orangcosong & guests
Art Collective
orangcosong is an art collective founded by Chikara Fujiwara and Minori Sumiyoshiyama, based in Yokohama / Kochi / Osaka (Japan), and active transnationally. Drawing on their experience in the performing arts and their travels, they create projects in close collaboration with local people, exploring themes of human mobility and gravity.
In their flagship work, Engeki Quest, they conduct long-term, site-based research and stayed in Utrecht for a total of seven weeks across 2024 and 2025. For this edition of SPRING Festival, they present two projects: Engeki Quest and IsLand Bar.
Eddie Hara
Born in 1957 in Salatiga, Java, Indonesia, Eddie Hara currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Eddie Hara started off as a playful, childlike colourist; influenced by European art movements including Trans-Avantguardia, Neue Wilde and Fluxus, as well as subculture and underground expressions like graffiti, comics, street art and anything unusual. Living on and off in Europe and in Indonesia, Eddie Hara was a kind of marginal artist who was not afraid to give his opinions on political problems, sexism, gender issues and racial issues, environmental problems, the prevalent poverty and the resulting violence in our society. Despite this serious aspect in his art, his canvases which are populated by mutant women and strange animals display a solid dose of irony and humour.
Eva Lou
Eva Lou is an artist, dramaturge, and creative facilitator currently based in Amsterdam. She creates performances, contemporary theater, workshops, and publications. Her practice centres on relationality and ways of being together, drawing on social practices and curatorial frameworks. Through her work, Eva examines modes of participation, the power of silence and encryption, and the (re)production and fictionality of collective memory. Co-creation and collaboration are vital to her artistic beliefs: she is a member of the “_ao_ao_ing ensemble”, a performance collective based in Shanghai. Her work has been presented in theaters, contemporary art museums, and cultural institutions in the United States, China, and the Netherlands, as well as in mountains and rivers, on the street, in shopping malls, the back of a caravan, a sex shop, and virtual spaces.
Pepe Dayaw
Pepe Dayaw is a polymathic artist, designer and producer working in the fields of performance, textile & costumes and transmedia publishing. Since moving to Europe in 2010, Dayaw has been creating situations and materialities of taste, movement and tactility that depart from a synthesis of a Filipino migrant fiction: queer, melodramatic, karaoke loving and a polyglottic jack of many trades. Pepe draws aesthetic and philosophic inspiration from their migrant autoethnography, renewing and remixing the contemporary while paying homage to their tropical island heritage.
Rino Daidoji
Born in Tokyo, Rino Daidoji is an actor/performer and artist based in Italy and Japan. She is a co-founding member of Tokyo-based experimental theater company FAIFAI, and has appeared in a diverse range of domestic and international productions with the company. She began developing her solo work in 2014 and moved to Cesena in northern Italy in 2015. In her performance works she often makes reference to her daily life and the close people around her, blending various connections as emotive semi-fictional fantasies. In recent years, she has also appeared in productions by other artists from the Netherlands, Australia, and Italy. In addition to her artistic career, Rino is also an active knitter, selling colourful handmade crocheted products under the name Ponzu Knits.
Scarlet Yu Mei
Scarlet Yu Mei is a Hong Kong–born Thai-Chinese artist whose practice moves through the intersections of choreography, performance, and relational ecologies. Working with encounter as methodology, she approaches each meeting between bodies, materials, and environments as a generative site where identity, memory, and the politics of living-in-difference surface and shift. Her works create choreographic situations that reveal how belonging, estrangement, and diasporic inheritance are negotiated through everyday gestures and embodied attention. Through conversational structures and sensorial interfaces, Yu crafts spaces where autobiography becomes collective inquiry and where transformation can be felt and reimagined.
Serene Hui
Serene Hui is an artist currently based in the Netherlands and Hong Kong. Her practice is research-focused and multi-faceted, engaging primarily with installation, audio and live works, printmaking and text. Serene’s work is involved in a discursive, artistic and political exploration of her own context, using the geographical distance from personal lived experiences to investigate the wider socio-political impact of how meaning is made and who has access to making it. Her current project Tiger’s Head, Nail’s Tail stems from her century-old Chinese grandfather’s oral histories, in turn leading into a thread of research that delves into the human migration and material flow around Southeast Asia, in the shadow of the colonial matrix of power during the cold war.
Tam Thi Pham
Tam Thi Pham is a Vietnamese multimedia composer, improviser, and performer based in Hamburg, Germany. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology from the Vietnam National Academy of Music and a Master’s degree in Multimedia Composition at Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg. Over the years, Tam has carved out a unique space for herself in the contemporary music world. Her work as a composer is all about pushing the boundaries. She loves discovering new sounds, experimenting with different forms of expression, and delving into the performative aspects of music. Pham is recognised for her interdisciplinary collaborations with choreographers and dancers from Japan, Vietnam, and Germany.