YCAM Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media

YCAM offers a broad range of contemporary forms of theatre, dance, and other genre-crossing physical expression. With the latest media-technological facilities encompassing imagery, sound, lighting, computers and others, YCAM is one of the best-equipped institutions in Japan. Internationally active artists from various genres produce works "in residence" in collaboration with and supported by the technically trained staff of our "InterLab" production department, making YCAM a place to experience pieces of high-quality performing arts.

YCAM performance lounge #6
Tadasu Takamine "How not to think ?"

Date/Time :

2012-06-23 (Sat)15:00-18:00
2012-06-24 (Sun)15:00-18:00
2012-06-30 (Sat)15:00-18:00
2012-07-01 (Sat)15:00-18:00

Venue :

Chuo Park /

Admission :

¥500

A peculiar performance starring senior citizens of Yamaguchi, created by spectators and performers

This event takes place in a tent set up in the Chuo Park in front of YCAM. All performers are Yamaguchi residents that were selected from among applicants aged 60 and above. Positioned behind a screen, they respond with improvised silhouette performances to "requests" sent from visitors via a control panel installed in the audience.
YCAM performance lounge #6
Tadasu Takamine "Japan Syndrome in Yamaguchi"

Date/Time :

2012-06-23 (Sat)11:00-14:00
2012-06-24 (Sun)11:00-14:00
2012-06-25 (Mon)11:00-19:00
2012-06-27 (Wed)11:00-19:00
2012-06-28 (Thu)11:00-19:00
2012-06-29 (Fri)11:00-19:00
2012-06-30 (Sat)11:00-14:00
2012-07-01 (Sun)11:00-14:00

Up-and-coming artists and their takes on "life thereafter"

This video work deals with the vague sense of anxiety that has been infused into our lives since the nuclear accident in Fukushima in March 2011, and the fissures the incident has caused to arise between human individuals. The movie shows local residents selected from among applicants conducting interviews in the streets of Yamaguchi. The sensitive conversations reveal subtle aspects of "life thereafter" in Yamaguchi.

Keiichiro Shibuya + Toshiki Okada Opera Performance "The End"

Date/Time :

2012-12-01 (Sat)-19:00
2012-12-02 (Sun)-15:00

Venue :

Studio A /

Admission :

Advanced tickets: ¥3,000 / “any” members & special discounts ¥2,500 / Under 26 ¥2,300
Tickets at the door: ¥3,500
* Tickets available on October 6 (Sat)

Examining possibilities of vocaloid performers in the most cutting-edge opera currently feasible

Musician/artist Keiichiro Shibuya and stage director Toshiki Okada present a new opera work realized during both artists' residency at YCAM. No human singers or orchestra appear in this piece, but aria and recitativo parts are performed by vocaloid engine, is a singing software application, and video characters instead. In a scenario that progresses without any humans on stage, "The End" from Japan shakes up the human-centered conception of the opera format in Europe, while generating and traversing all sorts of underlying dichotomies in art - life/death, natural/synthetic voice, public/private, part/whole, line/layer, etc. - to make this opera a totally new emotional experience for the spectator.