• Photo by Mayu Kanamori
  • Photo by Paul Phillipson
  • Photo by Paul Phillipson
  • Photo by Paul Phillipson
  • Photo by Paul Phillipson
  • Photo by Paul Phillipson
  • Photo by Albert Comper
Pulse Sakasama Reverse World : Yumi Umiumare Edge : Tony Yap

Sakasama Reverse World, Yumi Umiumare (35 min)
Yumi Umiumare Edge, Tony Yap (30 min)
3 & 4 April 2009 7:30pm

Sakasama Reverse World. The original impulse came from the ancient Japanese belief in Sakasama: the reverse world. The two worlds of Life and Death are described as two shores; one is ‘the near shore’ (the world of the living), and the other is ‘the far shore’ (the world of after-death). A river flows between them. ‘The far shore’ is a reversed world: it is the reverse of the world of the living and everything is upside down. I explore the juxtaposition of my presence in Australia, experimenting with the neutrality of emotion and colour, and to manipulate rhythms.

Credits: Media Art by Bambang Nurcahyadi, Video and Sound edited by Bambang Nurcahyadi and Ian Corcoran, Videography by Richard Back, Anthony Pelchen and Yumi Umiumare

EDGE by Tony Yap and Sakasama by Yumi Umiumare are crossing over with their shared performance sensibility of Butoh and Trance dance, using different resource of digital images. Tony and Yumi have been collaborating through their unique styles over 14 years in Australia, Europe, and Eastern Asia. Walking the perimeter. /An ambivalent return to the City. /The border between city and country. /Country and Country. /Tradition and Currency. /Clear lines or border region. / Solid and air. /Body and Spirit. /Body and Surrounds.

Credits: Installation Naomi Ota, Composers/sound design Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, Film Sean O'Brien.