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Eiji Watanabe presents his installation work Garden of the appellation / Etoile Kaito Installation at Etoile Kaito Living Building 7th floor. At this location, sound artist Akio Suzuki and performer Hiromi Miyakita will perform a collaboration with this Installation. This special performance was born from the encounter between Eiji Watanabe and Akio Suzuki.   Performers: Hiromi Miyakita, dance “Butterfly Mindlessly Seeks Flowers”; Akio Suzuki, “Sound Staff”   Eiji Watanabe , Garden of the Appellation / Etoile Kaito Installation, 2025. Installation view at Etoile Kaito Living Building. Photo by Yuka Ikenoya (YUKAI)   Comments by Eiji Watanabe on the Performance I first met the two artists when I invited them to participate in an art project I co-founded with Obu City, Aichi Prefecture in 2021 (guest curator: Satsuki Yamamoto). There have been two previous collaborations with “The Garden of the Appellation.” One was in 2004, proposed by eca UNION (Edinburgh College of Art Students’ Union) at the Sculpture Court (a multipurpose space). The idea involved bringing about 100 alarm clocks into “The Garden of Names,” where they would begin ringing amidst the flowers like insect sounds, each with a different tone. The other was during my participation in ArtZuid 2017, the Amsterdam International Sculpture Biennale. Within the “Garden of Names” spread across the exhibition site, the Art Chapel, artist Paul Goede presented Mental Color. Since both were collaborations involving sound, the image of collaborating with Mr. Akio Suzuki and Mr. Miyakita, who I worked with at the Tokyo Biennale this time, naturally came to mind.   “o to da te” in Tokyo Biennale 2025 performance in front of the Artizon Museum, Tokyo, October 16, 2025. Photo by Yuka Ikenoya (YUKAI)   Since our connection began at the Art of List exhibition (Obu, Aichi), I found myself drawn to Eiji’s “Garden of the Appellation” at the Tokyo Biennale 2025. Tiptoeing, shuffling, the two wanderers rely on sound…