Art critic and scholar. Nakao holds a PhD in art and writes criticism on modern and contemporary art. He takes a particular interest in the connections between living (or non-art) and creative practice from the perspective of chess, one of Marcel Duchamp’s favorite pastimes, and is the author of Marcel Duchamp and Chess (Heibonsha, 2017). He is co-author and editor of Sports/Art (Shinwasha, 2020), and has curated exhibitions including “Medium and Dimension: Liminal” (held at Kakinosou in Tokyo, 2022). Nakao is a part-time lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Rikkyo University. https://nakaotakuya.com

Tamatsuka Mitsuru was born in Tokyo, Japan. Following his work as Producer for “Dentōgeinō no wakaki shishitachi” (The Young Lions of Traditional Arts), he directed the short film “Firewater” in New York, and worked as movement coach for the hanamichi runway in the Bessie award-winning contemporary dancer’s work, “A Page Out of Order: M,” and continued to act as a conduit for numerous and various international artistic collaborations. Through the collaborative production team Sagi Tama, launched in 2013, as well as his own company Tama Pro, launched in 2016, Tamatsuka continues to develop his practice of combining performance and film.
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Architectural historian and critic, was born in 1967 in Paris. Professor at Tohoku University. Commissioner for Japan pavilion at the Venice Biennale of architecture 2008. Artistic director of Aichi Triennale 2013 Publications include “Contemporary Japanese architects : Profiles in design”, “Architecture and Music” etc.

Dance critic. Having studied at the Department of Performance Studies, Graduate School, New York University, he is currently Professor Emeritus, Keio University. His main fields of expertise are rituals, shamanism and performing arts in Asia, and new forms of innovative expressions after post-modern dance. He has been a judge at the Toyota Choreography Award, Asahi Performing Arts Award, Cairo International Experimental Theater Festival, and the Wifi Body Festival (Manila) among others. Publications include Sexuality of Transvestism, Shintai no rinkai-ten, Danso-ron, A Filmology of the Circus and Polysexual Love.

Tengal is an intermedia artist, researcher, and cultural producer. He has been involved in research-based production bridging art, technology, music, and society in Manila and Southeast Asian region since 2005. He founded the art organization SABAW Media Art Kitchen in Manila as a curatorial platform that initiated the Philippines’ first international media art festival and symposium, WSK Festival of the Recently Possible. He curated the INTERSTICES: Manifolds of The In-between exhibition with the Japan Foundation Asia Center and last Feb 2018 was the guest director for「self-reflexivity: Thinking Media and Digital Articulations」exhibition for MeCA | Media Culture in Asia: A Transnational Platform, a Media art festival in Tokyo. Tengal was a recipient of the Asia Center Fellowship for Cultural and Intellectual Research, where he spent 6 months traveling all over Japan. In 2018, Tengal co-created the international platform Nusasonic, a creative collaboration between YES NO KLUB (Yogyakarta), WSK Festival of The Recently Possible (Manila), Playfreely/BlackKaji (Singapore), CTM Festival (Berlin) and Goethe Institut Southeast Asia. wsk.io  

Architect and designer. Born in 1967, Naoki Terada graduated from the Department of Architecture at Meiji University in 1989. He completed his studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1994, and has since returning to Japan worked widely across fields including architecture, interior design, product design, and sign design. He has also served as a producer and director for brands. He established Terada Design Architects in 2003 and the Terada Mokei product brand in 2011, opening a Terada Mokei shop in 2013. Between 2018 and 2024, he served as CEO of Inter Office Ltd. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Good Design Award, and the author of The Book of Terada Mokei: How to enjoy paper model of 1/100 scale (2011) and an expanded edition of the same title (2015), both published by Graphic-sha.　https://naokiterada.com/