About

Michikazu Matsune is an artist working across stage performances, interventions in public and private spaces, participatory projects, and publications. His approach combines conceptual and documentary methods and is characterized by being both critical and playful. Exploring tensions around cultural ascriptions and social identifications, his work examines the interplay between the global and the local, the public and the private, and unity and diversity within society.

His stage works have been presented internationally by renowned festivals and venues, such as Festival d’Avignon, Spring Festival Utrecht, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Theater Bremen, Festival d’Automne Paris, Théâtre Garonne Toulouse, Bergen International Theatre, The Centre for Less Good Idea Johannesburg, Gwangju Biennale, Kyoto Experiment, Taipei Performing Arts Center, among many others. In Austria, he has worked with many partners, including ImPulsTanz Festival, Sommerszene Salzburg, Kunsthaus Graz, Wiener Festwochen, Tanzquartier Wien, and Brut Wien.

Besides his stage performances, he has developed many works in public and private spaces. He is the initiator of projects such as The Institute of Sleepless Nights and Homesick Festival, and teaches performance art at the University of Arts Linz. Michikazu Matsune was born and raised in the seaside town of Kobe, Japan, and based in Vienna, Austria.