Mirai Moriyama

Mirai Moriyama is trained in a number of dance disciplines, including jazz, tap, classical ballet, and hip-hop, and also as an actor on stage and film. His recent development has led him to work across multiple artistic genres and spaces. He uses his physical skills to play diverse non-human characters, such as cats, insects, or robots. In his investigations of the hybridity of the digital and analog body, he seeks to embody the idea of a new sensorium on a certain hyperlevel.

Upload a New Mind to the Body (2016)

His solo Performance »Upload a New Mind to the Body«, an orig­inal production for this exhibition, aims to eliminate the boundaries of subject and object. Mirai Moriyama will wear a membrane, which represents an existing operating system (OS). It dries and peels off as a result of his intense body movements, as if a newly uploaded oper­ating system conflicted with the existing settings. The sound piece accompanying the performance deconstructs the name of the performer into the syllables »MO-RI-YA-MA-MI-RA-I«, adding a dadaistic gesture to the performance. The video work, bearing the same title, follows the performance's concept. A special camera captures a detailed view of his skin surface and precise body movements in a representation of transitional time / space.