Fujimicho Apartment is a stage project planned and directed by Hiromi Suzuki, bringing together newly written short plays by multiple playwrights in the single setting of an apartment room. It gathers different dramatic voices into one shared space and emphasizes dense dialogue and casting.

As if sharing one apartment room, several stories let the voices of contemporary theatre resonate together.

Toilet is a film written and directed by Naoko Ogigami about three siblings living in Canada and their Japanese grandmother, who appears after their mother's death and cannot communicate with them in English. Through silence, meals, and awkward distance, a scattered family begins to reconnect.

A grandmother who cannot share their language quietly changes a family that had drifted apart.

The 50th Akiko Fujii Jiuta Live marked a milestone in the continuing live series by jiuta and sokyoku performer Akiko Fujii. The series is valued for bringing the voice, shamisen, and koto sound of the classical repertoire to contemporary audiences through careful interpretation and transmission.

At a milestone in a long-running live series, the voice and strings of jiuta are handed into the present.

Symphony in C is a classical ballet work danced by Junko Ono with the New National Theatre Ballet. In Balanchine's lucid structure and musical design, the piece tests a dancer's technique, clean line, and stage presence.

A lucid and brilliant classical ballet that draws musical structure through the body.

Maboroshi no Haha is a poetry collection by Akari Kido. Through poems concerned with motherhood, memory, loss, and the movement of voice, it quietly explores absence lingering deep within body and language.

Following the apparition of a lost mother, the poems descend into the depths of voice and memory.

Tabaimo: Danmen no Sedai is a catalogue and art book connected to exhibitions at Yokohama Museum of Art and the National Museum of Art, Osaka. Tabaimo frames her generational sensibility as a cross-section, presenting anxieties and bodily sensations of contemporary society through video installation and images.

The catalogue traces Tabaimo's video world, where society and the body are viewed as exposed cross-sections.

Sono Machi no Kodomo is a drama and film scripted by Aya Watanabe, following a man and woman who experienced the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake as children and meet again in Kobe. Personal memory and the memory of the city intersect through quiet conversation and a walk through the night.

Two people who were children during the earthquake walk through Kobe at night and measure their distance from memory.

My Classics 2 is an album by Ayaka Hirahara that reworks classical music through the language of pop. Familiar melodies are carried by her vocal expression and contemporary arrangements, widening the meeting point between classical music and popular song.

Classical melodies resonate as new pop songs through Ayaka Hirahara's voice.

The opening and operation of Arts Chiyoda 3331 refers to Masato Nakamura's central role in transforming a former junior high school into an art center. Through the institution's creation and management, the project proposed a new cultural hub linking community, education, and contemporary art.

A closed school building is reborn as an open hub connecting community and contemporary art.

Nikutai no Anarchism is KuroDalaiJee's art-historical study of the underground currents of performance in 1960s Japanese art. Drawing on extensive materials, it uncovers avant-garde, bodily, and anti-institutional practices and maps a less visible current in postwar art history.

What forms of expression did the bodies of the postwar avant-garde open outside institutional frameworks?

The Tenth Sentiment is an installation in which a model train carrying an LED light moves through a dark room, projecting the shadows of everyday objects onto walls and ceiling. Through the moving light source and shadows, viewers are enveloped in a shifting space that feels like scenery seen from a train window.

With only a small moving light, the shadows of everyday objects turn into landscapes of memory.