Episōdo X

A pandemic has turned the wheels of perception. Priorities and primacies are blurred, upended, dizzy. Hierarchies of experience, zones of separation, are confronted with interlacing, scrambled realities. Events and occurrences dissipate, spiral. The conditions of proximity and distance are reversed. It is like being thrown into a ‘cold opening’ — a device in TV drama that plunges the viewer into the middle of the ‘action’ even before the title sequence and opening credits.

Episōdo X is a digital ignition, to help land feet first into this ‘cold opening’, to co-produce an accretive temporal experience that acts as an additional tributary of acts, of views, of assemblies, of hangouts, notes of/from other spaces, of roaming, of contaminatory intents, of soliloquies, of conversations, of responses and of gatherings with a blue carpet. As artist Lantian Xie dreams, ‘…to inaugurate kilometers and kilometers of walks of combinatory plays, more kilometers than the building can hold so that it overflows with the vitality of our assemblies.’

The Episōdo X timeline will start from July 3rd. It will keep accreting impulses until we are all exhausted and exhilarated at the same time. That time may never come, and Episōdo X may just become a way of living.

Raqs Media Collective

Yokohama Triennale 2020, let the movements commence

July 17, 2020
IWAI Masaru
Play with graphite in Yokohama (for Episodo)

©︎Masaru IWAI, Courtesy of Takuro Someya Contemporary Art

July 16, 2020
Haig AIVAZIAN
1,2,3 Soleil! (2020)

Chalk balls thrown by Natsuko Kurashige, Haruka Shibata (the Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale)

July 15, 2020
Taus MAKHACHEVA
Quantitative Infinity of the Objective

First rehearsal led by performers: Numata Sae, Sakuma Karin(all from Mizutori Sports Club), Fujii Kota

July 14, 2020
SHINTAKU Kanako
I’m still alive performance

July 13, 2020
Dennis TAN
The case of ringing bell performance (Sangenjaya)

July 12, 2020
Make or Break
Speaking to the Street (Koganecho/Parramatta)

Video courtesy: Make or Break

July 10, 2020
Farming Architects
The Space Coalition

July 8, 2020
Elena KNOX
Volcana Brainstorm

Performer: CHIBIGUTS

JuIy 7, 2020
Amol K. Patil
Rest

JuIy 5, 2020
Amol K. Patil
Study oneself

Camera: Yogesh
Special thanks to Magicsprouts studio

JuIy 4, 2020