Motion Gallery Co., Ltd.
K2 Art Week special screening “City and Vision 2024” will be held! (“Moon Art Night Shimokitazawa 2024” linked project)
Part 1 (9/13-9/16): “Olafur Eliasson Vision and Perception”, “The Man Who Stole Banksy” Talk event guest: Me [me], Chihiro Minato Part 2 (9/17-) : Ho Tzu Nian’s art works
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MotionGallery Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo/Representative Director: Kenji Otaka), which operates one of the largest crowdfunding platforms in Japan, is Shimokita-Ekimae, which is operated as the main company of Incline, a planning production organization. – “K2 Art Week” will be held at the cinema “K2” from September 13th (Friday). The theme of this project is “Moon Art Night Shimokitazawa 2024,” a new sensation art festival with community participation that brings together facilities and stores in the Shimokita area and will be held from September 13th (Friday). This is done to commemorate this. [Image 1
In the first part, the theme is “To what extent can we create wonder in the city?” and the theme is “To what extent can we create wonder in the city?”, using the situation brought about by Moon Art Night, when a “moon” appears in the city of Shimokitazawa and temporarily changes the city’s landscape, as a theme. We present two works that consider the relevance of cities. At some screenings, talk events with Me [me] and Chihiro Minato will also be held. We will consider the vision that contemporary art brings to the city through movie theater screens.
In the second part, we will screen art works by Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nian, who is currently attracting attention. At present, the number of art video works that dissolve the boundaries between film and video installation is increasing, and a new relationship is also emerging at the boundary between film and art. Through K2 Art Week, we will screen works by artist Ho Tzu Nian and think about the new relationship between movie theaters and works of art.
Part 1: Artists who changed the vision of the city (9/13-9/16) *The screening time will be announced on the website and SNS. ▼Olafur Eliasson Vision and Perception
[2009/Denmark/77 minutes] Director: Henrik Lunde, Jakob Jergensen A documentary that follows Danish contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson. In 2008, “The New York”, a gigantic waterfall installation on the East River in New York City, cost approximately 1.7 billion yen to produce, was viewed by approximately 1.4 million people from 55 countries around the world, and had an economic impact of over 7.5 billion yen. Focusing on the production process of “City Waterfalls,” the work was exhibited at a solo exhibition held at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa in 2009, and the production scene at a studio in Germany is shown. The film also includes scenes of Eliasson traveling around the world to create and give lectures, as well as the visual experiments he carries out while speaking to viewers and the development of his own artistic theory.
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▼The man who stole Banksy
[2017/British-Italian co-production/93 minutes] Director: Marco Proserpio An up-close look at Banksy, an unknown graffiti artist whose activities are rare around the world, mainly in London, and the influence his works, which sell for extremely high prices ranging from tens of millions of yen to 100 million yen, have on people.
documentary. Bethlehem in the West Bank of Palestine and Jordan. In the area designated as a conflict zone, there is a gigantic wall measuring over 8 meters high and over 450 km long that separates Palestine and Israel. Banksy’s painting of a donkey and a soldier on the wall caused an uproar among Palestinian residents, and the wall was cut out with a water jet cutter by Walid, a taxi driver. Walid puts the mural up for auction and attempts to sell it to the highest bidder, but…
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[Talk event]
▼September 14th (Sat) *The time will be announced on the website and SNS. Guest: Me [me]
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A contemporary art team led by artist Akika Kojin, director Kenji Minamikawa, and installer Hirofumi Masui. We develop production activities through team creation that utilizes individual skills and aptitudes. He has presented works that emphasize the situation/conduct including the audience at various locations both domestically and internationally.
▼September 15th (Sunday) *The time will be announced on the website and SNS. Guest: Minato Chihiro
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Photographer, author, and professor at Tama Art University. Engages in a wide range of activities including publishing, exhibiting, and curating on the themes of memory and creation. His recent publications include “Photography Theory” and “Toru Takemitsu, of the World and Sapporo.” In recent years, he has been photographing and writing about Hilma af Klint.
Part 2: Artists presenting their vision (9/17~)
*The screening time will be announced on the website and SNS. This time, we have decided to hold “K2 Art Week” as a linked project to the art festival “Moon Art Night Shimokitazawa 2024″, and we will not only screen films depicting art or artists, but also exhibit works created by artists. We also wanted to take on the challenge of a new initiative, which is to screen the creation itself as a movie in movie theaters. There is a kind of complicated relationship between film and contemporary art. In particular, I feel that the word “art” in art films shown at mini-theaters (art houses) like K2 and the word “art” in contemporary art represent something different. At first glance, there seems to be a clear difference in the presence or absence of explanatory expressions, the presence or absence of scenarios, etc., but it is difficult to grasp what they are. However, I believe that one clear difference is that the way viewers view the work as defined by the “box” is different between museums and movie theaters. If this is the case, viewing a work of art in a movie theater where everyone is seated and viewing the work on the same timeline with no free access brings some new meaning to the work of art and to the movie theater. I thought that it might be born. Nowadays, the number of visual art works that dissolve the boundaries between movies and video installations is increasing, and we would like to explore new relationships between movies/contemporary art and movie
theaters/museums together with everyone. In the second screening, we will be screening two works by Singapore-based artist Ho Tzu-Nien. Ho Tzu Nyen has created films and video installations that explore the history, ideology, and cultural identity of Southeast Asia, including Japan, from a unique perspective. He is an artist who is currently attracting a lot of attention in Japan, with his solo exhibition “Ho Tzu Nyen Agent’s A” being held at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art until July. He is also a distinctive author for making many references to films, such as “The Nameless” and “Inn Aporia.” This time, among Ho Tzu Nian’s video works, “Earth” was presented in the form of a concert screening at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, and “MAM Project 016″ was shown in Japan at the Mori Art Museum in 2012. We will be showing two works from “The Cloud of Unknowing,” which was also shown at the “Ho Tzu Nyen” exhibition. “Earth” and “The Cloud of Unknowing” DCP production Kazuyuki Baba (Tokyo Polytechnic University, Faculty of Art, Department of Image Film)
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Earth
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The Cloud of Unknowing
Ho Tzu Nyen
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Born in Singapore in 1976 and lives there. Broadly incorporating and rearranging numerous Eastern and Western cultural references, from art history to theater, film to music and philosophy, Ho Tzu Nian’s work blends mythological narratives with historical facts. , it evokes a different history from that handed down through books and folklore. A central theme of Ho’s work is a bird’s-eye study of multiple cultural identities in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is so multifaceted in terms of languages, religions, cultures, and influences that it is impossible to reduce it to simple geography or some historical foundation, and its complexity makes it difficult to understand・It is woven into the work as a story/expression.
Ho’s work has been featured around the world, including the Hessel Museum (2024), Art Songje Center (2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2024), Singapore Art Museum (2023), and Hammer Museum (2022). ), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (2021), Crowe Asian Art Museum (2021), Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (2021), Edith Russ House for Media Art (Oldenburg, 2019), Hamburg Museum of Art (2018), He has held solo exhibitions at Min Museum of Contemporary Art [McaM] (Shanghai, 2018), Asian Art Archive (2017), Guggenheim Bilbao (2015), Mori Art Museum (2012), The Substation (Singapore, 2003), etc. He represented the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011). program director
Takashi Serizawa P3 art and environment general director. Art project producer. Environmental planner. In recent years, he has been focusing on working with artists to transform landscapes. His translations include Buckminster Fuller’s “Spaceship Earth Operating Manual,” and his books include “Beppu.” Serves as a fellow of MOTION GALLERY. [Image 9
Kenshi Otaka
Representative of MOTION GALLERY and co-representative of Shimokita Ekimae Cinema “K2” After engaging in PJT such as business strategy at Accenture (strategy group), entered the graduate school of Tokyo University of the Arts. Feeling the need to build better relationships between creatives and funding, he established MOTION GALLERY in 2011. In 2022, the mini theater “K2” will open in Shimokitazawa. He is also involved in the creation of “Saitama International Art Festival 2020” as a curator and film producer.
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General inquiries: MotionGallery Co., Ltd. contact@motion-gallery.net [Image 11
(Reference) Moon Art Night Shimokitazawa 2024 (Release:
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First year
●Event name
Moon Art Night Shimokitazawa 2024
●Holding date
Friday, September 13, 2024 – Sunday, September 29, 2024 *Times vary depending on each facility. Outdoor event will be held in light rain, canceled in case of rain
●Place
Shimokita Railway Town and others
●System
[Sponsor] Odakyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd., Shimokitazawa Shopping Federation, Startbahn Co., Ltd.
[Sponsored by] Setagaya Ward
[Grant] Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture [Grant for creating attractions of art and culture] ●Summary
Moon Art Night Shimokitazawa 2024 will feature the moon-themed works of 5 artists that will decorate the city. In addition to holding an original NFT stamp rally featuring the rabbit-themed characters “Rabi-yan” and “Mokoron,” about 90 projects will be brought together, including offering limited menus created by unique store owners and holding special events. It’s an exciting festival.
・Art works exhibition *In no particular order Exhibition hours: 15:00-21:00 all day
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●Admission fee
Free (some charges apply)
*Paid tickets will be on sale from August 22nd, allowing you to enjoy this event even more, including admission to the rooftop of
Higashikitazawa Station and the basement of Setagaya-Daita Station. You can check the details below. Please note that we use the web app “FUN FAN NFT” to provide this ticket.
https://www.funfan-nft.com/event-detail?event_id=3ff24abe-d105-4fa1-8ff2-f78977e3b671 ●HPhttps://moonartnightfes.com/