Yonsei f*ck f*ck is an ongoing series of butoh-ish performances and videos.

In the postwar Japanese economic development, the literal Imperialism of wartime Japan has been replaced with a cultural imperialism, where capitalist iconography like Pokemon, Sailor Moon, and Hello Kitty are proliferated abroad as commerce. Those of us growing up abroad use these cultural exports to fill in the blank where information from our family is omitted, which I have always found unnerving even though I am definitely one of those-types-of-people. Yonsei f*ck f*ck (yonsei meaning fourth-generation) conjures an Asia-futurism through the elevation these cultural artifacts to the status of holy, where they trickle down in Pika-goodness.

This iteration introduces mudra and mantra pulled from an imagined Sailor Moon mandala.

Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 10 was presented by 7 Midnights Physical Research at Arts On Site (New York, NY) on August 29, 2021.
Performed by Glenn Potter-Takata & evan ray suzuki.
Photos by Renfang Ke.

Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 10 was developed, in part, through a CUNY Dance Initiative residency at Lehman College.

This project was made possible, in part, through The Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation; Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew M. Mellon Foundation; the Harkness Foundation for Dance; the Davis/Dauray Family Fund; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.