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WE ARE THE HOUSE

Tomoko Mukaiyama

Copyright information:Yoshikazu Inoue

Last year, pianist and visual artist Tomoko Mukaiyama presented the inspiring and exploratory WE ARE THE HOUSE: Salon. The project has now evolved into a collective performance in which art and social urgency converge. At the heart of WE ARE THE HOUSE is the work of Rebecca Gomperts, physician and activist, who has long been committed to ensuring global access to abortion care, challenging stigma, and defending the fundamental right to make decisions about one’s own body.


Visitors move freely through a three-part experience in which different art forms intersect and amplify one another. You enter a landscape of spatial installations and video by Reinier van Brummelen, hear new music by Yannis Kyriakides, encounter performances by Just van Bommel, and attend a lecture-performance by Yuri Yamada. The elements respond to one another, forming a continuous whole — a layered reflection on the body as both a personal and a political space.


During a ten-day Salon in Kyoto last June, Gomperts and others came together to explore the fundamental right to bodily autonomy. It became an intensive exchange between artists, thinkers, and creators on bodily autonomy and the question of who holds authority over it. Out of these encounters came a powerful statement: 'My body is mine'. What may seem self-evident – the notion that your body belongs to you – proves, in reality, to be fragile. Laws, political decisions and social institutions can deeply affect personal freedom. It is precisely within this tension between autonomy and control that the performance finds its urgency.


Read the article Women who break barriers written by Evelien Lindeboom about female voices in Holland Festival 2026 here.

dates

Sat June 13 3:00 PM

Sat June 13 8:30 PM

Sun June 14 3:00 PM

Sun June 14 8:30 PM

prices

  • default € 39
  • CJP € 22,75
  • HF Young € 30,50
  • youth under 18 € 17,75

information

  • English, Japanese surtitles: Dutch

  • 1 hour 30 minutes

  • Please note:

    this performance uses strobe lighting.

all prices are including drink
more info

  • WE ARE THE HOUSE

    Yoshikazu Inoue

  • Just van Bommel, performance, author

    Yoshikazu Inoue

  • WE ARE THE HOUSE

    Yoshikazu Inoue

  • WE ARE THE HOUSE

    Yoshikazu Inoue

  • WE ARE THE HOUSE

    Yoshikazu Inoue

  • Tomoko Mukaiyama, concept, performance

    Yoshikazu Inoue

  • WE ARE THE HOUSE

    Yoshikazu Inoue

  • Just van Bommel, performance, author

    Yoshikazu Inoue

  • Tomoko Mukaiyama, concept, performance

    Yoshikazu Inoue

  • Just van Bommel, performance, author

    Yoshikazu Inoue

  • Tomoko Mukaiyama, concept, performance

    Yoshikazu Inoue

  • WE ARE THE HOUSE

    Joshua Hoogeboom-Noya. Graphic Design Simo Tse

  • Just van Bommel, author, performer

    Ies Kaczmarek

Credits

concept Tomoko Mukaiyama piano Tomoko Mukaiyama voice Tomoko Mukaiyama video Tomoko Mukaiyama, Reinier van Brummelen performance Just van Bommel author Just van Bommel, Tomoko Mukaiyama composition Yannis Kyriakides Yuri Yamada, Simpei Mitani technical director Luftzug/Yutaka Endo light design Amber Vandenhoeck scenography Amber Vandenhoeck light operator Frank Hardy video technology Neda Gueorguieva sound system design Kikuno/Yuji Tsutsumida coproduction Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation, Kyoto Art Center, Holland Festival producer Naomi Russell graphic design Simpson Tse communication Willem Schenk with support from Performing Arts Fund NL, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Embassy of the Netherlands in Tokyo, Japan, Ammodo

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