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Norimizu Ameya

Born in 1961. In 1978 he joined one of the major troupes of the Underground Theatre Movement in Japan, Juro Kara’s Jokyo Gekijo. In 1984 he formed the “Tokyo Grand Guignol”, rendering him cult popularity. In 1987, he founded [M.M.M.], a company working intensively on the relationship between mechanical apparatus and the human body. With the “SKIN” series, they established a cyberpunk scenic expression. After 1990 he left the field of theatre and began to engage himself with Visual Arts - still proceeding to work on his major topic - the human body - taking up themes like blood transfusion, artificial fertilization, infection disease, selective breeding, chemical food, and sex discrimination, creating works as a member of the collaboration unit Technocrat. After participating in the Venice Biennale with “Public Sperma” in 1995, he suspended his activities as a visual artist for a couple of years. In 2005, he presented a performance in the exhibition “Vanishing Point”, which marks a restart of his activities in visual arts. Last year he directed Oriza Hirata’s “Transfer Student” in the frame of the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center’s (SPAC) “SPAC autumn season 2007”.