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Shahrzad Malekian and Ida Uvaas | Performance "STIM – Kizuna"

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Shahrzad Malekian and Ida Uvaas | Performance "STIM – Kizuna"

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Type

Performance

Sanpo

Venue

Kanda/Akihabara Area

Ebihara Shoten

2-13-5 Kanda Sudacho, Chiyoda-ku

Date

10/24/2025 Fri. - 10/26 Sun.


Dates & Times
① Fri 10/24, 19:00–19:50
 Fri 10/24, 20:30–21:20 (sold out)
② Sun 10/26, 13:00–13:50
 Sun 10/26, 14:30–15:20 (sold out)

Ticket

¥500

Reference image: Shahrzad Malekian and Ida Uvaas, STIM, 2023. Photo by Jan Khur.

Members of the Norway-based Tenthaus Art Collective, Shahrzad Malekian and Ida Uvaas, will present their new performance Kizuna in October 2025.

Kizuna is a site-responsive work developed in and around Kanda’s Ebihara Shoten. Shaped through movement and embodied research, it leaves traces in the form of shared rhythms, presence, attentiveness, and moving images.

The performance is part of Malekian and Uvaas’ long-term collaboration STIM—a living, context-specific choreographic organism. STIM unfolds through a flexible score that shifts with each location, taking on a new title in response to its surroundings. Rooted in an inquiry into time, memory, belonging, and spatial narratives, the work treats public space as a layered and contested terrain, where movement becomes a mode of listening, tracing, and reimagining.

Previously presented in Norway, Singapore, and other sites, STIM adapts to each context with sensitivity to its history and social fabric. In Tokyo, the project takes form as Kizuna, engaging with Ebihara Shoten as both a structure of memory and a site shaped by visible and invisible systems of care and control.

 

Notes

  • Event held rain or shine (mostly indoors). Bring an umbrella for site transfers.

 

Performers
角田莉沙 / Tsunoda Lisa
坂井美乃里 / Sakai Minori
樋笠 理子 / Satoko Hikasa
德安 慶子 /  Keiko Tokuyasu
徳安祐子 / Yuko Tokuyasu
山田 響己 / Yamada Hibiki
高成 麻畝子 / Takanari Mahoko
Direction:
Shahrzad Malekian, Ida Uvaas

 


Shahrzad Malekian
An interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, and sculpture, they use play to explore power, resistance, and care within public spaces and institutions. Recent exhibitions include SACO Biennial (2025) and Singapore Art Museum (2024). @shahrzad.malekian

 


Ida Uvaas
A movement artist exploring mobility across body, mind, and society. Through interdisciplinary, participatory works, she challenges structures and invites collective experiences across performance, visual art, and site-specific practices. @idauvaas

Artists

Map

2 min walk from Toei Shinjuku Line Iwamotocho Sta. (Ex. A6)
4 min walk from JR Akihabara Sta. (Showa-dori Ex.)

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Tenthaus Art Collective and the Oven Network: The House Is Bigger than It Looks

Inspired by Ebihara Shoten’s past, the project houses the concept of TRANSLOCAL. Taking place in and around Ebihara Shoten, the members of the TENTHAUS collective and their network, together with the local community, will create a space of interference with individuality and transform current challenges.   The project consists of RRR OFFICE, stands for Research, Record, and Report, a temporary, usable office-like structure; STIM – Kizuna, a site-responsive performance shaped through walking, movement, and embodied research (performers also invited to participate); and activations in the form of workshops and discursive programming.   These elements will stitch together the knowledge and experiences of the collective and the local community. Our aim is to act as an agent for transforming the future while honouring the past traditions of the neighborhood.   Supported by: Norwegian Embassy, OCA, Globus Forward Cooperation: Ebihara Shoten       RRR OFFICE A provisional office-like space for Research, Record, and Report will appear at Ebihara Shoten. It focuses on the often overlooked parts of artistic work such as administration, hosting, and process, treating them as essential cultural acts. As the projectʼs reflective core, it observes and records what happens on site, inviting visitors to join conversations, respond to questions, and contribute their own documentation or notes. These materials form a growing archive, making documentation an active part of the creative process. Additionally, The Oven Network will hold the Sub-rent Program, hosting artists and collectives from countries such as Canada, Indonesia, Norway, and Thailand. During their stay, they will interact with visitors and the local community, hold workshops, and energize Ebihara Shoten as a creative hub.   Office Opening: See “Date” section on this page Sub-rent Program Nov 9 (Thu) – 6 (Sun) Collective Collective (Art Collective, Canada) Nov 13 (Thu) – Nov 16 (Sun) Helen Eriksen (Tenthaus Art Collective, Norway),  Lily Onga (Artist, Thailand) Nov 27 (Thu) – Nov 30 (Sun) Eva Moi & Anna Karin Hedberg (Tenthaus Art Collective, Norway) Dec 4 (Thu) – Dec 7 (Sun) Grafits Huru Hara (Art Collective, Indonesia) Dec 11 (Thu) – Dec 14 (Sun) Studio 150 (Art Studio, Thailand)   STIM – Kizuna Shafarzad Malekian and Ida Uvers will present a new performance work, “Kizuna.” Developed as a site-responsive performance in and around Ebihara Shoten in Kanda, the piece is shaped through research via bodily movement. It explores shared rhythms, presence, attentiveness, and leaves traces of the performance through video documentation. Details & Booking   Various Activations Workshops, discussion programs, and more. See “Related Event” below.
Ongoing 10/17/2025 - 12.14 / Ebihara Shoten

Reference image: Shahrzad Malekian, HANDLE WITH CARE, 2021, participatory performance in public space, Oslo
Reference image: Shahrzad Malekian and Ida Uvaas, STIM, 2023, performance. Photo by Jan Khur
Reference image: Radiant Blessing exhibition by Studio150 (Bangkok), 413BETA, Seoul, 2024, as part of the OVEN Network’s “URGENCY Project.”
Reference image: Radiant Blessing exhibition by Studio150 (Bangkok), 413BETA, Seoul, 2024, as part of the OVEN Network’s “URGENCY Project.” Photo courtesy of Studio150 and The Oven
Reference image: As part of the OVEN Network’s “URGENCY Project.” Photo courtesy of Studio150 and The Oven
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Tenthaus Art Collective and the Oven Network

Tenthaus Art Collective is an Oslo-based artist collective that has been working together in various constellations since 2009. Their art practice emphasizes process, focusing on community engagement, collectivity, and inclusivity.

Presentated by Tenthaus, the OVEN Network is a transnational network for artistic exchange. Rooted in collaboration the Oven brings together collectives across Southeast Asia and the Nordics to foster shared learning co-thinking and long-term engagement. We view art and design not as outcomes but as tools for observation friction and transformation.

It takes shape through art projects exhibitions research residencies workshops publications gatherings and moments of exchange adapting to the context around it. We welcome those with a shared curiosity to think collectively hold space for difference and explore new ways of moving forward.

 

Members:

Ida Uvaas
A movement artist exploring mobility across body, mind, and society. Through interdisciplinary, participatory works, she challenges structures and invites collective experiences across performance, visual art, and site-specific practices. @idauvaas

Shahrzad Malekian
An interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, and sculpture, they use play to explore power, resistance, and care within public spaces and institutions. Recent exhibitions include SACO Biennial (2025) and Singapore Art Museum (2024). @shahrzad.malekian

Studio150
A Bangkok-based studio founded by Pat Laddaphan and Piyakorn Chaiverapundech, working across art, design, and publishing. Combining graphic design and curatorial approaches, they create socially engaged projects. The studio also co-found Bangkok Art Book Fair. www.studio150.info

Mechu Rapela
Curating porous structures for dialogue that bridge communities through art, care, and emergent forms of shared knowledge.

 

Participating Exhibition

Kanda/Akihabara Area

Ebihara Shoten

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