Performance：6days（40 hour）
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This work is based on interviews conducted with people who have often been mistaken for being “half” or non-Japanese.
The recorded video of one such interview is traced both by the artist herself (appearing in the video) and by an actor (performer).
The recorded video of one such interview is traced both by the artist herself (appearing in the video) and by an actor (performer).
In the image above, the large projection on the left shows the artist, Midori Miyamori, tracing the original footage; on the right, Kaimio Hatsushika, the performer, does the same; and on the monitor hidden behind the central projector appears the man who was originally interviewed.
One cannot choose the body one is born with.
The interviewee had often been asked things like “Are you from abroad?” or told “Your Japanese is very good.”
Yet rather than despair over such experiences, his words suggested an attempt to embrace them—as openings for communication, as part of his way of life.
The interviewee had often been asked things like “Are you from abroad?” or told “Your Japanese is very good.”
Yet rather than despair over such experiences, his words suggested an attempt to embrace them—as openings for communication, as part of his way of life.
For both the performer and myself, the statements spoken by the interviewee were things we would never experience firsthand while living as ourselves.
Over the course of the 40-hour performance, the actor attempts to fully inhabit the man who was interviewed.
Over the course of the 40-hour performance, the actor attempts to fully inhabit the man who was interviewed.
The work explores how narratives born from unchosen bodies can be varied and rearticulated, even at the cost of losing direct subjecthood.
Speech, after all, can always be dissected into “who spoke” and “what was said.”
Speech, after all, can always be dissected into “who spoke” and “what was said.”
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ハーフや外国人と間違われることを多く経験してきた方にインタビューを行った。その記録映像を、作者自身（映像内）と役者（パフォーマー）がトレースしている作品。
上の画像左側（大きな映像）に映るのがトレースしている作者（宮森みどり）、画像右側に映るのがトレースしている役者（初鹿野海雄）、そして画像中央のプロジェクター裏に仕込まれたモニターに映るのが、インタビューを行った男性である。
生まれてくる身体は選べない。インタビューした方は「外国の方ですか？」「日本語が上手ですね」などと、これまで多く言われてきた。しかしそれを悲観することなく、コミュニケーションの入り口として楽しもうとしてきた軌跡を想像することもできるインタビューであった。
パフォーマーである役者も、身体という選べない私自身も、外国人と間違われる容姿ではなく、発話内容は自分として生活していれば体験しないことばかりであった。役者は上演時間（40時間）全てをかけて、実在するインタビューを受けた男性になりきることを目指す。
身体という選べないものから生まれる語りを、当事者性を損ないながらも変奏する。発話は「誰が」「何を言ったか」に分解されうる。
Photo : Hori Rentaro 堀連太郎
Performer : Kao Hajikano 初鹿野 海雄
Install : Kazuki Sekine 関根一樹
