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Aichi Triennale 2025: A Time Between Ashes and Roses, Period:September 13 to November 30, 2025, 79 days, Venues: Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Seto CityAichi Triennale 2025: A Time Between Ashes and Roses, Period:September 13 to November 30, 2025, 79 days, Venues: Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Seto City

What’s On

OLTA

  • Performing Arts
  • Aichi Arts Center

Performances

World Premiere, New CommissionTheaterInstallation
Eternal Labor
  • © OLTA
  • © OLTA
“It’s like we’re bugs. That’s right. We are. Laborers are bugs. Once you say it, it becomes real.” OLTA’s latest work dives deep into the ideological currents that flow from modernity to the present.

OLTA’s latest work, Eternal Labor, poses deeper questions about the ideologies that connect the modern era with contemporary times, a topic the collective has explored since GHOST OF MODERN (2013), which traced negative legacies throughout the world. After wide-ranging research in the Japanese archipelago and the Korean Peninsula, this collective now portrays the divisions and continuity between the era of the Japanese Empire and today, and the labor and exploitation that took place behind the scenes during economic development, projected onto the bodies of contemporary women. Focusing on issues within society such as women who have been objectified, bodies that can become pregnant, sexual discrimination, and power structures, the collective zeros in on what is at the root of labor that is devoid of meaning and lifestyles of consumerism through both an exhibition and a performance, as well as through the timeless and universal multilayered perspective and humor that is OLTA’s hallmark.

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* You can see the exhibition with a contemporary art exhibition ticket or OLTA performance ticket

Venue

Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Mini Theater (B1F)
(1-13-2 Higashisakura, Higashi-ku, Nagoya)

Performance time

100 min.

Language

Japanese-with English Subtitles

Tickets
Adult
¥3,500
U25
¥2,000

* Same-day tickets (General and U25) are ¥500 more than the advance price.
* Pair tickets (6,500 Yen) are sold only in advance.

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Seating

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Cast / Staff
Cast:
Ando Tomoko, Chong Ami, Mikajiri Keigo, Ota Kei, Inoue Toru, Saito Takafumi, MeguNinja
Script:
Meguninja
Direction:
Jang-Chi
Stage Design:
Hasegawa Yoshiro
Costume & Illustration:
Inoue Toru
Props:
Saito Takafumi
Sound Design:
Inoue Toru, Masuda Yoshiki
Game Development:
Usami Nao, Shibata Kazuhide
Lighting:
Fujimoto Takayuki (Kinsei R&D)
Sound:
Masuda Yoshiki
Video:
Shibata Kazuhide, Takebe Ludo
Stage Manager:
Sato Megumi
Translation:
Ota kei
Logo Design:
Yoon Deokjun
Production Coordinator:
Shimizu Satomi

Cooperated by
precog Co., Ltd.
Resarch Support:
Mojiko Art Platform, Tantan Village
Supported by
The Saison Foundation
Performance flyer

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Profile

  • Formed 2009 in Kanagawa, Japan. Based in Tokyo, Japan.

OLTA is a multidisciplinary collective founded in 2009. Their work, ranging from agriculture to installations, explores the nature of collective identity in today’s world while reinterpreting the meaning of community, ceremony, folklore, historical events, and the specificity of land and space. Their fieldwork looks at marginalized communities within society as well as labour, history, and customs that are liable to be overlooked. Bringing together art and theatre, their performance work interweaves elements including text, art, people, space, light, sound, and video. The five members of OLTA –Inoue Toru, Saito Takafumi, Hasegawa Yoshiro, Meguninja, and Jang-Chi– have in recent years, held many interdisciplinary performances at art festivals, theatres, and museums both in Japan and internationally. Through audience involvement, they create experiences that blur the lines between the quotidian and the historic, real and fiction, genders, and countries, all with rebellious play.
For Aichi Triennale 2025, they are presenting a new work foregrounding themes of “women” and “labour.” Building on their fieldwork in the northern coast of Kyushu, the Tsushima Strait, and the Korean Peninsula, this new work will both dynamically and playfully make full use of the theatrical space.

  • © Takeshi Hyakutou
Selected performances and group exhibitions
2023
“The Japanese Ideology,” Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting 2023, BankART Station (Kanagawa, Japan)/ROHM Theatre Kyoto (Japan)
2020
“Hyper Popular Art Stand Play,” ROHM Theatre Kyoto (Japan)
2016
Busan Biennale 2016: Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude (Korea)
2014
16th Seoul Marginal Theater Festival (Korea)
2013
Visceral Sensation — Voices So Far, So Near, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan)
Staff
Staff
Meguninja
Script, Cast

Born in Chiba Prefecture in 1988. She became active as a member of OLTA, an artistic group that was organized in 2009, and handled tasks including scriptwriting, videos, performance, design, and planning. Staring at everyday life with critical eyes, she has developed drawings based on childhood play and memories, and is mounting her own little rebellion against the world. OLTA’s The Japanese Ideology, for which she was the playwright, was nominated to be one of the finalists in the 68th Kishida Kunio Drama Award.

Jang-Chi
Direction

Jang-Chi is a Tokyo-based theatre and performance maker, as well as a visual artist. He founded the artist collective OLTA in 2009. In 2025, he will participate in the performance project Cruising: Traveling Tongues, presented by KYOTO EXPERIMENT and Taipei Arts Festival.

Inoue Toru
Costume, illustration, Sound Design, Cast

Born in 1986 in Kanagawa, Japan. Graduated from the Department of Painting at Tama Art University in 2010. Since 2009, has been active as a member of the artist collective “OLTA”. Drawing on the customs and histories rooted in specific places, he develops sound-based installations and performances.

  • © 鈴木優
Saito Takafumi
Props, Cast

Born in Chiba, Japan. Artist. Received an M.F.A. in Painting from Tama Art University in 2012.
Through transforming his works into devices and inserting himself into them, he attempts to draw out the latent madness and distortions underlying contemporary society.

hasegawa yoshiro
Stage Design

Born in 1984 in Fukui Prefecture. Graduated in 2010 from the Department of Painting at Tama Art University. Designs and constructs stage sets and installations. The group’s ideas are first “twisted” into real-world spatial designs, and through that process, I consciously expand alternative thought pathways during creation.

Cast
Ando Tomoko

Theater Actor. She collaborated with playwright and director Shogo Ohta for 25 years and has participated in international projects with actors and dancers from abroad. In 2001, she co-founded the theater company ARICA with director Yasuki Fujita and poet Shino Kuraishi. Inviting artists from various fields as guest collaborators, she has continued to present new works both in Japan and internationally. In addition to her work with ARICA, she has appeared in numerous stage and film productions, expanding her activities beyond the Japanese theater scene, including collaborations in the dance world and invitations from overseas.
Her notable performances include The Water Station and (Tenkei Gekijo), as well as KIOSK and Happy Days (ARICA). At the 17th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre, she received the Special Jury Prize for her performance in ARICA’s Parachute Woman.

  • © Miyamoto Ryuji
Chong Ami

Born in Japan. She has danced Korean traditional dance and classical ballet since childhood. A member of Seinendan Theatre Company,led by Oriza Hirata.Her principal appearances include “Revolutionists” “King of the road 1980” “Citizens of Seoul” and “Tokyo notes” and so on. The Kenji Yamauchi-directed movie “Dawn ing on Us” “unique country in Asia” in which Chong Ami has a starring role.

Mikajiri Keigo

He has been a member of contact Gonzo since 2007. He creates and performs in performance works and installation works. The group engages in a wide range of activities, including performances, installations, publishing magazines, selling works on Mercari, and occasionally organizing The Avalanche Festival, a performance festival where spontaneous ideas are tested as they are.

Ota Kei

Kei Ota is an artist and translator currently based in Kyoto. She received her BFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2013 and her MFA from the Global Seminar program at Kyoto University of the Arts in 2023.

Assistance for viewing

[Before you attend]
  • This work is performed in Japanese. English surtitles will be displayed during the performance.
  • Preschool-aged children may only attend Relaxed Performances. Children of preschool age may attend for free if they sit on an accompanying adult’s lap. A ticket is required for children who need a separate seat (U25 tickets are available). Parents or guardians who wish to attend non-Relaxed Performances are encouraged to use the childcare service.
  • Visitors using wheelchairs are asked to contact i-Ticket at 0570-00-5310.
[Childcare Services]
Childcare services are available. Advance reservation is required. For more details, please refer to the Childcare Service Guide.
[MEET THE ARTIST (, )]
A talk with the cast and director(s) will follow the performance. Audience members are welcome to attend without a reservation.
  • Live text support via UD Talk.
[Relaxed Performance (, )]
These performances ease standard theater etiquette—small sounds and entering/exiting during the show are welcome. Families with children and people with disabilities can enjoy the performance in a more comfortable setting. A relaxed lobby space and stage-view monitors are available. For more details, please refer to For visitors interested in Relaxed Performances.
[“OLTA Viewing Support Day” for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired]
* Only Japanese language available.
A Guided tour including exhibition guidance, pre-show explanations, audio guides during the performance, and a post-show sharing session. (This program is exclusively for people who are blind or visually impaired. Capacity: 5 people per day on both days. Advance registration required.)
Contact / Application
Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee Office(PerformingArts)
TEL: +81-052-971-0611
Email:performingarts@aichitriennale.jp