Tomoko Mukaiyama - We Are The House

My body is mine

During a ten-day Salon in Kyoto last June, Gomperts and others joined forces to explore the fundamental right to bodily autonomy. This became an intensive exchange between artists, thinkers, and makers regarding bodily autonomy and the question of who has control over it. From these encounters emerged a powerful statement: "My body is mine ." What seems self-evident—the idea that your body belongs to you—proves to be vulnerable in practice. Legislation, political decisions, and societal structures can deeply intrude upon personal freedom. It is precisely in this tension between autonomy and control that this performance finds its urgency.

Three-part experience

Visitors move freely through a three-part experience in which various art forms meet and reinforce one another. You step into a landscape of spatial installations and video by Reinier van Brummelen, hear new music by Yannis Kyriakides, experience performances by Just van Bommel, and attend a lecture-performance by Yuri Yamada. The components interact with one another and together form one continuous whole – a layered reflection on the body as both personal and political space.