Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting is a new challenge that seeks to “respond” to social issues and problems through performance art and thus facilitating critical dialogue between art and society. The current social issues are, at the very least, the recent pandemic and the accompanying economic crisis, which is common to all human beings regardless of country or region. Performance art must undoubtedly “respond” to this challenge. Responding Performance Initiative is an organic and fluid collective that responds to current social and environmental issues through performative acts such as performance art based on field researches and dialogues among various communities within both local and global contexts, particularly in our “post-truth” era with our counter narratives as “impact-narratives” that repossess truth and reassert small histories of lived experience working as “proto-monument” and compassion for the pain of others. The initiative has been developed through the trials and errors within the process of operating Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting as the organizing committee in 2018 and a year long practice of R2 Osaka and R2 Philippines in 2019. It will continue developing through flexible changes of members and range of activities. We are currently in conversation with a Singaporean art collective The Artist Village determining to hold our third project “R3” in Singapore/Japan in 2020-2021.
Responding:International Perfroamnce Art Festival and Meeting website
Within post globalism international community, we can instantaneously connect with a wide variety of people all over the globe with the wide spread of social networks. As a result, diversity indispensable for social change and development should become more recognized. On the other hand, what is happening on the opposite side of the globe may no longer be “matters for others”. Information is overflowing and it is difficult to identify what is real in a singular form among what is expressed by words such as fake news and alternative truths. Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting is a platform that enables practical trials and errors to explore the real. We belong to plural units indicating society called “community”. Beginning with family and friends, workplace, gender, hobby-oriented, and in large, language sphere, country, etc. Naturally ten different people have ten different positions and opinions. Our existence lies within multiple communities intermingled in complexity, and it often make us suffocate and feel difficult to get by. In that case, let us “Respond” to real of society freely with the sensibility of ten different strokes for ten different folks. Praxis of performance art as a means to do it. It is a new community itself, a new language that artists and audiences experience in the same sense of air on the site. Present COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to various unknowns and new challenges.
R1: Tokyo – Fukushima 2018
Facebook page banner, 2018
R1: Tokyo – Fukushima 2018
2018, a group photo after the symposium at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
R1: Tokyo – Fukushima 2018
children’s workshop at Iwaki Kids conducted by Sinead O’donnel, John Court, Wang Yanxin, Daisuke Takeya
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
After performance group photo at FIGYA. Arts Council Osaka Grant
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Mideo M. Cruz performance at FIGYA. Arts Council Osaka Grant. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Yeonjeong performance at FIGYA. Arts Council Osaka Grant. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Aze Ong performance at FIGYA. Arts Council Osaka Grant. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Futoshi Moromizato performance at FIGYA. Arts Council Osaka Grant. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Daisuke Takeya performance at FIGYA. Arts Council Osaka Grant. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Yoshiya Makita facilitating the symposium at FIGYA. Arts Council Osaka Grant
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Yoshiko Shimada presentation at the symposium at FIGYA. Arts Council Osaka Grant
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Yoshio Shirakawa presentation at the symposium at FIGYA. Arts Council Osaka Grant
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
group photo after the symposium at FIGYA. Arts Council Osaka Grant
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Mideo M. Cruz performance at Taisho Okinawa Kaikan. Arts Council Osaka Grant. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Futoshi Moromizato performance at Taisho Okinawa Kaikan. Arts Council Osaka Grant. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Soonji Kim performance at Kobayashi Park. Arts Council Osaka Grant. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED project – Osaka 2019
Yeonjeong performance at Kobayashi Park. Arts Council Osaka Grant. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
a lecture at Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan, 2019
Bangan Project Space Flyer
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Mineki Murata performanceat Bangan Project Space. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Racquel De Loyola performance at Bangan Project Space. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Yeongjeong performanceat Bangan Project Space. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Takumichan performanceat Bangan Project Space. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Mideo M. Cruz installationat Bangan Project Space. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Daisuke Takeya performanceat Bangan Project Space. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Racquel De Loyola performance at school visit organized by Bangan Project Space
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Daisuke Takeya lecture at school visit organized by Bangan Project Space
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Mineki Murata performance at school visit organized by Bangan Project Space
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Takumichan performance at school visit organized by Bangan Project Space
R2: monnumentED – Philippines Project 2019: Tanbay
Visit to University of the Philippines Center for Musicology, coordinated by Dayang Yraola
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project 2019
Field research led by Dr. Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project 2019
Field research led by Dr. Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project 2019: A visit to lolas at Lila Pilipina
Performative dialogue facilitated by Dr. Tessa Maria Guazon
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project 2019: A visit to lolas at Lila Pilipina
Mideo M. Crus installation. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project 2019: A visit to lolas at Lila Pilipina
Performance art by Daisuke Takeya
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project 2019: A visit to lolas at Lila Pilipina
Yeonjeong performance. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project 2019: A visit to lolas at Lila Pilipina
Racquel De Loyola performance
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project: Manila Bay
Mideo M. Cruz installation at the base of the comfort women
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project: Manila Bay
Yoenjeong performance at the base of the comfort women
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project 2019: The Miramar Hotel
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project 2019: The Miramar Hotel
Mineki Murata performance preparations. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project 2019: The Miramar Hotel
Yeonjeong performance. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED – Philippines Project 2019: The Miramar Hotel
Daisuke Takeya performance. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
M Gallery Flyer
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Mineki Murata performance at M Gallery
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Graciela Ovejero Postigo performance at M Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Takumichan performance at M Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Daisuke Takeya performance at M Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Tanya Jizelle performance at M Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Yeonjeong performance at M Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Kanto Gallery flyer
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Racquel De Loyola performance at Kanto Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Mineki Murata performance at Kanto Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Tanya Jizelle performance at Kanto Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Jef Carney performance at Kanto Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Mideo M. Cruz performance at Kanto Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Gong Dela Torre performance at Kanto Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Eghai Roxas + Django performance at Kanto Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Martin De Mesa + Joee Mejias performance at Kanto Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Daisuke Takeya performance at Kanto Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Nicolas Aca performance presented on screen at Kanto Gallery. Photo by: Yoshiya Makita
R2: monumentED x igkAs collaboration 2019
Jie Zeng, Executive Coordinator of UP-ON International Live festival lecture at Kanto Gallery
R3: Scape-City: TAV x Responding x Suwa-Animism collaboration 2020 – 2021
Mitamachi shopping street, Shimosuwa, Nagano prefecture, Japan, 2020
R3: Scape-City: TAV x Responding x Suwa-Animism collaboration 2020 – 2021
Online preparation meeting, August, 2020
R3: Scape-City: TAV x Responding x Suwa-Animism
Online preparation meeting, September, 2020