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Tokyo Stay Meeting

"Pilgrimage Briefing Session" with Lecture and Workshop

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“Tokyo Stay,” a project that seeks to unearth Tokyo’s potential narratives through the “stay” experience

We will hold an activity briefing with a lecture and workshop to conclude our second year, 2017.

We, the project members, have visited various places in Tokyo, absorbed their atmosphere, and explored methods of forming connections between these places and ourselves. As an experiment in this endeavor, we have been carrying out what we call “pilgrimages” as a way to experience areas in the city, and we will hold a briefing session about these activities.

*Look up “#bashomono” on Instagram, and you may get a feel for the atmosphere.

This time we aim to deepen the discussion through a guest lecture and a workshop for participants, in addition to reports.

Our invited guest will be Yohei Kurose of CHAOS*LOUNGE.
Yohei Kurose is the director of CHAOS*LOUNGE. A century and a half ago, all 60 temples in Izumi Domain, in the southeastern part of Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, disappeared in the haibutsu kishaku (movement to abolish Buddhism). Looking at the area from that time to the present as “a region that has lived through 150 years of solitude dividing the living and the dead, and experienced a “failure of restoration,'” CHAOS*LOUNGE presents a city play with that history as its motif, set in the area where it happened.

In the lecture, Mr. Kurose will talk about his activities in CHAOS*LOUNGE and, together with the participants, analyze connections between place and narrative, including the circumstances behind the selection of Iwaki as the location and the process leading to this look back at 150 years of history.

The workshop makes use of the “Ten Ox Herding Pictures (jugyuzu),” a series of ten pictures and poems describing the ten processes towards enlightenment, based on Zen thought in China.

The pursuit of the “true self” represented by the ox can be interpreted in various ways according to one’s perspective.
We regard the jugyuzu as a type of story that serves as a guide in experiencing the place called Tokyo. Together with the participants, we hope to discover and share each person’s unique perspective. Please come and join us!

Speaker


Yohei Kurose (CHAOS*LOUNGE)
http://chaosxlounge.com/

Schedule

16:30 Venue opens / Admission
17:00 Opening remarks
Natsuki Ishigami (president, Places and Narratives (NPO) / Pepin Structural Designs)
17:05 Report and discussion on accompanied pilgrimages
17:55 Intermission (10 minutes)
18:05 Lecture and discussion
    Yohei Kurose (CHAOS*LOUNGE)
18:55 Intermission (10 minutes)
19:05 Workshop
Group work based on the motif of “Ten Ox Herding Pictures (jugyuzu)”
19:55 Closing remarks
Natsuki Ishigami (president, Places and Narratives (NPO) / Pepin Structural Designs)
20:00 End of event

*After the event, a friendly gathering for participants will take place in the same venue. (Food and beverages provided; a charge applies.)

Admission

Free

Capacity

30
*Advance reservation required
*Reservation will be closed when it reaches capacity.

How to reserve

Please fill this form to reserve.

*To those who make a reservation for the after-event gathering:
If you need to cancel your reservation, please inform the Places and Narratives executive office by 17:00 on Wednesday, February 21, as refreshments will be arranged according to the number of participants.

Contact

NPO Places and Narratives
E-mail:info@bashomono.main.jp

Venues

Loftwork/FabCafe MTRL (Dogenzaka Pia 2F, 1-22-7 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)

Credit

Organized by
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), NPO Places and Narratives