Elsewhere
Changing Places, Touring, and Staying.
Elsewhere
Changing Places, Touring, and Staying.
01 / TOURING
Carrying Our Work from Place to Place
On tour, we pack our custom-built projection devices and instruments into suitcases and travel from place to place. Wooden parts sometimes break during flights, so we repair them with materials available locally and continue performing.
When touring as a family, we visit museums between performances, looking at exhibitions from the perspective of fellow artists. We also visit the homes of people we meet along the way. Beyond the work itself, we pay attention to the environments in which children grow up and how people live in different places. Sometimes, we connect with local communities through workshops.
In a suburb of Berlin, we learned about Workaway from a family who ran a gallery and restaurant in an old railway station. We still use it on Teshima today.
Building Our Equipment
Transporting Our Equipment
Beyond the Performances
Beyond the Performances
Beyond the Performances
Living Environments
Living Environments
01 / TOURING
Carrying Our Work from Place to Place
On tour, we pack our custom-built projection devices and instruments into suitcases and travel from place to place. Wooden parts sometimes break during flights, so we repair them with materials available locally and continue performing.
When touring as a family, we visit museums between performances, looking at exhibitions from the perspective of fellow artists. We also visit the homes of people we meet along the way. Beyond the work itself, we pay attention to the environments in which children grow up and how people live in different places. Sometimes, we connect with local communities through workshops.
In a suburb of Berlin, we learned about Workaway from a family who ran a gallery and restaurant in an old railway station. We still use it on Teshima today.
Building Our Equipment
Transporting Our Equipment
Beyond the Performances
Beyond the Performances
Beyond the Performances
Living Environments
Living Environments
02 / RESIDENCY
Creating Work During Residencies
2026 / TONAMI, JAPAN
Yoki! Kanaya
In Toyama, we stayed at Yoki! Kanaya, a traditional Japanese house in Tonami, and explored how the building itself could become an artwork while retaining its everyday functions. We installed a solar water heater to create a footbath and modified the refrigerator, tatami flooring, and fusuma sliding doors.
2023 / YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA
Papermoon Puppet Theatre
In Yogyakarta, we were responsible for the visuals and music in a collaborative production with Papermoon Puppet Theatre. Their son took part in the production, and the experience inspired Minagu to begin performing with us.
2016 / KIRKENES, NORWAY
Transborder Cafe
In Kirkenes, we conducted extensive research into potential venues before the performance, transformed a large air-raid shelter into a theater, and operated it for five days.
2015 / FREIBURG, GERMANY
Anonymous Trip E-Werk
In Freiburg, a group of Japanese artists came together to create Anonymous Trip, a work exploring Japanese cultural notions of anonymity outside Japan. Created in collaboration with a director and two dancers, it became usaginingen’s first collaborative production. We were responsible for the stage design, visuals, and music.
02 / RESIDENCY
Creating Work During Residencies
2026 / TONAMI, JAPAN
Yoki! Kanaya
In Toyama, we stayed at Yoki! Kanaya, a traditional Japanese house in Tonami, and explored how the building itself could become an artwork while retaining its everyday functions. We installed a solar water heater to create a footbath and modified the refrigerator, tatami flooring, and fusuma sliding doors.
2023 / YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA
Papermoon Puppet Theatre
In Yogyakarta, we were responsible for the visuals and music in a collaborative production with Papermoon Puppet Theatre. Their son took part in the production, and the experience inspired Minagu to begin performing with us.
2016 / KIRKENES, NORWAY
Transborder Cafe
In Kirkenes, we conducted extensive research into potential venues before the performance, transformed a large air-raid shelter into a theater, and operated it for five days.
2015 / FREIBURG, GERMANY
Anonymous Trip E-Werk
In Freiburg, a group of Japanese artists came together to create Anonymous Trip, a work exploring Japanese cultural notions of anonymity outside Japan. Created in collaboration with a director and two dancers, it became usaginingen’s first collaborative production. We were responsible for the stage design, visuals, and music.
