Encountering, enriching and getting through art projects

What is an art project?
How are art project sites created?
What methods are possible at present?

Art projects took off in 1990 and now flourish everywhere. In our 3-part lecture series “Art projects dissected,” our review of the last 30 years or so will focus on two aspects: art project styles, and the mechanisms and environment that have supported them.While touching upon a wealth of real-life examples and issues as seen from the creators behind the projects, we find out how people involved on-site operate. Once we have established the “basics” of art projects, our aim is to re-examine past approaches, and discuss the issues we should be addressing now.

Arts Council Tokyo’s Risei Sato and artist Jun Kitazawa will act as “navigators.” Dialog during the lectures between two “navigators” with different perspectives will provide participants with a variety of information and material, and create a gateway to intensive learning. Moreover, as a way of encouraging independent learning amongst participants, the venue ROOM 302 will be set up as a temporary study room. While being first and foremost a lecture series, we will also try our hand at creating new projects.

You want to start learning the basics. Your on-site experience makes you want to refresh your knowledge. You want to think about creating a way forward in which you can update and improve the existing state of art projects. We look forward to the participation of people willing to look back on past practices and step forward together, in order to encounter an art project landscape that nobody has seen before.