This is like performance art, just a common everyday situation, a series of experiments involving you.

A room called the white aquarium for three performers.

A guest room where guests observe the white tank through a monitor.

In this Space Kurage, the audience will be divided into these two rooms and will be able to observe what happens in the white tank during the two hours. Please observe what happens in the white tank during the two hours and share your feelings about the situation with the audience in the guest room. Among the many monitors, the white tank may have a different meaning for each viewer.

At night, I heard talking from next door. It was the voice of someone, male or female, who had not even said hello to me before. It seemed to be the voices of about three people, one female and two possibly male. I was listening to the conversation through the concrete wall, but I couldn't hear them very well, so I tried to find a way to hear them. I tried to hear them by putting the mouth of a cup on the wall, as they used to do in old dramas. Surprisingly, it did not work. It seems that fiction was fiction. This time, I pushed my ear against the wall, but I still couldn't hear. I lay there, apparently bored, and then, unexpectedly, the words came to me.

The echoes were not from my ears, but from my body they sprang from within, touching my body with words and warming the air. The meaning of the helpless running away, the words that were uttered for someone who was not me, but who just lived next door to me when it didn't matter, touching my body and shaking the room with reverberations that had nowhere else to go. Just listening to them made me happy because I felt like they were my friends. Who is this? I want to know, but I can't help it, the glass of the aquarium is in the way and I can't leave.

Even if this is someone beside me, even if it is a crazy friend beside me, even if it is a gentile, an alien, a non-human, they are certainly beside me, just being, just being.

WHITE AQUARIUM

汰(otosata) is a Japanese word meaning “news (from someone); contact​”, the first character of the word, 音(oto), meaning sound. Together, the last two characters, 沙(sand) and 汰(washing/sieving) carry the meaning of “tidings”, “verdict”, “instructions”, “notice”; something precious like the gold found when sieving sand.

Otosata

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ハムたま#001 対談(Dialogue)

We began with self-introductions by the performers, who were able to refer to each other's performances in various narratives, including their own past experiences.

This time, we were joined by two very special guests, Mr. Naoyoshi Hikosaka and Mr. Kimiro Itozaki, who had attended the first session from beginning to end, making the event very rich in content.

Opening dialogue

Meerkat performed independently in another activity.

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Hamtama is very active in the fight against corona.

All performers and staff are required to be tested for antigens prior to the start of each event on the day of the event.

Corona measures

A sandwich is a dish of various ingredients that come together to create a new taste.

The next step was to think about what ingredients would be best. I thought about what ingredients I could use for the sandwich: fresh eggs before they became living things, or ham made from the aged body parts of living things.

The meat used in the ham might have once been an egg of some kind.

The meat used for the ham may have once been an egg of some kind, and the soup with lettuce, cheese, and tomatoes would be even better.

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I'm a meerkat, the godfather of Hamutama.

The inspiration for this event came when the inaugural members, Meerkat and Yutaka Murakami, met at a cherry blossom viewing party in a park in Okachimachi in March 2021. This was the start of the project.

Murakami asked me if I would like to work with him on some kind of live media, and I started to do conceptual performance in earnest. Up to that point, I had only briefly dabbled in performance as an elective in college, and had mainly been working with paintings.

Although Murakami and I are 16 years apart in age, he doesn't let me feel it at all, and he supports meerkat activities with enthusiasm through the common theme of art.

Working people and students, seniors and juniors, professionals and amateurs, artists and office workers, foreigners and Japanese, men and women, adults and children.

It seems that there are many divides and separations in the world, but sometimes it is good to remove them.

If there is a common theme, various artists and non-artists can work together to create one big movement...

This Hamutama is a platform focusing on performance art, but I would like to post a lot of information about other things as well. (It's very easy to say "platform", because it can be vague in many ways.)

One of the things I'm trying to do is to include a conversation with all the performers at each event, and to create a page for each artist.

From artists with a lot of experience performing at events to students who are doing live media for the first time, they will all be archived on the same website in the same format.

I didn't include the word "performance" in the title because I didn't want to draw a boundary between genres.

The overlapping ingredients in the cross section of the sandwich look like the timetable of an event.

Eggs may still be a student with little experience in presenting his work. The ham may be a professional who has been working in the field for many years.

But an egg and a ham are not enough for a sandwich, so we need a good stage, an audience, and you, the reader of this page, to make it happen.

It is my hope that this platform will become a new movement that we have never seen before through the interaction of various people across the various boundaries of the world, from art enthusiasts to beginners who have recently become interested in art and performance.

Why is it called a ham tamago sandwich?

開闢（かいびゃく）とは、天と地が初めてできた時、世界の始まりの時、荒れ地などが切り開かれること。和英辞書で”開闢”は｛beginning、origin、source、root、offset、outset、kickoff｝など説明される。

It may be a bit of an exaggeration, but the core members of the organizing team were willing to take on the challenge of this event. And as powerful as the keyword "opening" was, the members gathered for the first event. What kind of crossover will there be between conceptual performance, happenings, dance, music, song, noise, ritual, and various physical media.

Opening

A photography event with no audience due to the coronavirus.

Individual and collaborative performances by core member artists, Yutaka Murakami and Meerkat Girl.

There was also a dialogue between the members about Hamutama.

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A performance project that aims to cross over from one genre to another by career.

For more information about the purpose of this project, please see About Hamutama

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