Future Temple
楽市楽座 伍
2025/3/22~23
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Future Temple
— 舞踏と音楽と1000年後の魂
1000年後、人々は何を信じ、どこへ祈るのか？
「死後、あなたの魂はどうなると思いますか？」—この問いをもとに、国内外の対話を通じて生まれた舞踏作品。
情報が溢れ、文化が均一化していく現代においても変わらず存在し続けるものは何か。
ブルガリアの伝統楽器・ガイダの生演奏とともに、魂の踊りを届けます。
舞踏：我妻恵美子
音楽：KiMiMi (大野慎矢)
楽市楽座 伍
出演スケジュール
MAROOTステージ
会場：MAROOT（富山市桜町1丁目1番61号）
日時：3月22日（土）13:20～13:35
オーバード・ホール お花見ステージ
会場：オーバード・ホール お花見ステージ(富山市牛島町9番28号)
日時：
・3月22日（土）19:45～20:00
・3月23日（日）12:45～13:00 / 15:45～16:00
入場無料
詳細・イベント情報：楽市楽座 伍 公式ページ
https://www.aubade.or.jp/static/special/rakuichirakuza2025/
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Future Temple
— A Dance of the Soul, Woven with Music
What will people believe in 1000 years from now? Where will they pray?
"What do you think happens to your soul after death?" — This question sparked conversations across different cultures, inspiring the creation of this Butoh performance.
In an era overflowing with information and cultural homogenization, what remains unchanged?
Accompanied by the live performance of the traditional Bulgarian instrument, the gaida, this piece explores the eternal essence of the human soul through dance.
Dance: Emiko Agatsuma
Music: KiMiMi (Shin-ya Ohno)
Rakuichi Rakuza V
– Performance Schedule
MAROOT Stage
Venue: MAROOT (1-1-61 Sakuramachi, Toyama City)
Date & Time: March 22 (Sat) 13:20 – 13:35
AUBADE HALL Hanami Stage
Venue: Oobaado Hall Hanami Stage (9-28 Ushijimacho, Toyama City)
Date & Time:
March 22 (Sat) 19:45 – 20:00
March 23 (Sun) 12:45 – 13:00 / 15:45 – 16:00
Admission Free
For more details, visit the official event page:
Rakuichi Rakuza V Official Website
Future Temple
Battery Dance Festival
2020
Future Temple Battery Dance Festival
Emiko Agatsuma | Future Temple (World Broadcast Premiere)
39th Annual
Battery Dance Festival
August 14-22. 2020
BatteryDance announces the 39th Annual Battery Dance Festival with free virtual performances from August 14-22, 2020, available online nightly 7pm – 8pm via YouTube.
The festival brings together 52 filmed performances including 28 premieres from 19 countries. Themed evenings include World and U.S. film Premieres from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan and North America.
Future Temple
Treasure Hill Artist village
taipei
2020
寶藏巖國際藝術村
Future Temple
2020/02/27-03/15
“Future Temple”
Emiko Agatsuma: Art director, Choreographer and performer
● Performance Schedule
2.27(Thu.) 15:00
3.1(Sun.) 14:00 / 16:00
3.7(Sat.) 14:00 / 16:00
3.8(Sun.) 14:00 / 16:00
3.14(Sat.) 14:00 / 16:00
3.15(Sun.) 14:00 / 16:00
● Venue: Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei
*Start at Treasure Hill Temple, end at Future Temple (Frontier Plaza)
*40 minutes without intermission.
●Fee: Feel free to donate after the performance to support the artist!
● Details: Facebook event page
Organized by Treasure Hill Artist Village
“Future Temple” consists of 4 sections.
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“Future Temple” Butoh performance
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“Future of Past, but not Now…” Left side room
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”Now” Right side room
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“Future Altar” Outside area, Collaboration work
photo by Uncle Photography
“Future Temple"
by Emiko Agatsuma
“Future temple” is the place where our imagination about the soul connects each other.
In the past, Japanese imagined the soul was like a fireball floating in the air. Now, most people don’t believe it, but it may affect Japanese idea unconsciously.
Emiko Agatsuma has researched the idea of the soul by asking people “After death, your soul will be…”, not only Japanese but also Taiwanese, and other foreigners.
We search for lots of information through the internet, and we are always influenced by it. The custom is also affected. Does it cause flattening of the culture?
She thinks the important things is not the thing that has changed, but the thing that has not changed.
“Future temple” gives us the chance to think about it.
Her butoh performance starts from Treasure Hill temple and ends at “Future temple”. It is a journey from the past to the future about the soul.
Photo by Jonnie Pedersen
left side room
“Future or Past, but not Now…”
by Emiko Agatsuma
Emiko Agatsuma has researched the idea of the soul by asking people “After death, your soul will be…”, not only Japanese but also Taiwanese, and other foreigners. There are many ideas of the soul in this room. Some are based on traditional ideas, and some are created newly. Where will you go? By reading other ideas of the soul, your future might be changed.
In this exhibition, she wrote people's idea on the wall and hung cards in which ideas were written.
Photo by Jonnie Pedersen
right side room
“Now”
by Emiko Agatsuma
If it’s possible, enter this room alone, feel this moment, and please answer Emiko’s question, “After death, your soul will be…”. You imagine the future, your answer becomes the past immediately. You are always in the middle.
In this exhibition, she put a desk in the small room, and people wrote their idea on cards.
outside area
“Future Altar”
collaboration work by
Gökçen Dilek Acay
Hasnaa Fatehi
彭家茵 Peng Chia Yin
王世甫 Wang Shi Fu
黃彥眞 Yen-Jen Huang
Jonnie Pedersen
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Emiko Agatsuma
“Future Temple”
is an imaginary temple after a big calamity or a world war.
No one exists who is alive now, the population becomes fewer,
and some people who exist at the time try to remind how to pray for the god, or the soul.
Most traditional ways are forgotten, but some particles of memories remain in their mind.
They can't stop creating something for invisible things.
It becomes
“Future Altar”
remains / extincts
Gökçen Dilek Acay
I was in Kuala Lumpur for 3 weeks before coming to Taipei. In this process, I tried to understand the structure of this city. cultural activities, social activities, people's communication with each other. I realized that different religions and different ethnic communities are highly interrelated and segments of society are found in public spaces, mostly in temples and shopping centers.
Emiko stated that she wants to establish a temple scene. I thought we should use recycle material with this space relationship. We started to collect plastic shopping bags. Because plastic culture has unfortunately reached a dimension that people cannot give up. Oceans and deepest forests are filled with plastic garbage. Plastic and other type of garbage is taking over the earth in unbearable dimensions.
It was my goal to raise awareness and draw attention to the ritualism of the consumer society. Thus, the idea of the temple and the consum culture came together.
If it is not written down, it did not happen!
Hasnaa Fatehi
In this work I superficially explore the traceability, auditability and defensibility of institutions and people. I use the Taiwanese taxation system, Uniform Invoice Lottery, 統一發票 (Tǒngyī fāpiào), to examine the idea of purchase receipts as devotional scripts, accounts of acquisitions and offerings and promises of more (purchasing) possibilities. Financial structures being all which survives post-humanity and accounting records our only way back to god.
The expression “If it is not written down, it did not happen!” is a foundational quality assurance concept established by the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) to reinforce the idea of record keeping throughout a product life cycle from design and development to manufacturing and decommissioning.
Prior to failing Canada as a skilled settler, I worked in the highly regulated MedTech industry. Today, I research the ubiquity and reproducibility of concepts learnt during my professionalization as I encounter them in my “private” consumer life, the traces of compliance I leave starting from my social location and how they are being used.
祈禱
彭家茵 Peng Chia Yin
The image of my work is inspired by the 香爐 (incense burner) culture in Taiwan.
While doing our prayers, we do not speak our wishes out loud. We just meditate it, silently in heart.
Holiness is often tranquil.
But if you listen carefully, it would be a scene of noisy crowds.
The shredded paper at the bottom represents the past old days, which have lost their names, and shattered into shapelessness.
The abandoned toothbrushes, pens, and straws above are like our mouths, praying silently when facing the rottenness of the end of the world.
Pray, perhaps that is the only thing left to do. While confronting the existence and non-existence of God, be able to say that we do not own nothing at all.
Thanks for the translation support of 沈薇
路
王世甫 Wang Shi Fu
When the world has come to ruin, people pick up the memories and rebuild the world they were familiar with.
Chinese funeral paper offerings made by filling up abandoned clothes with waste
Model toys symbolizing cultural decay as Paste Decoration of Temple.
These abandoned objects are trying to become a way to connect life and memory, to explore the nature of life.
The guards of the temple
黃彥眞 Yen-Jen Huang
Future people “the guards do their jobs.”
Cigarette are the things from heaven , those cigarettes symbol are the proof of heaven .
People knew the guards are from the heaven , but nothing else .
My Mother's Table
Jonnie Pedersen
My mother's table is the particles of memory that remain with me. The smaller details of how my mother once prayed for her God. The tiny slivers of details that added up and helped her feel that within her home was space, and in that space was hope.
This entire concept is made from almost entirely recycled materials, trying to recreate what once was through the things that are often left behind.
The public is invited to write on the pieces of paper, the little booklets and to leave "something" for worship (whatever that may mean for them) if they wish.
What is found as you pass through this space will ultimately rest within yourself; All that is and was are building from the foundation of the last; one sprout from the seeds of past seasons.
Through your devotion may you find a beginning, or a center from which all radiates. From your perception, your self and vulnerability, may you find what is worth worshipping.
