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concert data
30 November 2022
Teatro Goldoni, Venice, Italy
Organizer: The Japan Foundation
https://www.jpf.go.jp/j/about/press/2022/dl/2022-020.pdf
11 – 12 March 2023
NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo
https://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/exhibitions/2023/dumb-type-audio-visual-live-2022-remix/
production members
Shiro Takatani
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ken Furudate
Takuya Minami
Satoshi Hama
Yoko Takatani
acknowledgements
Voices:
David Sylvian
Maria Takeuchi
Kahimi Karie
Niki
Field Recordings
(originally recorded for the installation Playback directed by Ryuichi Sakamoto for the Dumb Type Exhibition at Haus der Kunst Munich in 2022):
Yan Jun (Beijing)
Crosby Bolani (Cape Town)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Chiang Mai)
Kali Malone & Stephen O’Malley (La Tour-de-Peilz)
Mukul Patel (London)
John Warwicker (Melbourne)
Martin Hernandez (Mexico City)
Giuseppe La Spada (Mount Etna)
Damian Lentini (Munich)
Alec Fellman (New York)
Andri Snær Magnason & Kaśka Paluch (Reykjavik)
Jaques Morelenbaum (Rio de Janeiro)
Atom Heart (Santiago)
Cheng Chou (Taipei)
Nima Massali (Tehran)
Seigen Ono (Tokyo)
outline
The new installation that Dumb Type unveiled at the Japan Pavilion of the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2022) has been adapted into a live theatrical remix format for this performance. Through Dumb Type’s unique audio-visual expressions, this work raises questions about truth and humanity’s future in an age in which the prominence of social media has caused information to become distorted, and encourages people to think about methods of communication and perceiving the world.
Filming & Editing: Shiro Takatani | Sound Editing: Satoshi Hama | Recorded on November 30th, 2022, at Teatro Goldoni, Venice
Presented by Dumb Type and The Japan Foundation ©️Dumb Type All Rights Reserved
What is Geography?
What is the Earth?
What is the shape of the Earth?
Of what is the Earth composed?
What is a Continent?
How many Continents are there?
On which Continent do we live?
What is an Ocean?
How many Oceans are there?
Which is the largest Ocean?
What is an Island?
What is a Mountain?
What is a Hill?
What is a Volcano?
What is a Desert?
By what are Deserts formed?
What is a River?
By what are Rivers formed?
Who governs an Empire?
Who governs a Kingdom?
Who governs a Republic?
Which is the largest Empire in the world?
Which is the largest Kingdom in the world?
Which is the largest Republic in the world?
In what Division of the Earth do we live?
When you look at the rising Sun, what Ocean is before you?
Where does the Sun rise?
Where, then, is the Atlantic Ocean?
When you look at the setting Sun, what Ocean is before you?
Where does the Sun set?
What Ocean east of Asia?
What Ocean south of Asia?
What Ocean west of Africa?
What Sea south of Europe?
Which is the largest Island in the World?
How many Countries are there?
How are they divided?
What Country furthest north?
What Country furthest south?
In what Country do we live?
Where is Cape Farewell?
Excerpt from First Lessons In Geography, by James Monteith