- Lecture performance
A “live video essay” performance by a Germany-based translator and video artist.
The world is constantly changing in ways we cannot control. A hometown street becomes unrecognizable, the meaning of a folk song shifts in valence, a republic faces its inevitable decline and fall. How have our struggles with this finitude found expression through myth, memory, or mourning?
Drawing on family history, urban space, the formations of American patriotic songs, and the work of anthropologist Talal Asad, video artist and translator Lillian Canright produces a lecture performance-cum-live video essay.
Profile
Lillian Canright
Lillian Canright received her BA from Bard College and MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts. Formally and thematically drawing on the traditions of performance video art and the essay film, her work most often takes the form of semi-fictional documentary collages, unified by a DIY ethos and an unreliable and unstable “I” voice. Since 2023, she has collaborated with feminist theater director Marie Schleef, creating video for plays such as “The Possibility of Evil” (Münchner Kammerspiele, 2024) and “The Vegetarian” (Akademietheater, 2025).
Dates
February 26th [Thu] 19:00
March 7th [Sat] 17:00 *1-Day Ticket
March 8th [Sun] 11:00 *1-Day Ticket
Performance times
Approx. 60 min.
Venue
5F SHIBAURA HOUSE
3-15-4 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0023
Ticket
Single Ticket
Adults | 3,000 yen
Students | 2,000 yen
*Booking essential, non-reserved seat
“The Death of Translation” 1-Day Ticket
Adults | 5,000 yen
Students | 3,000 yen
*Booking essential, non-reserved seat
*This ticket is valid for all “The Death of Translation” performance programs on a single day:
3/7 [Sat] Tomoko Momiyama×Sasa-Marie 11:00 / Kanoko Tamura×Mayunkiki 13:30 / Lillian Canright 17:00
3/8 [Sun] Lillian Canright 11:00 / Kanoko Tamura×Mayunkiki 13:30 / Tomoko Momiyama×Sasa-Marie 15:30 or 19:00
*Ticket holders for the paid programs of Theater Commons Tokyo ’26 (excluding the Commons Forum) are eligible to attend the “ATC Station” for free.
Language
English, Japanese
Accessibility
Subtitles | Japanese, English
Audio guide | None
Additional accessibility |
Written communication support available at reception
Wheelchair-accessible seating available
Credit
Concept, text, and performance | Lillian Canright
Supported by Goethe-Institut Tokyo
Cooperation | PARADISE AIR
Related program
Art Translators Collective (ATC) “The Death of Translation”
ATC: Kanoko Tamura×Mayunkiki “We Still Could”
ATC: Akihito Hirano×Chiharu Shinoda “This is Not the End of Human Translation”
ATC: Tomoko Momiyama×Sasa-Marie “Trans/Sonic Meditations”
ATC: Haruka Ueda/Keith Spencer/Eriko Amou, Yuki Harukawa and more | ATC Station: “The Last Gig—of a Japanese Translator Who Feels at Home in English” / “Borderland”