Tokyo Wonder Site (TWS) organizes public program; OPEN STUDIO, which shows creative process of residing creators at TWS Aoyama: Creator-in-Residence. This time, 9 groups of creators from 6 countries will present their studios as well as the progress of their works or research in various ways.
Also, talk will be held by an external guest, Takahiro Kaneshima (Executive Director of ART FAIR TOKYO, Director of Far East Contemporaries) and presentations by creators of International Creator Residency Program 2013.
Chih-Wei Chuang Weight of the Soul, 2012, Fluorescent Lamp, electron device, kinetic machines, 400(L)x500(W)x350(H) cm (dimension variable) Photo by: Raymond Huang
OPEN STUDIO 2014/March
Date： March 22 (Sat)
Time： 13:00 – 18:00
Admission： Free, No Reservation required.
Venue： TWS Aoyama:Creator-in-Residence
Schedule:
13:00-18:00 Open Studio
15:00-16:30 Presantation & Talk
Guest: Takahiro Kaneshima (Executive Director of ART FAIR TOKYO, Director of Far East Contemporaries)
Presentaion: Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina, Paribartana Mohanty
* Japanese-English Interpretation
* Please kindly note that the performances are subject to change.
Concert by Saori Nakazawa featuring with Japanese composers
13:00～13:45 featuring with Kou Sahara
14:00～14:45 featuring with Ken Namba
16:00～16:45 featuring with Katsuto Itamoto
17:30～18:15 featuring with Toshi Ichiyanagi
* Please kindly note that the performances are subject to change.
Guest Profile: Takahiro Kaneshima (Executive Director of ART FAIR TOKYO, Director of Far East Contemporaries)
Takahiro Kaneshima is executive director of ART FAIR TOKYO since 2010, and is also director of FEC (Far East Contemporaries) since 2008 where he is committed to assist Asian artists and encourage the international art exchange program along with the research project of East Asian contemporary art. He has curated exhibitions ranging from contemporary art to fashion and to media art between Taiwan, China, Austria and Japan. His selected curatorial group exhibitions are : Discharge Mode To Order (Yokohama, 2008), Live by Play (Taipei, 2009), Next Reality (Yokohama, 2009), Contemporary airy crafts from Japan to Taiwan (Taipei, 2010), Parallel Far East Worlds (Chengdu , 2012). He also curated two solo shows for the Chinese artists, Sun Xun and Chen Wei, Beyond-ism (Yokohama, 2010) and Tight Rope (Yokohama, 2011).
After receiving his MA from the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University, he began carving a unique career with a background ranging from his employment at NOKIA Research Center (Finland), TOSHIBA Digital Media Company (Japan) and Tokyo Gallery + BTAP (China) before founding FEC in 2007. Also as a committee member of the city art project “Creative City Yokohama”, he has been supporting its art and culture activity in that region.
Studio talk by Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina, OPEN STUDIO 2014/February
Studio of Paribartana Mohanty, OPEN STUDIO 2014/February
>> Calling for participation!!
“Fluid Citizen” by Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina
Indonesian artist duo Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina would like to call for your participation for their project in Tokyo!
Date: 3/23 (Sun.)
Time: 13:00 – (up to 2 hours)
Place: TWS Hongo *currenlty exhibition “Asia Anarchy Alliance“is held.
You will become element of liquid and move like it. The artists will have a controller that you are to move as they tilt it.
See the sample movie from here
For further details, please click here.