Taiwan-based director and visual artist Val Lee visited Japan between 2024 and 2026, where Lee conducted fieldwork and interviews with local blind football teams in Hiroshima, Okinawa, and Aomori to produce a new photographic work, “The Sorrowful Football Team.” In collaboration with Garuha Aomori, a blind football team the artist encountered during these visits, Lee presents an ongoing research project on blind football in the form of a participatory performance.

Blind football, an official sport in the Paralympics, is a game in which players wear eye shades and rely on the voices of guides and other players. “Voy”—Spanish for “I’m going”—is used during blind football matches as a call to indicate one’s direction of movement to avoid collisions. Through ways other than sight, how are the essential elements of matches and training—such as spatial awareness and relationship building—processed? When a moving body enters such practices, how is perception, premised on vision, reoriented and expanded? To address these questions, “Voy!” will take shape as a sonic-visual performative assembly involving the audience.

Participatory Performance “Voy!”

Date & Time:
Sep. 4 (fri), starts at 19:00
Sep. 5 (sat), starts at 15:00, 19:00
Sep. 6 (sun), starts at 15:00
*Please note that photo and video recording will take place during the performances on September 5 at 15:00  and September 6 at 15:00.

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Venue: ACAC Gallery A, etc.
*Non-Japanese speakers are welcome. Please note that part of the performance will be conducted in Japanese.

Reservations: Admission free, advance reservation is required.
When making your reservation, you can choose one of the following ways to experience the performance:

Participant: You will become a part of the performance.
Observer: You will watch the performance without taking part in it.
*You may change your option on the day of the performance.
*We recommend that participants be in the fifth grade of elementary school or older. (older than age 10)

■Online Reservation
September 4 (Fri.)
https://peatix.com/event/5114845

September 5 (Sat.)
https://peatix.com/event/5116648

September 6 (Sun.)
https://peatix.com/event/5116655

*Reservations close the day before each performance.
*A Peatix account is required to make an online reservation.

Capacity: Up to 15 participants and 30 observers per performance.

◎If you have any concerns or require any assistance in viewing or participating in the work, please contact us via the inquiry form or by phone at 017-764-5200.

★Talk
Date & Time: Sep. 4 20:15–21:15
Speakers: Val Lee, Eva Lin, Asa Ito
*Free admission, No reservation required
*You may attend the talk only.