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Towards the last two months of my last visit to India in the spring of 2012, I encountered the Tibetan community in exile in India experiencing painful news of their people self-immolating in fire one after another in China-occupied Tibet. My experiences in the past visits in India (drawing a cremation site in Varanasi, documenting fire pits, cremation alters, and contemplating on life and death around fire) synchronized with this particular movement, an extreme way of ‘offering’ their bodies to ‘fire’ for asking freedom and peace.I could not help drawing large and small drawings as emotional response and with a sense of mourning.

After coming back to Vancouver, the self-immolation kept happening and I felt that my personal and professional task is not finished.

I have come back to India to continue to document and draw under the same theme. tomoyoihaya@hotmail.com

2 December 2024

A release of an archival video 'Migration' by Fight with A Stick from 2022


 

This is an archival video of the multimedia performance produced by Fight With a Stick in 2022. 

It was truly inspirational to work with amazing people. 

FYI I paste the caption I posted in the beginning of the project. A few more performers joined. All names are in the video. 

Please take a look! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLshVB0em7shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLshVB0em7s

着想から2年余りパンデミック中にプロデュースされ2022年にヴァンクーバーでは公演されたファイト・ウィズ・ア・スティックによる「マイグレーション」のヴィデオが最近完成しました。拙作の「Eyes Water Fire」から想を得てプロデュースされたものです。ディレクターのアレックスの演出はじめ、パフォーマー、音響、ライティング、舞台装置、装飾全ての分野において素晴らしいアーティスト達と一緒に創り上げた体験が素晴らしい物でした。
ご高覧くださると幸いです。

Thank you to Alexander Lazaridis for completing and sharing this video clip. 

I hope we can show this somewhere again 🙂 

 “A collaborative project between Fight With a Stick Hybrid Performing Sociery and myself has been in progress during the pandemic time. 

Zoom meetings, solo studio productions in two locations and two workshop with a few people so far at Western Front.  

This performance is based on my video 'Eyes Water Fire' which expresses human dignity and compassionate empathy.  Fire. Butter lamps of prayers. Walking to cross the border to the safe land.  

Alex Ferugson, an artistic director of Fight With a Stick, saw the video and offered me to collaborate to make something together. 

It has been such a pleasure to work with him, Delia Brett ( one of main performers), James Maxwell ( Sound), Sooyeon Goo ( studio production ) and Taiga Chiba( Studio production).  More performers will join and I look forward to seeing what comes out from our visual, physical and inner contemplation. 

Due to the pandemic restriction,  there is no clear time line when we can show case in public...please follow a FB page of Fight With a Stick...or I will up date. 

All images' copyright belongs to otter and Fight With a Stick.”
Sent from my iPhone


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