Conceived during the time at the acclaimed P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Osamu Shikichi’s ur phantom eyes, our crystallized pains defies conventional dance frameworks to confront the acute vulnerabilities of perception. The work delves into unseen dimensions of pain: the invisible violence of the gaze, doubts surrounding bodily ownership, and the haunting reality of phantom pain. Through taut physical tension, Shikichi dissolves the boundary between watcher and watched, staging an uncompromising pursuit of physical and sensory liberation.
Osamu SHIKICHI
Osamu Shikichi is a choreographer and dancer from Japan. Their practice questions the human body as something often taken for granted, challenging notions of bodily self-possession and identity. Shikichi explores the idea of the anonymous body through performance, video and mediated sculptures, blurring and remixing how bodies are recognised, gazed upon and politicised. Drawing on personal experiences of dissonance between body and mind, their work focuses on wet movements, ASMR-like sensations and the circulation of affects across human and non-human bodies.
Choreography and Performance
Osamu SHIKICHI