Dumb Type

Founded in 1984, Dumb Type is comprised of artists from diverse backgrounds – visual art, music, video, dance, design, computer programming and other fields – all contributing to a great variety of stage and installation productions over the years. They have maintained an open-ended creative style with no fixed director and a changing roster of members participating in each new production as part of their on-going exploration of ever new possibilities in artistic collaboration.

Their works has been presented in numerous festivals and exhibitions including Hong Kong Arts Festival, Barbican Centre London, New National Theatre Tokyo, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Singapore Arts Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and The Athens Concert Hall. They have had solo exhibition at Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2019/20 and Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2022, among others. 

In 2022 Dumb Type created a new installation, 2022, for the Japan Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, welcoming Ryuichi Sakamoto as a new member. The following year, Dumb Type, 2022: remap was held at the Artizon Museum in Tokyo. The concert 2022: remix was performed at Teatro Goldoni, Venice in 2022 and NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Tokyo in 2023.

Dumb Type’s latest installation, WINDOWS, their first long-term installation in a public space and a three-year project, is currently on display at Museum Tower Kyobashi, in Tokyo since November 2024.