orangcosong & guests
IsLand Bar
/JPN, INA-SUI, CHN-NLD, PHL-GER, JPN-ITA, THA-CHN-GER, HKG-NLD, VNM-GER/
Island Bar is a performance project conflating cocktail-making and storytelling in a bar environment. Each of the migrant artists hosts an island to serve a signature cocktail (alcoholic or non-alcoholic), a political concoction of island histories and realities.
As an audience member, you are invited to take a seat at the bar, taste, and listen. The informal cafe setting is transformed into a space for intimacy and conversation. IslandBar is an invitation to share a drink and rethink the narratives that shape our social and cultural identities.
orangcosong is a Japanese artist collective founded by Minori Sumiyoshiyama and Chikara Fujiwara, who are based in Yokohama and have worked in various cities in Asia, Europe, and Africa. While based on their experience in the performing arts, they have mainly conducted art projects outside theatres. Especially after covid-19 disaster, they have been trying to create ‘spaces for dialogue, exploration, exchange’ both on-site and online where people can meet safely and develop their trust.
Duration: about twenty minutes without intermission
Language: English
The show is not recommended for people under 18 years old.
Performances:
Thu, 2.07 at 17.00–22.00 Rakvere Theatre basement (BUY TICKET, ticket sale starts at 15th of April at 12.00)
Fri, 3.07 at 17.00–22.00 Rakvere Theatre basement (BUY TICKET, ticket sale starts at 15th of April at 12.00)
Sat, 4.07 at 15.00–20.00 Rakvere Theatre basement (BUY TICKET, ticket sale starts at 15th of April at 12.00)
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Artistic Direction: orangcosong
Artists & Performers: Chikara Fujiwara /JPN/, Eddie Hara /INA-SUI/ , Eva Lou /CHI-NDL/, Minori Sumiyoshiyama /JPN/, Pepe Dayaw /PHL-GER/, Rino Daidoji /JPN-ITA/, Scarlet Yu /THA-GER/, Serene Hui /CHA-NDL/, Tam Thi Pham /VNM-GER/
Drinks Consultant: Gonçalo de Sousa Monteiro (Buck & Breck, Berlin)
Producers: Iris Chan & Stéphane Noël (Materialise / HK)
Thanks: Yoveza Wong
Production Credits: IsLand Bar (2026) is a co-production of SPRING Festival (Utrecht / NL), orangcosong (Yokohama / JP) and Materialise (Hong Kong). The project is part of the Asia-Europe Cultural Festival (AECFest) Residency Programme 2025, organised by the Asia-Europe Foundation (Singapore). The project is supported by The Saison Foundation (Tokyo / JP) IsLand Bar is an open-source project by Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC), first initiated as an experiment in ADAM (Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance) 2017, and commissioned in Taipei Arts Festival 2018 led by principal artists Scarlet Yu (HK/DE), Chikara Fujiwara (JP) and Lee Ming-Chen (TW).
Participants ✕ Lead Artists (orangcosong)
Chikara Fujiwara
An artist based in Yokohama. After studying political science at university, Chikara worked as a magazine editor and theater critic. In 2014, he initiated Engeki Quest, a walk-based tour project that has been realized in numerous cities around the world. In 2017, he co-developed “IsLand Bar” with multinational artists at ADAM artist lab in Taipei. He also made video works Stay Home Labyrinth (2020) and Maya/Dolores (2024). His practice centers on themes such as the “invisible walls” that generate prejudice and discrimination, and “mobility and gravity,” concepts related to migratory movement. He was a Saison Fellow of The Saison Foundation (2017–20) and a Cultural Envoy of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan (2017).
Instagram: @chikara_orangcosong @orangcosong
Minori Sumiyoshiyama
After studying architecture in Kyoto and beginning her career as a dancer, Minori now works as a transdisciplinary artist. Since 2017, she has presented Hitsudankai – From now/here, Silence, a performance in which participants communicate solely through handwritten notes in complete silence, in cities across Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2020, she co-founded 2x2 WindowS, an online international project with multimedia composer Tam Thi Pham. In recent years, her practice has extended across both analog and digital realms, including video, graphic design, handicraft, cooking, and workshop using generative AI.
Website: https://orangcosong.com/ Instagram: @minori_orangcosong @orangcosong
Guest Artists
Eddie Hara
Born in 1957 in Salatiga, Java, Indonesia, Eddie Hara currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Eddie Hara started off as a playful, childlike colourist; influenced by the European art movements including Trans-Avantguardia, Neue Wilde Movement and Fluxus, as well as subculture and underground expressions like graffiti, comics, street and anything unusual. Living on and off in Europe and in Indonesia, Eddie Hara used to be a kind of marginal artist who was not afraid to give his opinions on political problems, sexism, gender issues and racial issues, environmental problems, the prevalent poverty and the resulting violence in our society. Despite this serious aspect in his art, his canvases which are populated by mutant women and strange animals display a solid dose of irony and humour.
Instagram: haramaeder
Eva Lou
Eva Lou is an artist, dramaturge, and creative facilitator currently based in Amsterdam. She creates performances, contemporary theater, workshops, and publications. Her practice centres on relationality and ways of being together, drawing on social practices and curatorial frameworks. Through her work, Eva examines modes of participation, the power of silence and encryption, and the (re)production and fictionality of collective memory. Co-creation and collaboration are vital to her artistic beliefs: she is a member of the "_ao_ao_ing ensemble", a performance collective based in Shanghai. Her work has been presented in theatres, contemporary art museums, and cultural institutions in the United States, China, and the Netherlands, as well as in mountains and rivers, on the street, in shopping malls, the back of a caravan, a sex shop, and virtual spaces. Eva is an active ally of art education initiatives for children living in rural China and the Deaf art scene in Shanghai. She weaves her artistic sensibilities into these contexts through leading art camps and workshops, planning events, and co-curating programs.
Instagram: @lycheeva Website: aoaoing.com
Pepe Dayaw
Pepe Dayaw is a polymathic artist, designer and producer working in the fields of performance, textile & costumes and transmedia publishing. Since moving to Europe in 2010, Dayaw has been creating situations and materialities of taste, movement and tactility that depart from a synthesis of a Filipino migrant fiction: queer, melodramatic, karaoke loving and a polyglottic jack of many trades. Pepe draws aesthetic and philosophic inspiration from their migrant autoethnography, renewing and remixing the contemporary while paying homage to their tropical island heritage.
Instagram: @pepedayaw
Rino Daidoji
Born in Tokyo, Rino Daidoji is an actor/ performer and artist based in Italy and Japan. She is a co-founding member of Tokyo-based experimental theater company FAIFAI, and has appeared in a diverse range of domestic and international productions with the company. She began developing her solo work in 2014 and moved to Cesena in northern Italy in 2015. In her performance works she often makes reference to her daily life and the close people around her, blending various connections as emotive semi-fictional fantasies. In recent years, she has also appeared in productions by other artists from the Netherlands, Australia, and Italy. In addition to her artistic career, Rino is also an active knitter, selling colourful handmade crocheted products under the name Ponzu Knits.
Instagram: @rinoooooooooo Instagram: @ponzuknits
Scarlet Yu
Scarlet Yu Mei is a Hong Kong–born Thai-Chinese artist whose practice moves through the intersections of choreography, performance, and relational ecologies. Working with encounter as methodology, she approaches each meeting between bodies, materials, and environments as a generative site where identity, memory, and the politics of living-in-di!erence surface and shift. Her works create choreographic situations that reveal how belonging, estrangement, and diasporic inheritance are negotiated through everyday gestures and embodied attention. Through conversational structures and sensorial interfaces, Yu crafts spaces where autobiography becomes collective inquiry and where transformation can be felt and reimagined. Her works have been presented at Tai Kwun – Contemporary Art (Hong Kong), Centre Pompidou, Taipei Performing Arts Center, Carriageworks (Sydney), Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, Rockbund Museum (Shanghai), Casa del Lago (Mexico City), Art Central Hong Kong (2024), Serendipity Arts Festival, and Taipei and Tainan Arts Festivals. She has mentored at HZT Berlin, served as a jury member for Tanzplattform Deutschland (2018), and previously worked as Rehearsal Director of Arts Fission Company. She holds an MFA in Choreography from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
Website: https://www.scarletyu.com/
Serene Hui
Serene Hui is an artist currently based in the Netherlands and Hong Kong. Her practice is research-focused and multi-faceted, engaging primarily with installation, audio and live works, printmaking and text. Serene's work is involved in a discursive, artistic and political exploration of her own context, using the geographical distance from personal lived experiences to investigate the wider socio-political impact of how meaning is made and who has access to making it. In her works she addresses obscurity and nuances by creating an ontological shift of displacement - meaning to transform social conventions, normative ignorance, and language ambiguity into resistance, reflection and criticism of contemporary systems. Her current project Tiger’s Head, Nail’s Tail stems from her century-old Chinese grandfather’s oral histories, in turn leading into a thread of research that delves into the human migration and material flow around Southeast Asia, in the shadow of the colonial matrix of power during the cold war. Serene’s works have been included in group exhibitions at the Thailand Biennale 2025 (upcoming) ; Ford Foundation Gallery, New York; TENT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; MMCA, South Korea; Para Site, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Her print editions are collected by Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium; Huis van het Boek (Museum Photo by Véronique Kolber Meermanno) and KB National Library in the Netherlands. She has been an artist-in-residence at Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg; Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium; MMCA Changdong Seoul, South Korea; Nida Art Colony, Lithuania and more. Her artistic practice has been awarded with the Artist Grant and Artist Project Grant by Mondriaan Fonds, The Netherlands since 2023.
Instagram: @clokserene
Tam Thi Pham
Tam Thi Pham is a Vietnamese multimedia composer, improviser, and performer based in Hamburg, Germany. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology from the Vietnam National Academy of Music and a Master’s degree in Multimedia Composition at Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg. Over the years, Tam has carved out a unique space for herself in the contemporary music world. Her work as a composer is all about pushing the boundaries. She loves discovering new sounds, experimenting with different forms of expression, and delving into the performative aspects of music. Pham is recognised for her interdisciplinary collaborations with choreographers and dancers from Japan, Vietnam, and Germany. She works with improvisation and contact dance while integrating technology into live and networked performances, creating dynamic experiences where music, movement, and technology intersect.
Instagram: @kokoropham Website: https://tamthipham.com/
Producers
Iris Chan
Iris Chan is a Hong Kong-based Production Manager at Materialise Limited, specialising in international productions. She excels at cross-border collaborations, managing projects across Asia and Europe, and leading diverse, multilingual teams with clear and effective communication. Her strong stakeholder engagement skills, combined with her expertise in project execution and deep local connections, make her a key driver of globally-minded, sustainable artistic projects. IsLand Bar is her first major production in the field of performing arts and it immediately offered her a chance to use her knowledge and her social capacities to further develop both professionally and personally.
Instagram: @irisiolo
Stéphane Noël
Born in Switzerland and based in Hong Kong, Stéphane Noël has worked extensively as a producer and curator of contemporary performing arts. He served as director of Les Urbaines festival and as co-director of Belluard festival, both in Switzerland. His knowledge and skills led him to join the artistic and editorial board of Gaîté lyrique in Paris, act as a consultant for European.Lab in Lyon and as a statutory advisor for IETM, international network for contemporary performing arts. In 2023, Stéphane joined Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao as artistic advisor, focusing on community projects. Over the last ten years, Stéphane Noël has continued producing and distributing the work of independent artists from Asia and Europe with a particular attention given to exchanges between these two continents. In parallel, Stéphane has been collaborating with Swiss and Asian institutions such as Pro Helvetia (Swiss Arts Council), Reso (Dance Network Switzerland), National Culture and Arts Foundation (Taiwan), National Arts Council (Singapore), Korea Arts Management Services and the Saison Foundation (Japan), helping them connect with their Asian counterparts and producing platforms, showcase or networking events on their behalf.
Website: https://materialise.io/ Instagram: @materialise_hk @_stephane_noel
