Super Farm
Saeborg
Tokyo
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Super Farm
Saeborg
Tokyo
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Welcome to the Saeborg world! This is where adorable colorful animals made out of rubber live together on a farm. A giant sow gives birth to cute piglets, funny mishaps happen to a dog and dung beetles romp around in a gigantic poop castle. All visitors, regardless of age, are invited to discover this unique animal world, which the artist Saeborg has created especially for the “Theater of the World” festival, and to make friends with the lovable inhabitants in their unique language.
The artist Saeborg has the desire to explore and overcome the conceptions about our body and our identity. For this purpose, she creates fantastic full-body costumes and has crafted a colorful utopia in which even the farm animals at the bottom of the food chain can live happily together. In a highly imaginative way she asks questions about the relationship between humans and animals and offers even the youngest visitors a colorful and exciting experience in a magical art world.
On July 8 at 7:00 PM, BVDS, Meiro Koizumi and Saeborg will meet in a Scenographic Salon Talk at Museum Angewandte Kunst.
Notice:
In addition to many enjoyable scenes about life with animals on the farm, after about 40 minutes the slaughter of a pig is implied, which could be disturbing. In the end, however, all the animals on the Super Farm survive.
The doors of the Theater space are open. It can be left and re-entered at any time.
©”Cycle of L” (2020), The Museum of Art, Kochi
Photo: Taisuke Tsurui
About the Artist(s)
Saeborg regards herself as an incomplete cyborg: half human, half toy. She creates elaborate latex costumes in which she embodies toy-like characters and stages performances in a range of artistic contexts. She creates colorful new worlds inspired by the most basic creatures of our ecosystem. Her most recent works include ‘Cycle of L’ for the Museum of Art, Kochi (2020) and ‘House of L’ for the Aichi Triennale (2019). In 2019, she was invited to the Tasmanian Dark Mofo Festival and in 2018 to the 6th Athens Biennale “ANTI.” With Super Farm, Saeborg has created a unique work for the whole family specially for the Festival of the World.