Being Natural is a difficult pose to keep up
-2025, in Bern
Research documentations:
The first part of the reserach were about the degree of movements of Fuchiko, her frozen actions and how movements exist in stillness, the functions and reasons of this particular toy, consumerism.
At the same time, we explored embodied research into our relationship with Fuchiko, Anthropomorphism, etc.
“Being Natural is a difficult pose to keep up” is a theatrical performance and visual experiment that combines elements from visual arts, miniature arts, visual theater, physical theater, and digitality. At its center, the project attempts to take a deeper look at a miniature Gashapon toy figurine from Japan—Fuchiko —forever frozen in different actions and poses on the side of cups. Meanwhile, two performers attempt to embody what they imagine the figurine would do, expressing stories with her various poses and her identity, and delve into the underlying cultures that produce her.
Why do people buy such a toy? Is she simply a product of consumer culture? Or does she represent deeper human desires for identity, survival, and self-expression?”
A live camera magnifies the miniature world, merging its intricate details with the performers’ actions on two large screens.
As the performance unfurls, it delves into the delicate, layered relationships between humans and anthropomorphized objects through embodied experimentations and opens up a multi-world exploration that blurs the lines between the real and the artificial, the performer and the object, and presence and imagination.
Performance: Kuan-Hsuan Lee, Nanny Friebel
AudioVisual: vinco.zone
Costume and Scenic Design: Emma Madita Mösch, vinco.zone.
Technical Support: Dario Droste
Mentor: Lukas Bangerter
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