Akira Takayama/Port B
(Tokio)
A School of Hip Hop – Day 7
Mousonturm Saal
ALL IN/Diskussion/Lecture/Concert
- 05.12.2019, 4–5.15 p.m.Admission free, LECTURE & OPEN DISCUSSION Hiroshi Egaitsu, Josua Hellmeier, Nikki on Fleek, RadioChicks069, Joana Tischkau, Darthreider: Frankfurt / Tokyo / Hip Hop
- 05.12.2019, 5.45–7 p.m.Admission free, Freestyle Rap Workshop „Groove of Words” mit Darthreider
- 05.12.2019, 7.30–10 p.m.Admission free, Live-Act: „Hip Hop Melting Pot“ mit Philippe Labutin, Gordian Mvpeace, Juzzi feat. Jazzmin, JJ, FFG, CRAZE & SwitchMode
16–17.15 Uhr LECTURE & OPEN DISCUSSION
Hiroshi Egaitsu, Josua Hellmeier, Nikki on Fleek, RadioChicks069, Joana Tischkau, Darthreider: Frankfurt / Tokyo / Hip Hop
17.45–19 Uhr Freestyle Rap Workshop „Groove of Words” mit Darthreider
19.30–22 Uhr Live-Act: „Hip Hop Melting Pot“ mit Philippe Labutin, Gordian Mvpeace, Juzzi feat. Jazzmin, JJ, FFG, CRAZE & SwitchMode
Since the 1990’s, Hiroshi Egaitsu has been resident DJ in legendary Tokyo clubs such as the P.PICASSO, the MIX and the YELLOW. In 2010, he also began curating projects on street culture and in 2017 contributed to the “RAP MUSEUM”, the first rap exhibit in Japan. Hiroshi is co-editor of the online magazine “Real Tokyo” and teaches at universities in Tokyo and Kyoto. In his lecture, he will be giving some insights into the Japanese scene. (in English and German)
Rapper and MC Darthreider was born in Paris and raised in London. He has organized numerous MC Battles and is the founder of the Da.Me. Records label, vocalist of The Bassons, as well as a moderator and author – and he will be teaching freestyle rap to the WAGNER CREW.
In the newly initiated “Hip Hop Melting Pot” event series, organized by the FFG since May 2019, select artists present and represent hip hop’s rich diversity of cultures and issues. “Hip Hop Melting Pot“ will be taking place for the second time ever as part of the WAGNER PROJECT.
Aktive Teilnahme an den Workshops nur für WAGNER CREW, Publikum erwünscht
Sprache: Deutsch und Englisch
Cast & Credits
„WAGNER PROJECT – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ ist eine Produktion von Künstlerhaus Mousonturm und Port B. Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes, die Japan Foundation und die Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft. Präsentiert von FRIZZ.
Biography
Akira Takayama
Akira Takayama (born 1969) founded Port B in 2002. He develops projects together with this collective that break the existing theatrical framework and interact collaboratively with other media. His work aspires to a contemporary form of the so-called “architecture of the theatre” in which he extends the practice of the theatre and the audience into society and the urban space. Takayama’s audience-focussed works are an attempt to experience a theatre that transcends the physical theatre space to establish itself as a new platform with an altered function in society. In recent years he has developed works in diverse genres including tourism, urban planning, art, literature, fashion and mass media. In these, he uses theatrical ideas to open up new potential across a broad spectrum of media and disciplines.
Akira Takayama created his first theatrical works as a stage director – these included the Japanese premieres of several pieces by Elfriede Jelinek. The projects that he develops in collaboration with the collective PortB are usually devised in close collaboration with prestigious cultural institutions around the world, such as the recent large-scale participatory project ‘Our Songs’ for the Biennale of Sydney in 2018 and the ongoing research project ‘Heterotopia’ for the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens and the Sharjah Biennial in Beirut.
In 2014 Akira Takayama / Port B developed the project ‘EVACUATE FRANKFURT’ together with the Mousonturm, in which 30 S- and U-Bahn stations across the entire Rhine-Main region became starting points for individual evacuation tours of a range of social communities and theatrical ready-mades. www.evakuieren.de
In 2017 Takayama, once again working in close co-operation with the Mousonturm to develop and produce a work over a long period, was able to realise his vision of a ‘McDonald’s Radio University’: people who had come to Germany as refugees shortly beforehand acted as “professors”, presenting a comprehensive programme of lectures lasting several weeks based on their highly diverse educational backgrounds, working and life experiences. www.mru.global
Then in 2019 in the ‘WAGNER PROJECT – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’ Takayama brought one of Richard Wagner’s most famous operas to the Mousonturm stage: ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’. Based on the fictional narrative of Wagner’s opera and its historical references – a competition between singers during the time of the Reformation – Takayama founded a School of Hip-Hop.
Akira Takayama has been Associate Artist at the Mousonturm since 2014.