Artists Statement

Mediaselect programme

October 27, Departure 19:00 From Nagoya harbor boarding place

Yakata-bune, a Japanese houseboat used as a wagon boat for noble sightseeing, tax carriering, and merchant shipping. In the Tokugawa period, its use changed and became an excursion boat for cherry blossom viewing, enjoying the cool evening, fireworks, and viewing the moon. In the present, emphasis is laid on the experience of being aboard it and thus works as the moving public space.
YAKATA is the on board event where you experience the space called Yakata-bune through various media. It had about 2 hour dense program with moving images, music, comic stories, real time net streaming, etc

Today’s menu (From YAKATA Program)

• Boarding
• Opening Address
• Introduction and General Information about YAKATA
• Departing Ceremony with Conch Horn
• -USUSU PROCESS 2002 Autumn-Winter (the first half)
• 5 minutes break
• Live Performance: ‘Waraimochi Night” by Bracken-Starch Dumpling Lovers Club (PHIRIP,
• Danshaku, Lemon chan and IWATA Eiichi)
• 5 minutes break
• Live performance: Ultra Living (Msual Collaboration: Akio Okamoto)
• 5 minutes break
• Screening: “Tamafure ver. 1.4” by Yasunori Ikeda
• -USUSU PROCESS 2002 Autumn-Winter (the last half)
• Closing Address
• Arrival

Artists: Ususu (Koichi Kido, Takaaki Shimbori, Takao Minami), Yasunori Ikeda, Ultra Living (Takuma Nonaka, Tetsushi Now), Akio Okamoto, Phirip, Eiichi Wata, Chan Lemon, Danshaku
Support: Ayu Amari, Satomi Kawabata, Akiko Baba
Plan: Takuji Okacawa
Cooperation: Higashiyama Garden