Photo: David BennettPhoto: David Bennett
with Angel Peak
Kazuko presents the story of megalomaniac moon princess who fell to earth. At any moment, she expects to be taken back by her fellow moon dwellers. Based on old Japanese folk tale, The Shining Princess is a funny and poetical study of longing and belonging.With video, Japanese origami people and other delights!
"Kazuko Hohki is a born story teller." - The Wire
The Bluecoat awarded Kazuko Hohki one of its 1999 Countdown Live Art Commissions devised in response to the approaching Millennium and questions surrounding cultural identity, migration and home.
"Kazuko's performance, The Shining Princess, was delightful response to the theme, presented using her familiar repertoire of song, music, puppetry, monologue and animation. It was a compelling piece which successfully combined visual, musical and narrative elements, and used humour effectively alongside a very real sense of melancholy, as the princess described her various suitors and their vain attempts to win her affection. The feeling of displacement and frustration reflected the artist's own position living in a foreign country and having an ambivalent view of where home is."
Bryan Biggs (director of Bluecoat Arts Centre)
"Kazuko Hohki's performances have always addressed, in one way or another, themes surrounding memory, narrative and cross-cultural difference. In taking as her starting point a traditional Japanese fable about a moon princess stranded on the earth, her follow-up to the magnificent Toothless is as both profound, humane and also very funny. She is a born story-teller."
Louise Grey, journalist (The Wire)
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