敷地理 / Osamu Shikichi

Choreographer and dancer. Born in Japan (1994). Curently working on Brussels and Tokyo. Shikichi begins their practice by questioning the human body, which we often take for granted, and challenging the notion of bodily self-possession. Their work explores the idea of an anonymous body, blurring and remixing our ways of identifying with human bodies. This creates a new perspective on human bodies while focusing on the politics and violence of the gaze. Shikichi is particularly interested in WET (weird erotic tension) movements, such as the visualizations of ASMR with shared, anonymized bodies. Their practice stems from teenage experiences of difficult relationships between body and mind and doubts about their own body. After exploring sculpture and other visual arts, Shikichi became more active in performing arts. Through cameras and screens, they began reimagining their body as a flat image, anonymizing it, and transplanting sensations into the images of others' bodies. This process of hacking and hosting other human accounts, treating phantom pains, extends to non-human objects as well. Major performance works include "happy ice cream" (Yokohama Dance Collection 2020), "blooming dots'' (TPAM2021 Fringe etc.), "dragging" (Tokyo Arts and Space 2022), "Hyper Ambient Club" (ROHM Theatre Kyoto 2022/ Creative Centre Osaka 2023). Shikichi also organizes the “hyper ambient club", a collective platform where artists from different disciplines collaborate to create performances and new dance parties as a form that does not belong to either theatre or club events. Shikichi received a master’s degree in dance from P.A.R.T.S. and major awards include the French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographers at Yokohama Dance Collection 2020 and Pola Art Foundation Fellowship 2023 and Yokohama Arts Commission Fellow Artist (2024) etc. https://linktr.ee/osamu_shikichi