The shape of me

About

Self / Other. Being / Nothingness. Hi-tech theatre crossing boundaries

Building on experience in a wide range of fields - including theatre, art, music and even a pet business - Norimizu Ameya is an artist who continues to explore concepts of the body and life. After participating in the 1995 Venice Biennale he ceased working with visual art until 2005. In 2009 at the F/T Spring festival he collaborated with playwright Oriza Hirata to use real high school girls for the cast of "Transfer Student", and then followed this up by directing groundbreaking British dramatist Sarah Kane's "4.48 Psychosis" for the F/T Autumn last year.

This new work, "The shape of me", will feature no script, stage or actors - it will be a month-long "technical" theatre installation. Ameya is revisiting themes he first introduced with his comeback exhibition in 2005, where he explored being and nothingness through installing himself for twenty-four days in a two meters square white box without light.

As Ameya looks into these dichotomies of self versus other, being versus not being, what can an audience expect to experience? Only those who enter Ameya's world over the course of the thirty days will know!