MUKAIYAMA Tomoko
Based in Amsterdam. Since winning first prize at the International Gaudeamus piano competition in 1991, Tomoko Mukaiyama has been performing as a pianist with prestigious orchestras and ensembles around the world. She has also collaborated with film directors, designers, architects, photographers and choreographers. In recent years she has extended her artistic practice to visual art, exhibiting installation works such as for you at Yokohama Triennale 2005, you and bach at Sydney Biennial 2006, and wasted at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2009. She directed and performed dance performance SHIROKURO at Dance Triennale Tokyo 2012.

Jean KALMAN
Born 1945 in Paris. Jean Kalman has worked extensively as designer and lighting designer for dance, theatre and opera since 1979. He has collaborated for stage productions with artists such as Karel Appel, Georg Baselitz, Iannis Kounellis, Anish Kapoor and the composers Mauricio Kagel and Heiner Goebbels. With Christian Boltanski he cosigned a number of installations in particular at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. In 1991 he received the Lawrence Olivier Award for best lighting designer. Was nominated for Outstanding Lighting Design, Drama Desk Award in 2011. Since 2012 he is Associated Artist to the Royal Shakespeare Company.

This time they will present a collaborative performance/installation inspired by Samuel Beckett's "Worstward Ho".