Tomoko Mukaiyama

‘’My body is mine.” This seems an unquestionable sentence, a nearly too natural sense, which is often shaken in laws and social institutions. At the 10-day WE ARE THE HOUSE-Salon held in Kyoto in June 2025 with Dutch artists and activists, we had time to think about the right and possibility to self-determination of the body with various keywords such as “abortion”, “ME-TOO”, “queer”, “kitchen”, “patriarchy”, and “family.”
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　—Tomoko Mukaiyama

Venue: Kyoto Art Center, Auditorium (South Building, 2nd Floor)

Dates & Times:
① Saturday, March 21, 6:00 PM
② Sunday, March 22, 2:00 PM ★
Running time: Approximately 60 minutes

Tickets:
General: ¥4,000
U30: ¥3,500
U18: ¥2,000
At the door: ¥4,500
*No admission for children under 6.★

Purchase tickets here (teket):
https://teket.jp/15894/61890
Tickets are also available at the Kyoto Art Center box office.

★ Childcare service available (free of charge). Advance reservation required.
For details, please see the “Accessibility” section at the bottom of this page.

Advance tickets are available until 4:00 PM on the day before each performance, on a first-come, first-served basis, and sales will close once tickets are sold out.
Same-day tickets will be available at the venue only if advance tickets remain.

This is a promenade-style performance. Seating is not provided as standard; limited seating will be made available for audience members who require it.

WE ARE THE HOUSE: Performance is a new work by Tomoko Mukaiyama, developed and produced based on WE ARE THE HOUSE: Salon, held in Kyoto and Amsterdam in spring 2025.
In addition to Mukaiyama herself, the cast includes the emerging actor and director Joost van Bommel, who plays the role of abortion activist Rebecca Gomperts. The lecture sections are being written under the direction of Yuri Yamada (founder of Zeitaku Bimbo).
Following its world premiere in Kyoto, this work is scheduled to develop into a world tour.

Purchase tickets here (teket):
https://teket.jp/15894/61890

Audience Advisory / Trigger Warning

This performance includes references to sex, contraception, and abortion.

If you have any concerns or feel uneasy about these topics, please contact:
Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto City Association for Arts and Culture)
Tel: +81-75-213-1000 (10:00–18:00)
Email: info@kac.or.jp

“Trigger warning” refers to advance notice that a work contains expressions or depictions that may evoke trauma or cause emotional distress.

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Basic Information

Date	2026年3月21日(土) 2026年3月22日(日) ① Saturday, March 21, 6:00 PM ② Sunday, March 22, 2:00 PM
target	No admission for children under 6. This is a promenade-style performance. Seating is not provided as standard; limited seating will be made available for audience members who require it.
Price	Prices: General ¥4,000 / U30 ¥3,500 / U18 ¥2,000 / Door ¥4,500
How to apply	Online: via this page (teket) Box Office: Kyoto Art Center
Related Links	WE ARE THE HOUSE: Salon (held May–June 2025) Tomoko Mukaiyama Buy tickets here (teket)
place	Kyoto Art Center Auditorium

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Tomoko Mukaiyama WE ARE THE HOUSE: Performance　Press Release( in Japanese) (PDF)

Profile

Tomoko MukaiyamaArtist, Director of WE ARE THE HOUSE

Tomoko Mukaiyama is a Japanese-Dutch pianist and artist known for her immersive, interdisciplinary performances that blend music, dance, visual art, film and installation. Her work explores themes of gender, the female body, and the natural environment, often shaped by local contexts (e.g. EAT, figurante, Love Song). Her performances have appeared in major venues such as Lincoln Center, the Paris Opera, and Concertgebouw, as well as unconventional spaces from online platforms to streets and fish markets.
She won the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition (1991), the Muramatsu Prize (1993), the Dioraphte Dance Prize (Shirokuro, 2014), and the Japanese Dance Forum Award (La Mode, HOME, 2017). Tomoko lives in Amsterdam.
In 2025, she will premiere WE ARE THE HOUSE, a salon-performance developed for the Dutch cultural program at the World Expo Osaka, presented in Kyoto and at the Holland Festival. Her first solo exhibition opens at Arts Maebashi in 2026

Just van Bommel（they/she/he）Performer , Director, Actor

Dutch performer Just van Bommel (they/she/he) creates interdisciplinary performances on urgent and contemporary questions. Often revolving around themes like gender, masculinity and vulnerability, they make deeply personal performances that zoom out to reflect on our modern world.
In 2025, the theme of gender and how it influences our identity has become and increasingly important part of their work with works like DEAR FRAIL MALE (Frascati Productions) on the fragility of masculinity and what men miss out on, TRANS- (Noorderzon Festival) which was an EDM DJ set and containerperformance on consciously not defining your identity through gender, and they were and actor and co-writer in Pride & Prejudice (Theater Oostpool) on being vulnerable in a hostile world. And this summer, Just partners with actor and writer Lotte Laurens to present a new piece on the rise of rape culture.

For DEAR FRAIL MALE, Just was nominated for the BNG Bank Theatre Prize, for emerging artists in the performing arts.

Yuri YamadaWriter, Director, Actor

Yamada is a writer, director, and actor born in 1992, in Tokyo. She began her theater company Zeitaku Binbou while attending Rikkyo University, writing and directing all its productions. Her works are known for seamlessly blurring the boundaries between stage and audience, reality and alternate worlds, normalcy and madness, while playfully addressing contemporary social issues in Japan with boundless imagination and diverse methods. Her works Fiction City (2017) and Mixture (2019) were nominated for the Kishida Kunio Drama Award. Yamada has been expanding her activities both in Japan and abroad, with Everyone Fears the Night (2015) touring in China and I’m Trying to Understand You, But (2019) staged in Paris as part of the official program of Festival d’Automne.She is active as a writer and director for television, and writes novels and columns.

Yannis KyriakidesComposer, Sound Artist

Yannis Kyriakides was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1969 , emigrated to Britain 1975 and has been living in the Netherlands since 1992. He studied musicology at York University, and later composition with Louis Andriessen and Dick Raaijmakers. He received a PhD from Leiden University on concepts of multimedia composition, Imagined Voices.

As a composer and sound artist, Kyriakides is drawn to the possibilities of creating new hybrids and intersections between media. His artistic practice is not confined to a single tradition or form but instead searches for ways to generate fresh experiences of listening. Central to his work is the exploration of the relationship between music, words and images. In both his concert compositions and installation pieces, he has repeatedly investigated how language can merge with sound: encoding text into sonic systems, synthesizing voices, or projecting text to shape the perception of music. These experiments extend beyond mere accompaniment, opening up new ways of experiencing meaning and resonance in sound. In recent years, his curiosity has turned toward interactive and generative scores, where performers and audiences alike engage with music as a live process that evolves in real time.

Across his career, he has written close to 200 compositions. This substantial body of work spans a wide spectrum, including pieces for chamber groups, large ensembles, and full orchestra, as well as works for music theatre, audiovisual installations, and electroacoustic settings. His work has been performed worldwide at many of the prominent music festivals, and by many leading contemporary music ensembles. He has been the featured composer at festivals such as Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2007), November Music (2011), and Gaida Festival (2018), and has shown work in both the Venice Music and Art biennales.

Prizes have included the Gaudeamus prize in 2000 for ‘a conSPIracy cantata’, a
French Qwartz award for the CD ‘Antichamber’, the Dutch Toonzetters prize for ‘Paramyth’, the Willem Pijper prize for ‘Dreams of the Blind’, an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica for the CD ‘Wordless’ , the first prize in the International Rostrum of Composers for 'Words and Song Without Words'. and in 2020 the Johan Wagenaar oeuvre prize.

Together with Andy Moor (The Ex), with whom he regularly collaborates with, and
Isabelle Vigier he founded and runs the record label for contemporary music
'Unsounds' . He is also a founding member of the electro-acoustic ensemble MAZE, dedicated to performing music that challenges the idea of fixed form and fixed listening perspectives. He teaches composition and multimedia at the Royal Conservatoire, Den Haag.

The singer/songwriter David Bowie, when asked in an interview what he was listening to, said that he ""would drive a mile"" to hear the music of Yannis Kyriakides. (Q Magazine, November 2006).

Yutaka EndoArt Director, Producer, Technical Director

Born in Niigata in 1977, [Name] works primarily in the field of performing arts, creating original intersections with music, video, design, and computer technology. Since 2002, [he/she/they] has been involved in a wide range of projects as an art director, producer, and technical coordinator.

In 2005, [he/she/they] founded Luftzug Ltd. as a commitment to transborder expression and creative direction. Through this platform, [he/she/they] has sought to establish a practice that functions as an intermediary across ambiguous media, expanding activities that bridge producers, technical staff, and artists, as well as technology and ideas. Central to this work is the development of productions that fulfill a social role by connecting creative vision with technical realization.

In recent years, [he/she/they] has been increasingly active both in Japan and internationally. In 2012, Luftzug Europe was established in Amsterdam, aiming to foster active exchanges of people and sensibilities and to cultivate a distributed, borderless sense of creative presence.

As a Technical Director, [he/she/they] has contributed to numerous major projects, including Salone del Mobile Milano (Canon 2010–2012; Panasonic 2013–2014; CITIZEN 2014, 2016), CITIZEN Baselworld (2013–2015), the exhibition “Design Ah! — Mono, Oto and the Moving Image Room” (Tokyo, 2013), “Hokusai” (Paris, 2014), and “Frank Gehry, Architect: I Have an Idea” (Tokyo, 2015), among many others, working across video, sound, and lighting design.

Show Credits

Concept / Direction / Performance / Music / Text / Video: Tomoko Mukaiyama
Performer / Text: Joost van Bommel
Music: Yannis Kyriakides
Lecture-Performance Script: Yuri Yamada
Lighting: Amber Vandenhoeck
Stage Manager: Yutaka Endo
Production: Mayumi Yamamoto, Yu-Hsi Huang, Jion Teraoka (Kyoto Art Center)
Video Supervision: Reinier van Brummelen
Graphic Design: Takuma Hayashi
Logo Design: Simpson Tse

Produced by: Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation
Co-produced by: Kyoto Art Center

With the support of: Embassy of
the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Japan
DutchCulture
CAN (Culture All Nippon)
General Incorporated Association MALTAS

Funded by:
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Japan
DutchCulture;
Fonds Podiumkunsten (Netherlands Performing Arts Fund)
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts)
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan – Cultural Arts Promotion Program (Regional Core Theatre & Music Hall Revitalization Project), administered by the Japan Arts Council
Expo ’70 Commemorative Fund

accessibility

Performed in English with Japanese surtitles.

No children under 6. Elementary school children must attend with an adult.

Free childcare for the Sun, March 22 (2:00 PM) performance (book by March 15).
Contact: info@kac.or.jp
/ +81-75-213-1000

Wheelchair access and accessible restrooms (South Building 1F & 2F).

Guide, service, and hearing dogs are welcome—please let us know in advance.

We can assist via written communication if needed.

Inquiries

Kyoto Art Center
T: +81-75-213-1000 (10:00–18:00)
F: +81-75-213-1004
E: info@kac.or.jp

Tomoko Mukaiyama “WE ARE THE HOUSE Performance”（World Premiere）