People want to record what happened before their eyes. They want to convey people’s voices, scenes, and landscapes. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake, a variety of activities have been implemented which relate to records of the disaster and creative expression.
NOOK, which has continued with record-related activities from its Sendai base, is a collective made up of creative artists who have been exploring records of narratives relating to the earthquake disaster, as well as forms of expression for delivering those records. In spring 2022 the collective relocated to Tokyo and launched Karoku Recycle, a project for uncovering records of past disasters and applying them to the present.

As well as introducing recording methods and expressive techniques practiced by NOOK in Tohoku/Tokyo over the last ten years or so, this exhibition will feature a display of items that document art-related activities associated with the Great East Japan Earthquake. The manner in which NOOK has tried to chronicle and convey the disaster has changed with the headway made in the recovery and reconstruction process, or in response to other disasters and events happening in the same period.
In the city of Tokyo, some way distant from the epicenter of the featured disasters and events, this exhibition is being held as a forum for re-addressing, thinking and talking about related records and forms of expression.

*This event will be run with measures in place to prevent the transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19).
*Program is subject to change.