The members of Farm In The Cave were inspired when meeting young people from the Czech Republic, Tokyo and Scandinavia who live in great isolation in large cities. These people are hypersensitive individuals, incapable of returning to their jobs or school and unable to return to society and “succeed” despite perhaps wanting to. This phenomenon known as hikikomori (in Japanese “pulling inward”) was first discovered in Japan but has been gradually appearing in more and more countries around the world, yet experts are unable to expound it. The term hikikomori refers both to the sociological phenomenon of acute social withdrawal and the people belonging to this societal group. Hikikomori is sometimes called the “illness of modern society”

The event is dedicated to the topic of social isolation of contemporary young generation and was created in cooperation with DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, a community of young men from Prague and members of Czech Vietnamese minority and others.

22 - 25 January 2016, DOX Centre for contemporary art, Prague 

CARAVAN NEXT, project that Farm in Cave takes part in, is a large-scale Social Community Theatre collaborative project connecting professional artists with communities and local citizens in a network of theatre organisations and cultural institutions all over Europe.

From September 2015 till February 2019 local citizens in min. 75 European locations will meet in theatre - and culture activities to reflect both artistically and socially upon the European challenges of the third millennium.

The result will be more than hundred performances and an endless number of new social relations created in a European network in the frame of social community theatre. The project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Read more about Caravan Next on www.caravanext.eu.

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