Dead End, The School of Hard Knocks (2020-2023): 10 Chapters of Secret Journey is an ongoing multi-disciplinary performance series conceived, created and performed by conceptual artists/choreographer, Yoshiko Chuma and her company The School of Hard Knocks based in New York City with the collaborators from Japan.
Dead End, The School of Hard Knocks (2020-2023): 10 Chapters of Secret Journey, explores and examines a lifetime investigation of ideas regarding national security, perceived dangers within borders, nuclear catastrophe and war.
The diverse cast will explore each of their unique cultural and political viewpoints into narratives, incorporating excerpts from films "Battle of Algiers" (1966), "Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August 1945" and "Stranger than Paradise” (1983).
The historical war-time documentation is juxtaposed with fictional film while simultaneously recycling segments from Chuma’s body of work in Japan, Palestine, Europe, South America and the USA throughout the past 40 years. Additional narratives included are from the disaster of Fukushima, the Manhattan Project and the Israel/Palestine border.
Through both conceptual and concrete tactics, her interdisciplinary work captures the contemporary world in all its complexity: speedy, multi-faceted and diverse, investigating metaphors for endless cycles of life and war.
Dead End, The School of Hard Knocks (2020-2023): 10 Chapters of Secret Journey, explores and examines a lifetime investigation of ideas regarding national security, perceived dangers within borders, nuclear catastrophe and war.
It attempts to reintroduce these issues to contemporary
American society, especially to youth for whom the consciousness of the extraordinary
damage and suffering that would be inflicted in a thermonuclear war is the
stuff of ancient history found to a limited degree in textbooks. It is vital to
keep that consciousness alive throughout the world and continuously remind
ourselves of this potential danger that lays in our hands.
The diverse cast will explore each of their unique cultural and political viewpoints into narratives, incorporating excerpts from films "Battle of Algiers" (1966), "Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August 1945" and "Stranger than Paradise” (1983).
The historical war-time documentation is juxtaposed with fictional film while simultaneously recycling segments from Chuma’s body of work in Japan, Palestine, Europe, South America and the USA throughout the past 40 years. Additional narratives included are from the disaster of Fukushima, the Manhattan Project and the Israel/Palestine border.
Through both conceptual and concrete tactics, her interdisciplinary work captures the contemporary world in all its complexity: speedy, multi-faceted and diverse, investigating metaphors for endless cycles of life and war.
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