![]() "I Am Not a Feminist!" is a work inspired by my own marriage. Special cooperation from Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Minami-Nagasaki Sports Center Interns: Minako Iwai, Asuka Noguchi, Aoi Hashimoto, Saki Yokomi Production Coordinators: Mayuko Arakawa, Toshifumi Matsumiya (Festival/Tokyo) Stage Directors: Hayato Hiramatsu, Kimi Yokoyama (NEWSEE) Video, Photography, Video Documentation: Takashi Fujikawa, Hibiki Miyazawa ![]() Written, Directed and Performed by Mai Endo I sought to clarify the difficulties of showing a nude body in a Japanese museum, while focusing on the law, and to show the conditions that make the nude performance possible. The reason for creating a fictional setting was not to make a claim against a specific museum, but to focus on how current Japanese law and the museum system attempt to define nudity. I created a fictional setting for the trial, with the artist and the museum as plaintiff and defendant, respectively. I tried to rethink this issue in "Defending Reanimated Marilyn". At the time, the museum showed disapproval with the performance because of using my own nude body, and in the end, I was forced to wear underwear. This is a fictional trial based on the performance piece "I wanna be loved by you as a human being" (2016).īehind the fictional trial is the fact that the performance was not allowed in a museum. This led to 2021 version of I Am Not a Feminist!, created in collaboration with photographer Eiki Mori by discussing and signing a marriage contract as a way to address questions that the 2017 version neglected. These assumptions are the very factors that limit who can get married in Japan today, and it became essential to address this exclusion when attempting to think about the issues anew. Premised on legally registering the marriage, the original work relied on the fact that I was a heterosexual Japanese woman. Three years passed, and I began to feel that it was necessary to rework on I Am Not a Feminist! as a way to question the institution of marriage itself, as well as my own practices. After the first work was presented, my partner and I got a divorce for personal reasons. "I Am Not a Feminist! 2017/2021" is a work inspired by my own marriage. Special Thanks: Yuu Yamamoto, Mihoko Watanabe, Mitsue KitagawaĬreated for Rules?, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, 2021 Cinematography: Takashi Fujikawa, Tao Koyanagi
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