001：
Starting with breakfast

Artist L PACK. and his collaborators will create a place
and time to enjoy a few hours of breakfast.

002：
Travel with companions

Puppets and stuffed objects created by students and graduates of Tokyo University of the Arts are lent out as “companions” on a journey around Tokyo. This art project allows visitors to experience artworks directly.

003：
Walking is healing

The biennale general director, curator and psychotherapist, Min Nishihara, will offer participants life consultations during walks. At the end of the tour, participants can experience zazen meditation at Toeizan Kan’ei-ji Temple.

004：
Look up at the robot

B-fax is a team made up of a collaborative group of students from Tama Art University, Waseda University, Chiba University, and Nihon University, led by Miura Hoshi Irena (Tokyo University of the Arts). The short play will feature only robots, with no human actors, in the busy venue area, as they pose straightforward questions about "humanity."

005：
Following the connections

As a pre-action to the Tokyo Biennale 2025, we will be holding a tour of the Nihonbashi area guided by Hidenobu Jinnai, Vice President of “Sanpo” University. Participants will experience this tour with their bodies, while freely editing time and space as they walk through Tokyo, the labyrinth-like city that is also deeply connected to water.

006：
Like time travel

Guided by “Sanpo” University President, Yoshimi Toshiya, participants can experience a stroll around the Ueno and Yanaka areas, where they will witness a landscape in which the past and present coexist, and experience the multi-layered flow of time that makes up the city of Tokyo.

007：
Strolling through art

With the “Daimaruyu Art Map” in hand, participants can explore the art spots of Otemachi, Marunouchi, and Yurakucho areas. Artist and Tokyo University of the Arts Vice President, Masato Nakamura, will host a multilingual tour to encourage creative thinking, as he shares information about the art scattered throughout the city based on his extensive knowledge, as well as his unique artist-oriented perspective.

An art project that connects Otemachi and Kanda through the work of photographer Masanori Ikeda, utilizing the temporary wall currently installed along the Otemachi Kawabata Greenway. New works have been added since June 2024, totaling 13 works to be exhibited.

Wall art evoking a tropical setting and the instant that captures a commemorative photo. Three enormous female figures appear on the wall by the water. The title “Re-sortir” is based on the French word ”sortir" (to go out) and refers to "a place to visit again and again." It is the origin of the word "resort."

008：
Collecting this and that from around town

A tour in which participants can discover themselves and the city as they walk around Tokyo with dancer/artist Aokid. "Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is full of large-scale developments, but is there any room for you or me to get involved and create something ? Not at all...Pens and cameras, instruments and sneakers, bare feet, dance, sounds and cars, scripts and poetry, drinks and conversations, walk with your gaze, and create something, respond. To get things going, start with your feet!" (Aokid)

009：
Bird's Eye and Insect's Eye

Art festivals serve as the foundation for the creation of free and innovative forms of expressions that spread through networks between people, followed by those between people and regions, and finally between the larger scale of regions themselves, while maintaining the autonomy of those involved parts. This symposium will invite artists and curators with experiences in implementing translocal art festivals and art projects in various regions to discuss the future of cities and art festivals.

010：
Looking into the city and our emotions

One can visualize the health of the entire city by viewing this as the standard “health” summary of one person. In the exhibition edition, artwork will be displayed, forecasting the emotions of the city of Nihonbashi based on brain waves. While in the tour edition, participants will take a walk to measure brain waves, which will become part of the original data of the artwork. Each participant will wear a device that measures brain waves throughout this mysterious walk to collect his or her own emotions. At the end of the tour, participants will receive an artwork (post card) created based on their brain waves.