-Whirling Nou theater and the super-individualised subliminal theater
May 2006

1. Woven three-dimentionally and whirl round.
2. Design of consciousness (a pilgrim), not the shape of stage. Nou Masks, Tabi.
3. Boring ordinary life to a little journey
4. Model which consciousness disconnected from body feels.
5. A map of consciousness
6. The two totally unrelated stories
7. No ending, no beginning

A map of consciousness builds as one tours. Obviously, no two of them alike. As walking along distance, the map of consciousness appears as dimension and it whirls around to construct a space. This means consciousness creates a space. Inside the Hiroshima House, one whirls upwards again to reach Buddhaﾕs foot front.
There is a teaching of reincarnation in Buddhism. Identical to it, the end of the space becomes a beginning and would have no distinction between play and ordinary life but whirls around.

The one that draws spiral is not the stage device but the movement of pilgrims. Faces are covered in masks. The wonderland is like Kaonashi from the movie ﾒSpirited Awayﾓ, bodies are abstracted and only consciousness appears to be bare. Like Kaonashi has no feet, people in the world will be disconnected from reality; the ground. And it can be described as cicada in the sky that disappears in an instance. The Masks and Tabi are the very devices to take bodies of pilgrims away from real.

In historical sense, Japanese did not know the notion of perspective until they study European modern architecture imported after the Meiji restoration. Hokusai and other famous intellects in Edo era certainly knew all these but we were originally out of the world of perspective. However, Moronobu Hishikawa had achieved to plant a 3dimensional image of a woman glancing back with a flat painting of ﾒmikaeri bijinﾓ (literally meaning ﾒbeauty looking backﾓ). This is the origin related to Japanese animation today.
The ordinary life that we run over every day is a little journey formed from innumerable exposures(scenes). Boring and ordinary space is more innovative in these days. When we realized the fact, the ordinary life will translate itself into more dramatic one.

Kieslerﾕs ﾔEndless Houseﾕ is like a egg-shaped dome but there is no need for architecture itself to become spherical. It is just that there was no greater technology than the one Kiesler used to translate his words to an image in his time.
We witnessed the earth from the universe by the development of technology after the indutrial revolution but we are casually experiencing greater revolution daily: the Internet. And we already have a model of another earth inside our mind. It is extremely personal and it does not have to be spherical. In this way, we could escape from the white box which had trapped us for more than a century. Only mind can fly freely from the world.

Map is essential for traveling. Map is namely the world itself. In Buddhism, it marks Mandala. However, the map of consciousness cannot grasp the whole. Like ﾒFace Mandalaﾓ by Katuhiro Yamaguchi, one can only experience the space by reliving each scenes.

As making the Opening Ceremony ﾒwhirling No Theaterﾓ at Hiroshima House a material, the totally different theater ﾒsuper-individualised subliminal theaterﾓ will be for real. It is a virtual theater that is reorganized by the memories of each pilgrim. It is what it touches more to the conciousness of other people so that number of theater exist will be the same as the number of pilgrims. The world of consciousness itself which a pilgrim imagined is the drama stage(playground) and will become the second story as a stranger watches it through the Internet.

One piece of cover wraps round a book. When one removed from the book and opened it up, he can see a story that is drawn in 5 different scenes. The story that had been wrapped round is also one that was drawn on large piece of paper and folded many times. This one piece of scroll wraps round a book softly and then interferes inside to create a space which has no beginning nor the ending. Nou theater is like an endless space which describes the blending of one personal story with another.
We need to set off from the futuristic universe suggested by Mies and described in ﾒ2001: A Space Odysseyﾓ in 20th century. The hint lies in the sight of public(dimension), not in the sight of God(plain).