Yodogawa Technique Chinu – the black sea bream of Osaka Bay, 2007
Mixed media, Courtesy YUKARI ART CONTEMPORARY
How can art help the environment? Tokyo Wonder Site explores the possibilities by staging a series of lectures by environmentalists, works made with drift rubbish, and a panel discussion reporting on various projects coupling the environment and art. Panelists include artists Fuji Hiroshi, Ohmaki Shinji, Takatani Shiro (dumb type) and Yodogawa Technic, along with fashion designer Tsumura Kosuke, among others.
The gallery space at United Nations University, where the symposium will be held, will host the related exhibition Is it waste?, taking the environment as its theme. There Fuji and Yodogawa Technic will show their works and Ohmaki documentation of his research for the project.
Open symposium: Creative Dialogue and Commitment to the Environment
Friday 31 July 18:30 – 21:30
United Nations University, Shibuya
Deadline for applications: Friday 24 July
http://www.tokyo-ws.org/english/archive/2009/06/holding-of-an-open-symposium-creative-dialogue-and-commitment-to-the-environment.shtml
Is it waste? – Art drifting over borders. Waste floating in society
28 July – 6 August
Global Environment Information Center (GEIC)
http://www.tokyo-ws.org/english/archive/2009/07/post-2.shtml
ARTiT ArtBlog: Ohmaki Shinji
https://www.art-it.asia/u/ab_ohmakis/
ARTiT ArtBlog: Tsumura Kosuke
https://www.art-it.asia/u/ab_tsumura/