Happy New Year 2025 from precog
Thank you for your patronage of precog last year.
We hope the new year will be a wonderful one for you.
Our best wishes for your health and happiness in 2025!
We at precog co., LTD. would like to thank you for the tremendous support we received from you last year.
The year 2024 was one in which new activities of ours accelerated. We initiated preparations for Aichi Triennale 2025, an international art festival, and set various programs in motion, including IN TRANSIT – a performing arts project spanning different cultures aimed at assisting artists who aspire to international activities, and seminars for companies and public administrative authorities.
This year, these programs are finally going to be translated into actual performances, and we hope to deliver them to you in visible forms. We are heading to Nagoya, Seto, and various other cities, and are looking forward to meeting all there. In addition, THEATER for ALL is already entering its fourth year since its beginning.
I should add that 2025 is the 19th year since the founding of precog. Here on the threshold of our 20th anniversary, I am always thinking about how to proceed next. Again this year, we are counting on your continued advice and cooperation as we press forward in our endeavors. We are counting on your continued support in 2025!
Akane Nakamura, Representative Director, precog co., LTD.
We will be doing business as usual beginning on January 6 (Mon), 2025.
Overview of major projects in 2025!
We would like to profile precog’s international projects. We earnestly hope you can come to see some of them.
■Aichi Triennale 2025, an international art festival
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The Aichi Triennale is one of Japan’s premier international art festivals. Our representative director Akane Nakamura will be in charge of curation in the performing arts category. The 6th Aichi Triennale in 2025 will be held for 79 days from September 13th (Sat.) to November 30th (Sun.), 2025 in Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum and Seto City. Under the direction of Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation; President, International Biennial Association) as Artistic Director and the theme “A Time Between Ashes and Roses,” the festival presents contemporary art, performing arts, and learning programs for invited Japanese and international artists.
| Schedule | 9.13 – 11.30.2025 Venue | Aichi Arts Center, etc. Artists (Performing Arts) | as of September 12, 2024 AKN PROJECT (Japan) Black Grace (New Zealand (Aotearoa).) Kwon Byungjun (Korea) OLTA (Japan) Selma & Sofiane Ouissi (Tunisia and Paris, France) TAIHEN (Japan) and more… |
■National tour of two works by chelfitsch
⚫︎chelfitsch & Dai Fujikura, Metamorphosis of a Living Room
Graphic Design: Mariko Okazaki (REFLECTA, Inc.)
Metamorphosis of a Living Room is a music-theater piece born of collaboration with the composer Dai Fujikura. It had its world premiere in May 2023, on commission by Wiener Festwochen. After its performance in Tokyo in September 2024, it is going to be performed in Kobe and Nagoya in 2025! The performance in Kobe will also be a first-time collaboration with the Kobe City Chamber Orchestra. That in Aichi will be directed by the Ensemble Nomad, like the performance in Tokyo.
| chelfitsch & Dai Fujikura with Ensemble of the Kobe City Chamber Orchestra “Metamorphosis of a Living Room” in Kobe Date and time | 1 Feb (Sat) 2025, 14:00 and 2 Feb (Sun) 2025, 14:00 Venue | Kobe Bunka Hall, Medium Hall More information chelfitsch & Dai Fujikura with Ensemble Nomad “Metamorphosis of a Living Room” in Aichi Date and time | 1 Mar (Sat) 2025, 14:00 Venue | Access: Nagoya City Performing Arts Center Presented by Aichi Prefectural Art Theater More information |
⚫︎The Window of Spaceship “In-Between”
Publicity design: Jujiro Maki
This play was first performed in 2023, in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Wuzhen (in China, its first overseas performance). After an overseas tour to the cities of Brussels, Seoul, and Paris in 2024, it is going to make a triumphant return to Japan in 2025! It will be staged at the Kumamoto Prefectural Theater and Mie Center for the Arts, both first-time venues for chelfitsch. We will inform you of the details of these performances at a later date. If you live near these venues, by all means come to see a performance!
■IN TRANSIT – a performing arts project spanning different cultures
We are launching this project to stay beside the principals of performing arts aspiring to activity on the international stage in this important process, and support them in the advisable action to this end. For the 15 subjects, we are holding lectures by people with the needed expertise and know-how, and providing support in areas such as interchange at international festivals and networking. We are also aiming for advancement to a higher level internationality, toward the goal of starting to put on performances in other countries by March 2027. Jun Tsutsui has already presented a work in Germany in November 2024, and Eri Makihara, in Seoul in October and YPAM Fringe in December. We plan to support performances in other countries by other artists in the project in 2025 as well.
| Development subjects Playwrights and directors — Kumiko Ueda, OLTA, Jun Tsutsui/dracom, Yuta Hagiwara, Suguru Yamamoto, Takahiro Fujita, Eri Makihara Creators and producers — Natsumi Kato, Momo Sakamoto, Kana Hayashi Stage manager — Marie Moriyama Critics — Ryo Sekine, Megumi Takashima, Kenta Yamazaki |
Review of topics in 2024
In 2024, controls imposed to control the pandemic were lifted, and overseas tours finally resumed on a full scale. It was also a year in which we strove to prepare creative environments for people involved in culture and the arts, and offer accessibility design and study programs for art-related people, educational institutions, and public administrative authorities, in addition to conceiving and creating works in the performing arts field, and showing them overseas. We are truly grateful to all of the people who assisted us in these activities. Below is an introduction to some of these programs.
■Introduction to works for which precog was involved in conception and creation
chelfitsch & Teppei Kaneuji’s Eraser Mountain in Tokyo (2024)
This was the first Tokyo performance in three years of Eraser Mountain, an ambitious play by chelfitsch in collaboration with the artist Teppei Kaneuji. Doubts about the human yardstick, the concept behind the work, have become more real after the pandemic. To deliver this concept to people with more diverse standpoints and perspectives, we took measures including fuller support for viewers and establishment of invitation quotas for youth
ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! (Electromagnetic Bon dancing at the site of Fukuoka Castle)
This program brought together the artist Ei Wada, the members of ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS!, and about 40 members of the NICOS Team organized in Fukuoka, for Obon dancing to the rhythms and accompaniment produced by old electrical/electronic products. It was performed in conjunction with FaN Week, an art event held as part of a project promoted by the city of Fukuoka.
■Information on the activities of Toshiki Okada
Here, let us pick up and profile some of the 2024 activities of the artist Toshiki Okada, whom precog manages.
⚫︎Okada Appointed as Artistic Director of Tokyo Festival from 2025!
⚫︎World premiere of Synopsis of Giselle, written and directed by Okada
⚫︎Premiere of The Story of 15 Places on Nakanoshima, written by Okada, on Creative Island Nakanoshima
(Photo by Kikuko Usuyama)
■Overseas performances, international co-productions, and other international programs
Overseas tour of two chelfitsch works
⚫︎New Illusion European tour
These are the newest works of EIZO-Theater, in which plays unfold on the basis of actual-size images of actors projected on screens and the audience’s powers of imagination. The tour consisted of the first European performances of these works, in Dresden and Toulouse.
⚫︎The Window of Spaceship “In-Between” European and Seoul tour
This science-fiction play was created along with actors whose first language is not Japanese. It will be performed in Brussels and Seoul in spring and Paris in fall.
< Click here for details of the spring performances >
Performance of K Theater, an international co-production by Sugatsu Kanayama and S. Lee, as a work in progress
A co-production by Sugatsu Kanayama, a maverick on the contemporary theater scene who is a third-generation Korean immigrant living in Tokyo, Japan and S. Lee, an artist and second-generation Korean immigrant living in New York, United States (held jointly with The Japan Foundation).
■Creation of places for learning through seminars and lectures
BRIDGE, a human resource development program for the next generation of performing arts,through learning about the international dimension needed for creation
BRIDGE is a program for the development of leaders for the next generation of performing arts. It is aimed at artists and staff who are at a stage prior to embarking on activities such as overseas tours and international co-productions. We are conducting a subprogram of four online lectures and a creation subprogram in which the participants actually create works and show them at the Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting (YPAM) .
precog Staff
CEO/ Executive Producer: Akane Nakamura
Artist Produce Department
Chief Producer: Tamiko Ouki
Producer: Yichun Chen, Mai Hyodo, Megumi Mizuno
Project Manager / Workshop Designer: Mari Hoshi
Project Assitant: Kanon Ishikawa, Hinata Chida, Risa Tsuchiya
THEATRE for ALL Division
Chief Producer / Chief Editor: Shiori Shinoda
Producer: Mizuki Tazawa, Mei Hayashi
Marketer / Project Assitant: Taeko Nishi, Moe Minoura
Webmaster: Megumi Shimizu
Administration Division
Administration Officer: Maki Kawano, Yuri Saito, Kumi Hiraoka, Sakura Fukumoto
PR Manager: Miki Tainaka, Ayaka Matsumoto
Desk Assistant: Minako Iwai, Hiroko Saito
Associate
Associate Producer: Kao Kanamori
Associate Project Manager: Nanami Endo, Tamami Kanda, Yuko Takeda
Associate Workshop Designer: Yuka Kurita
Associate Marketer / Labor support Nozomi Watanabe
Associate PR: Junko Miyazaki
Associate Project Officer: Miyuki Saito
Associate Writer: Kenta Yamazaki
