Yūdai Kamisato - Workshop

19th June 2024, School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology

This workshop is based around the performance installation Dear Potential Foreigners by the award-winning Japanese director and playwright Yudai Kamisato.

Kamisato-san was was born in Peru, and the workshop focuses on the theme of movement, migrants and tourists through various stories collected from people in South America, Asia and locally where it is presented. When crossing borders, what kind of people do we encounter?

Yudai Kamisato is an award-winning Japanese theatre playwright and director born in Peru. He creates works with the theme of crossing borders based on the episodes he collects while visiting various places in South America and Asia. He won the first prize in the Toga Directors Competition (2006) and the prestigious Kishida Kunio Prize for Drama for The Story of Descending the Long Slopes of Valparaíso (2018). He stayed in Argentina 2016-2017 on an overseas research grant from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. From 2022 to 2024 he was a Saison Fellow II of the Saison Foundation.

CREDITS

Yudai Kamisato's Dear Potential Foreigners workshop was funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council UK through Targeted Funding, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Daiwa-Anglo Foundation, The Japan Foundation and Lancaster University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences through Postgraduate Research Funds.

Yudai Kamisato's Blog:

https://note.com/kamisatoy/m/m16701913260c