{"id":15928,"date":"2025-06-18T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/?p=15928"},"modified":"2025-06-20T17:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:10:19","slug":"collectivecreationworkshop-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/2025\/06\/18\/collectivecreationworkshop-en\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Future I ___?” \u2014 To See or To Change A Collective Creation Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visiting Artist Betty Apple* from GA residence program TEA+* will hold a collective creation workshop by end of June. All current students in Geidai are welcome to participate, so please feel free to apply.<\/p>\n

*GA Residence Program TEA+ Official Website<\/a>
\n*Betty Apple English Profile<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The Future I ___?” \u2014 To See or To Change
\nA Collective Creation Workshop<\/i><\/b>
\n<\/span>Date: June 30 (Mon)
\nTime: 6~8 pm<\/div>\n
Venue: Taki Plaza 3F, Ueno Campus<\/div>\n
Language: Mainly in English<\/div>\n
Eligibility for Application: Geidai Students can apply freely<\/div>\n
Application form: https:\/\/forms.gle\/uwoUnUvJCKiDcK8Z8<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 *Maximum of 20 people. The form will close once the maximum number of participants has been reached.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 *Note to participants: Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes.<\/div>\n
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In recent years, my performance works have explored themes such as mermaids, digital-age cults, internet prophecies, future beings, and AI \u2014 forming a kind of post-sci-fi performance language. I often use symbolic objects from daily life, and recently, space blankets have become a key material in my creation of live art and sound.
\nDuring my current residency at Tokyo University of the Arts, I encountered a viral phenomenon spreading across social media in Taiwan and Hong Kong: a \u201cdream prophecy\u201d drawn by Japanese manga artist Tatsuki Ryou, titled \u79c1\u304c\u898b\u305f\u672a\u6765 \uff08The Future I Saw\uff09. It depicts a vision of an apocalyptic tsunami spanning Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This eerie image has caused real-life anxiety \u2014 people canceling trips, feeling uneasy, even wondering: Could this actually happen?
\nFaced with this blurred boundary between prophecy and reality, between fiction and belief, I found inspiration for my residency work \u2014 a performance shaped by the surreal logic of foreseen disasters.
\nThrough this workshop, I want to invite fellow artists to explore how absurd realities might be transformed into hyperreal live performances. Taking Amabie \u2014 the viral yokai mermaid circulated during the COVID pandemic as a charm to ward off disease \u2014 as a symbolic anchor, we will call them into our voices, our bodies, and our shared performative space.
\nUsing objects from emergency kits \u2014 such as space blankets \u2014 as ritual media, this workshop invites collective creation. Together, we will use art to intervene in those circulating \u201cprophecies\u201d on the internet, and conduct a shared inquiry into the live body of performance art.<\/span><\/div>\n
— from Betty Apple–<\/div>\n

Images of the Workshop:<\/p>\n

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\"\"Betty Apple Performance work <Mermaid Escape Room: The Pink Trap> SPAZIOMENSA, Rome, 2025, photo by Mirko JJ Ostuni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visiting Artist Betty Apple* from GA residence program TEA+* will hold a collective creation workshop by end of June. All current students in Geidai are welcome to participate, so please feel free to apply. *GA Residence Program TEA+ Official Website *Betty Apple English Profile “The Future I ___?” \u2014 To See or To Change A Collective Creation Workshop Date: June 30 (Mon) Time: 6~8 pm Venue: Taki Plaza 3F, Ueno Campus Language: Mainly in English Eligibility for Application: Geidai Students can apply freely Application form: https:\/\/forms.gle\/uwoUnUvJCKiDcK8Z8 \u00a0 *Maximum of 20 people. The form will close once the maximum number of participants has been reached. \u00a0 *Note to participants: Please wear… Continue reading “The Future I ___?” \u2014 To See or To Change A Collective Creation Workshop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-15928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-en","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15928"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15957,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928\/revisions\/15957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15928"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=15928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}