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Deep within the densely forested mountains, a chance encounter between Yamamba and Temahahoi.
Since ancient times, deep mountains have often been portrayed as realms inhabited by marginalised and enigmatic beings. In Japanese folklore, Yamamba is a type of yokai (supernatural being or spirit) that manifests as an old woman residing in the mountains. In the oral traditions of the Taiwanese Indigenous Atayal people, a community of women lives deep within the mountains, a place known as Temahahoi. What if these mountains of Japan and Taiwan were interconnected across borders, allowing Yamamba and the Temahahoi people to meet?
Co-produced by Taipei Performing Arts Center, Kyoto Experiment, and The Japan Foundation, Sticky Hands, Stitched Mountains is the inaugural collaborative project by Nanako Matsumoto, a Tokyo-based dance artist and member of team chiipro, and Anchi Lin, a contemporary artist from Taiwan, who is also known by her Atayal name, Ciwas Tahos. Their work-in-progress was presented at the 2024 ADAM Kitchen, followed by its world premiere at the Kyoto Experiment the same year. Now, it makes its Taiwan premiere at the 2025 TAF.
Matsumoto’s “Yokai Body” methodology, which constructs texts and choreography through meticulous research, merges with Lin’s queer approach to exploring culture and gender identity, resulting in a transnational mountain within the theatre. What voices will these women employ to convey their stories?
photo credit: Haruka Oka. Courtesy of Kyoto Experiment.
Nanako Matsumoto /Japan
Born in 1992 in Osaka, Nanako Matsumoto is a dance artist who works with performance and language; both separately and in various combinations. Driven by an interest in dance as a means to critically engage with the body she creates stage works as well as writing and engaging in volunteer work as a form of public action. In recent years she has created dance works as co-leader of performance unit team chiipro; two of which have been presented at Kyoto Experiment 2021 Autumn and Kyoto Experiment 2022. Matsumoto’s performances are characterized by the use of text based on meticulous research and deal with the intersection between the physical sensations and memories of her own body and various historical, societal, anthropological, and geographical contexts. In recent years, she has been exploring the idea of a "Yokai Body", a term coined by herself and defined as a state of transformation achieved by layering multiple images related to a certain place onto the body. She is The Saison Foundation ‘Saison Fellow I’ from 2023-2024.
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Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos) /Taiwan
Anchi Lin, Atayal's name is Ciwas Tahos, is a visual artist working across performance, moving images, cyberspace, ceramics, and kinetic installation. Ciwas was part of the Taipei Performing Arts Centre: ADAM Artist Lab as an artist and a guest curator. She holds an MFA in New Media Art from Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan) and a BFA in Visual Art from Simon Fraser University (Canada). Ciwas’s most notable art project is mgluw tuqiy na Temahahoi (Finding Pathways to Temahahoi), Pswagi Temahahoi, as part of this project was presented at Documenta 15 in collaboration with Wagiwagi Art Labs.
Ciwas received the 2024-2025 Artist Fellowship from Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York, USA). Recent exhibitions include Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry (Sharjah, UAE), Hawai‘i Triennial 2025: ALOHA NŌ (Hawai’i), and 2024 BLEED at Arts House in Australia. She was awarded the Biannual Prize of the Pulima Art Award (Taiwan's Indigenous Contemporary Art Award) in 2023.
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Artistic Concept & Performance: Nanako Matsumoto & Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
Choreography: Nanako Matsumoto
Video Concept & Design: Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
Video software Design & Technical Support: Wang Bih-Ru
Surtitle design & Technical Support: Daichi Abe
Atayal Language Consultant: Apang Bway
Choreography Support: Kengo Nishimoto
Sound Design & Operation: Mina Hayashi
Lighting Design & Operation：Wang You-Jyun
Original Lighting Design : Kana Watanabe
Dramaturg: Nagara Wada
Stage Manager: Kodachi Kitagata
Production Coordinator: Yuko Kuroda
Research Cooperation: Taiwan Satoyama Education, Alak Akatung, Junya Kouno, Kobayashi Zoen Co., Ltd., Sakujiro Shimomura, Keita Tanaka, He Jing-Yao, Yasuko Yokoshi, Temu Nokan
Co-Production: Taipei Performing Arts Center, Kyoto Experiment, The Japan Foundation
Supported by The Saison Foundation, Arts Council Tokyo (Creation Grant)
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Cooporated by Kyoto Experiment
Organizer: Taipei City Government and Taipei Performing Arts Center
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