ANTIBODIES Collective × Sew Flunk Fury Wit
『CORPO SURREAL』

Sew Flunk Fury Wit

Sew Flunk Fury Wit creates enigmatic musicdramatic signature performances in a hard to categorize hybridgenre of hyper-surreal human sized neo-puppetry, poetic dramatic worlds and seductive soundscapes of newcomposed opera and electronica.

The company was founded by artistic director – Svend E. Kristensen (DK) – in 2013. He began his artistic career at the experimental music scene in Denmark in the early 80’s. Up through the years he has elaborated, developed and designed various life-sized puppets from materials such as carbon fibers, silicones and other composites.

urrent performances are STØV /DUST , CRASH and new international co-production CORPO SURREAL premiere Feb 4th 2020 in Teater Katapult (DK) followed by international tour 2020 counting The Royal Opera (DK), Spiral Hall (JP), Rohm Theatre (JP), D-Caf Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival Cairo (ET), Operudagar (IS) and more.

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ANTIBODIES Collective

“ANTIBODIES” is a collective of specialists with the idea of developing new interdisciplinary models for dynamic collaboration across spectrum of disciplines and boundaries. We examine how varied disciplines might relate, intersect and interact through series of experiments and researches that are designed to culminate into performance events, community workshops and other practices that contributes to larger social and educational structures. “ANTIBODIES” was established in 2015 by Kyoto-based performance artists Yoko Higashino and Toshio Kajiwara as a reincarnation of “Dance Company Baby-Q”, a genre-bending dance theatre group established in 2000 and have presented performance events and workshops worldwide.

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Svend E. Kristensen

Svend E. Kristensen started out his artistic career at the experimental music scene in Denmark in the early 80’s. Attended dance- and performance training since the late 80’s. Worked for and were schooled by performance troupe Von Heiduck touring most of Europe with a series of Peepshows, e.g. award winning show Salomé (best performance Germany 1999).

Yoko Higashino

Higashino began training in modern dance and ballet in 1982. ”ERROR SYSTEM” was the name given to her first collaborative effort with 2 musicians launched in 1995, and by 2000 she has officially founded ”Dance Company BABY-Q” which became her focus for an entire decade that followed. By collaborating with artists from other genres, the company was active in wide range of ground concerining performing arts.
With such internationally acclaimed works as <ALARM!>(2004), <GEEEEEK>(2006), <E/G>(2007), and <[RHIZOME]M>(2009),<Sleepless>(2010), the company explored global audience, from festivals in the United States and France, theaters in Singapore and Mexico, Korea, Germany, Norway, Cuba, Itary and so on.
In 2015, Higashino co-founded “Antibodies Collective” in Kyoto with sound artist & director Toshio Kajiwara, which has now become a larger project involving over 20 artists and engineers. “Antibodies Collective” concerns not only in presenting its own dance and theater works, but in range of other practices such as community workshops and research projects that aims to contribute to larger social and educational structures.
Won TOYOTA Choreography Award in 2004, Grand Prize in Yokohama Solo+Duo Competition in 2005. As a solo performer and an event organizer, Higashino has been appearing regularly in places outside of the theater context throughout her career. As a solo performer and an event organizer, Higashino has been appearing regularly in places outside of the theater context throughout her career.
Her highly regarded workshops for contemporary dance are being offered throughout Japan.

Toshio Kajiwara　

Toshio Kajiwarais a sound performance artist and a stage director currently based in Kyoto, Japan. His obsessive interest in archiving obscure recordings from the times past, extended itself into a series of performances using old phonograph players and magnetic tape machines in early 90’s NYC. Later he emerged as a touring and recording improvisor collaborating extensively with DJ Olive, Christian Marclay, Tim Barnes, Peter Kowald, Shelley Hirsch, Aki Onda, Raz Mesinai, Marina Rosenfeld, Barry Weisblat, Margalida Garcia and Okkyung Lee amongst others. Between 1998-2004, Kajiwara with his partner Gregor Asch (DJ Olive) curated a performance series entitled “phonomena” at a legendary performance space “Tonic” (NYC), intending to open up new channels for more dynamic cross-boundary communication between improvisors and performance artists worldwide. The two has founded a record label bearing the same title, and have released archival and historical recordings by Jon Appleton (USA), Aki Onda (Japan) and Osso Exotico (Portugal) amongst others. Since 2008, Kajiwara is collaborating extensively with a Japanese choreographer Yoko Higashino, and have directed several full-length stage pieces that toured Japan, Korea, USA, South-America and Europe. After 2011 the collaboration began focusing more on sociological approaches to performing arts and have founded “Antibodies Collective”, which is designed to facilitate dynamic connections and collaborative networks between artists and engineers that enables it to contribute to larger social and educational structures.