2025 TAF: jactynogg zontaanaco ジャkuティー乃愚・存taアkoコ

7.7 (Mon) 12:00 TPAC Member pre-sale
7.14 (Mon) 12:00 Tickets can be purchased

An improvisational performance by bodies & AI
-A historical act of co-evolution of the body, artificial intelligence, and knowledge,shedding light on translation possibilities/impossibilities

【About the Performance】

   The artists' collective contact Gonzo, which performs improvisational performances that bring the body into contact, and yang02, an artist who questions the subjectivity of artistic expression through the use of autonomous machines and other devices, created a new work in 2023 based on their performance piece "untitled session" created in 2019. The performance "jactynogg zontaanaco ジャkuティー乃愚・存taアkoコ" was created and unveiled.

In this performance work, contact Gonzo's improvised performance is recognized (misrecognized) as images, converted into language, and spoken through a self-driving machine created by yang02. 

Using “captioning,” a function for describing images, which is a learning system of artificial intelligence, this work, in which AI is asked to verbalize an improvised performance, raises extremely contemporary questions on the theme of AI, which continues to influence human society through its unstoppable evolution, and the gap between “translation” and physical expression and misinterpretation. It also raises very contemporary questions about the disparity between “translation” and physical expression and misinterpretation. With lightness and humor, this work exposes the issues of AI, the body, and language, which are not unrelated to anyone.

How will AI, which can learn, process large amounts of data, and grow by itself, coexist with human beings in the future? Through this production, which simultaneously presents the excellence and incompetence of AI in dealing with unpredictable and inexhaustible bodies, the audience will be confronted with the “present” of AI's ever-evolving linguistic and translation abilities themselves.

【Artist Profile】

contact Gonzo｜Japan
Formed in 2006, contact Gonzo is a performance group creating improvised works based on physical encounters that blend impact and playfulness. Inspired by parkour, skateboarding, and martial arts seen online, they have developed a raw and distinctive style. They’ve done everything from performance and installations to gaming, also catering. Among their many collaborators is media artist yang02 - very much one of the gang.

yang02｜Japan
Born in Kanagawa, Japan, yang02 studied Media Art at Tama Art University. He intervenes in the established systems of information technology, which have become integral to our daily lives, revealing errors and bugs through the cracks in the systems. This exposes the political, social, and violent issues that are hidden by the spectacle and convenience of technology, and provides an opportunity to think about what we and technology should be. His tech-oriented works question identity and expression, earning him awards and a 2023 ACC New York Fellowship.

photo by Yurika Kono