Running Sushi

Running Sushi 03

The glance into the Zen philosophy of a Manga household.

Liquid Loft is looking for the path of the Samurai on stage, Feng Shui is exercised in cyberspace and chopstick high-jumping carries the performers into the classical Pas de Deux.

Running Sushi is not being told in a linear way on a predefined timeline, rather, the screenplay is cut in different scenes - the members of the audience choosing the sequence and the order of the 12 scenes like in a running sushi restaurant, where the guest chooses bits and pieces. With this system the audience every evening creates a new story board, but the »pulp fiction« effect remains, forming the story – independent of the sequence of scenes - in the mind of the spectator. Thus, Running Sushi is raising on the question of how we receive performance and dance nowadays. An image has copied and advanced itself here, in order to return to its own, two-dimensional reality. The performance lapses as an image progression of a Manga figure, trying to re-animate its private idyll which has become senseless, in order to write a possible storyboard for a future existence on screen.

The experience and »reality« of communication are shifting increasingly towards a bi-dimensional surface. The term »superflat«, coined in Japan mainly by Takashi Murakami, describes not only the comic or Manga as a form of communication, but also characterizes it as a conceptually flattening society of the post-post modern - an inspiration for a sequential performance.