Photo © Albane Laure

A cross-genre symbol, in the same way as the penises, with which the young girls are portrayed on the canvases of Henry Darger, the moustache stuck under the nose of La Veuve Moustachue creates confusion. Confusion of the sexes – a black dress, a little hat and a veil as a sign of mourning– and confusion of styles, promoted by the particular flavor of the game played by Yuichi Kishino, who brings together comedy and tragedy, evening news and poetry, optimism and despair.

A public comic, musician, film actor, critic and professor at the Faculty of Music and Plastic Arts at the University of Tokyo, Yuichi Kishino was born in 1963 into a family that, from an early age, initiated him in the drama and the poplar arts. Also very active on the Japanese musical scene, he plays in several groups, including Watts Towers and Space Ponch, and directs his own Out One Disc label.

Text © 2007 Sonore