2023.10.16
[This Week’s TB2023] Rediscover a Tokyo You Don’t Know Yet, Kanda･Yushima / Don’t Miss Out on Valuable Tours and Talks!
*This map is in Japanese.
A large illustration map of the Tokyo Biennale 2023, which appeared in the morning edition of the Yomiuri Shimbun in Tokyo on 6 October, is now also available on this website. Please use Google Maps to find your way around.
Information center locations and various schedules. It is also updated from time to time.
Masato Nakamura and others "We Are 'Kao no Waishatsu' (Face-Brand Shirts)"
The Kanda and Yushima areas of Tokyo, where old and new coexist in various forms. The "Pabrobe 100 Years of Clothing" project by Yoshinari Nishio and others opened a "Clothes Library" at the Ebihara Shoten, which was built during the reconstruction period of the Great Kanto Earthquake, inviting a wide range of outfits worn over the past century. Try on the clothes you are interested in and you may experience a transcendence of time and space. At the "Kao no Y-Shirts," which was famous for its large signboard with a shaved head, "We are 'Kao no Waishatsu' (Face-Brand Shirts)" by Masato Nakamura and others is currently being developed in a former shop building, in which this "face (kao)" is being reproduced and inherited in various ways. A "Face' look-alike contest " will be also held. Michael Hornblow: from New Zealand is currently working on a combination of community research and performances at the Mansebashi viaduct regeneration facility, where there used to be a station. Please take this opportunity to experience art while imagining history and the future. Tours led by General Director Nakamura are also recommended!
Illustration by Yuki Maeda.
The second half of the TB 2023 Fall Period is now in full swing, with a number of noteworthy events. This weekend, the unique competition "Min Tanaka and Kyotaro Yanagiya : Ba-Odori and Ba-Rakugo" will be realised at Kan-eiji Temple's Kaisando in Ueno Park, and the highlight of "Songs of Tokyo" will arrive with Nomiya Maki singing her famous song at Tokyo Tower. In the Daimaruyu area, the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum's popular "City and Museum" program includes a special "Daimaruyu Art Action" tour and talk both by chief curator Reiichi Noguchi. In addition, there will be a rare tour of the Kan'ei-ji with the temple's steward, Ryogaku Ishikawa, a symposium on the earthquake and art, and an international symposium by the critical media project RELATIONS. The "TENMASEN Project 2023/Nihonbashi River," with 10,000 miniature boats floating in Tokyo, will also be taking place soon, with applications for participants being accepted until Sunday 22 October!
My-Linh Le, "Cypher II" performance, Kiyomizu Kannondo Hall, Toeizan Kan-eiji, October 2023.
My-Linh Le's performance video "Cypher II" joined at Kan-eiji Temple exhibitions on Sunday 15 October. The dancers' mystical performance video in the Kiyomizu Kannondo hall of Kan-eiji Temple, known for its "Pine Tree of the Moon," is a must-see! On the same day, the collaborative program "Slow Art Collective: Window Garden" also started. In addition, the collaborative program "Legal Occupation" by Tokyo University of the Arts Mural Painting Laboratory 1 will start on 19 (Thu) at the former company dormitory near the Etoile Kaito Living Building venue. It starts as an open studio, with the second half becoming an exhibition. Please check the opening times and closing days of each venue before visiting.
*Searchable by category, area and date.
Of the following programs, talk events and workshops/tours are generally conducted in Japanese, except where there is a note about the corresponding language.
Many of the programs at Tokyo Biennale 2023 can be experienced free of charge, but some programs, such as the special viewing venues, require a fee due to their location and content. This guidebook comes with a special passport (special edition only) or a choice of tickets (standard edition only) for admission to these fee-paying venues, and also includes discount coupons for fee-paying events and merchandise purchases. The guidebook is also packed full of useful information, from information on the main programs with maps of all areas to recommended routes. We hope you enjoy the Festival with it.
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