One Object, Many Questions - Limited Freedom: Perspectives of a Kimono with Yuko Matsuyama, Artist

For more than 250 years during the Edo period, Japan was almost completely closed off from the rest of the world. This maritime closure led to relatively extensive cultural and artistic isolation. Until the late 19th century, most people in Japan knew neither the Western lifestyle nor Western clothing, and traditional everyday dress shaped people's bodies, thinking and aesthetics.

The artist Yuko Matsuyama works at the interface between sound and movement. She began traditional Japanese dance training with her mother at the age of two and completed her training in theatre at the Takarazuka Music School in Japan. Over the past three decades, she has performed in international productions of musical theatre, experimental music and contemporary dance.

Yuko Matsuyama presents an artistic approach to the cosode 花菖蒲藤菊模様小袖 from the Edo period and will find movements from the perspective of this artful cosode that will not only allow the audience to have a lively encounter, but also raise questions about museum exhibition practices and their limitations.

- 10,00 EUR per person
- Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the foyer.
- Duration: 60 min
- German
- Wheelchair accessible
- Belongs to: Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art