Roland Farkas: NOW

2023, performance, YUI-PORT, Niigata, Japan
In this project, I was interested in the traumatic memories of school life that connect generations. In the first step, I organized a workshop mainly for the representatives of the older and middle generations, during which I collected the different memories of the participants. Then, I asked young people from the Anime and Manga Faculty of one of the local universities to collaborate in the project, to stage the memories they chose as short scenes based on their dramaturgy. For the public event, I rented complete photo studio equipment in my studio as a set. A professional photographer captured every moment of the indoor events, and drone footage was also taken outdoors. The audience that dropped into the event from time to time, found themselves among the sets of a photo shoot in progress; the entire several-hour process from ideation to acting out the scenes was part of the performance.
Performers: Shunya Kumada, Rei Yamazaki, Liu Bu Fan, Yuzuki Takasawa
Drone video: Satoru Noguchi
Cover photo: Osamu Nakamura
Music: Mike Nylons, Eneme III - Hex Meter, Exiles Records, 2022
Curator: Honoka Sato, YUI-PORT Niigata City Center for Creative Arts and International Youth Exchange