Shizuka Hariu

Shizuka is an interdisciplinary designer between Scenography and architecture. She is also the co-director at SHSH Architecture+Scenography. As a creative director, she worked for the opera Super Angels (New National Theatre Tokyo) and the opera Written on Skin (Suntory Hall). Her design works are Bells for Peace (MIF), Dystopian Dream (Sadler’s Wells), Sacred Monsters (Akram Khan & Sylvie Guillem), Solid Traces (Charleroi Dances), and many others across Europe and Japan. Shizuka received a Bronze medal for World Stage Design 2022 & 2017, D&AD Design Award, German Design Award, and many others. She was one of the UK representation team for the PQ2015 and PQ2019. Recently, she was on a jury for international design competitions such as Non-Architecture Award and ADC 101th Award from NY. She lectured at the University of London (Royal Holloway), Ghent University, La Cambre, Backs University, Antwerp University, V&A and the Japanese Embassy in the UK.

Production Title: Giortes Rokka Festival 2022

Role: Temporary Theatre Designer, Lighting Designer, Artist for the installations

Production response

Hariu’s artwork combines the circles-shaped temporary theatre and the Britomartis lighting installation for the concert of Evanthia Reboutsika. A temporary theatre is designed on the sacred archaeological site Trouli Hill. The circular stage reflects the form of the full moon for the village of 60 residents. The full moon music performance succeeded in having a 6000 audience. The temporary theatre provides a diameter of approximately 9 meters. Its shiny striped surface in front of its scaffoldings structure reflects the time of day. In keeping with the concept of reflection of the festival. The stage with its white floor, will float in the light of the full moon. Getting inspiration from Cretan's myth Britomartis, the spiral-shaped lighting installation is designed on top of the stage.

Year: August 2022

Location/Venue: Trouli Hill archaeological site, Crete, Greece

Credits:
Performance: Evanthia Reboutsika
Temporary Theatre, Scenography, Lighting Design: Shizuka Hariu / SHSH Architecture + Scenography
Design Consultant: Shin Hagiwara / SHSH Architecture + Scenography
Materials and Construction supervisor: Thodoris Paraskakis
Lighting Programming and Consultant: Giannis Likos
Construction consultant: Giorgos Kastanakis, Nikos Koutsounakis
Construction: Grigoris Koutsaftakis, Giorgos Anagnostakis 
Lighting construction: Vangelis Benioudakis
Design Assistants: Manon Boncourt, Carl Hadidd / SHSH Architecture + Scenography