Artist

OKADA Toshiki

Exhibition (Video Installation)

photo: KUTSUNA Koichiro, Arecibo

EIZO-ENGEKI op.1 Shiibashi Ayana
EIZO-ENGEKI op.2 Aoyagi Izumi

OKADA’s newest script written specifically for Saitama will be presented as a video work. It depicts people living in contemporary society and their daily life.

Concept, text, direction: Toshiki Okada
Video art: Shimpei Yamada
Performance: Izumi Aoyagi, Ayana Shiibashi
English translation: Aya Ogawa
English voice-over recording: Yuji Tsutsumida (WHITELIGHT)
English voice-over coaching: Erin Mina Barber
Filming venue support: Media Arts, Department of Humanities and Sociology, Aichi University, Steep Slope Studio, The Saison Foundation
Filming support: Kazuki Asakura, Yuna Iwata, Yukari Ozaki, Yuri Kato, Shiori Saito, Koharu Nezu, Kyohei Hattori, Yuka Murakoshi, Mayu Yamada
Production: chelfitsch
Production management: Akane Nakamura, Tamiko Ouki, Mihoko Kawamura(precog) & Chizuru Matsumoto

Profile

OKADA Toshiki ©Kikuko Usuyama

OKADA is a playwright/director who was born in Yokohama in 1973. He formed the theater company chelfitsch in 1997. Since then he has written and directed all of the company’s productions, practicing a distinctive methodology for creating plays, and has come to be known for his use of hyper-colloquial Japanese and unique choreography. In 2005, his play Five Days in March won the prestigious 49th Kishida Kunio Drama Award. Okada participated in the Toyota Choreography Award 2005 with his work Air Conditioner (Cooler) (2005), garnering much attention. In February 2007 his collection of novels The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed debuted and was awarded the Oe Kenzaburo Prize. He has been a member of the judging panel for the Kishida Kunio Drama Award since 2012. In 2013, his first book on dramaturgical theory was published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha. He was recently commissioned to direct his works in a repertory program at the Munich Kammerspiele, one of the foremost theaters in Germany, for three seasons starting in 2016.