Date/time
Saturday, January 13, 13:00-15:00, 2024
Venue
Kyodo no Mori Museum, Fuchu City (Washitsu room in the former Tanaka family residence)
Instructor/Artist
Hiroko Okada
Target participants
Junior high school age and above
*We plan to film and later screen scenes from the workshop as a video work. This is applicable to those who have given permission for their images to be filmed/screened as part of the video work.
Capacity
10 per workshop
Participation fee
Free
*Please note there is an admission fee for entering the museum. Please see here for details.
How to participate
Please fill out the form in the following link.
*Personal information will be handled as strictly confidential and used only for the operation of this event and to send you information from the organizer.
Deadline for applications
Monday, January 8, 2024
* First-come, first-served basis. The application will be closed once the application number reaches the limit.

Material: Modeling materials, decorations, store refuse, etc. provided by CIRCUS Co., Ltd.

Hiroko Okada will present the results of his work, mainly the video works he created with workshop participants. At the same time, works created in workshops held in the past are also exhibited. The culmination of three years of Raccolta workshops will be presented. Enjoy the new perspective brought to creative materials.

Date/time
Wednesday, January 24 – Sunday, January 28, 10:00-17:00, 2024
*will close at 4pm on the last day
Venue
Citizens’ gallery at the Fuchu Art Museum
Admission to the exhibition
Free

“Mono-monologue” is a first attempt on my part.
Although it’s a workshop, I’m running it with a sense of creating a work called “Mono-monologue” together with the participants.

There are lots of things around us that we don’t need but can’t throw away.

Through the Raccolta project, I’ve come across objects that are no longer in use, things that have served their purpose and have been lying quietly for ages in warehouses.
These things may be seen as useless or unnecessary from a social perspective.
But it seems these objects are beginning to have a value above “use.”
But as they are no longer used, it seemed to me these objects then start to possess a value other than “use.”

I often look at and think carefully about objects from this perspective. This way, the things that seem to be asleep (or dead?) start to look fresh and alive.
I believe this is an example of artistic perspective.

I don’ t believe there is anything in the world that can be called meaningless or worthless. The same goes for objects and people.

When we imagine things, the frontal and parietal lobes of our brains are apparently activated.
The workshop will provide certain mechanisms to stimulate this.
We will also get the participants to work their frontal and parietal lobes to the full.
This is a workshop where each participant can play in the world of their imagination.
I wonder what sort of language will emerge in each participant’s imaginary world, and how their stories will unravel?
How will objects start to live again?
I for one am looking forward to finding out.

*The word “monologue” is a combination of the Latin words mono (one) and logue (talk), and means “one person’s story, a soliloquy”.

【Artist】

Hiroko Okada
https://okadahiroko.info//

Artist Collective Fuchu(NPO)
E-mail: contact@acf-tokyo.com