Koichi Makigami

There have been cases of mysterious disappearances of onsen visitors in Atsumi city in S prefecture.The victims were eventually found dead with signs of severe injuries to their bodies resembling a vicious shark attack.

Ikue Mori continues to be one of the most respected and original voices in the laptop electronic music scene. Distinct and personal, her sounds are immediately recognizable as her own. For the past several years she has been incorporating visual imagery into her presentations, animating cutouts from Japanese woodblock prints in ways both charming and disturbing. Her latest work is her best yet, and draws upon the rich literature of Japanese Kibyoshi, satirical comics which pointed sharp barbs at contemporary society with a sharp focus on gossip, literature, political affairs and current events. Reversing, inverting and twisting truth and fiction, Ikue Mori creates a rich world of her own with sound and image.

A samurai warrior is terrorised by the demon Agi.

Lacking a coherent plot, We're All Riding on a Circus Elephant depicts the collapse of western civilization as a free-form collage advocating group anarchy and actor improvisation. The stage is a boxing ring. Those actors who are "onstage" get into the boxing ring and assault each other with words. Others heckle and cheer at the sidelines, or act as a rhythm-and-blues chorus while changing costumes or wigs. Taking as its coda Andy Warhol's dictum that everyone gets fifteen minutes of fame, actor transformations depict the Breakdown of Japanese values and selfhood due to an obsession with popular American culture.

ドリーム号で神戸までと言うと、受付の男は怪訝そうな顔をした。今、東京から神戸まで行くバスはない。10年前の夏休み21歳の“僕”は神戸、三の宮駅前をドリーム号から降りた。昔馴染みの「ジェイズ・バー」に入って行くと、ジェイは「お帰り、友だちが待ってるよ」と言う。指さす方を向くと「春休みからずっと待っていたんだ」と酔った“鼠”がフラついた足どりでカウンターにやってきた...。