Jang-Chi (OLTA)
The Tokyo-based Jang-Chi directs and conceives performances. He founded the artist group OLTA in 2009. He has developed humorous and provocative works through negotiating the systems of visual/performing arts and sociological/folklore fieldwork. With a focus on the collective acts that visible in communities and the communication that unfolds there, he explores questions about the creative act and, by extension, primordial human desire, sensation, and aspiration. His work reconfigures and restages past voices, records, folk tales, work songs, movements, incidents, and so on, dealing with urban planning during modernization, industrial structures, society and history that cannot be applied uniformly across race and gender, and repeated structures. OLTA have presented their work at various venues and events, including YPAM Direction (Yokohama, 2021/2022/2023), ROHM Theatre Kyoto (Kyoto, 2020/2024), Lilith Performance Studio (Sweden, 2015), and Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival (South Korea, 2014). Their notable works were exhibited nationwide, including at the Aomori Museum of Art (2019), Busan Biennale (2016), and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2014). Since 2022, he is a Fellow of the Saison Foundation (Tokyo / JP).
