Abstract
When I think about Japan, a welter of disconnected images of space and time crowd my mind: modern cramped apartment buildings, ancient wide-roomed castles, fast efficient trains jammed with commuters, serene unadorned Shinto shrines, wide-eyed cartoon characters on television, timeless Buddhist temples filled with incense, omnipresent vending machines, and spare dry landscape kare sansui gardens. Japan's technological, industrial, and economic achievements have been remarkable during the second half of the twentieth century. However, the darker side of its success story has begun to demand attention. Issues relating to the environment and quality of life can no longer be ignored. The internationally acclaimed Japanese performance art group Dumb Type addresses these issues in their work by critically examining the politics of globalization and high technology and their social effects on Japanese society.
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