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11.3 (Fri), 4 (Sat) Rua Soda "The Edible Forest Starts with You" (TOKYO ART FARM)

Application Period: 2023.10.16 - 2023.11.2

Soda Rua "Edible Forest Starts with You", Marche, Workshop,and Talks! |11.3 (Fri., holiday), 4 (Sat.) (土)

Contemporary gastronomist Soda Rua and his friends will paint a world where Tokyo has become an edible forest on a long table in Yaesu, Tokyo Station. We hope you will join us for an artistic experience at the dining table, where the boundaries between people and nature are dissolved as we share sauces and dishes created from a wide variety of vegetables.

 

 

Dates: November 3 (Fri., holiday) and 4 (Sat.), 16:00 reception open, 16:30 start
Venue: Tokyo Station GRANROOF 2F LONG TABLE(1-9-1 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku
Performed by: Soudarua (Contemporary Gastronomist)
Capacoty: 50 persons from each country (by prior appointment)
Fee:¥3,000

How to Apply

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PROFILE:

Rua Soda (Contemporary gastronomist)

Working exclusively with local ingredients from all over Japan
He creates dishes on washi paper that intersect with the local climate and history.
Producing restaurants at art festivals
Regional development through food, writing food essays
Actively involved in all areas of food, such as local food creation, serialization of food essays, film appearances, etc.

2015 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
2016 Setouchi International Art Festival
2017 Shiretoko in the north and Amami in the south, touring all over Japan
While touring all over Japan, expressing local history and culture, nature and people's lives at each location.
Expressing the history, culture, nature and life of the people at the table
2021 Seven, a 7-month experiment in food and art in Azabu, Tokyo
2022 Delivering not food but "deliciousness" to displaced people in Ukraine
2022 Starts a project to deliver "delicious" food to displaced people in Ukraine.
2023 Create Trip, an art center for 100 people in Kyojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo
2023 Create a festive table for children at an elementary school in Hostmeri, Ukraine

 

FOOD & ART MARCHE/WORKSHOP|11.3 (Fri., holiday)

This is the fourth in a series of five-day marche workshops featuring a diverse range of vendors, including producers, restaurants, NPOs, and publishers working on "the future of food and agriculture in Tokyo. The "Noren" (curtains) were created by artist Aiko Yamamoto and N school students using vegetables and plants from Edible Kayabaen in Kayabacho as raw materials.

Date: Friday, November 3, 11:00-18:00
Venue: Tokyo Station GRANROOF 2F FOOD & ART MARCHE

MARCHE(11:00–18:00)
Future Standard Laboratory, Beeslow+N High, Two Virgins, Borden Co.

WORKSHOPS (Fees vary depending on the workshop.)

10:00–11:00Art & Breakfast(Midori Mitamura)
13:00–14:00Considering food waste circulation life within a 2 km radius(Yuiko Taira)
14:00–16:00 Compost collection party(Local Food Cycling, Inc.)
12:00–16:00 Gathering "mottainai" from around the world (Mottainai BAR at Sukima Design Lab)
16:30–18:00 The Edible Forest That Starts with You (Sowdalua)

 

【WORKSHOP】

Art & Breakfast Meeting  Midori Mitamura

This is a project initiated by artist Kodori Mitamura, in which everyone becomes an organizer, and in conjunction with open studios, exhibitions, art events, and workshops by artists and art spaces around the world, share a space for art and visitors through breakfast. By engaging with art and artists through the intimate act of breakfast, visitors can experience fresh communication and connections that are different from those at regular exhibitions and events. This project aims to bring people and art closer through personal communication while providing a place for artists to freely present and communicate.


There will be no breakfast provided, so please bring your own breakfast to the 22-meter LONG TABLE made from thinned wood from the Suigen no Mori forest, and talk freely with your neighbors about the future of art, food, and agriculture.
On 11/3, Ms. Koudori Mitamura is scheduled to join us for breakfast! (She may come on other days as well)


Midori Mitamura

He has exhibited installations in Japan and abroad, combining various media such as photographs, videos, words, and everyday objects, with personal reminiscences and sentiments obtained from fieldwork. He was dispatched overseas by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (2005) and had a solo exhibition in three cities in Finland (2005), and had a solo exhibition at Secession, Vienna Secession (2006). Recent major exhibitions include Aichi Triennale 2016, Setouchi International Art Festival 2022, Yebisu Film Festival 2022, and many others.
He plans to hold two exhibitions at the same time in two locations! Yesterday Waved at the House of Music" ZEIT-FOTO https://www.zeit-foto.com/ museum shop T https://t-museumshop.com/ 

Mottainai BAR at Sukima Design Lab" Mottainai BAR
A mobile bar where you can contribute to society as much as you drink is held with the cooperation of Tokyu Corporation and Suntory Limited. The bar is a place to discuss the mottainai of Komazawa University Station while drinking alcoholic beverages that are discarded due to distribution rules even though they still have an expiration date. This is a project to visualize and convert all the mottainai in the world into value, and will be held in various locations and in partnership with various companies. Sukima Design Lab https://sd-lab.inc/

【MARCHE】

Future Standard Laboratory

The Future Standard Laboratory, the creative marketing division of Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores, co., ltd, sees composting and other "lifestyles that recycle resources in the community" as the standard lifestyle of the future. Together with the following three companies that practice these ideas and usually hold events together, we will sell vegetables, honey, snacks, and other products that allow visitors to experience resource recycling in a fun way.

1) En no Ki

We roast your favorite beans per order using one of the few roasters in Japan that can roast small quantities at a time, and we are planning an assortment with sweets from welfare offices across Japan. We preside over the "KURAMAE Model," a community symbiosis project in the Kuramae area of Taito Ward, and with the cooperation of elementary schools and welfare offices, we are co-creating a sustainable cycle to be worked on in the community.

(2) Uguisudani Honey Lab

Through beekeeping on the rooftop of a building in Uguisudani, we are drawing out the potential of the town and reconsidering its connection with the natural environment. We are also planning a number of mechanisms to create a better relationship between people and the city.

Local Food Cycling

Why don't you start living without garbage? It is cool to be able to process food waste by yourself and turn it into the next resource (compost). We want more people to get involved in LFC composting, which can be done even in urban areas, and we will help you practice it.


Beeslow+N high school

Through the UNIVERSITY of CREATIVITY special lecture by N-High School students and "Beeslow," an eco-zoological studio involved in urban beekeeping, N-High School students will collect honey themselves and sell Tokyo honey that they have designed from product concept to sales idea.


Boden

We are Boden Corporation, a company that designs and sells natural cleaning products from Germany. All AURO brand products are made from 100% natural ingredients extracted from plants and artisanal crops, and are sustainable products that are friendly to both people and the environment. LONG TABLE workshop, visitors will be able to apply AURO wax, a naturally derived wax from Germany, to solid wood. In relation to the theme of Tokyo Biennale 2023, "Linkage: Creating Connections," we also want to nourish wood furniture and homes with waxes and cleaning products made from natural materials, so that they can be cleaned of dirt and used for a long time, thereby regenerating nature and connecting with people and pets. We will be demonstrating our products at the Marché, so please come and visit us.


FOOD & ART MARCHE/WORKSHOP|11.4 (Sat.)

This is the fifth (and final) of a five-day marché workshop featuring a diverse range of vendors, including producers, restaurants, NPOs, and publishers working on "the future of food and agriculture in Tokyo. The "Noren" (curtains) were created by artist Aiko Yamamoto and N school students using vegetables and plants from Edible Kayabaen in Kayabacho as raw materials.

Date: Friday, November 4, 11:00-18:00
Venue: Tokyo Station GRANROOF 2F FOOD & ART MARCHE

MARCHE(11:00–18:00)
general store、warmerwarmer、ELAB、Two Virgins、Boden

【MARCHE出店者】

general store
Items for sale: Gluten-free and vegan lunch boxes, rice flour bread, gluten-free pound cake and muffins
Introduction: A lifestyle store in Kamakura that proposes plant-based, earth- and body-friendly meals. We bring "magic bento boxes" that are gluten-free and vegan, but with lots of artistic and beautiful spices. Also, fluffy cinnamon rolls and focaccia despite being made with rice flour, and muffins made with gluten-free and heirloom eggs. Books promoting urban permaculture will also be available for sale.


warmerwarmer
In order to spread the word about ancient vegetables, the company holds talk events and mobile grocery stores that connect people to talk about protecting the seeds of these vegetables. We are engaged in multifaceted efforts to connect producers and consumers. When we feel that we are receiving vegetables with vitality, we become closer to the soil, and our lives become richer from season to season. We aim to be a greengrocer that can even tell the story of this lifestyle.


ELAB
ELAB is a laboratory that researches and practices sustainable living based on the theme that all things circulate within the community. This time, we will be selling sweets made from organic vegetables and ingredients purchased from within the Tokyo area from the kitchen lab located within the facility.


Two Virgins
Since 2015, we have published books and magazines in a variety of genres including art, architecture, picture books, and travel, and in 2022 we have started a comic book label called Michikusa. We hope to create "something non-consumable" and bring you books that will allow you to encounter many "atarashisa" (novelty).


Boden

We are Boden Corporation, a company that designs and sells natural cleaning products from Germany. All AURO brand products are made from 100% natural ingredients extracted from plants and artisanal crops, and are sustainable products that are friendly to both people and the environment. LONG TABLE workshop, visitors will be able to apply AURO wax, a naturally derived wax from Germany, to solid wood. In relation to the theme of Tokyo Biennale 2023, "Linkage: Creating Connections," we also want to nourish wood furniture and homes with waxes and cleaning products made from natural materials, so that they can be cleaned of dirt and used for a long time, thereby regenerating nature and connecting with people and pets. We will be demonstrating our products at the Marché, so please come and visit us.

FUTURE FOOD TALK|11.3 (Fri., holiday)

Future Regenerative Tokyo - Envisioning Tokyo's Ecosophical Future with Generative AI

Speakers:
Haruhei Funayama (Representative of Beeslow)
NESS (The University of Tokyo, Waseda University)
Riryu Mizuguchi
Maho Arakawa (Tokyo University of the Arts)
Hidenori Kondo (President, Tokyo Urban Farming)

Date: November 3 (Fri., holiday) 11:00-13:00
Venue: KITHCEN STUDIO SUIBA (1-12-7 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)
Fee: Free of charge

 

 

LINKAGE

Tokyo Art Farm

Developing an agricultural x art experience and creating a new lifestyle and culture from modern Tokyo, with "circulation through co-creation" as its axis.

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