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), 2026, starts at 19:00
Sep. 5 (sat), 2026, starts at 15:00, 19:00
Sep. 6 (sun), 2026, starts at 15:00
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Venue: ACAC Gallery A, etc.
*Free admission, reservation required
*The reservation form will be open on 1st August.
*Non-Japanese speakers are welcome. Please note that part of the performance will be conducted in Japanese.

Talk
Date & Time: September 4, 2026, 8:15–9:15 PM
Speakers: Val Lee, Eva Lin, Asa Ito
*Free admission, No reservation required
*You may attend the talk only.