Migikata Sagari!

Migikata agari is a Japanese phrase that means right shoulder rising. Frequently used at the end of business meetings this rallying call is physically expressed by trusting the right shoulder up. In so doing the shoulderline creates an upward slope that symbolizes a growth chart. This embodied expression of an upward slope is the ultimate embrace of the economic growth paradigm. The Incredible Shrinking Man always acknowledged the body as the first space of contention, and the most personal manifestation of our obsession with growth. Such not so subtle cultural nudging towards the embrace of a bankrupt ideology cannot be ignored. We therefor suggest that, rather than using the body as a tool to express desired accumulation, we use it in its opposite way: Migikata sagari! Right shoulder down!

Thanks Hiro Koizumi