- Performative installation
A performative installation in a world oversaturated with immersive devices.
Yuki Harada is an artist whose unique practice spans many media, including photography, video, CG, performance, and curation. There is always an underlying “theatrical device” in his work that creates a performative mutual interaction in the space between the viewing subject and the work itself. Questions of how the audience can participate in an artwork, and if that is even possible are a throughline in his past works, as can be seen in Light Court, which has a mechanism to immerse the audience’s perspective or Waiting for, in which the names of animals are recited continuously for 33 hours.
At Theater Commons Tokyo, Harada, who has been creating works that incorporate this “theatricality,” finally embarks on the creation of a performance work. Referencing Francisco Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, and through a collaboration with choreographer Saori Hala, he has created a performance piece exploring VR itself, which will unfold in the space of SHIBAURA HOUSE. In a world where logging out is impossible, and opportunities for immersion have become normalized, how is human perception changing at this moment, and how will it continue to change as we go forward?
Profile
Yuki Harada
Harada produces works inspired by seemingly insignificant visual culture. They are known for video works with a strong performative dimension, such as One Million Seeings, in which the artist looks at photographs continuously for 24 hours; Waiting for“, a 33-hour performance of reading aloud the names of living things; and Shadowing“, which reenacts the process through which pidgin English was formed.
In recent years, the artist has held solo exhibitions at institutions including the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii, Kyoto Art Center, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. In 2026, he is scheduled to undertake a residency at the Experimental Art Foundation in Brooklyn, New York.
Saori Hala
Born in Tokyo in 1988. Dance artist.
With a background in design and ecological psychology, she creates interdisciplinary performance works that begin from the idea of the body as a perceptual apparatus, incorporating video, text, and drawing. Through the practice of bodily actions, her work reexamines the boundaries between reality and fiction, self and other, while seeking to intervene in the processes by which sensations and memories are organized.
She holds an M.A. in Design from Tokyo University of the Arts and an M.A. in Dance (Solo/Dance/Authorship) from the Berlin University of the Arts. She is a Saison Foundation Fellow for 2025.
Dates
March 4th [Wed] 16:00 / 19:00
March 5th [Thu] 16:00 / 19:00
March 6th [Fri] 14:00 / 17:00
Performance times
Approx. 60 min.
Venue
SHIBAURA HOUSE 5F
3-15-4 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0023
Ticket
Adults | 3,000 yen
Students | 2,000 yen
*Booking essential, non-reserved seat
*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
Japanese
Accessibility
Subtitles | Japanese and English
Audio guide | None
Additional accessibility | Written communication support available at reception
Wheelchair-accessible seating available
Credits
Concept and direction | Yuki Harada
Choreographed and performed by | Saori Hala
Music | Kazumichi Komatsu
Video | Shintaro Watanabe, Megumi Fujita
Costume | Saeko Sugai
Co-operation | Katsuya Taniguchi (RHINO STUDIOS INC.)