EXHIBITIONS

Nozomu Kubota is active across multiple fields as an entrepreneur, AI developer, inventor, YouTuber, and visual artist. As a visual artist, he has created works that probe the biases and bugs inherent in AI, as well as the underlying structures of the internet (such as standards for appropriateness/inappropriateness of content in public spaces), while questioning the fundamental state of the future. For this project, Kubota presents his installation created based on the memory of spending time with his grandmother. He states, “when I was little, I loved watching the TV comedy program Shoten with my grandmother while eating mikan oranges by the kotatsu (blanketed table).” In this work, Kubota created a piece while holding that memory close, which screens footage of interviews with dementia patients, then provides a simulated experience of “wandering” (also known as walking or explorative behavior) observed in this condition. It is said that the words “I must go home” are often spoken by elders with dementia living in nursing homes. When a person with dementia follows their own words and wanders outside only to lose their way, that action is called “wandering.” Yet in reality, this word is sometimes spoken even within their own home. Here, “home” may not refer to the physical home of “here and now,” but rather to another place deep within memories and emotions. When viewers roam the city—what will they feel as they drift in search of “home”?   Special Cooperation: Etoile Kaito & Co., Inc.

Nalaka Wijewardhane is a Sri Lankan filmmaker, visual artist, and academic whose work explores postcolonial memory, representation, and the sensory power of moving images. Contingent Footsteps: Mapping the Unthinkable in Tokyo is a multi-channel video art installation that transforms urban spaces into speculative terrains, exploring themes of contingency, absence, and the non-human Real. Drawing from Quentin Meillassoux’s concept of “hyper-chaos,” the work unfolds across five interconnected installations : In the Absence of Cause, Ontological Debris, The City That Forgets You, Echoes Without Origins, and Unthinkable Intervals. Through asynchronous projections, site-specific soundscapes, and sensor-triggered interactions, the project dismantles linear narratives, inviting audiences to experience Tokyo as a city unbound from memory, causality, or human centrality. Everyday spaces, objects, and sounds are reframed as autonomous presences, resisting interpretation and dissolving familiar meaning. The installation creates a continuous spatial experience, where shifting light, dislocated sound, and fractured imagery immerse visitors in an unstable perceptual field. It is both a meditation on the unknowable rhythms of the city and a call to reimagine our relationship to the urban environment beyond anthropocentric narratives.   A related event, “Silent Walk Workshop: Contemplating the Unthinkable,” will also be held.   Special Cooperation: Etoile Kaito & Co., Inc. * Nalaka Wijewardhane is one of the participating artists in the international open-call project SOCIAL DIVE.

Goro Murayama, who studied painting, explores the temporality and emergent nature of human creative activity (poiesis) within the theoretical frameworks of biological systems and the philosophy of science. His drawings and paintings express the processes and patterns of self-organization, and in recent years, Murayama has extended his artistic endeavors by collaborating with scientists on AI pattern recognition and generation. These collaborations aim to deepen human understanding of and sensitivity towards artificial intelligence. For this project at Tokyo Dome City’s Central Park, Murayama will present a video work utilizing the “Park Ribbon Vision,” a display over 100 meters long encircling the lawn plaza. This work involved first creating an enormous scroll-like drawing, 42cm wide and 17m long, to match the Ribbon Vision’s length. During its creation, the artist photographed each individual stroke, resulting in an animated piece compressed into 30 seconds that unveils the drawing’s production process, which took approximately two months to complete. It occurred to Murayama that drawing spontaneously was akin to wandering aimlessly through the city. Just as a stroll brings us face to face with the streets, offering us constant ways to rediscover the city, each stroke invites the next, and the drawing weaves itself into unexpected forms.   Corporate Partner: TOKYO DOME CORPORATION * This exhibition is part of the Tokyo Dome City Art Project, launched in 2022 by Tokyo Dome, Tokyo University of the Arts, and its Art Creation Organization, aiming to explore the possibilities of Tokyo Dome City and art.