From Hara Museum, Tokyo
[Added on September 22] Reservations are full.
This May, Shusaku Arakawa, an artist with whom the Hara Museum has worked with
(solo exhibition “Arakawa Drawings 1961-74” held at the Hara Museum in 1994) and whose work “Look at It No.3” (1968) is included in its collection, passed away at the age of 73.
On September 23 (Thurs./National Holiday), the Hara Museum will hold a documentary about a man (=Shusaku Arakawa) who swore that “mankind will not die” and the residents of the “house where people do not die.” Featured in the documentary is an impressive architectural work that was built in 2005 by Arakawa called Reversible Destiny Lofts MITAKA, a work that is still being used as residential and office space today.
Reversible Destiny Lofts MITAKA
The lofts, Arakawa said, would draw out the residents’ latent abilities so that they would no longer die. This documentary brings together interviews with the artist himself, who called himself a codenologist (someone who combines philosophy, art and science in his work), the astrophysicist Haruo Saji and residents who were born and raised in the Reversible Destiny Lofts MITAKA.
Shusaku Arakawa
Haruo Saji
After the screening, there will be a talk (in Japanese only) by Nobu Yamaoka, the director of the documentary and a resident of Reversible Destiny Lofts MITAKA.
Event title: CHILDREN WHO WON’T DIE—A Documentary Film on Shusaku Arakawa
From “The Mechanism of Meaning” to “Reversible Destiny Lofts MITAKA”
Date: September 23 (Thurs./National Holiday), 2010 3:00-5:00 pm
Place: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 4-7-25, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
Fee (includes museum admission): General 2,000 yen Students 1,700 yen Hara Museum members (up to two guests) 1,000 yen (per person)
*Audience will be able to enjoy ongoing exhibition “Jae-Eun Choi—Forests of Asoka” prior to the screening.
Organized by: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Cooperation provided by: ABRF Inc., RTA PIKCAR INC.
Director (of “Children Who Won’t Die”): Nobu Yamaoka
Music: Keiichiro Shibuya
Narration: Tadanobu Asano
*Duration of the documentary= 80 min. In Japanese only. English translation available in text.
Talk (in Japanese only)=15 min.
Reservations and inquiries:
Tel: 03-3445-0669 E-mail: info@haramuseum.or.jp
For E-mail:
Please write “Shusaku Arakawa Documentary” in the subject line, and indicate your name, daytime phone number and a number of participants (please also write your membership number if you are a museum member).
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UPCOMING EVENTS AND EXHIBITION
Exhibition: Jae-Eun Choi exhibition—Forests of Asoka
Dates: September 11 (Sat.) – December 26 (Sun.), 2010
Event: Cesare Picco Blind Date-Concert in the Dark
A unique piano concert by Cesare Picco performed in complete darkness, premiered in Japan.
Dates: September 16 (Thurs.), 17 (Fri.)