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TOKAS Creator-in-Residence 2023 Exhibition
Since 2006, TOKAS has been implementing the “Creator-in-Residence” residency program, which offers opportunities for creators active in various disciplines including visual art, design, and curation to stay and create works in Tokyo or at various overseas destinations. This exhibition presented the work of creators participating in the TOKAS Residency Program, done either overseas
at associated residency providers or at TOKAS Residency.
Information
| Title | TOKAS Creator-in-Residence 2023 Exhibition |
|---|---|
| Date | [Part 1] 2023/7/1 (Sat) - 2023/8/6 (Sun)
[Part 2] 2023/8/19 (Sat) - 2023/9/24 (Sun) |
| Time | 11:00-19:00 |
| Closed | Mondays (except 7/17, 9/18), 7/18, 8/7-8/18, 9/19 |
| Venue | Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo |
| Creators | [Part 1] ASHIKAWA Mizuki, Tyler COBURN, HAYASAKI Manami, Tracey SNELLING, WATANABE Takuya, Zakkubalan (Albert THOLEN & SORA Neo) [Part 2] ARAI Takashi, Bertrand FLANET, LarbitsSisters (Bénédicte JACOBS & Laure-Anne JACOBS), OHTA Haruka, Grzegorz STEFAŃSKI |
| Admission | Free |
| Organizer | Tokyo Arts and Space, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture |
| Partner Institutions | Atelier Mondial (Basel, Switzerland), WIELS / Government of Flanders (Brussels, Belgium), HIAP [Helsinki International Artist Programme] / The Finnish Cultural Foundation (Helsinki, Finland), Treasure Hill Artist Village, Artist-in-Residence Taipei (Taipei, Taiwan) |
[Part 1] 2023.7.1（Sat）－ 8.6（Sun）
Seaside Park 2022
ASHIKAWA Mizuki
Local Creator Residency Program
Residency Period: 2022.6–7
Residence: TOKAS Residency
With the theme of “Festival Traces,” Ashikawa visited reclaimed land in the vicinity of Tokyo Bay, including the sites of Olympic competitions and the athletes’ village, in search of post-Olympic cityscapes. She explored the usage and ownership of urban spaces and the new ecosystems that are emerging within them. Here she will exhibit lithographs and drawings, which take cues from an overwhelming sense of the absence of some fundamental and essential element in these meticulously crafted sites.
Candlestick Man 2023
Tyler COBURN
International Creator Residency Program
Residency Period: 2023.1–3
Residence: TOKAS Residency
Coburn works with counterfactuals, or alternate histories. For Candlestick Man (2023), he looks at Japanese portrayals of the first Europeans to arrive in the country, with a particular focus on historical and speculative relationships between human migration and disease. This project takes form as an installation and performance, including wall sculptures made with gofun (a white medium made of oyster shells) and Oribe Nanbanjin candlesticks that depict Europeans.
Studio at Atelier Mondial 2022
HAYASAKI Manami
Tokyo-Basel Exchange Residency Program
Residency Period: 2022.4–6
Residence: Atelier Mondial
In Basel, a city located at the intersection of three national borders, Hayasaki explored the concept of borders through the lens of the ecosystem. In this exhibition, she presents an installation including a video documenting a project to plant dandelions from Switzerland to France via Germany, as well as a cut-paper map showing the project’s route with national borders omitted and a board game enabling visitors to vicariously experience the project’s activities.
Hotel Rochelle SM 2022
Tracey SNELLING
International Creator Residency Program
Residency Period: 2022.5–7
Residence: TOKAS Residency
Based on her interest in specific places and what people experience there, Snelling conducted research on Japan’s love hotels and male host clubs. At love hotels she interviewed costumed collaborators about love and interpersonal relationships, while at host clubs she interviewed hosts (young male entertainer / companions) and documented their services such as pouring drinks and chatting with female customers. She will present the resulting photographs and videos, as well as miniature 3D sculptures of love hotels and host clubs, to replicate the experiences of denizens of the neon-lit streets.
T'es content d'avoir passé une journée avec moi? #2 2023
WATANABE Takuya
Tokyo-Brussels Exchange Residency Program
Residency Period: 2022.7–12
Residence: WIELS
Inspired by his interactions with a young Moroccan immigrant during his residency in Brussels, Watanabe focused on the model of masculinity sought by this young man inhabiting a zone between traditional and globalized value systems. He will present a video installation series exploring complex intersections of identities among those who migrate to cities across national borders and into different cultural areas, juxtaposing this material with images of fruits from various places of origin brought together in urban spaces.
Imagined Earthquake 01: One Yen City (Seismograph) 2022
Zakkubalan (Albert THOLEN & SORA Neo)
International Creator Residency Program
Residency Period: 2022.9–12
Residence: TOKAS Residency
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that struck the Tokyo region in 1923, and the artist duo Zakkubalan drew inspiration from namazu-e (prints depicting a gigantic catfish believed to cause earthquakes) and disaster preparedness drills to create works that engage with our collective image of earthquakes. In this exhibition, they will present a sculpture of an imagined city that expands during the exhibition, made with a quantity of one-yen coins equal to the number of days that have passed since the Great Kanto Earthquake, as well as a video documenting people playing a card game that simulates the operations of an evacuation center.
[Part 2] 2023.8.19（Sat）－ 9.24（Sun）
Forest after 100,000 years, Olkiluoto, Finland 2022
ARAI Takashi
Tokyo-Helsinki Exchange Residency Program
Residency Period: 2022.9–12
Residence: HIAP [Helsinki International Artist Programme]
Having mastered the daguerreotype, a process dating from the earliest days of photography, Arai has recently focused on nuclear-related themes, such as weapons testing and power plant accidents. During a stay in Finland, he researched the areas surrounding nuclear power plants and the Onkalo waste repository, a final disposal site for highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. Through photography and video, he explores a new language that connects the present to a world 100,000 years from now in which nuclear waste has been rendered harmless.
Tempers 2022-2023
Bertrand FLANET
International Creator Residency Program
Residency Period: 2022.5–7
Residence: TOKAS Residency
Flanet mainly produces 3D animation videos in which he fictionalizes and reflects on latent forms of alienation in our societies. For this exhibition, he conducted research on Tokyo’s Sugamo Prison and on the crinum line that measures the growth of crinum lily in Japan. Based on the common elements that links the two, namely circumstantial and environmental limitations, he will present an installation that connects these seemingly divergent topics.
Research during TOKAS Residency Program 2023
LarbitsSisters (Bénédicte Jacobs ＆ Laure-Anne Jacobs)
International Creator Residency Program
Residency Period: 2023.1–3
Residence: TOKAS Residency
Dealing with the imbalances in art, technology and societal issues through media art, the artist duo LarbitsSisters observed various forms of life around street gardens adorning Tokyo’s residential areas. For this exhibition, they will present experimental work featuring a flowerpot that photosynthesis crafted out of an uncanny symbiosis between a man-made terracotta flowerpot and cyanobacteria, the oldest inhabitants of Earth’s ecosystems. This in a reflection on their research they conducted during their residency in Tokyo on plant life in urban environments as a critical concern within the climate debate for urban regeneration.
Inland Outside 2022 Photo: Treasure Hill Artist Village
OHTA Haruka
Tokyo-Taipei Exchange Residency Program
Residency Period: 2022.10–12
Residence: Treasure Hill Artist Village
Ohta’s works explore the ambiguity of boundaries by inverting the interiors and exteriors of architectural spaces, or causing them to coexist. This exhibition features his work dealing with the elaborate window grills called tiěchuānghuā (lit. “iron window flowers”) that are common in Taiwan. Through an installation incorporating the spaces outside these window grills, which are extensions of indoor spaces, he challenges viewers’ conceptions of interior and exterior and the boundaries that separate them.
sticks and stones will never break our bones 2023
Grzegorz STEFAŃSKI
International Creator Residency Program
Residency Period: 2023.1–3
Residence: TOKAS Residency
Stefański observes his own behavioral patterns in interpersonal relationships and analyzes them through film. Addressing the home as social environment and architectural space, he will present the first part of a moving image triptych investigation power structures in relationship. It has been shot in a traditional Japanese house that reflects the pattern of dynamics replayed in a relationship between protagonists.
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Exhibition Archive
Exhibition Leaflet
Part 1
Design: SUGIHARA Shuji
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Part 2
Design: SUGIHARA Shuji
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Installation View
Video Documentation : MIYAZAWA Hibiki (COG WORKS co., Ltd)
Related Event
Part1: Artist Talk 1
| Date | 2023/7/1 (Sat) 15:00-16:30 |
|---|---|
| Artists | Tyler COBURN, HAYASAKI Manami, Tracey SNELLING |
| Venue | Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo |
| Admission | Free |
| Language | Japanese/English |
"Candlestick Man": A Performance by Tyler COBURN
Candlestick Man (2023) looks at Japanese portrayals of the first Europeans to arrive in the country, with a particular focus on historical and speculative relationships between human migration and disease. This short performance, delivered in English by Coburn and in Japanese by NAGANUMA Wataru, takes place in an installation of wall sculptures made with gofun (a white medium made of oyster shells) and Oribe Nanbanjin candlesticks that depict Europeans.
| Date / Language | 2023/7/2 (Sun) 16:00-16:30 / English *Finished 2023/7/2 (Sun) 18:00-18:30 / Japanese *Finished 2023/7/9 (Sun) 15:00-15:30 / Japanese *Finished 2023/7/9 (Sun) 17:00-17:30 / English *Finished 2023/7/17 (Mon) 15:00-15:30 / Japanese *Finished 2023/7/28 (Fri) 18:30-19:00 / Japanese *Finished 2023/8/5 (Sat) 15:00-15:30 / Japanese *Finished |
|---|---|
| Performer | Tyler COBURN (English) / NAGANUMA Wataru (Japanese) |
| Venue | Space A (1F) Tyler Coburn exhibition space, Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo |
| Admission | Free *Booking requried |
Part1: Artist Talk 2
| Date | 2023/7/15 (Sat) 15:00-16:30 |
|---|---|
| Artists | ASHIKAWA Mizuki, WATANABE Takuya, Zakkubalan (appearance on video) |
| Venue | Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo |
| Admission | Free |
| Language | Japanese |
A Performance by Tracey Snelling "Tell me you love me"
During her residency, Tracey Snelling researched Japan's unique nightlife and explored people's diverse forms of love.
By becoming a work of art herself, the artist attempts to liberate us from what we carry physically and mentally.
| Date | 2023/7/16 (Sun) 19:10-19:45 |
|---|---|
| Performer | Tracey SNELLING / Hajime Kinoko (Contemporary artist, Shibari master) |
| Venue | Space C (3F) Tracey SNELLING exhibition space, Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo |
| Admission | Free *Booking requried |
| Note | Please note the following before booking.
About the Exhibition on 7/16 (Sun) - The exhibition space of Tracy Snelling will be closed at 18:30. - As the performance will be executed after galley hours, you will not be able to see the exhibition after the performance is over. About reception - Please arrive at the venue 10 minutes before the performance starts. - Please note that there will be no late admission. About shooting - The performance will be filmed. - Photographs and videos taken at the venue will be used as a record of the program and may be shown on the TOKAS website, SNS, YouTube, etc. They may also be used for publicity purposes, etc., in addition to being shown on the artists' websites and in exhibitions. - Recording in any formats during the performance is prohibited. |
Part2: Artist Talk 1
| Date | 2023/8/19 (Sat) 15:00-16:30 |
|---|---|
| Artists | Bertrand FLANET, LarbitsSisters, Grzegorz STEFAŃSKI |
| Venue | Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo |
| Admission | Free |
| Language | Japanese/English |
Part2: Artist Talk 2
| Date | 2023/9/2 (Sat) 15:00-16:30 |
|---|---|
| Artists | ARAI Takashi, OHTA Haruka |
| Venue | Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo |
| Admission | Free |
| Language | Japanese |
Participating Creator
OHTA Haruka
Tracey SNELLING
Bertrand FLANET
ARAI Takashi
ASHIKAWA Mizuki
Tyler COBURN
HAYASAKI Manami
LarbitsSisters
SORA Neo (Zakkubalan)
Grzegorz STEFAŃSKI
Albert THOLEN (Zakkubalan)
WATANABE Takuya
