Oniric eveningOniric evening

DDA is a nomadic structure for the visual, sound and digital arts. Based in Marseilles (France), it produces multidisciplinary, contemporary art events and performances in France and abroad. On September 22, DDA is organizing an “Oniric evening” at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo, where Shuhei NISHIYAMA will give a visual performance that modifies our normal perception of the structure of the real world. Dancer Nanami KOHSHOU and experimental musician David MERLO will participate in a joint performance that highlights the phenomena of vibrating bodies and space. This meeting of three artists is an invitation to question our environment, and be amazed by it, to see and smell, and allow ourselves to be enraptured and dazzled by the singular. For once we will be freed of all our illusions when "'the double' replaces reality.” Dance: Nanami Kohshou Video: Shuhei Nishiyama Sound: David Merlo Artist Information: Nanami Kohshou  Nanami began performing as a musician in 1982, moved to theatre, and in 1999, Buto dance. He has developed a personal style of dance based on exploration of the animal strength contained in our bodies since time immemorial. He is known for the precision of his confrontation with space, and for his capacity to solve "in an instant" the challenge of the restrictions of corporal movement, in lightning discharges of energy. [Nanami Kohshou Official Website](http://www.dansesauvage.com/) Shuhei Nishiyama  Born in 1976 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, Shuhei majored in art criticism at Ritsumeikan University. Influenced by avant-garde cinema and videoart, he started making video works in 1998. His works are not simple presentation pieces; they are also tools and text, and tools for thought. He makes single channel videos, installation pieces, and performance work. He was based in Australia from 2007 to 2008, and concluded the stay with a solo exhibition in Sydney. He returned to Tokyo in 2009, where he now lives and continues to create video works which have been shown at film festivals in France, Germany, America, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Korea. [Shuhei Nishiyama Official Website](http://www.shuhei2480.net/) David Merlo  Through his composition and improvisation practice, David Merlo explores the possibilities of time, from the temporality of sound creation to that of accoustic perception. Based on the distances which oppose or connect solo work to collective work, he scrutinizes phenomena of body vibration. From one environment of expression to another, from one sound space to another, the question of soundscape itself is raised - an encounter in space and non-space where the performance is taking place. [David Merlo Official Website](http://davidmerlo.wordpress.com/) Thanks to Junim Isabelle, Margot Olliveaux, Michael Goldberg, IF Tokyo