Future Ideations Camp Vol.7｜Super Sober Shamanism : Exploring Synchronization, Co-presence, and Mimesis through Theatre and Technology

2025.10.01(Wed)–12(Sun)

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Atelier West and Gallery 2

Camp

Dates: October 1 (Wed) – 12 (Sun), 2025
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Atelier West and Gallery 2
Capacity: Around 20
Admission: Free
Application Period: July 23 (Wed) – August 31 (Sun), 2025

Final Presentations: October 12 (Sun), 2025
Results Exhibition: October 15 (Wed)–October 19 (Sun), 2025

This intensive camp explores new possibilities for technology and performing arts, starting from the contemporary sensibility of multiplex temporalities, spaces, and bodies. Participants will attempt to create works that synthesizes the physicality of the medium of theatre with digital technology, and collaboratively make a whole new kind of theatre.

Civic Creative Base Tokyo’s Future Ideations Camp is a series of intensive workshops bringing different kinds of people together to work collaboratively and creatively with art and digital technologies. Around twenty selected participants take part in several days of lectures to acquire new ways of thinking, workshops for building skill sets, and collaborative group activities. During the camps, the general public are also able to attend talks and presentations of the results.

The seventh camp explores theater and technology, and is held in partnership with the Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo, which takes place in October. Overseen by three directors active in both technology and theater, this iteration of the camp aims to provide opportunities to learn about using technology in theater as well as offer the chance to explore the medium of theater in specialist ways, and propose a new model of theater for the future.

Reference: Future Ideations Camp Vol.4｜Understanding and Creatively Expressing Ecosystems as Data　Photo: Saito Junpei

Reference: Future Ideations Camp Vol.5 : Can AI Become Life?　Photo: Masahiro Muramatsu

Directors’ Statement

Cooking a meal while listening to the radiko app. Drinking a beer while waiting for a live stream to begin. Checking the predicted location of rain clouds thirty minutes from now on the forecast map. Our everyday landscape today emerges from such multiplex layers of time, space, and physicality.

We, the directors of this program, have developed a concept of what constitutes technology and theatre as the superimposing of many phenomena: different entities superimposing their own temporalities and spatialities while retaining their respective differences of rhythm and desire (that is, a state of synchronization and co-presence); and superimposing onto a body or personality another (or many other) bodies and personalities through the act of mimesis. By further superimposing the effects of superimposition that forms the basis of technology and theatre, how can we redefine, expand, or multiply the two?

In order to explore technology and theatre, it is vital first to try moving your hands and body. This camp will feature various intuitive tools, such as a peeler for cooking, a blacklight for detecting Anisakis parasites, and a smart and versatile built-in stove called Pipitto Konro. The participants will learn how to use them with instructors well versed in various technologies related to performance, including forms of digital embodiment like AI and extended reality, sound design, and text manipulation. They will then divide into teams and develop a performance and exhibit over the creative phase of the camp.

The somehow spellbinding aura that surrounds new technology re-summons the ritualistic character of theatre and the shamanistic nature of acting—though it will be a super sober shamanism that coolly and calmly circumvents ecstatic frenzy.

Program Directors

– Eguchi Masato (researcher)
– God Scorpion (media artist)
– Shinoda Chiharu (theatre maker and director, after-school instructor, tour guide)

Lecturers / Facilitators

– JACKSON kaki (artist, DJ, VJ, video artist, graphic designer)
– Kishi Yuma (artist)
– Madoka (modern witch, artist)
– Nakai You (Side Effects Lab of the University of Tokyo)
– Yamamoto Hiroki (novelist, designer, critic, editor / director, Inu no Senaka-za)
– Wakui Tomohito (visual artist, music artist, Director and Curator / WHITEHOUSE)

Outline

Dates: October 1 (Wed) – 12 (Sun), 2025 11:00 am – 7:00 pm (subject to change)

※A participant briefing session (Day 0) will be held on Tuesday, September 9, 2025.

Final Presentation: October 12 (Sun), 2025
Results Exhibition: October 15(Wed) – 19 (Sun), 2025
Venues: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Atelier West and Gallery 2

Program & Curriculum (TBU)

Day 0 –September 9 (Tue) 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Online
Director self-introductions
About the program
Introducing the Lecturers

Day1– October 1 (Wed)
Introduction
Participant self-introductions
Lecture & Hands-on workshop (Lecturers: Shinoda Chiharu, Kishi Yuma)

Public Event: Keynote lecture *TBA

Day2– October 2 (Thu)
Lecture & Hands-on workshop (Lecturers: Eguchi Masako, God Scorpion, Nakai You)
Discussion

Public Event: Keynote lecture *TBA

Day3– October 3 (Fri)
Facilitator self-introductions (Lecturers: JACKSON kaki, Madoka, Yamamoto Hirotaka, Wakui Tomohito)
Rapid Prototyping

Day4– October 4 (Sat)
Group Work Brainstorming
Co-creating in groups

Public Event: Keynote lecture *TBA

Day5– October 5 (Sun)
Co-creating in groups
Open Dialogue

Day6〜Day9– October 7 (Tue) – 10 (Fri)
Creation

Day10– October 11 (Sat)
Rehearsal

October 12 (Sun)
Public event: Final Presentation　

October 15 (Wed) – 19 (Sun)
Public event: Results Exhibition

Reference: Future Ideations Camp vol.1: Import *

Application Guidlines

Application Period : July 23 (Wed) – August 31 (Sun), 2025
Participant Numbers: Around 20
All ages

Participation Requirements
– Be able to participate in the whole program during the session
– Have a proven track record of research or creative activities
– Be able to apply the content of the workshop to their own future activities

Example Participants
– People involved in creative practices who want to use technology in their work
– People who want to try creating a work in the new field of the performing arts
– Researchers and students with interests in new forms of expression and experimental practices that transcend conventional disciplinary boundaries
– People no longer involved in creative practices due to parenting, illness, caregiving, or other reasons, and who want to restart their activities

. . . And more

Selection Criteria
Selection will be made based on the application.

Result Notification
The result will be notified through email on September 6th, 2025. (subject to change)

Application Process
Please apply via the application form.
Alternatively, please send an email (ccbt@rekibun.or.jp) including the following items with “Future Ideations Camp Application” in the subject line.

– Full Name
– Age
– City of Residence
– Email Address
– Occupation / Affiliation
– Areas of expertise(Art, Theater, Design, Engineering, Music, Education, Religious Studies, Humanities, Environmental Studies, Philosophy, Others)
– What aspects of this camp interest you and what challenges you’d like to pursue, based on your own desires?
– Please indicate if you need any accessibility support. (Examples: Sign language interpretation, Text-based support)
– State the link, if you have a portfolio, video materials, websites, or GitHub that introduces your initiatives.

Staff

Program Direction
Ito Takayuki (CCBT)
Dramaturg
Hatori Yoshiro (Autumn Meteorite), Kimura Yusuke (&Co.)
Program Management
Hanzawa Hirohiko (Autumn Meteorite), Ito Haruka (CCBT), Kashima Moeko, Terada Rin (Autumn Meteorite)
Technical Direction
Miura Daiki (arsaffix)
Technical staff
Hirase Miki (arsaffix), Inada Shunpei (CCBT), Ito Yuya (arsaffix), Otsuto Masashi (CCBT)
Operation
Onocoro

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

Eguchi Masato

Researcher

Eguchi Masato is a researcher specializing in theatre, performance, and culture and representation. Following periods as a visiting scholar at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, an assistant professor at the Rikkyo University College of Contemporary Psychology, and working for syuz’gen LLC, he currently teaches at the Rikkyo University College of Contemporary Psychology and Atomi University Faculty of Literature. His main research interest is to investigate, from historical and theoretical perspectives, how the performative turn has influenced artistic practices and society at large in postwar United States. As an actor, Eguchi’s credits include the original production of chelfitsch’s Five Days in March (2004) and a revival of the play in 2018 for the In da House Projects series.

God Scorpion

Media artist

The media artist God Scorpion’s work explores metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, and technology, and themes of changing temporal and spatial frames. His interdisciplinary and multimedia work utilizes extended reality technology and unfolds in various spaces, from the city to outdoors, indoors, and the body. God Scorpion is a founding member and senior art director at STYLY, Inc., which provides the extended reality platform STYLY.

Photo: Graham Mayer

Shinoda Chiharu

Theatre maker and director, after-school instructor, tour guide

Shinoda Chiharu excels at distinguishing between multiple environments, placing them in a space, and arranging them without closing them off. In 2004, she founded FAIFAI with fellow students at Tama Art University, serving as the core member of the company directing, writing, and planning its productions until her departure in 2012. She then moved to Bangkok and launched a solo practice. In March 2020, she returned to Japan and based herself in Nerima, Tokyo. In 2020, Shinoda produced the online performance The 5×5×5 Legged Stool in partnership with the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. In 2022, she directed no plan in duty, which was performed at a house in Tokyo. At Bigakko, Shinoda teaches a course called How to Quit Acting.

Photo: Tezuka Natsume

Kishi Yuma

Artist

Kishi Yuma reinterprets AI as alien intelligence and proposes the emergent relationship between humans and AI as an alien subjectivity, which he explores through paintings, sculptures, and installations created in collaboration with an AI that he developed himself. Since 2023, the AI model MaryGPT has curated almost all of his work. Kishi’s exhibitions include the solo show Oracle Womb (2025, √K Contemporary, Tokyo) and the group show DXP2 (2024, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa). His awards include the short list for the CAF Award 2024. He is the author of Creating with the Unknown: On the Alien Encounter between Humans and AI (2025, Seibundo Shinkosha).

JACKSON kaki

artist, DJ, VJ, video artist, graphic designer

Born in 1996 in Shizuoka Prefecture, currently enrolled at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences. Works with multimedia including VR/AR, 3DCG, video, performance, installation, and sound, focusing on the natural aspects of the body and the concept of virtual reality through production and research. Also active as a director and curator of art projects. In 2022, used the Shibuya club ‘CONTACT’ for the art project ‘Imaginary Line’. In 2023, co-curated the Video/Sound/Performance program at EASTEAST_TOKYO with QIUYU JIN, and served as the director of ‘ZOR’ held at CALM & PUNK GALLERY.

https://twitter.com/Kakiaraara https://www.instagram.com/kakiaraara/ https://www.tiktok.com/@kakiaraara https://www.youtube.com/@kakijackson2697

Nakai You

Side Effects Lab of the University of Tokyo

Nakai You makes music, dance, theatre, haunted mansions, and other forms of performance as a member of No Collective, and also conducts research on experimental electronic music, performance, influentology, and habits. His publications include Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor’s Music (Oxford University Press, 2021). Recent artistic endeavors include bringing to life Island Eye Island Ear, a speculative plan conceived by Tudor in the mid-1970s to turn an entire island into a giant musical instrument. Nakai’s translations include Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth (2021) by Eyal Weizman and Matthew Fuller. He is currently affiliated with the University of Tokyo, where he hosts the Side Effects Lab and chairs the Department of Avant-Garde Arts.

https://www.selout.site/jp

Madoka

Modern witch, artist

Madoka researches and practices modern witchcraft culture, and is the organizer of the Future Witches Conference. Her interviews and articles on witchcraft have appeared in the leading Japanese literary magazine Bungei , feminist culture magazine Etcetera , long-running Japanese magazine on the occult and the paranormal MU , Vogue , WIRED , and Tokyo Art Beat. In 2023, she formed a “chimera” collaboration with Donna Haraway scholar Sakamaki Shitone, publishing the zine Cyborg Witch Manifesto under the joint name Madoka Shitone. Her column “Modern Witch” is currently serialized by Shueisha’s Shinsho Plus and “Hello Witches! Witches of the 21st Century” by Kasama Shoin.

Photo: Natsuki Kuroda

Yamamoto Hiroki (Inu no Senaka-za)

Novelist, designer, critic, editor / Director, Inu no Senaka-za

Born in 1992, Yamamoto Hiroki is the director of Inu no Senaka-za, a creative collective, publishing house, and design studio. Through a wide range of activities—including writing fiction, poetry, and arts criticism, designing, editing, and publishing books, and producing stage works—he investigates and proposes new possibilities for the relationship between artistic expression and life today. His notable works of fiction include “Without Permission and Soil,” featured in the anthology Best SF 2022. His critical writings includes A New Distance. His design work includes art direction for Quick Japan magazine and the book design for Yoshida Yasuhiro’s Light and Private Language. Yamamoto also served as planner and editor for the autumn 2021 issue of Waseda Bungaku, which featured a special section on the reality of horror.

https://lit.link/hirokiyamamotoinunosenakaza

Wakui Tomohito

Visual artist, music artist, Director and Curator / WHITEHOUSE

Born in Niigata in 1990, Wakui Tomohito is a visual and music artist as well as the director and curator of WHITEHOUSE. His major exhibitions include “nonno” (2016, 8/ART GALLERY/Tomio Koyama), “Dark Independants” (2020, online and Tokyo), “JUNK’S PORTS” (2023, ANOMALY), “Electricity-Sound” (2023, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art), and “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” (2024, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo).

https://tomohitowakui.com/https://7768697465686f757365.com/

Production: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] , Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo
Organizer: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] (Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Tokyo Festival Executive Committee [Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)]

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