YPAM

The Japanese Ideology

OLTA

Will the Japanese ideology be forever immortal?

• Japan
• Visual/Film
• Theatre
• Installation/Exhibition
• World Premiere

Presented by OLTA, a Tokyo-based artist group that has developed humorous and provocative works through negotiating the systems of visual/performing arts and sociological/folklore fieldwork, The Japanese Ideology encompasses six chapters of a performative analysis of the everyday forms that the ideology takes. “There seems to be a kind of arbitrary emotion that dominates life in Japan today. [...] It is up to us to take on this boring but very urgent duty of exposing the staging of this desperate and stupid tragicomedy in our present society, not just in Japan.” (Jun Tosaka, The Japanese Ideology, 1935) In The Japanese Ideology by OLTA, will this “boring” performance transform into an “interesting” one? Or will it “drag down those who think they have been freed from the Japanese ideology and pull them back in”? (Yoshimi Takeuchi, The Japanese Ideology, 1952)

Chapter 1: The Significance of Dream
Chapter 2: The Liberation of Gestell
Chapter 3: The Right of Death
Chapter 4: The Acquisition of Calm
Chapter 5: The Rebellion of Voice
Chapter 6: The Truth of Ideology