Seven years after the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster, the public art installation “Counter Void” is re-illuminated for three days

The Relight Project presents “Relight Days 2018.” In this event, the public art installation “Counter Void,” whose lights are currently switched off, will be re-illuminated for the three-day period of Sunday, March 11 (the seventh anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake) to Tuesday, March 13, 2018. “Counter Void” (artist Tatsuo Miyajima, 2003/Collection of TV Asahi) is located in the Roppongi area of Minato-ku, Tokyo.

The Relight Project has been presenting “Relight Days” since 2016 in order to create opportunities for each of us living in the present, while keeping the memories of the Great East Japan Earthquake from fading, to think about what it means to live. With the passage of seven years and the societal changes that have occurred since the disaster, however, we now feel there is a need to address this theme in a new way; therefore, we have decided to end “Relight Days” with this third and final edition.

This will be the last three-day period in which “Counter Void” is re-illuminated for “Relight Days.” In this installation based on the theme of life and death, which silently lights up the Roppongi area, we will switch on the lights and create a time period in which each person can reflect on what it means to be alive.