BIENNALE
2025

- Installation
- Performance
- Other
Tenthaus Art Collective and the Oven Network: The House Is Bigger than It Looks
EVENTS
Performance
Sanpo
Venue
Kanda/Akihabara Area
Ebihara Shoten
2-13-5 Kanda Sudacho, Chiyoda-ku
Date
Friday 24th October 19.00 - 19.50 Sunday 26th October at 13.00 - 13.50
500JPY
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.
In case of rain, the event will not be canceled, as it takes place mostly indoors—but we recommend bringing an umbrella for moving between sites.
Performers: Shahrzad Malekian, Ida Uvaas and others
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
Map
2 min walk from Toei Shinjuku Line Iwamotocho Sta. (Ex. A6)
4 min walk from JR Akihabara Sta. (Showa-dori Ex.)
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.
Kanda/Akihabara Area
Ebihara Shoten