Chiharu Shinoda, 2021
The Supernatural Pavilion was first held in Bangkok in 2018 and was held for the second time in 2021 online. Chiharu Shinoda has been based in Bangkok for the past 10 years and has performed theater works all over the world, especially in Japan and Thailand. In early 2020, due to the spread of Covid-19, she returned to her hometown of Tokyo, where she is currently holding small performances and events.
During her 10-years stay in Bangkok, Shinoda regularly visited local temples and communities for research. She has been exploring the similarities between "theater" and "seeing the supernatural and ghosts". She is organizing the "Supernatural Pavilion", which consists of performances, exhibitions, and a research archive.
As of August 2019, 300 people have been infected and forced to quarantine their homes in the Nang Lerng district, where many low-income people live. Local members are busy arranging food and medical supplies for those who cannot move from their communities and delivering them to their homes. After discussing with people who work for Nang Lerng Community, we decided to hold this event. Because we thought that if we could do it in a simple way that would not overwhelm the resources, there would be something that we could send out from the community instead of just sitting at home, and that we could hire performers who normally do song and dance for a living and pay the organization for their services. Aokid had an online session with Kru Pin, a local drummer on 13th September. Shojiki had an online performance from the temple on 17th October. Mari Fukudome and Toru Inoue made a spell-playing machine while communicating with children. They sent it to Bangkok and exhibit it in the community in December. Produced by Chiharu Shinoda Organized by E-Lerng Group Supported by Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Tiger, Tiger II
Aokid, Interdisciplinary, 2021
For the Supernatural Pavilion in 2018, the drum performer Pin from Bangkok and dancer Aokid from Japan had given a performance based on the motif of a local Nang Lerng story about possession by a tiger.
The two livestreamed an online session based on the 2018 performance.
Shojiki x Nanglerng kids online jam
In the other live stream, the duo Shojiki conducted an online session with children from Bangkok.
"SHOJIKI" is the duo of Muku Kobayashi[ and Mitsuru Tokisato.
It was formed in 2016, on the concept is playing honestly as much as possible. In 2021, Aokid had collaboration online performances with Nangloeng kids using a motor and a curing tape.
Shojiki, Interdisciplinary, 2021
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Building Up Magic Shop
Together with Shinoda, Toru Inoue and Mari Fukutome ran a series of workshops with children from the Nang Lerng district to come up with ideas for new magic charms. Toru Inoue created the music “Re:souvenir” (known as “Omajinai Saiseiki” or “magic charm playback”) which incorporated audio recordings of participating children reciting magic charms. Meanwhile Fukutome drew illustrations of “How to make Omajinai Kamen” (magic charm masks), a piece of choreography using the face and hands which she devised with the children to go with the magic charms. Both the music and the illustrations were exhibited for the Pavilion.
Toru Inoue and Mari Fukutome,
Music / Illustrations / Installation /
Interdisciplinary, 2021