Kyoto Records (Directed by Daisuke Yamashiro)

Dancer

Started breakdance at the age of 14 and, influenced by films he saw during his teenage years, went to study at Tokyo Zokei University Film Course. Then, he started making works in performing arts and visual arts. Based in Tokyo, he finds spaces in the city in various scales to dance, and tries to practice the methodology in other towns and cities, including those in other countries. Through such comparative examinations, the findings feed back into the creation of his work. He is always interested in developing and conveying a distinctive narrative that comes out of his curiosity in the past and his imagination towards the future.

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Performer

Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1996, Emi Ogura has been working actively in Kyoto since 2014, performing in stage productions and concerts with companies and artists such as Monochrome Circus, Masako Yasumoto, Akira Kasai, and mama!milk. She founded her creative collective SMILE in 2021, presenting works such as Smile (2021 & 2022), A human dodging a fried oyster (2022) and SUPER COMPLEX (2024). Supported by The Saison Foundation’s International Project Support (2023-2025) and Goethe-Institut’s International Co-Production Fund (2025), she has collaborated internationally, including a co-creation with artist Belle Santos (Germany). She focuses on the “being” of people and objects, trying to research with the body on “the conditions and changes of being”; how they are existing, or whether they can exist or not, in time and space. She is the proud winner of the Encouragement Prize at the Yokohama Dance Collection 2022, Competition I. She serves as the co-Program Director for Kyoto International Dance Workshop Festival starting from the 2025 season.

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YouTuber

You will be given an opportunity to recall things that do not need to be recalled in your life. For example, “breakfast you had on the day you bought your first pair of glasses”, “boring conversation that people sitting in a table next to you were having when you went on a date five years ago” or “the logo on a cap that someone you walked past in the town was wearing” etc. How about recalling something for a frame in the record of your life?

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Artist

From his experience of being a sickly child, he has been interested in the “stiffness in the human body” and the “connection between one’s mind and body”, making works related to such interests. He has mastered massage techniques, manual therapies and martial arts, and incorporates into his paintings and three-dimensional works the memories and energy that his hands felt when kneading people’s shoulders and backs. He has held numerous exhibitions both in Japan and abroad. In recent years, he has collaborated with musicians and dancers to conduct workshops that can be enjoyed through using the body, trying to create an opportunity for everyone, from children to adults, to realize how interesting their bodies are.

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He is an artist and photographer. Works include the well-known torii series (2006-2012), for which he has travelled outside the national border of Japan to conduct his research on the conditions of the remains from Japanese colonial days. Shitamichi continues to make works based on fieldwork. His works deal with stories that had been largely forgotten, buried by our everyday lives and concerns, or everyday things that are so insignificant that they never reach our subconscious. Shitamichi captures them through various methods and edits them to give them a tangible existence, and presents (re-presents) them as events that are still relevant to us today. Shitamichi was a representative of the Japan Pavillion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Visiting Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts since 2024. Lives in Naoshima, Kagawa.

Composer

Born in 1983 in Tokyo. In addition to organizing and performing with the Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra both in Japan and abroad, he has produced music in a variety of genres including film, TV, theater, dance, fashion and advertisement. Most recently, he has been applying “musical composition” techniques and using materialistic expressions to make sculpture, installation, performance works and various projects. He received the new face award of the 69^th Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2019.

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Video artist, visual artist

Yamashiro Daisuke applies concepts of time in moving image to spaces and projects, developing site-specific experiences of time as artworks. In 2006, he founded the artist collective Nadegata Instant Party, with which he has presented work all over Japan. As an educator at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, he has developed and run original workshops and produced numerous education and outreach programs.

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Founded in 2006. YUKAI Ltd., led by the photographer Masanori Ikeda, is a company of “photography, design and town planning”. As well as photography and design for posters and publications, the company manages video productions and commissioned works. It also pursues “creative productions” around photography, which includes workshops and on-site photo studio as part of the photo studio project “‘fun’ photo studio”, planning and organizing exhibitions and self-publishing. Since 2021, the company has been responsible for the creative direction of Kanda Port Building, a cultural complex with sauna.

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An architect’s office established in 2022 jointly by Shinya Kimura and Yuki Yasukawa. Engages in various projects concerned with the city and architecture, both tangible and intangible, ranging from architectural design, on-site construction to community design. The current members are Shinya Kimura, Yuki Yasukawa and Tomohiro Ishida.

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