#50
with Egaitsu Hiroshi
— 27.03.2025 descargar

  • 00:14
    dancing and reading
  • 00:35
    tokyo disco dancing
  • 02:50
    nightlife and sex
  • 04:35
    post-war period and economic growth
  • 08:15
    fueiho: did you make people dancing?
  • 11:00
    scandal is dancing
  • 13:10
    laws and layers
  • 16:00
    '...it's strange to demonstrate'
  • 18:20
    Bundo and the left
  • 21:50
    pop music and ... sex
  • 25:15
    going to clubs after punk gigs
  • 28:00
    hip hop, crowds, fashion, writing
  • 31:10
    fashion: regulatory and dissident
  • 33:58
    living in clubs
  • 35:42
    beats and poetry
  • 37:25
    an awkward attempt to mix everything
  • 38:35
    hip hop: a potential, a vibe
  • 41:31
    rap: a space for social issues
  • 43:51
    abstraction in hip hop
  • 45:30
    'we are ahead'
  • 46:30
    Japanese language and hip hop
  • 48:40
    what is underground?
  • 49:50
    to be continued...

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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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

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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

When life goes to work

“You should always have a product that’s not you”

Andy Warhol

Tupí or not tupí: that is the question

Mother of otherness, Eat me.

Sylvia Plath

APNEA #6 Conversación con Iraida Lombardía

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs

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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.

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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

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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

Crónica incompleta de un fake anunciado

Prolegómenos para una ortopedia de la voluntad

Tras el cubo blanco, la familia

Desde el arte a la familia y desde la familia al arte

#06
Alex Brahim

De la mirada promiscua en el arte y otras necesidades del contexto

#05
Múltiplos

Proyectos artísticos que caben en un bolso.

#04
Radio de acción

Atentar contra los lugares comunes del arte contemporáneo.

#03
M I A M I

Miami: debajo de los adoquines está la playa

#02
Iván Gómez

De lo cinematográfico y filosófico en el arte.

Art/fònic: inserciones artísticas en circuitos mediáticos

Cuando el arte sale del espacio expositivo y lo visible se hace audible

15 piezas en 3 actos: se abre el telón

Teatro y arte contemporáneo: simbiosis por yuxtaposición

#01
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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.

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¿Qué ocurriría con el arte si todos los espectadores se emancipasen?