Shin-Shin-Shinwa – new cosmo-techno-mythology is a dance-based performance conceived by Yohei Hamada. The audience will be invited to his laboratory where he tries to recall a local Kamisama, or one of hundreds of gods in Japanese. By wearing an assembled object/structure called tensegrity, known by futurist Buckminster Fuller, his body starts working as a component of the structure/world as one, which turns out an indigenous Kamisama of the place.
The Chinese thinker Yuk Hui questions the universality of technology by using the term Cosmotechnics. He points out the current technology, which has been believed as universal, is rooted in Greek Mythology. If so, there might be a chance that the cultures geographically/aesthetically far from Europe can develop another variation of technology.
Hamada believes, animistic cultures which are not rooted in dogmatic religions and the survivors of those colonizations might have a better chance to develop a new variation of technology. Shin-Shin-Shinwa is an attempt to create a new mythology that might lead us to the technology which is more symbiotic and non-human-centralised but sustainable for us human beings.
Yohei Hamada (b. 1987, Osaka) is a dance artist and dance thinker based in Bodø, who holds BA Liberal Arts (2007-2011) MA in Philosophy from Yokohama National University (2011-2013). He has been investigating the posthuman dance among the living bodies and both natural and cultural “things”, and the state of the body that can dance with the things. For Hamada, dance is an intellectual act to recognize the dynamic world as it is.
Concept and performance: Yohei Hamada, Outside eye: Minori Sumiyoshiyama, PR photo: Haruna Inagaki, Co-operated with: Prosess, Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting and .Zip collective, Supported by: Fond for utøvende kunstnere