The Invisible Dog (New York City) and BUoY Arts Center (Tokyo) are thrilled to present an 10 hour-performance by Julie Dind, as part of NAFAS TOKYO.
This performance is part of NAFAS, an international festival exploring the relationship between art and food with an exhibition of 70 artists and a series of performances, workshops and events. Discover the full program here
For the final day of NAFAS Tokyo, Julie Dind presents an 10-hour durational performance exploring food, ritual, time, and collective experience.
Alone at the heart of BUoY’s vast concrete basement—a raw, cavernous space whose material weight seems to hold both silence and memory—the artist’s solitary presence becomes at once fragile and persistent.
Visitors are invited to enter, leave, and return as the work slowly unfolds and the passing hours transform both the performance and the space around it. As the festival draws to a close, the piece offers a final moment of shared presence, observation, and reflection.
Julie Dind is an autistic artist-scholar, a transdisciplinary artist, and a butoh dancer. Her work autistically explores autistic modes of performance. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo, where she works on two research projects, one on butoh and disability, and the second on autism and/in performance. Since 2012, she collaborates with multimedia artist Rolf Gerstlauer on an a(u/r)tistic research-creation project titled “Drawing NN inside butoh.”
Location
BUoY Arts Center / Basement
49-11, Senju-Nakacho, Adachi-ku,
Tokyo
Admission:
Free
Date
Saturday September 26, 2026
From 9am to 8pm
Duration: Ongoing performance from 9am to 8pm.
Audience is free to enter, leave and come back at any moment.