To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Sapporo PARCO will be hosting a special program in collaboration with Japan’s first live streaming studio, DOMMUNE! Parco Co., Ltd. Press Release: September 26, 2025 To Members of the Media To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Sapporo PARCO has announced a special program in collaboration with Japan’s first live streaming studio, DOMMUNE! “A-Z Homage to Takenobu Igarashi” “A-Z inspired by BEATS BROADJ#3457” To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Sapporo PARCO (3-3 Minami 1-jo Nishi, Chuo-ku, Sapporo) will be hosting a
large-scale exhibition titled “A-Z Homage to Takenobu Igarashi,” featuring world-renowned designer and sculptor Takenobu Igarashi, originally from Takikawa City, Hokkaido, starting on Saturday, October 4th. The exhibition will take place in the SPACE7 exhibition hall on the 7th floor and on the 8th floor of the building’s visitor staircase. On Friday, October 3rd, the day before the exhibition, a special program will be broadcast live from Sapporo PARCO in collaboration with DOMMUNE, Japan’s first live streaming studio, which opened in 2010 as a new cultural hub for the social stream era. In celebration of the exhibition, this program will bring together experts to analyze Igarashi Takenobu from various angles, including alternative culture, graphic trends, and design and art, in the first half. The second half of the event will be titled “A-Z inspired by BEATS | BROADJ #3457,” and will feature performances by O.N.O and DJ DYE from Sapporo’s leading hip-hop group, THA BLUE HERB. Don’t miss this night, which will graphically stimulate your eyes and ears, set throughout the entire Sapporo PARCO building.
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/3639/3565/3639-3565-635a5f249a19ac47c366c7637a30e695-1920×1080.jpg 10/3 (Friday) Stakeholder preview & special PROGRAM Location: Sapporo PARCO 7th floor SPACE7 Date and time: 10/3 (Friday) 19:00-22:30 Timetable: 17:00-19:00 Stakeholder Preview 19:00-21:00 Sapporo PARCO 50th Anniversary Program (Chapter 1) “A-Z Homage to Takenobu” Igarashi” Cast: Asako Haneda, Masami Yamagishi, Haruyu Koinuma, Naohiro Ukawa 21:00-22:30 Sapporo PARCO 50th Anniversary PROGRAM (CHAPTER2) “A-Z inspired by BEATS｜BROADJ#3457” DJ: O.N.O (THA BLUE HERB), DJ DYE (THA BLUE HERB) – This event will be streamed live from DOMMUNE. You can watch it on the DOMMUNE YouTube channel
(http://www.youtube.com/user/dommune) or the official DOMMUNE website (https://www.dommune.com). – The start time may be delayed due to venue restrictions. Thank you for your understanding. – Only authorized attendees and those selected by lottery will be allowed to watch the event on-site. For more details, please see the announcement on Sapporo Parco’s Instagram. Sapporo PARCO 50th Anniversary PROGRAM (CHAPTER1) “A-Z Homage to Takenobu Igarashi” ■Igarashi Takenobu (1944 – 2025) Born in Takikawa City, Hokkaido. Designer and sculptor. After graduating from the Department of Design at Tama Art University, he moved to the United States and completed a master’s degree at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His representative works include the calendar for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, PARCO PART 3, and logos for Calpis, Meiji Dairies, and Suntory, as well as product designs that utilize local industrial techniques from across Japan. In the 1980s, he created alphabet sculptures using a variety of materials. After working as a graphic and product designer, he moved to Los Angeles in 1994 and devoted himself to sculpture. He created numerous public art pieces using a variety of materials, including stone, wood, metal, terracotta, and stained glass. He returned to Japan in 2004. He founded the NPO Art Challenge Taro Kichizo and held design conferences. He served as president of Tama Art University. He also had deep ties to Hokkaido, designing the “JR Tower” logo at Sapporo Station, the “Great Star Clock,” the station clock in the concourse, and the terracotta work “Mountains, Rivers, and Scenery” for Observation Deck T38. He was a recipient of the Hokkaido Culture Award. The “Igarashi Takenobu Archive” was established at Kanazawa Institute of Technology, and his sculptures and studio are open to the public at the “Igarashi Takenobu Museum Kazenobi” in Shintotsukawa, Hokkaido. He died of progressive supranuclear palsy at a hospital in Sapporo on February 12, 2025, at the age of 80.
________________________ ■Hada Asako | Hada Asako Born in Tokyo in 1971. After working as a designer, she worked as an assistant to Takenobu Igarashi for 28 years, from 1997 to 2025, on projects such as public art and design conferences. Based at the Igarashi Takenobu Museum of Art, Kazenobi, he continues to produce art for Igarashi’s works. He also produces accessories under his own brand, asatte. He lives in Kanagawa Prefecture. ________________________ ■Masami Yamagishi Born in Monbetsu City in 1950. After working at an advertising agency and a design production company, he founded Marketing Communications ERG Co., Ltd. in 1987. Part-time lecturer at the College of Art and Design, chairman of Sapporo Style, a
manufacturing initiative in Sapporo, executive committee chairman of the Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Sapporo Design Week, and with Igarashi Takenobu he has been involved in the Art Challenge Taro Kichizo in Takikawa city and has held events such as the Taro Kichizo Design Conference for 15 years. He has also served as vice-chairman of NoMaps, a board member of the PMF Pacific Music Festival, a coordinator of SESSA (a Sapporo initiative to develop young creators), and a member of the board of directors of Sapporo City University, and is currently chairman of the Kazenobi Igarashi Takenobu Museum of Art. ________________________ ■Haruhisa Koinuma Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1996. He conducts research and organizes exhibitions on architecture, design, and art, with a focus on postwar Japan. He is currently a doctoral student at Kyoto Institute of Technology and affiliated with the Igarashi Takenobu Archives of Kanazawa Institute of Technology. Exhibitions he has curated include “2024 Igarashi Takenobu Archive Research Report Exhibition: FIND ON SITE Tama Art University Mark/Shibuya PARCO PART 3” (Igarashi Takenobu Archives of Kanazawa Institute of Technology, 2025) and “ATG Film Posters” (Kyoto Institute of Technology Art and Crafts Museum, 2022).
________________________ ■Naohiro Ukawa｜Naohiro Ukawa Current Artist | Founder of DOMMUNE. Born in 1968, currently an artist. Since the late 1980s, he has been a multidisciplinary artist, working across a wide range of fields, including filmmaker, graphic designer, VJ, writer, and university professor. He has eradicated the established boundaries of fine art and popular culture, engaging in some of the most free-flowing forms of expression currently available in Japan. He first emerged as a graphic designer and filmmaker in the late 1980s, and since participating in “Buzz Club: News from Japan” (MoMA PS1, New York) and “JAM: Tokyo-London” (Barbican Art Gallery, London) in 2001, he has presented his work in numerous exhibitions both in Japan and abroad. In 2010, he independently launched Japan’s first live streaming studio and channel, “DOMMUNE.” The record-breaking number of viewers drew attention both domestically and internationally, and the work was selected as a recommended work for the 2011 Japan Media Arts Festival by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Ukawa considers the filming, distribution, and recording of the programs produced daily at DOMMUNE Studio to be his own “contemporary art works.” In 2016, he opened “DOMMUNE LINZ!”, a satellite studio with a 500-meter-wide stage, in the train hall of Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), and in 2019, he opened “DOMMUNE SETOUCHI,” a satellite studio, at the Setouchi Triennale. Both studios garnered significant attention. DOMMUNE has participated in numerous international contemporary art exhibitions, establishing satellite studios around the world in London, Dortmund, Stockholm, Paris, Mumbai, Linz, Fukushima, Yamaguchi, Osaka, Kagawa, Kanazawa, Akita, Sapporo, and Sado Island, simultaneously exploring the meanings of ubiquity (here and now) and omnipresence (anytime, anywhere). Over the past 14 years, DOMMUNE has streamed approximately 7,000 programs, approximately 15,000 hours, and 200 terabytes of content, reaching a total audience of over 200 million. In 2019, the studio moved to the newly renovated 9th floor of Shibuya PARCO. DOMMUNE evolved into SUPER DOMMUNE, an evolved version of FINAL MEDIA THERAPIST. The “Naohiro Ukawa Exhibition | FINAL MEDIA THERAPIST @DOMMUNE,” held at the Nerima Art Museum in 2023, explored the question of where the artist resides in the work in the age of generative AI. He asked himself this question, and created spatial paintings using original tuning generation AI and robotic arms equipped with artificial intelligence, aiming to historically update the act of “painting,” which became a hot topic. In 2021, he received the 71st Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize. https://www.dommune.com/ Sapporo PARCO 50th Anniversary PROGRAM (CHAPTER2) “A-Z inspired by BEATS | BROADJ #3457″ ■O.N.O (THA BLUE HERB) ■O.N.O (THA BLUE HERB) An artist who is responsible for all of THA BLUE HERB’s track productions and creates a one-of-a-kind sound image with his unique productions. Using multiple aliases, he has released 15 albums to date, both as THA BLUE HERB and as a solo artist. He also provides music for a variety of expressive fields, including video productions and performing arts, and his activities continue to expand beyond the scene. His carefully selected sound and attitude are a sharp driving force that continues to open up new horizons. https://www.instagram.com/onomono_tbh/ https://x.com/onomonojp ________________________ ■DJ DYE (THA BLUE) HERB) He’s the DJ for THA BLUE HERB. With a broad musicality and a keen ear and sense for a diverse range of dance music from around the world, he weaves his music in tune with the atmosphere of the venue, transcending the boundaries of genre-based listeners and exciting the floor, attracting a growing number of repeat customers. It goes without saying that his aggressive style delights and captivates partygoers everywhere. He’s an artist who quietly but surely sharpens his fangs and continues to evolve. http://tbhr.co.jp
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/3639/3565/3639-3565-faaf12d768f8638b4a59b1c7cec5d011-1920×1080.jpg DOMMUNE Naohiro Ukawa, a prominent figure in the contemporary Japanese art scene, opened Japan’s first live streaming studio, DOMMUNE, in 2010 as a new cultural hub for the social media era, following his now-globally legendary Mixrooffice (2006-2008). DOMMUNE suddenly appeared as the “final media” at the dawn of social media, and even among the profusion of live streaming programs, it boasts overwhelming program quality and viewer numbers. Since its launch, it has continued to exist as a unique cultural platform, featuring appearances by various guests from around the world whenever they visit Japan. Over the past 15 years, they have streamed approximately 5,000 programs, approximately 10,000 hours, and 200 terabytes of content, with a total audience of over 200 million.In an age where the traditional concepts and formats of “broadcasting,” “publishing,” and “advertising” are collapsing, they continue to experiment with live video streaming, innovatively exploring new possibilities for visual communication day and night. The evolved form of this final media, “DOMMUNE,” is “SUPER DOMMUNE,” towering over the 9th floor of Shibuya PARCO!!!!! Special exhibition “A-Z Home to TakenobuIgarashi” Overview Title: A-Z Homage to Takenobu Igarashi Dates: Saturday, October 4th – Monday, November 10th Location: Sapporo PARCO (1st floor main window, SPACE7, 7th floor, B2-7th floor STEPS207), Daimaru Sapporo (1st floor atrium) *Daimaru venue opens from Wednesday, October 8th Admission Fee: SPACE7, 7th floor, 500 yen * Free for preschoolers Organized by: Sapporo PARCO Co-organized by: Igarashi Takenobu Museum of Art and Kazenobi In cooperation with: Kanazawa Institute of Technology Igarashi Takenobu Archive Special site:
https://sapporo.parco.jp/page/a-z.homage.to.takenobu.igarashi For more information about this release