Future Ideations Camp Vol. 7: Super Sober Shamanism is a workshop that aims to propose a new model of theatre for the future through exchange and collaboration on the theme of theatre and technology. As a related event, CCBT will hold a total of three public lectures featuring artists from Japan and abroad, who will explore synchronization, co-presence, and mimesis through the frameworks of their respective activities.
Civic Creative Base Tokyo will hold Future Ideas Camp Vol. 7｜ Super Sober Shamanism: Exploring Synchronization, Co-presence, and Mimesis through Theatre and Technology, in partnership with the Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo, which is happening in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, from October 1. With a focus on theatre and technology, the camp aims to propose a new model of theatre by exploring how embodied experiences, rituals, and performative practices can be reconstructed through technologies such as avatars, simulations, and immersive environments. In tandem with the main workshop, CCBT will hold a series of public lectures.
The three keynote lectures will feature: up-and-coming media artist Theo Triantafyllidis; Elena Knox, an artist whose interdisciplinary practice encompasses digital media, performance, music, and installation; and Xia Lin and Sheryl Cheung from the Taiwan-based artist collective lololol.
In each lecture, the speaker will introduce the latest examples of their work at the intersection of theatre and digital technology, and new artistic approaches that arise between physicality and technology from the unique perspective of their practice.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear lectures from leading figures in their fields.
【Keynote Lecture 1】
Theo Triantafyllidis: Feral Systems, an Artist Talk by Theo Triantafyllidis
Date: October 1 (Wed) 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm (doors open: 7:15 p.m.)
Lecturer (online): Theo Triantafyllidis (artist)
*Registration required
**Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation and text-based communication (UD Talk)will be provided.
***Sign language interpretation (English –JSL, only available in person at the venue)
Theo Triantafyllidis builds performative systems that resist legibility. They stutter, overflow, and double back on themselves. In this artist talk, he presents a constellation of recent works – Feral Metaverse, Anti-Gone, BugSim (Pheromone Spa) – alongside in-progress experiments and behind-the-screens scaffolding, offering a look into a practice where simulation is treated as stage rather than spectacle.
These are moody, procedural worlds where engines stall, avatars drift off-script, and physics develop personalities. Triantafyllidis doesn’t design clean interactions, he cultivates volatile arrangements. Creatures, players, networks, and algorithms locked in uncertain liveness. This is not user-centered design. It’s the poetics of mutual misrecognition.
What emerges is a rehearsal space for unstable ontologies: somewhere between a LAN party, a fever dream, and a bad dress run of the future. A world where technology isn’t optimized, but embodied: intimate, leaky, semi-coherent, occasionally exquisite.
【Keynote Lecture 2】
Elena Knox: The Techne, the Daimon, and the Unknown Superfactor!
Date: October 2 (Thu) 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm (doors open: 7:15 p.m.)
Lecturer (online): Elena Knox (artist, curator, researcher)
*Registration required
**Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation and text-based communication (UD Talk)will be provided.
***Sign language interpretation (English –JSL, only available in person at the venue)
Why do humans use arts, crafts, and technical skill to create copies of ourselves? In this talk, I will space-time travel through my own and other humans’ artworks that wrestle with this method of shamanic mirroring, suggesting that it arises from an underlying, species-level drive to artificially contextualize humankind’s position in the whole universe. This is me. This is us. This is my echo. Are we alone? Can you see, or hear, or smell, or feel, or know us? Why is the ‘stage’ for my life so incomprehensibly huge, and my life so distressingly short? Is there such a thing as control? Am I accidental? Am I too stupid to understand? Am I the same, or different? Do you care about me, and my survival? Is there, indeed, any other ‘you’ … out there or all around, somewhere, far from Earth?
As pioneers of technology develop evermore intricate tools for humanity to use — and as AI begins to apply reduplicated knowledge to prototypical acts of creation — we continue to seek both stabilizing reflections of ourselves and explanations for uncharted phenomena. Whether these objectives are compatible is unproven.
Art as shamanism mediates between them.
【Keynote Lecture 3】
lololol: Choreography of Collapse
Date: October 4 (Sat) 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm (doors open: 7:15 p.m.)
Lecturer (online): lololol (artist collective)
*Registration required
**Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation and text-based communication (UD Talk)will be provided.
***Sign language interpretation (English –JSL, only available in person at the venue)
Choreography of Collapse explores how the body learns not just to live with machines, but to live through them.
The first part introduces 3C Xing Yi Quan, a new form of martial arts that seeks to internalize the logic of contemporary devices—computers, communications, and consumer electronics. Rooted in the tradition of internal mobilization, this practice cultivates equilibrium of mind and body in the digital age. It does not aim to passively use or actively resist technology, but to mirror, absorb, and re-pattern its cues.
The second part, Fractal Memory, listens to the forgotten acoustics of broken hard drives—those discarded containments of memory. Through their fractured rhythms and chanting circuits, a new soundscape emerges: a choreography of breakdown, where malfunction becomes the message, and data collapse gives rise to an aesthetics of survival.
Together, these two parts offer a meditation on coexistence and becoming—where systems fail, but new forms of attunement, adaptation, and embodiment begin to stir. These works continues the artist’s long-term engagement with natural, industrial, and electronic ambiances— to trace a new cosmic ontology in contemporary life.
Venue and Access
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Atelier West
1-8-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0021
2-minute walk from West Exit of Ikebukuro Station on JR lines, Tokyo Metro lines, Tobu Tojo Line, and Seibu Ikebukuro Line
*Directly accessible from Exit 2b of Ikebukuro Station underground passage
Details: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre
Registration
Please register by one of the following methods.
Due to the need to arrange for sign language interpreters, if you require interpretation, please register by Tuesday, September 23.
If you have other accessibility requests or special requirements, please contact us at the email address below.
1) Online form
Please click the link below and fill in the registration form (external website).
https://futureideationscamp7keynote.peatix.com
2) Email
Please email the address below with your information. Please be sure to write “Camp Vol. 7 Keynote Lectures registration” in the email subject line.
Email: event@autumnmeteorite.jp
Subject line: Camp Vol. 7 Keynote Lectures registration
1. Name
2. Email address
3. Choice of lecture/date.
4. Accessibility requests (e.g., sign language) (if applicable)
Inquiry
Tokyo Festival Executive Committee
Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo
Person in charge of Future Ideations Camp Vol.7
event@autumnmeteorite.jp
Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo 2025
Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo 2025, an international performing arts festival held primarily at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Ikebukuro, Toshima City, from October 1 to November 3, 2025. The Artistic Director is Toshiki Okada, who is active both in Japan and overseas as a playwright, director, novelist, and leader of the theater company chelfitsch. Under his direction, the festival aims to become a truly international performing arts festival that is inclusive and open to all. Autumn Meteorite seeks to create opportunities for audiences to become aware of different forms of reality and to reframe the world through new perspectives. The festival hopes that performing arts expressions from Japan and around the world, taking place here and now, will feel more personal, relatable, and resonant. The 2025 edition will consist of three main components: the Performance Program, featuring 14 productions from Japan and abroad; the Non-Performance Program, offering lectures, workshops, and other activities; and Hello and Welcome, an attendee support initiative that ensures accessibility and an inviting environment for all visitors.
Organizer: Tokyo Festival Executive Committee [Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)]
Support: Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan Japan Arts Council
Sponsor: Asahi Group Japan, Ltd.
Media Partner: Tokyo Art Beat
In cooperation with: Toshima city, SEIBU RAILWAY Co.,Ltd, TOBU RAILWAY CO., Ltd
