media Engeki Saikyoron -ing (2022). His recent essays include “Don’t turn off the lights — <<in front of>> the theater, or maybe?” (“Tragic Comedy” March 2022 issue).

An American interdisciplinary artist, curator, cultural producer, and educator. Born in Argentina, Canonge spent his childhood in Bolivia, South America, and grew up in the United States where he studied Comparative Literature, Cinema, and New Media Arts. His work incorporates various forms of artistic expression: Performance Art, Dance, Multimedia Production, Installation, and Social Practice to treat notions related to constructions of identity, gender roles, and the politics of migration. Through his investigation of somatic expression, he has developed a corporeal theory for the practice of Performance Art which has been presented in workshops and conferences around the world. Challenging the white box settings of a gallery or a museum, or intervening directly in public spaces, his performances mediate movement, endurance, and ritualistic processes. Canonge is the founding director of the performance art festivals: ITINERANT in NYC (2012-2019), LATITUDES in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (2017-present), and AUSTRAL in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019-present), PAUSA, Performance Art USA (2022 -Present).

Independent curator and interdisciplinary artist who deals with installation, photography, sound, and text in an experimental manner, with a particular focus on performance and video. She aims to make artistic interventions in ordinary life, as well as bring out social and cultural issues in her performances both critically and humorously. She completed an MFA in film from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA and she worked as a visiting professor at the Korean National University of arts, Sunggyungwan University, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Kaywon University, Howon University, etc. She has participated in numerous AIR programs Worldwide and has exhibited in the above clouds Intl. live Art Festival (China); VIVA EXCON Biennale (Philippines); Bangkok Biennale (Thailand); Zero Platform Intl. Performance Festival (Myanmar); Responding 2 Intl. Performance Art Festival (Japan). She currently leads FEMINALE as a platform for mapping, performance art, and feminism in Asia. 

Urich Lau (Singapore), born 1975, is a visual artist, independent curator and art educator based in Singapore. Focusing in video art, photography media art, his works have been presented in Singapore and other countries including Argentina, Australia, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, Serbia, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Uzbekistan. His exhibitions include Singapore Biennale 2013, VII Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art, the 7th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Pyeongchang Biennale 2017, Drawing Biennale 2004 (Wakita Museum Of Art – Karuizawa, Japan) and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2014, 2016 and 2019 in Hong Kong. His curatorial projects include SUPER–TRAJECTORY at Tainan Art Museum (Tainan, 2019) and ArtScience Museum (Singapore, 2020), Sim Lim Square Art Residency (Singapore Art Week 2018), METAGRAPHY at DECK (Singapore, 2017) and MEME Space (Taipei, 2017), Singapore Open Media Art Festival 2015 at Gillman Barracks (Singapore, 2015); The Third Print at Total Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, 2014); Videologue at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2012); Videology at The Substation (Singapore, 2008) and Displacement Project: Bandung–Singapore 2006. Graduated with a Master of Fine Art from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2004, he is a lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts. He is the founding member of the art collective INTER–MISSION and the studio Hothouse, and a member of The Artists Village.

Power Generation Pole Dancer/Performing Artist/Costume Artist. In 2009 she created the world’s first “pole dance self-power generator” by which the rotation at the pole that operates a generator to generate electricity. Her performance, while using the generated electricity to power home appliances such as radio cassette players and lights, connects power generation and industrialized sexuality through pole dancing, and raises the issue of the fundamental element (desire energy) that moves people and society. Crossover activities in various scenes such as music/art/dance. In 2011, she received the “Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Award Special Award” and the “Aichi Sound Performance Dojo Audience Award”

With a focus on sound, Nishihara develops activities such as performance and art. Because he always focuses on sound, he sometimes feel that he is able to think about the world from a slightly different angle. The drum becomes his brain, other people and things become one with him, and the entire universe becomes his ears. Perhaps he is doing this to share these experiences and feelings. So far, he has exhibited and performed at “Exhibition Cuttings” (Hermès, 2021), “Tomodachichinten” (Yokohama Nitehi WORKS, 2021),“May this sound echo forever” (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017), “Folly Systems” (Roulette NY, 2019) and “Park Debut” (Arts Maebashi, 2018).

Born in Ishinomaki city in 1981. Exhibited mainly within Tokyo after completing the sculpture course at Musashino Art University Graduate School of Art and Design. She returned to her hometown after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Currently, she operates and works at an artist-run space “mado-beya” as a base. While creating free-standing relief sculptures, releasing documentation photographs of the process of maintenance, which she resumed in 2019, of her parent’s house that was affected by the tsunami

Born in Ishinomaki city in 1988 and raised in Higashimatsushima City. After graduating from the University of Tsukuba College of Art, she oversaw the 8mm film collection project in Daigo town, Ibaraki prefecture, and interviews in the Ashio area of ​​Nikko City. In 2016, she made a U-turn and works as a staff member of the Reborn-Art Festival.

Born in 1993 in Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture. Since 2016, she has been involved in child support activities in Onagawa Town and Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, including after-school learning support and staff at children’s centers run by the feed backs of children’s voices. Currently working at Smart Supply Vision, she is conducting a project to convey “the voices of children and young people to create the future”. Initiator of a community of young people who talk about the earthquake disaster.