Prometheus Bound
Meiro Koizumi
Yokohama
Categories
Dates
18:00–21:00
18:00–21:00
with YW Response
14:00–21:00
14:00–19:00
Start every 30 Min.
Tickets
TicketsPrometheus Bound
Meiro Koizumi
Yokohama
Categories
Prometheus stole fire from Zeus and brought it to humans. As punishment, he was forced to suffer eternal torment. This legend about the tense relationship between humanity and technology forms the starting point for Meiro Koizumi’s Prometheus VR trilogy, which is presented in Europe for the first time at Theater der Welt 2023. In Part One, ‘Prometheus Bound’, Koizumi combines virtual and augmented reality, through which the audience, moving freely within the space, is immersed in virtual environments, sensations and emotions. In a radical moment of alienation, between utopia or dystopia, a near future is revealed in which advanced technologies enable human consciousness to live forever.
On July 8 at 7:00 PM, BvdS, Meiro Koizumi and Saeborg will meet in a Scenographic Salon Talk at Museum Angewandte Kunst.
Choreographic response by Young Worlds Club on 14.7. at 19:00
Parking lot in front of Alte Schlosserei
See all parts of the Prometheus trilogy by Meiro Koizumi at Theater der Welt:
Part 1: Prometheus Bound
Part 2: Prometheus Unbound
Part 3: Prometheus The Fire-Bringer
©VR performance at Theater Commons ’20
Photo: Meiro Koizumi, Annet Gelink Gallery (Amsterdam), MUJIN-TO Production (Tokyo), and Arts Commons Tokyo
Videotrailer via Youtube.
About the Artist(s)
Meiro Koizumi was born in Gunma and creates experimental video and performance works that explore the relationships between fact and fiction, between the state, the community, and the individual, and between human bodies and emotions. His installation works are represented in numerous public collections around the world. He has received solo exhibitions at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2021, Koizumi won the Artes Mundi 9 Prize in Cardiff and the Grand Prize in the Artistic Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival for ‘Prometheus Bound’.