dontdiemyfriendtommy -sound

-10"00 This is a sound from my short piece called "dontdiemyfrinedtommy", which reading my experience in London.

   This small and short piece was presented in Oporto, 2007, which was based on Hajime Fujita’s personal experience in London. According to some incidents, he had to sleep on the street 2 nights there. And he encountered one old Scottish homelesness. This piece dedicates to him.

   Here is the text from Fujita’s diary:
   Last week, I was in London. It was terrible days. I could not find any place to stay for 2 nights, and I was sleeping on the street that 2 nights. The temperature on the morning in London was extremely cold for my body without any blanket either sleeping bag. I was lying down on the cardboard, shaking and thinking that “why I am here in this such a difficult situation...?” The answer was not coming up, but so many memories of my childhood was circling in my head.

   And I encountered one homeless person, Tommy, seemed over 40 years old, coming from Scotland to look for a job. He told me his story and how he is living there. He had a job in Scotland then, even had a SUZUKI-4WD. But one day the company cut him off, then he could not pay for his house any more. He had bought a train ticket with100 pounds and got to London 4 weeks ago. However, he has not been able to get a job, because none of companies employ a person who can not prove where he/she lives. So he has no way to escape from his situation.  He said, “I saw so many homeless people here in London. Some of them have been living more than 10 or 20 years as homeless. And most of them are alcoholics. I may be so too someday...” The government of UK just supports him small money to eat, not to live some place.

    As you know, London is very clean city and very controlled. But the cleanness exclude the dirty: poor people, aliens, minor religious....

   In the performance, he represented what he felt when he was lying on the street. First he came into the stage almost naked accompanying a tote bag with a lot of clothes. Then scattering those clothes, slowly pick up them and ware one by one. After, he took news papers out from the bag, spread them onto the floor, lay down on them with bending bodies and started to shaking, seemed really cold...

   As a background sound, he played recorded his voice talking about his experience. Though, Fujita did not mention cleary what the piece means. So some of spectators could not understand and pointed him with confusing or laughing. Actually, this is also the imitation of situation sometimes happnes on the street. Descrimination and misunderstanding to homelessness: descrimination and misunderstanding to excluded people. This piece was not quiet radical but seemed very simple, yet actually really political.