In Japan, there is a culture of capsule toys. A box of capsule toys is called a gacha-gacha. In gacha-gacha, you put a coin in the box, and a random toy comes out. There is a slang term used by young Japanese people – oyagacha. Oyagacha is Japanese Internet slang.
A child’s life is largely determined by their appearance, abilities, and family environment in which they are born. Oyagacha refers to the fact that a child cannot choose their own parents. In this performance, participants reach into a bag containing 200 different pin badges of national flags from around the world and randomly pick one. Not all flags are the same. Children can’t choose their own country. We are not born in a country of our choice either. Some of us are born in developed countries and some in underdeveloped countries. In both cases, there is both good and bad. This work shows what it would look like to be born in other countries.

The performance will take place all day long at Palazzo Mora.