Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.
Ko Murobushi (1947–2015) was one of the most important performers and choreographers in the Japanese performance scene of the 20st century as well as a key figure in the mediation between the experimental
Butoh tradition of
Hijikata Tatsumi and anti-logocentric French avant-gardes as
Antonin Artaud and Gilles Deleuze. Radically positioned at the intersection of the two, Murobushi reveals himself as an extraordinary and poetic author in his "thinking of the body".
