For fans of Japanese Performance Group, GRINDER-MAN.

GRINDER-MAN is an art performance group that creates audacious happenings combining contemporary art and continuous motion in locations ranging from art museums and galleries to concert halls and clubs. The group started in 1997 with their GRINDER=MAN’s Theme performance for a TV program, in which they used a grinders on metal plates installed on their bodies to create sparks. The concept is Onore o kezuru (Grind Away the Self). To date they have performed in New York, Singapore, Israel, Sweden, Rome, Cologne, and Paris.

Their Mustang performance series, launched in 2005, has workshop participants wear a “Go Head Parallel” cube on their head as they dance, and has toured around Japan. In locations such as abandoned shipyards or shopping arcades, they create a performance dancing wildly on top of containers or other objects. The anonymity gained by wearing boxes on their heads creates a clear dividing line between performers and audience so that the audience may be guided to chaos. Performing the same series in different places while welcoming new performers each time has become a hallmark of Grinder-Man’s performances in recent years.

GRINDER-MAN’s leader, Taguchi Hitoshi, was born in Yokohama in 1973 and graduated from Tsukuba University’s School of Art and Design with a major in Plastic Arts and Mixed Media. The group has become known for its performances combining the plastic arts, body expression, film and music. In addition to performances, Taguchi is also a digital artist in design and film production.
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For fans of Japanese Performance Group, GRINDER-MAN.

GRINDER-MAN is an art performance group that creates audacious happenings combining contemporary art and continuous motion in locations ranging from art museums and galleries to concert halls and clubs. The group started in 1997 with their GRINDER=MAN’s Theme performance for a TV program, in which they used a grinders on metal plates installed on their bodies to create sparks. The concept is Onore o kezuru (Grind Away the Self). To date... (read more)