【配信】チェルフィッチュ×金氏徹平「消しゴム山」東京公演

人間のスケールを脱し、世界を見る目を更新する演劇
人、モノ、時間、空間、言葉が、未知のすがたで現れる――

演劇という人間のための営みを通して、人間とモノ、それらを取り巻く環境とがフラットな関係で存在する世界を生み出すことはできるだろうか。
東日本大震災で大きな被害を受けた岩手県陸前高田市。津波被害を防ぐ高台の造成工事は驚異的な速度で風景を人工的に作り変えつつあった。岡田利規がその光景を目撃したことから構想された「人間的尺度」を疑う作品は、彫刻の領域を拡張し続ける美術家・金氏徹平をコラボレーターに迎え『消しゴム山』として実現した。無数にモノの並ぶ空間で俳優はモノと新たな関係を構築し、それを目撃する観客もまた、世界を新たな目で見ることになる。
2019年10月の『消しゴム山』京都初演から１年。劇場からスタートした試みはさまざまな空間へと展開してきた。『消しゴム森』では美術館というモノのための空間に俳優が入り込み、モノとのパフォーマンスはさらなる進化を遂げた。その成果は『消しゴム畑』で俳優の生活空間へと持ち込まれ、日常の風景の見え方を変えた。再び劇場へと回帰した『消しゴム山』はどのような風景を描き出すのか。「消しゴム」シリーズの最新形。

Theater freed from the "human yardstick," updating our vision of the world
space, and language appear in unknown forms...

Through theater, an activity for people, is it possible to bring forth a world in which human beings, things, and the environment surrounding them all exist in a flat relationship?

The city of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture incurred immense devastation in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Earthwork construction aimed at raising the level of the ground to prevent damage from tsunami artificially altered the landscape with an amazing rapidity. Toshiki Okada's idea for creating a work that questioned the ""human yardstick"" sprang from a firsthand look at this sight. Eraser Mountain, the resulting play, was prepared in collaboration with the artist Teppei Kaneuji, who continues to expand the domain of sculpture. In space cluttered with countless items, actors build a new relationship with objects, and audiences come to see the world with a new vision.

About one year has passed since the first performance of Eraser Mountain, which debuted in Kyoto in October 2019. The project, which began with theaters, has since been expanded to include various other types of space. Eraser Forest put actors into museums, which are normally space for art objects, and performance with things took another step forward. These achievements were brought into the living space of the actors in Eraser Field, which altered ways of seeing everyday scenes. Eraser Mountain has returned to the theater, and all are waiting to see what sort of landscape it will present. This is the latest edition in the Eraser series.