DEMOCRATISM – An Introduction to Five Models of Civil Protest
(Tokyo, 2009)

Five individual reenactments of more and less known historical protests from the western world, in which all slogans have been translated into Japanese. The selection of the actions was based on the measure in which they were able to reflect on their own form of appearance. The actions were performed by several Japanese performers, who were also handing out flyers containing a short description of the performance and documentation of the original protest. Thus, the work formulated a critique on the institutionalized western mass protests as well a reflection on the state of democratism as is was implemented in Japanese society,

Concept and production in cooperation with Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
Translations by Yoshie Irie