What’s a Camera? ─ Taking Pictures with a Cardboard Box and a Magnifying Glass
One of the artists in the exhibition “Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2015-2017: Wandering to Wonder,” Tokihiro Sato, invites you to find out how to take pictures not with a camera or a smartphone, but with just a cardboard box and a magnifying glass. This hands-on workshop is open to everyone, both young and old.
Lecturer: Tokihiro Sato (Professor, the Tokyo University of the Arts)
Date and Time: July 22 (Saturday), 2017 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Place: The Hall at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Capacity: 15 groups (15 cardboard cameras will be available). Reservations will end when the capacity is reached.
Fee: free (admission fee required)/General: 1,100 yen; Students 700 yen (high school and university), 500 yen (elementary and junior high)
*Reservation closed.
★ Target age: elementary school and above. Elementary school children should be accompanied by a guardian (admission fee is required of the guardian).
Requests for reservations will be accepted by email at event@haramuseum.or.jp starting from 11:00 am on June 30 (Friday). Send the email with “7/22 workshop application” on the subject line, then in the body of the email write your name, contact phone number, number of people in your group (if a minor, please indicate his or her age or grade in school) and the desired number of cardboard cameras. Hara Museum members should also include their membership number. You will receive confirmation of your reservation by return mail. Please contact us if you do not receive a reply within 4 days. (We ask that you contact us should you need to cancel your reservation.)
*Please note that documentary photographs and video may be taken of workshop activities by the museum and members of the media and that such imagery may be used in various media formats for publicity and other purposes.
Tokihiro Sato
Born in 1957 in Yamagata, Japan, Sato graduated with a BFA and MFA from the Tokyo University of the Arts. His numerous awards include the Minister of Education Award (2015). He has held solo exhibitions at such museums as the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2014 and The Art Institute of Chicago in the USA (2005). He participated in group exhibitions, including Photography and Beyond in Japan held at the Hara Museum (1994), which traveled to six venues within North America), 12 years of Art Scope: Reflection on Artist in Residence (2003), and Time Present – Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection (2015). He lives in Saitama and is currently a professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts.