[Report] Why do people get addicted to the festival? - Talk event in Shibuya by news media "Hokudokuoku"

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<Event Overview>
〇 Name: [Public recording] Drink, learn, get excited! Why do people seek "festival"?
○ Holding: September 18, 2017 (Monday) 18: 00-21: 00
〇 Venue: Shibuya PLUG IN STUDIO by nana x 2.5D
Yes Cast:
  和田 永さん（アーティスト）
  アフロマンス さん（パーティークリエイター）
  岸野 雄一 さん（スタディスト）
Yes progression:
  ドミニク・チェンさん（情報学研究者）
  市原 えつこさん（アーティスト）

Talk program "H.SCHOOL" broadcasting at Fuji Television's news site "HOODOUKOKU".programThe first public recording event "Drink, learn, excite! Why do people seek" festival "?"September 18,At Shibuya PLUG IN STUDIOIt was held. From Odaiba with Fuji Television to the center of cultural dissemination in Tokyo · In Shibuya this event is a keyword with "festival" as a keyword, three guests who are festivals' entrants went on to "People addict to the festival Reason "and others.
Moderator Dominic Chen (left), Eiichi Ichihara (right)
"H.SCHOOL" where informant scholar Dominic Chen and two artists Ichihara Etsuko are the moderators is a talk show delivering the future of technology. Every time I invite guests to open up the future, introducing various latest examples and others. This time there are many autumn season festivals, so at this program event we talked about "festival" as a theme. "Festival" has been transmitted from all over the world for a long time and exists in various parts of the country even in Japan. In modern times these are continuing as Bon Odori, changing to a club party or urban festival, but they are inherited as "festival DNA" in people's lives.

■ Resuscitate old appliances as youkai - Artist's Wada Yunaga
Not only traditional festivals, but recently a new "festival" has also been born one after another, but firstly the artist Wada Yoshinaga introduced his project. Mr. Wada is a founder launching the festival "Elektronikos · Fantasticos!" To resuscitate old appliances as electronic musical instruments from 2015. For example, a CRT TV catches the static electricity coming from the TV by hand, and makes it an instrument by giving out a sound from the amplifier.

Mr. Wada says that the resuscitation of old appliances is aimed at "the way of modern day-mindedness". Speaking of the youkai such as the Edo period, there are many ways of being drawn such that a thrown-out tub or umbrella becomes a thing of a thing, again appearing in the human world. Mr. Wada told me that he started the project with the thought that "Is not this current youkai the electric appliances?", "This is coming out as a youkai?"

In addition, "electrical sound sounds like a somewhat groaning appliance," he points out. Even if it becomes unnecessary, by finding appliances that appeal that he is still breathing, "Is it not possible to give him the way as a youkai (electric appliances)?", The festival Reveal the significance of.
Mr. Wada also performed performances with a CRT television and an electric musical instrument made with a fan. The electronic sound emitted by household appliances, Wada said, was exactly "moan", but attracted visitors with a sound that would listen to it strangely.

◎ Festival is not "content" but "place" and "people gathering" - afromance
It was Ah Romance who told me the next time. In the name of a party creators who creates extraordinary experiences with ideas, in 2012 he hosts the first bubble party in Tokyo. Slide the City "which changes into the huge waters slider after that as well.

Mr. Ahrmans organizes and explains the "functions required of the contemporary festival" that I felt in holding the event. First of all, "festival" is not "content" but "place" and "gathering people". The important thing here is that there are "leads" and "guides". For example, even if you just listen to music at a club, customers who do not understand selfish tend to be stubborn. So DJ will leave the booth and jump in front and show a model to show off. As a matter of course, there is such a tendency as the temperament of the Japanese. Mr. Afromans cited "Common point" that "There is an instructor-like aspect as" Lead "of how to enjoy the place or DJ has it" and "Dance of festival is also" type ".
From left: Mr. Wada, Mr. Ah Romance, Yuichi Kishino
In addition, he points out that there is "release from reason" in the festival. "DayI always made it reasonable ", but I analyzed the reason why people are enthusiastic about the festival," I'm asking for festivals like "I'm excited" or something exciting.

And because there is a festival, people are going back and forth between "the everyday life" and "non-logicality unusual". Even though "Everyday is the world, unusual is the other world", it is said that "This is a very important thing to come and go" "I think people will not be happy at the festival, but I think we can save them." Leaving the stressful daily life, going to an unusual world also makes you feel refreshed. Certainly if we can come and go, it would be good for life balance.

■ Festival is "reconfirmation of connection" - Yuichi Kishino
Mr. Kishino also introduced his "Definition of the Festival" from his own experience. In addition to active himself as a "study student", he is active as an artist, as well as university lecturers and Bon Odori DJ, etc. are developing various activities.

Mr. Kishino explains the feature of his activity as "nothing to separate from everyday and unusual" developed by Mr. Afromans, but "How to erode and how can it be done in everyday life". The DJ event at the convenience store in the business which he is doing is to do with the convenience store which became a daily space no longer.

Also, despite having a lot of fun songs, I felt sorry for not being swept away in Bon Odori, and I started to do it myself. From the thought that forever it is becoming a mere skeleton, "a young man will not come", we held an event of Bon Odori with a DJ placed in a tower (toyura). Incorporating new songs into ordinary Bon Odori, I was recalling that "I just updated the new element while leaving things up to now."
As for the definition of the festival, Mr. Kishino reveals her own thoughts as "I think it is reconfirmation of the connection." In the world connected immediately with the current SNS, it seems to be wondering "Is it really connected?" The tendency to easily block and remove. On the other hand, he also said, "I think that the experience in the real world is a very great pleasure," he said, expressing the connection of the festival and the effectiveness of the experience in the real world.

At the end of the three talks, Egoku Ichihara, Facilitator of the festival, said, "Festival is communication of the cliff and the idea of ​​the festival." He thought that the festival was a space of another world, for example, he thought that "I can do anything because it is an afterthought" why I enjoyed it with people and events I do not usually get along with.

Likewise, Dominique Chen, facilitator, commented that "Madness and festival are always in mind". Knowing that you can do a DJ event even at a convenience store, "It's not something that separates everyday and non-everyday, but somewhere in a row ..." "When you are in one side, you can think of the other" .

Even if the traditional festival is changed to "party" or "festival" by listening to the story of the fighter of the three festivals, the reason why people are enthusiastic about the festival is " I understood. For example, scrambled intersections in Shibuya are often chosen as "festival scenes" where many people gather, such as World Cup soccer, Halloween, year-end countdown. Speaking of the fact that Afromans' festival is made up of "places" and "gathering people" instead of "content", Shibuya can be said to be a suitable place for festivals. Furthermore, because it is in the SNS era, we will seek "festivals" that can reconfirm the connection between people and people even further realistically.

<Reference Articles>
*The city where excitement such as football and the like wants to rise - "Shibuya" (May 23, 2013)

Shigeno Makoto

After joining the newspaper as a social part reporter, through an event planner, content director, the restaurant management, it is now a freelance writer. Activities on-site coverage, such as interviews and event reports to the main.