TODOME Da FOX
NOÉ IWAI 岩井 のゑ
Artist
GRADUATE FROM BLUE - 青的離脱
Material : Mirror from my mother, Blue face paint, scissors and shaver.
Reflect
2017
Live to Camera
Duration 2- 3 Hours
Materials : White face paint, White clothes, body and water from the river
The face was painted white with paste and laid on the river. Laid on the river for about 2 hours and waited for it to get slowly wash off from my face.
Fox Rain 狐雨
2017
Live Performance
Scale of background 3m × 5m
Duration - Every 10 days, 30 minuets
Materials: Bucket of Rain Water, Baby Powder, White Cloths, Fox Masks, Bodies, Collected Materials (Wall dusts, Pigment, Ink, Rainwater, Dust)
Dancers : Benjamin Anthony, Camilla Isola, Dan Calder, Ena Yamaguchi, Hattie Godfrey, Kwangjae Jeon, Lois Wong, Noe Iwai, Sammie Hayward, Silvia Carradori and Sophie Zosia Bassett
Artists and Dancers from different international backgrounds were performing a fox in this piece.
Their face and upper body were painted in white and Japanese traditional Fox mask was put on top.
The movement started from all of them scratching the wall with the rhythm of the wood stick.
Each person performed uncanny movements - 'fox', 'Human Shape of something' and 'Human' based on Butoh movements as such.
A white smudged face was washed off by a bucket of rainwater and at the end of the performance, I painted the wall with a bucket of water and these actions were repeated for ten days.