EDUCATION
- Through the MAD (Making Art Different) program we
currently offer six courses (all taught in Japanese). 1 year
Curation course, 4 month Curation Intensive, 7 month Audience
course, 3 month Artist, Critical Readers and Magazine courses.
Over 130 people take our courses over one year.
ARTISTS
IN RESIDENCE- currently four artists have stayed
with us: Marit Lindberg (Sweden), Federico Herrero (Costa
Rica), Kyungha Ham (S. Korea), Johannes Wohnseifer (Germany)....Camilla
Carlsson (Sweden) stays between September and November 2004,
Aurora Reinhard (Finland) stays Nov - Jan 2005, Jumana el-Abboud
(Palestine-Israel) stays spring 2005...Korean artists Young-in
Hong, Kyongju Park and Yang-ah Ham stay with us in August
as part of Publicly Speaking...
WEB
MAGAZINE - Web Newslettters in english and Japanese HERE
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PAST
EVENTS ARCHIVE since 2001 listing all platforms.
TALKS,
events and NEWS:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. and Arts Initiative Tokyo organise 12 Hour Museum. This is an experimental art event focusing on various multilayered activities by artists and alternative art spaces from Japan and abroad.
12 Hour Museum is part of AITÅfs ongoing series of temporary experimental museum events, begun in 2002 with AIT Hour Museum.
Over 2 days, art works, performances, workshops, an archive, cafe, music and free artists posters will be presented in a huge circular space specially designed by artist Haruaki Tanaka.
Video interview archive of six alternative spaces and groups from around Japan: Fram Kitagawa (Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale), Chieko Kinoshita (Kobe Art Village Center), Masato Nakamura (Command N), Isamu Muto (N-Mark), Keiichi Miyagawa (Gallery Soap), Jun Miyagi (Maejima Art Center)
Video works by Saki Satom (London) and Art on Line (Kitakyushu). Sculptures by Yuken Teruya (New York). Free posters on the theme of 'Eco' by Makoto Aida (Tokyo) and Tadasu Takamine (Otsu). Original ÅeEco PostersÅf by Camilla Carlsson (Stockholm), Federico Herrero (San Jose), Mayumi Kuronuma (Tokyo), Peter McDonald (London), Johannes Wohnseifer (Cologne) and exonemo (Tokyo). ChildrenÅfs workshop by Hiroshi Fuji (Fukuoka). Sound performances by Ujino and The Rotaters (Tokyo) and Chikara Matsumoto (Tokyo). Cafe by EAT and ART Taro (Tokyo). Space design by Haruaki Tanaka (Tokyo). Graphic design by Masayoshi Kodaira, FLAME (Tokyo). Curated and organised by Arts Initiative Tokyo.
OUTLINE:
Dates: Saturday March 4th and Sunday March 5th 12:00~18:00
Place: Panasonic Center Tokyo (2-5-18 Ariake, Kotoku)
Organized by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd and Arts Initiative Tokyo
Subsidized by The Nomura Cultural Foundation
Cooperation by The Japan Foundation, Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Art NPO Link
AIT are co-organising and curating PUBLICLY SPEAKING, at Tokyo Wondersite Shibuya, a group exhibition and residency exchange project with Szamzie Space Seoul, Korea. The exhibition investigates the nature of public art and public spaces now in Tokyo and Seoul through the work of six artists - three Japanese and three Korean. The exhibition opens on August 19 at Tokyo Wondersite Shibuya, a new art space. Japanese artists include: Kazz Sasaguchi, Hiroharu Mori and Taiki Tamamura.
AIT member Yasu Nakamori led this years Summer Intensive course on the topic of contemporary photography. Artist Naoya Hatakeyama came as a guest on day one.
Spanish video artist and organiser Manuel Saiz made a slide talk at AIT on July 19th. He introduced videos and talked about his various tactical video exhibition projects.
Jumana emil Abboud from Jerusalem/ Palestine stayed with us as artist in resident between February and May 2005. She made an artists talk at AIT where she also installed a micro exhibition of drawings on the wall. Jumana also took part in the Sharjah Biennale (UAE) during her stay in Tokyo.
AIT resident artist Johannes Wohnseifer (Cologne) and Japanese artist Michiko Shoji showed works made from their respective residencies in Tokyo and Berlin. The exhibition was titled `Artscope 2004: Cityscape into Art` and was a part of the art support program `Artscope` run by DaimlerChrysler Foundation in Japan. The exhibition was at The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo from January 29 until March 13. Johannes showed a new outdoor work entitled `Prototype for a Mobile Exhibition Space`, made from cloth inflatable materials by certo inc.
Aurora
Reinhard from Finland stayed with us as artist in resident.
Working mainly in video, Aurora has been researching and working
with issues of make-up, particularly of young women in Tokyo
who dress as `black` R&B characters. She screened her
new work `Hulio & Lupita` at Mizuma Art Gallery in January
2005.
BODY
CON was a mobile touring exhibition curated by Roger McDonald.
Showing works by 15 artists including William Pope L., Franz
West and Saki Satom, the show was shown in the bookshop Nadiff
in Omote-sando, Tokyo. A curators talk titled `Tactical Curating
- low-cost, independent curating tactics` was held on Tuesday
Feb 8 at 6pm (free), and a closing event with a live performance
by artist Muneteru Ujino took place at Nadiff on Feb 18 from
8pm. (1,000 yen entry).
MAD
toured to Kobe city on Feb 11-12. 4 sessions were given by
Kai Ozawa and Roger McDonald on contemporary curating using
slides and music. This was the first time that our education
program MAD travelled outside Tokyo!
Danish
artist Rikke Luther (former member of N55) built a cardboard
dome house out of recycled cardboard rubbish and based on
the design of a sea urchin. The dome, approximately 4 meters
in diameter, sat in our office for a month or so.
AIT
member Roger McDonald has initiated the TACTICAL
MUSEUM tokyo, a blog site covering Tokyo related
news and recommendations and ongoing research into tactical
curating and exhibition practices. You can go there by clicking
on the link left.
BITS:
AIT
MOVED....into
a new office and lounge space near our old place. Its on the
fifth floor and guests must take their shoes off. **
MAD curating course for autumn 2004 invites guest curators
for lectures - Natsume Araki curator at Mori Museum, Tomoko
Tatsuko independent curator, Ken Kondo assistant curator Mori
Museum and Akira Tatehata Professor Tama Art University and
one of the Directors of the 2001 Yokohama Triennale. ** New
art institutions open in Japan during autumn 2004 -
Osaka National Art Museum moves and Kanazawa 21st Century
Museum opens new on October 8. **
BI-LINGUAL ART MAGAZINE PUBLISHED FROM TOKYO HAS STARTED!
IT IS CALLED ART-IT. AIT isfeatured in the October issue!!
SEE REAL TOKYO WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.REALTOKYO
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