Crossing the train during the morning-evening rush hours.

During morning-evening rush hour, the two of us took a Yamanote Line train starting from opposite sides, we walked and crossed the train until we finally met in the middle.

In the public space, especially in a crowded train, it is dicult to force a connection with others.

While crossing the train we interrupted and inconvenienced the people around us by naturally touching, accidentally rubbing against their bodies, or squeezing past them.

Through this performance we intervene the conventional rules in the public transport system while rethinking about the relationship between the individual and Tokyo.

While I lived in Inner Mongolia I followed a very traditional art education. After I came to Tokyo, I saw that art could be expressed freely in any way, that artists could express any opinion, and that politics and history could be discussed openly. This influenced me a lot. I was completely naive when I faced the city of Tokyo, but also I felt that the feeling of society in Tokyo was very depressing. Personal expression and manifestation seems to always be about being aware of the environment and the air around you, and making the right moves. This culture is completely dierent to me, but I still try to integrate into it with some diculty. I was conflicted in the process of integrating my identity to Japan, and I started asking myself who I was and I started asking myself why I wanted to integrate at all. So I made this piece about crossing the rush hour train. I wanted to fight against a certain force. This force that drives everyone in Japan to assimilate.