
Chikako Yamashiro
2021Chinbin Western, Kazoku no Hyosho
Chikako Yamashiro
A story goes around two families in Henoko, Nago city, in Okinawa, Japan where plans for construction of a new US military base are ongoing yet unsettled and in an unstable stage. Complicated feelings of two families in the area are depicted. A must-see is a duet of Opera and Ryuka (traditional Okinawan song) singing.
Chinbin Western, Representation of the Family
Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat
Chikako Yamashiro
Chikako Yamashiro
Yamashiro Chikako channels the stories of survivors of the Battle of Okinawa through lip-synch and superimposition. With her body as an archive, she stages the link between the donors and inheritors of trauma and, ultimately, the impossibility of transferring memory across generational lines.
Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat