Kyoko Iwaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 7523545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyoko Iwaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyoko |
| FAMILY NAME | Iwaki |
| SIGNATURE | IWAKI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3822-6692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
To teach as if there were no future
Drawing on diverse situated experiences, the twelve authors of this article suggest the potential in teaching as if there was no future. To speak of a performance pedagogy futurity is to speak of an impossibility – the coexistence and circulation of technique does not lead towards a shared future, as intercultural pedagogies might have it, but instead to the absence of futurity altogether. The question is not when a future will arrive, as institu…
Akira Takayama’s McDonald’s Radio University
Akira Takayama’s McDonald’s Radio University (2017) transforms McDonald’s fast-food restaurants into auditory and affective performance spaces for collective reflection and sociopolitical engagement. Migrant “professors,” seated inside, deliver lectures via portable radios. Drawing from Brechtian radio theatre, Takayama foregrounds the ethics of listening, urging audiences to confront vulnerability and marginalization within noisy, unpredictable …
Collaboration and Co-finitude
Antemortem
On (not) being useful
In 2014, I founded Scene/Asia, a platform of critique and dialogue for Asian contemporary performances. The main objective of the project was to extract performance tropes and concepts cultivated on the Asian soil; we tried to build a pool of knowledge that uses ‘Asian theatre [and not Western theatre] as method’, to cite Rossella Ferrari, who, in turn, borrowed from Kuan Hsing-Chen. Taking this three-year project as an empirical basis, this pape…
A Spatial Bubble of Digital Pandemic Theatres
Space facilitates the disjuncture of the multiple levels of consciousness, which are threaded through and entangled with one another.The daily dose of bedroom meditation might give awareness to our bodies; Christmas dining tables could remind us of familial bonds or their shackles; and, in theatre events, we become more attuned to the communal consciousness either in traditional auditoriums or in pop-up theatres in aircraft hangars, parking lots,…
Diffracting the Politicized Spectale
By referring to the philosophies of Izutsu Toshihiko, the article argues that it is often the case that the profiling of difference increases the sense of isolation experienced by the very people the practice intends to help, and thus intensifies the number of micro-opponents even among peers. This was precisely the case in Aichi Triennale 2019, a Japanese interdisciplinary art festival financially ‘censored’ by the government which responded to …
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A Spatial Bubble of Digital Pandemic Theatres
Space facilitates the disjuncture of the multiple levels of consciousness, which are threaded through and entangled with one another.The daily dose of bedroom meditation might give awareness to our bodies; Christmas dining tables could remind us of familial bonds or their shackles; and, in theatre events, we become more attuned to the communal consciousness either in traditional auditoriums or in pop-up theatres in aircraft hangars, parking lots,…
Diffracting the Politicized Spectale
By referring to the philosophies of Izutsu Toshihiko, the article argues that it is often the case that the profiling of difference increases the sense of isolation experienced by the very people the practice intends to help, and thus intensifies the number of micro-opponents even among peers. This was precisely the case in Aichi Triennale 2019, a Japanese interdisciplinary art festival financially ‘censored’ by the government which responded to …
Antemortem
On (not) being useful
In 2014, I founded Scene/Asia, a platform of critique and dialogue for Asian contemporary performances. The main objective of the project was to extract performance tropes and concepts cultivated on the Asian soil; we tried to build a pool of knowledge that uses ‘Asian theatre [and not Western theatre] as method’, to cite Rossella Ferrari, who, in turn, borrowed from Kuan Hsing-Chen. Taking this three-year project as an empirical basis, this pape…
Collaboration and Co-finitude
To teach as if there were no future
Drawing on diverse situated experiences, the twelve authors of this article suggest the potential in teaching as if there was no future. To speak of a performance pedagogy futurity is to speak of an impossibility – the coexistence and circulation of technique does not lead towards a shared future, as intercultural pedagogies might have it, but instead to the absence of futurity altogether. The question is not when a future will arrive, as institu…
Akira Takayama’s McDonald’s Radio University
Akira Takayama’s McDonald’s Radio University (2017) transforms McDonald’s fast-food restaurants into auditory and affective performance spaces for collective reflection and sociopolitical engagement. Migrant “professors,” seated inside, deliver lectures via portable radios. Drawing from Brechtian radio theatre, Takayama foregrounds the ethics of listening, urging audiences to confront vulnerability and marginalization within noisy, unpredictable …
Art (4 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Impossibility (2 works)