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This book version, Eraser Stone, meanwhile, serves as both a document of Eraser Mountain and Eraser Forest, and a key to deeper understanding of the Eraser series. We hope the words and photographs recorded here in stone will help you to enjoy the series to the fullest.
Introduction |
Maintaining “Eraser Mode“ and making it part of everyday life
Toshiki Okada
Eraser Stone |
Teppei Kaneuji
Conversation |
Toshiki Okada × Teppei Kaneuji
Photos and script |
Eraser Mountain, Eraser Forest
Reviews |
Eraser Mountain – Eraser Forest – Eraser Mountain – Eraser Stone
Hiromi Kurosawa
Doubts, trials and pleasures
Akio Miyazawa
Posthuman theater and art
– A world rid of human scale and inflexible minds/bodies
Masatake Shinohara
What is ”theater that does not speak to the audience"? – On Eraser Mountain
Tadashi Uchino
A short ethical organum for weak performances – Review: Eraser Forest
Kyoko Iwaki
Interviews the actors and the staff |
So how did you ”disappear incompletely“?
What challenges did you face with Eraser Mountain and Eraser Forest
Information |
A4, 144pages, Japanese/English
Edited by Hiromi Kurosawa, Koichi Nakata, Ayumi Ikeda (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa), Mari Itabashi, Takashi Ogami (Shukyu)
Editorial Cooperation Tamiko Ouki, Hitomi Sato, Nanami Endo (precog co., LTD.) Text Toshiki Okada, Teppei Kaneuji, Hiromi Kurosawa, Akio Miyazawa, Masatake Shinohara,Tadashi Uchino, Kyoko Iwaki
Translation Pamela Miki Associates, Ben Davis, James Koetting
Photos Yuki Moriya, Courtesy of Kyoto Experiment, Keizo Kioku, Yasuhiro Ohara
Photo Assistance Yamabuki Factory
Collage Teppei Kaneuji
Design Akinobu Maeda, Akira Kuroki (Maeda Design Llc.)
Published by Shukyu
Printed and Bounded by Hakkou Bijyutsu.Co.,Ltd.