The mountains that weave Kyoto and the water that gushes from the valley between them. We live and die by the energy of these mountains, which provide us with awe-inspiring benefits from nature.

Kiyomizu-dera Temple sits on one of these mountains, Otowa Mountain. To the south of Kiyomizu-dera is the area of Toribeno, which used to be a wind-burial zone at a time when cremation and burial were not common practices among the people. In the past, human bodies were dissolved into the earth and returned to nature, where they sprouted new life, as in the painting "Nine phases", which shows the nine phases of decay of a corpse dumped in the field.

How do we relate to the earth now? "It is said that we are standing in a hypothetical geological age called the Anthropocene. It is said that we are standing in a hypothetical geological epoch called the Anthropocene, in which all the artifacts of mankind are now mixed in, including plutonium-239 extracted from uranium-238. How does a life form that is repeatedly born and dies on such an earth return to the earth and sprout anew?

What forms the place where the performance takes place? In the case of Kiyomizu-dera, it is the Higashiyama mountains, and the three rivers that form the Kyoto basin. And the former Ogura Pond. The energy that surrounds all these places. The awe of the ancient people towards nature. Based on the number "9" in "Kyuso Zu", we chose eight points in Kyoto for fieldwork, and actually went there to collect sounds and bodies at each place. These points were then re-mapped on a smaller scale within the precincts of Kiyomizu-dera Temple. The swell of energy that surrounds Kyoto is recreated in Kiyomizu-dera and concentrated at the ninth point, the stage of Kiyomizu. Our existence is physicalized in the middle of a continuous cycle. It will be a time to step on the history accumulated by mankind and to reflect on the fact that we are standing on it.

The word "incarnation" originally means "incarnation" in Christian terminology, and when it is repeated, that is, when the "re" is connected, it becomes "reincarnation". The word "incarnation" originally meant "incarnation" in Christian terminology. This is often the counterpart of the Buddhist term "reincarnation". "Re: Incarnation", while imagining the diversity of interpretations of this word by those who accept it, temporarily dismantles certain religious interpretations and aims at the primordiality of the cycle of birth and rebirth of beings who are born into the world and eventually return to the earth.

Mirai Moriyama