The Fueiho law brought me to Japan for the second time. It is a regulation that was introduced in 1948 to outlaw nightlife ‘immorality’, banning dancing under certain conditions and hours. Thanks to the Let’s Dance activist movement, Western media have been reporting on its abolition since 2015. But this is not true: the law is still in force and affects mostly small venues in a society made of little places. At the same time, it feeds an underground spirit and secret locations to go. It would be the larger, more commercial dance floors getting free from Fueiho surveillance. This half-hearted success does not question the law but seems to confirm it even unwittingly. Specially when clubs claim to be moral, not breaking the Fueiho principles. Before coming here, I assumed that Fueiho would be a direction to follow. Shortly after arriving, I realised that it was more of a roundabout leading to many other places. Thanks to a certain necessary degree of disorientation and many chance encounters, Fueiho easily disappears from my head. The enveloping quality of music in Tokyo’s dance floors fills my curiosity and my attention. A nerd spirit joins what a friend called sound jewellery in a scene built from different rhythms. In an unexpected turn towards hip hop there is Egaitsu Hiroshi. He is a DJ, writer and lecturer who prefers to live in Yokohama than in his native Tokyo. For those who have not grown up in either city, the differences are not great at first glance. But all it takes is a careful stroll to realise that bodies do not behave in the same way. While retaining the uneven rhythms of straight lines in Tokyo, the streets of Yokohama are a different remix of bygone futures. People also move around in a more erratic and relaxed way. They even sit down to read the newspaper with a coffee in the convenience store.
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#50
with Egaitsu Hiroshi
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00:14dancing and reading
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00:35tokyo disco dancing
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02:50nightlife and sex
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04:35post-war period and economic growth
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08:15fueiho: did you make people dancing?
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11:00scandal is dancing
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13:10laws and layers
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16:00'...it's strange to demonstrate'
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18:20Bundo and the left
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21:50pop music and ... sex
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25:15going to clubs after punk gigs
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28:00hip hop, crowds, fashion, writing
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31:10fashion: regulatory and dissident
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33:58living in clubs
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35:42beats and poetry
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37:25an awkward attempt to mix everything
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38:35hip hop: a potential, a vibe
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41:31rap: a space for social issues
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43:51abstraction in hip hop
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45:30'we are ahead'
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46:30Japanese language and hip hop
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48:40what is underground?
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49:50to be continued...
Apnea #13 Conversation with Ran Zhang
We are all of us walking communities of bacteria.
The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.
Lynn Margulis
Apnea #12 Conversación con Blanca Callén
And I am a material girl
Living in a material world
Madonna
As if we could scrape the color of the iris and still see
We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object’-this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love. But I am not willing to go there-not just yet. I believed in you.
Maggie Nelson
reassembling histories by putting them into bodies that dance
You pass a point where you’re beyond tired, beyond pain, beyond even thinking about stopping, thinking only that this could go on forever and you’d love it
Douglas Crimp
Apnea #10 Conversación con Tamara Díaz Bringas
Why am I compelled to write?… Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger…
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
APNEA #9 Conversación con Ania Nowak
The love expressed between women is particular and powerful, because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.
Audre Lorde
APNEA #8 Conversación con Núria Gómez Gabriel
Under capitalism: You will be organized, you will be an organism. You will be a subject, nailed down as one
Deleuze & Guattari
APNEA #7 Conversación con Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
Los objetos no pueden ser reducidos a piezas de Lego a modo de átomos que pueden ser reutilizados en otras cosas. Tampoco pueden ser reducidos hacia arriba como instancias de un proceso global.
Tim Morton
Duchamp Already Dit It
“If irony was made of strawberries, we’d all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now”
Newscaster Ned
APNEA #6 Conversación con Iraida Lombardía
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs
Susan Sontag
Place, no emphasis. La dilatación del objeto.
The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.
Douglas Huebler
APNEA #5 Conversación con Xavier Acarin
“[Techno] wasn’t designed to be dance music, it was designed to be a futurist statement.”
Jeff Mills
APNEA #4 Conversación con Ian Waelder
Ultra Short Term Nostalgia: homesickness for the extremely recent past: “God, things seemed so much better in the world last week”
Douglas Coupland
APNEA #3 Conversación con Ángel Calvo Ulloa
Perhaps artworks are the only full-time curators I know.
Raimundas Malašauskas
Microfísica del dibujo
There is no way to make a drawing—there is only drawing.
Richard Serra
A Brief History of the Future
“Una historia del futuro puede ser el relato compartido de nuestras herramientas para el desconcierto”
APNEA #2 Conversación con Ania Nowak
We need to borrow the energy from the future to overturn the conditions of the present
Rosi Braidotti
APNEA #1 Conversación con Serafín Álvarez
Leer era nuestro videojuego.
AGGTELEK, Travel Notes.
Me gusta el fútbol porque puedo odiar sin sentimientos de culpa… entre otras cosas
Todo cuanto sé con mayor certeza sobre la moral y las obligaciones de los hombres, se lo debo al fútbol.
Albert Camus
En busca del futuro perdido: especulaciones subjetivas desde la ciencia-ficción
For me, the only true science is science fiction
Jacques Lacan
Catoptrophilia: la aleación de la imagen.
“La necesidad de la máscara y la incapacidad de soportar su peso”
Parergon: el suplemento como experiencia
“My teacher says I’m slow, my Mama thinks I’m special”
De Kassel yo recuerdo Berlín
Cuanto más de vanguardia es un autor, menos puede permitirse caer bajo ese calificativo.
Enrique Vila-Matas
Esperar durante: el imperativo como trayecto.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
E. M. Foster
Adyton: gramáticas de la audiencia
De la narrativa arquitectónica al espacio como relato y la experiencia artística polimorfa.
Read the text: the conversation is not given
El diálogo como otro marco de existencia para el arte
Lo íntimo ya no intimida. (De)composition de Jesús Monteagudo Guerra
Un fantasma recorre el arte, el fantasma de la intimidad.
Estrategias de disociación: Esto no es una exposición de arte, tampoco
De la desmaterialización de la obra al materialismo del concepto
Expeditions to the void: incursiones artísticas en el discurso científico
Art for science sake
Què fer a Sabadell: de evento cultural en evento cultural y tiro porque me toca
Cuando la cultura consume al espectador
Art/fònic: inserciones artísticas en circuitos mediáticos
Cuando el arte sale del espacio expositivo y lo visible se hace audible
Deseo de testigo o la narración como montaje, de Iván Gómez.
Todo testimonio es un montaje
15 piezas en 3 actos: se abre el telón
Teatro y arte contemporáneo: simbiosis por yuxtaposición
#01
Mireia c. Saladrigues
Relfexiones en torno a la obra de la artista, el rol del espectador y su capacidad de emancipación de las reglas del juego artístico
La cuestión del paradigma: digresiones sobre el arte emergente en Barcelona
Del arte emergente y otros demonios.
El lloc dels fets: escenas de un crimen en la Sala d’Art Jove
De cómo freir un filete de lomo al revés, toparse con una familia de jabalíes en la Budellera, esconder el Santo Grial en la copa de la Champions o pasear por una Barcelona Mordorizada….
Yo no estuve aquí. Un proyecto de Aníbal Parada
De lo que no se puede hablar, ¿es mejor callar?
Berlin über alles
Incursiones diletantes en otras coyunturas artísticas durante la indulgencia del periplo vacacional.
Radicalmente emancipado(s) de Mireia c. Saladrigues
¿Qué ocurriría con el arte si todos los espectadores se emancipasen?