(c) Theater Commons Tokyo '21 / Photo: Shun Sato

Index for Obake Tokyo: Introduction
Lecture-performance (60min), Research-project, 2021

A research project on Tokyo, centered on Minato Ward, starting from the urban theory"Obake Tokyo" written by Taro Okamoto in 1965 to conceive "another Tokyo" in a lectureperformance. “Obake Tokyo” refers to a proposed negative image of sorts, or something
like an antithesis to Tokyo, for those dissatisfied with the city at the beginning of the higheconomic growth period. The work ends with an “Obake Tokyo” proclamation andconnects that to present-day Tokyo by following the trajectory of Godzilla, the monster thatwas wreaking havoc in Tokyo (on the movie screen) around the time when the “ObakeTokyo” plans were worked out in 1954.
*Obake means something like monster/ghost/spirits/phantoms and the like in Japanese.

Production Credit :Concept and Direction, Performer | Tomoko Sato
Sound, Movie | Yuki Sato (Edith Grove)
Lighting | Aria Hoashi, Go Ueda (RYU Inc.)
Online participation Movie :Director | Shintaro Wada
Camera | Jun Kawada, Yukiko Iioka
Editor | Natsumi Aoyagi
Support | Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
RAM Association, Kohonya honkbooks
Producer | Chiaki Soma
Production Manager | Satomi Shimizu
Operation Staff | Haruka Shibata. Marika Niko, Ushin Tei
Ticket | Fumiko Toda
Venue Support | Minato City
Production | Theater Commons Tokyo
Organized by Theater Commons Tokyo Executive Committee

(c) Theater Commons Tokyo '21 / Photo: Shun Sato(c) Theater Commons Tokyo '21 / Photo: Shun Sato

Still from Exhibition, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2022: AFTER THE SPECTACLE
Courtesy of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Photo: ARAI Takaaki

Index for Obake Tokyo: Introduction, Dual Screen Version
Video Installation (56min), 2022

A lecture performance that was first staged at Theater Commons Tokyo ’21, based onresearch

into OKAMOTO Taro’s discourse on Obake Tokyo from 1965, was reworked

into a video installation. “Obake Tokyo” refers to a proposed negative image of sorts, orsomething like an antithesis to Tokyo, for those dissatisfied with the city at the beginning of
the high economic growth period. The work ends with an “Obake Tokyo” proclamation andconnects that to present-day Tokyo by following the trajectory of Godzilla, the monster thatwas wreaking havoc in Tokyo (on the movie screen) around the time when the “ObakeTokyo” plans were worked out in 1954.
*Obake means something like monster/ghost/spirits/phantoms and the like in Japanese.

Production Credit :Created, directed and performed by: SATO Tomoko
Videography: KAWADA Jun, IIOKA Yukiko, NAGATA Fuka
Sound recording / Mixing: MASUDA Yoshiki
Lighting: YOSHIDA Yukio (RYU inc.)Editing: AOYAGI Natsumi
Video direction: WADA Shintaro
Video production: thoasa inc.
English translation: KITAGAWA Mitsue (Koharu Kisaragi part), IKEDA Kay Eriko (Taro Okamoto part), YAMADA Kyle
Legal supervision: SUDA Yohei
Props Cooperation: AWABEES
Cooperation: Arts Commons Tokyo, Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media, RAM Association, UEDA Go(RYU inc.)
Lecture performance premiered and produced by Theatre Commons Tokyo

Still from Exhibition, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2022: AFTER THE SPECTACLE
Courtesy of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Photo: INOUE Sayuki

Still from Exhibition, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2022: AFTER THE SPECTACLE
Courtesy of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Photo: INOUE Sayuki

(c) Theater Commons Tokyo ’22 / Photo: Shun SatoIndex for Obake Tokyo: Chapter 1
Lecture-performance (70min), Research-project, 2022

A research project on Tokyo, centered on Minato Ward, starting from the urban theory"Obake Tokyo" written by Taro Okamoto in 1965 to conceive "another Tokyo" in a lectureperformance. In the first chapter, places around Tokyo were guided by the perspective ofa crow, and it which will open its arms to the city’s fluctuations, to inhuman beings(represented by Obakes), delivering a lecture performance that will double as a new urbantheory.
*Obake means something like monster/ghost/spirits/phantoms and the like in Japanese.

Production Credit :Concept and Direction, Performance | Tomoko Sato
Online Participation Movie :Director | Shintaro Wada
Camera | Jun Kawada, Yukiko Iioka, Fuka Nagata
Editor | Natsumi Aoyagi
Theater Commons Tokyoʼ22Director | Chiaki Soma
Production Manager | Satomi Shimizu
Production Coordinator | Makiko Yamazato
Intern | Nagisa Mizuno, Alena Prusakova
Ticket | Kyoko Kinoshita, Atsuko Yamaguchi
Stage Manager | Lang Craighill
Sound | Takeshi Inarimori, Hayato Ichimura
Lighting | Aria Hoashi, Megumi Yamashita, Kohei Yoshida (RYU Inc.)
Movie | Yuki Sato (Edith Grove)
Stage support | Hiroo Nakai(URAK)
Support | Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts RAM Association, Kohonya honkbooks
Production | Theater Commons Tokyo
Organized by Theater Commons Tokyo Executive Committee

(c) Theater Commons Tokyo ’22 / Photo: Shun Sato(c) Theater Commons Tokyo ’22 / Photo: Shun Sato

(c) Theater Commons Tokyo ’23 / Photo: Shun Sato

Index for Obake Tokyo: Chapter 2
Lecture-performance (90min), Research-project, 2023

A research project on Tokyo focusing on Minato Ward, starting from the urban theory"Obake Tokyo" written by Taro Okamoto in 1965, the lecture performance aims to envision"another Tokyo". In the second chapter, the history of the Sogetsu Art Center (1958-71),
where numerous legendary performances by Yoko Ono, John Cage, and others were heldin the 1960s, will be introduced while inviting an ikebana lecturer of the Sogetsu to thestage, to reconsider the history and present state of Tokyo.

Production Credit :Theater Commons Tokyoʼ23

Concept and Direction, Performance | Tomoko Sato

Director | Chiaki Soma

Sogetsu Ikebana lecturer | Miharu Akiyama

Production Manager | Satomi Shimizu
Production Coordinator | Makiko Yamazato

Online participation Movie :Assistant Coordinator | Ayumi Seki

Director | Shintaro Wada+Natsumi Aoyagi

Ticket | Kyoko KinoshitaCoordinator | Yurie Nakajima

Reception | See Takamoto, Atsuko Yamaguchi

Camera | Jun Kawada, Yukiko Iioka, Hiromasa Maeda, Fuka Nagata

Intern | Haruka Fujisaki

Editor | Natsumi Aoyagi

Stage Manager | Lang Craighill
Sound | Takeshi Inarimori
Lighting | Aria Hoashi, Megumi Yamashita, Arisa Nagasaka (RYU Inc.)
Movie | Yuki Sato (Edith Grove)
Stage support | Hiroo Nakai (URAK)
Documentation Photography | Shun Sato
Support | Sogetsu Foundation, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, RAM
Association, Kohonya honkbooks
Venue Support | Goethe-Institute Tokyo
Production | Theater Commons Tokyo, Tomoko Sato
Organized by Theater Commons Tokyo Executive Committee

(c) Theater Commons Tokyo ’23 / Photo: Shun Sato(c) Theater Commons Tokyo ’23 / Photo: Shun Sato

(c) Theater Commons Tokyo ’23 / Photo: Shun Sato(c) Theater Commons Tokyo ’23 / Photo: Shun SatoInstallation view at theca, 2020
Photo: Shintaro Wada

「TWO PRIVATE ROOMS – A Circle of Reading」
With Natsumi Aoyagi, Online Reading Performance Project, Video Installation, Website, 2020-

An ongoing online performance project by two artists, Natsumi Aoyagi and Tomoko Sato,since April 2020, in which a story or a fragment of a text is selected for each day and readand retold in a live stream on Twitter.

Production Credit :Guest | Chieko Asakura, Yukiko Iioka, Hiroshi Egaitsu, Naha Kanie, Takuro Go, Muku Kobayashi, Chiku Komiya,Marina Lisa Komiya, Rino Daidoji, Aoi Tagami, Team Chipro, Mitsuru Tokisato, Geta Hiyori, Syun Fushimi, Rintaro
Fuse, honnninnman, Tomoko Yabumae, Sumito Yamashita
Space planning advicer | Aki Toishi
Technical | Issei Yamagata
Graphic Design | Tomohisa Yanagawa
Producer | Shintaro Wada (honkbooks)
Cooporation | Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, RAM Association, honkbooks ,Soto Nakamura
Organized by honkbooks, Tomoko Sato
Website: twoprivaterooms.com

Installation view at theca, 2020
Photo: Shintaro Wada

Installation view at theca, 2020
Photo: Shintaro Wada

Installation view at RAM PRACTICE, 2021
Photo: OTSUKA Keita

Installation view at RAM PRACTICE, 2021
Photo: OTSUKA Keita

Installation view of “Random Walk on the Multi-layered World” (NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], 2022)
Photo: KIOKU Keizo
Photo courtesy: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]Screenshot of website, 2021-

Photo: Shintaro Wada

The Reversed Song, A Lecture on Shiro-Kitsune (The White Fox)
Lecture-Performanca, 2018

The legend story of the fox "Shinodazuma" to be retold in a lecture-performance. In
Boston in 1913, Okakura Kakuzo (Tenshin) wrote an opera script called "The White Fox"
based on "Shinodazuma", but it was never completed. The White Fox" and another opera
script, as well as its relevance to the current situation of foxes, will be explained, and theimportance of the fox's song in the script will be examined to reconsider what foxes used
to be for us and what it means to have lost them around.

Production Credit :Translation cooporation: Jasmine Johnson, Mitsue Kitagawa, Kyle Yamada
Lyric writing adviser: Mina IsozakiPhoto:Masahiro
Hasunuma
Photo:
Shintaro
Wada

Song of the Fox, August 2022 Version
Lecture-Performance, 2022

Updated version of The Reversed Song, A Lecture on Shiro-Kitsune (The White Fox) in
2018. The legend story of the fox "Shinodazuma" to be retold in a lecture-performance. In
Boston in 1913, Okakura Kakuzo (Tenshin) wrote an opera script called "The White Fox"
based on "Shinodazuma", but it was never completed. In the performance, “The White
Fox" and another opera script, as well as its relevance to the current situation of foxes, will
be explained, and the importance of the fox's song in the script will be examined toreconsider what foxes used to be for us and what it means to have lost them around.

Production Credit :Lyric writing adviser | Mina Isozaki
Vinyl Record Production | Issei Yamagata
Video:
Camera | Jun Kawada, Yukiko Iioka
Recording | Chiku Komiya
Editing | Natsumi Aoyagi
Production Manager | Yurie Nakajima
Video Direction | Shintaro Wada
Video Production | Kohon-ya honkbooks (thoasa Inc.)
Cooperation | Fuka Nagata, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University ofthe Arts, RAM Association
Production| Nagano Prefectural Museum of Art (Naoko Shigehara)Photo: Masahiro Hasunuma

Photo: Masahiro Hasunuma

Photo: Masahiro
Nozomi Sawamoto
Hasunuma

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Tomoko Sato “Crane / Antigone” (2023, Kinosaki International Arts Center)photo by bozzo / courtesy of Kinosaki International Arts Center (Toyooka City)

Crane/Antigone
Lecture-Performance, 2023

A lecture performance developed in collaboration with choreographer/dancer Reina
Kimura, based on the research on the relationship between humans and animals that
inhabit Japan, such as cranes and storks, as well as on history, legends, and the Greek
tragic play "Antigone".

Text, Direction, Performance｜Tomoko Sato
Choreography｜Reina Kimura
Puppet Creation｜Ryuhei Sakurai
Research Cooperation｜Wakana Suzuki, Mitsue Kitagawa
Crane Dance Video and Information Cooperation｜Kohei Takeda
Title Writing｜Issei Yamagata

Cooperation｜ITOGUCHI, Kyoto Performing Arts Center: Joint Usage/Research Center, Toyooka Municipal Museum ofthe Oriental White Stork, Hyogo Park of the Oriental White Stork
Special Thanks｜Ben Kato, Naoki Kikuchi, Hiromitsu Koiso, Shitone Sakamaki, Moe Sawashi, Aya Takahashi, Nobutaka
Nakahara, Takayo Hisai

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Tomoko Sato “Crane / Antigone” (2023, Kinosaki International Arts Center)photo by bozzo / courtesy of Kinosaki International Arts Center (Toyooka City)

Photo: Nozomi Sawamoto

Centaurus on Route 103
Audio tour on city bus, 2081-2019

This is an audio tour-type work in which audiences actually board a Yokohama City Bus(Route 103) and visit the former Negishi Racecourse in Yokohama City. During the ride,visitors listen to a lecture on the former Negishi Racecourse on an audio player whilereferring to images in a booklet in their hand. The 20-minute experience departs from abus stop near Koganecho and heads up the hill to the final stop, Negishidai.
The former Negishi Racetrack has a history dating back to the end of the Edo period, andafter the war, when it was a Japanese Navy and GHQ printing plant, it still stands in ruins
on a hilltop in Yokohama. Several years ago, an agreement was reached to return theadjacent U.S. military living quarters, and calls for the reuse of the land have begun toemerge. In this lecture, five model proposals for symbols to be erected on this land areproposed. The audience will actually ride a bus to the site and think about which model
should be adopted.

Production Credit :Research center design cooperation: Rui Itasaka
Photogram works: Keita Otsuka

Photo: Nozomi Sawamoto

Photo: Nozomi Sawamoto

Photo: Keita Otsuka

Photogram work on the wall, photo: Keita Otsuka

Photo: Masahiro Hasunuma

The Debris and Tower
Lecture-performance, 2018

Lecture performance based on an interview with Ali A., a Kurdish demolition contractor
living in Japan, about the underground rubble, the performance reconsiders the history ofAsakusa tower "Ryounkaku", a symbol of Tokyo's modernization, and the tower built after
the Great Kanto Earthquake and the Tokyo Air Raid. The performance was presented in
Port B "New Tokyo School Excursion Project: Kurd Version".

Production Credit :Produced and Performed in "New Tokyo School Excursion Project: Kurd Version" by Port B.

Photo: Miku Sato

Double Tsuburaya
Lecture-performance, 2019

A lecture performance about the "Two Tsuburaya": Eiji Tsuburaya, the god of special
effects, and Kokichi Tsuburaya, a marathon runner who won the bronze medal at the 1964
Olympics and committed suicide four years later.
Both Eiji Tsuburaya and Kokichi Tsuburaya were born in Sukagawa City, Fukushima
Prefecture. The performance is based on two episodes from the Ultraman series
supervised by Eiji Tsuburaya, and intersects topics related to the two men and the multiple
histories surrounding the Olympics. The performance was presented in Port B "New Tokyo
School Excursion Project: Fukushima Version".

Production Credit :Produced and Performed in "New Tokyo School Excursion Project: Fukushima Version" by Port B.

Photo: Miku Sato

Photo: Miku Sato

Photo: Kaya Tei

MuseumLecture-performance, Video Installation, 2019

This video installation is based on a lecture performance with a story set in a fictional
proposal of a museum that is being planned to be constructed after three silent films werefound in a mine shaft that was closed. In collaboration with Ichiro Kataoka, anBnshi(Japanese performers who provide live narration for silent films), Sato details theproposed construction of the museum, while a screening of three films by Kataoka takes
place during the performance. The film references a time when the mines were
prosperous and silent films were told by Benshi, bringing to light events that took place
during the process of modernization and fragments that have been carried over to thepresent day.

Production Credit :Collaboration performer and Video footage cooperation: Ichiro Kataoka
Camera: Takahiro Sato, Ryohei Suga
Editor: Takahiro Sato
Installer: Ryuhei Sakurai
Technical: Issei Yamagata
Graphic design: Yutaro Yamada
Cooperation: CNA Akita cable TV, Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media, RAM Association, Shintaro Wada
Organized by Akita University of Art, Art Center Akita
Supported by Akita prefecture Art and Culture Council

Photo: Kenichi Hagiwara

Photo: Kenichi Hagiwara

佐藤朋子｜TOMOKO SATO

Born in Nagano, Japan in 1990. Received her M.F.A. in Film and New Media from theGraduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts. Sato expresses with “narrative,” working
mainly with lecture performances. Her recent works include “TWO PRIVATE ROOMS – ACircle of Reading” (Collaboration with Natsumi Aoyagi, 2020–), Participation in the 14thYebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (Tokyo Photographic ArtMuseum, 2020) and “Public Production vol.2 Tomoko Sato: White fox, Antigone,Centaurus” (Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, 2022). Since 2021, she has been working
on “Index for Obake Tokyo,” a fieldwork project commissioned by Theater CommonsTokyo.
Web : www.tomokosato.info
E-mail: tomokosatoponta@gmail.com

Photo: Kaya Tei