Live Art/ Performance Projects
(All the shows are currently available. For enquiry, click here)
1. Full Length Projects
Projector/Conjector (2011): 40min duo dance project
‘Boy is called Projector because a video projector’s attached to his head. Girl’s name is Conjector. A TV’s attached to her head. Boy meets girl on screen. They dance through screens.’
Performed by Mamoru Iriguchi & Selina Papoutseli
supported by Camden People’s Theatre
Showcases:
The Basement, Brighton (November 2011)
Phoenix, Exeter (November 2011)
SHOW TiME, Riverside Studios, London (October 2011)
International Performance Festival, performance art depot, Mainz, Germany (May 2011)
Sprint, Camden Peoples Theatre, London (23 &24 March 2011, full-length)
Scratch, The Basement, Brighton (2nd March 2011/ 20min work-in-progress)
Resolution, The Place, London (26th January 2011/ 20min work-in-progress)
Review quotes:
"This work (a duet) is not at all 'just' a dance piece. Although the actual dance content is minimal at best, dance is referenced in a beautifully techno-cuckoo way. It's a piece about outer space and and inner desires, tragic love and a literally bloody lake of swans, It's also charmingly dead-pan, witty and inventive.” Donald Hutera
"Projector/Conjector is a love story too, but not like any other... a bonkers story emerges ... as well as being absurdly hilarious, it's also very sweet. One of the most imaginative things you'll see this season. ” Lyndsey Winship (dance editor, Time Out for Resolution Reviews)
Video links:
To see 3-min excerpts, click here
Please contact me if you wish to see the entire video.
Into the Skirt (2010): 45min solo performance project
‘Once upon a time, a little boy called Mamoru went into a fairytale princess's crinolined skirt to see what was happening in the humid and stuffy world inside.’ -- A multimedia one-man-period-costume drama. Commissioned by Plateaux Festival 2010, supported by CPT and BAC
Showcases:
Opening Gala, Artisphere, Washington DC(October 2010)
Camden People’s Theatre, London (September 2010)
Internationales Performance Festival, PAD, Mainz (May 2010)
Plateaux Festival, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt (May 2010)
Video links:
To see 4-min excerpts, click here
Please contact me if you wish to see the entire video.
PREGNANT?! (2008/09): 45min solo performance project
‘Once upon a time... A rabbit shagged me like rabbits. I became pregnant’ -- a multimedia performance piece where Mamoru traces his overly intimate relationships with others, taking place in and around his imaginary womb. supported by BAC and CPT
Showcases:
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt (November 2011)
Opening Gala, Artisphere, Washington DC(October 2010)
Corsham Festival, The Pound, Corsham (June 2010)
Pulse Festival, New Wolsey Studio, Ipswich (June 2010)
Junction, Cambridge (May 2010)
Bluecoat, Liverpool (May 2010)
Nottingham Playhouse (February 2010)
British Performance Festival, PAD, Mainz (September 2009)
Dublin Fringe Festival, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (September 2009)
deciBel 2009, The Greenroom, Manchester (September 2009)
Sprint Festival, Camden People’s Theatre, London (2009)
SPILL Festival National Platform, National Theatre Studio, London (2009)
Supper Club, The Basement, Brighton (2009)
Shunt Lounge, London (2008/9)
Stoke Newington International Airport, London (2008/9)
Scratch Festival, BAC, London (2008)
I Am Still Your Worst Nightmare, Arnolfini, Bristol (2008)
Peachy Coochy Nite, Toynbee Studios, London (2008)
Review quotes:
".....So begins a beautifully surreal journey through the landscapes of worry, childhood memory, fairytale and complicated psychology....the miracle is that you have spent some time in Iriguchi’s wonderful head.” Peter Crawley (**** Irish Times)
“Spanning 10,000 years, the piece tunnels into the darkest recesses of the human body to toy with expectations of space and time, gender and biology, birth and death. JJ Harrington(*****Irish Theatre Magazine)
"tech-geek Mamoru Iriguchi wove an intricate and moving tale of life, death and birth subverted by bizarre imagery involving rabbits" —(The Guardian)
"Pregnant is a really eventful live art moment, loaded with pathos, sardonic wit, shifting realities and digital curiosity." —(Culture24)
Video links:
To see 1-min trailer, click here
To see 4-min excerpts, click here
2. Short One-to-One Projects
Anatomy of Desire (2011): 5min one-to-one performance project
An intimate virtual striptease.
Commissioned by Testing Grounds
Showcases:
Stoke Newington International Airport’s Live Art Speed Date, Forest Fringe (August 2011)
Testing Grounds at The Nightingale, Brighton (June 2011)
BANG BANG (2010): 5min one-to-one performance project
A video shooting game: ‘Come shoot Mamoru with your passionate love bullets’
Showcases:
Cruising for Art, Latitude Festival (July 2011)
Live Weekend Shunt, ICA (February 2011)
Brixton Market Village (November 2010)
Shunt Cabaret (October 2010)
Stoke Newington International Airport’s Live Art Speed Date, Wednesbury (September 2010)
Cruising for Arts, Forest Fringe (August 2010)
This Headlight Is The Only Hope In The Dark
(2009): 5min one-to-one performance project
‘Join Mamoru’s intimate little adventure in the imaginary pitch-black’
Showcases:
Live Weekend Shunt, ICA (February 2011)
Brixton Market Village (November 2010)
Shunt Cabaret (October 2010)
Forest Fringe, Edinburgh (August 2010)
Forest Fringe Microfestival, BAC/ Central School of Speech and Drama, London (2010)
Supper Club (The Basement, Brighton 2009)
Cruising for Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum (2009)
Live Art Speed Date, Stoke Newington International Airport, London (2009)
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