
- Date & Time
- Sunday, October 5, 2025, Saturday, October 18, Saturday, November 8, Saturday, November 15, Saturday, December 6, Saturday, December 20, Saturday, January 17, 2026, Saturday, January 31, Sunday, February 1
8 sessions: 13:00~17:30 (with a break)
* The final sessions will be held at 13:00~18:00 on January 31 and February 1. - Venue
- Arts Council Tokyo
(Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Kudan Kita 4-1-28 Kudan First Place 5F)

Gain the ability to capture the questions that arise from your own mind and create art projects
In this exercise, each participant will face their own questions and think about how to turn them into an art project. In addition to in-person discussions and individual presentations, participants use online tools outside of the course to interact with each other and the navigator to address their own internal questions, consider "What do I really want to do, why do I want to do it, what do I want to value through my art project?" and develop their own art projects.
The exercise will include three hands-on guests. We ask each guest about their initial motivation, what they value in their activities, and what they are currently exploring. Through these discussions, we provide an opportunity to learn how to envision and move art projects in the future.
Through these lectures, participants will think about what art projects are necessary for society in the future, and how they themselves will work in the future.
Schedule
Sunday, October 5, 2025 13:00 ~ 17:30
The first introduction and self-introduction
- Greetings from the organizer and staff
- Self-introduction of participants and sharing of project concepts
- Introduction "What is an art project?"
Saturday, October 18, 2025 13:00 ~ 17:30
The 2nd Group Work and Discussion
- Group work "Confirm your position"
- Discussion
Saturday, November 8, 2025 13:00 ~ 17:30
3rd presentation and discussion
- Presentation by Tomoya Takeda
- Discussion
Saturday, November 15, 2025 13:00 ~ 17:30
4th presentation and discussion
- Presentation by Tsuyoshi Ozawa
- Discussion
Saturday, December 6, 2025 13:00 ~ 17:30
The 5th interim announcement
- Interim presentation of the project under consideration
- Feedback
- deepen a project
Saturday, December 20, 2025 13:00 ~ 17:30
6th presentation and discussion
- Presentation by Tomoko Noda
- Discussion
Saturday, January 17, 2026 13:00 ~ 17:30
7th discussion
- Discuss planned projects
- Preparing for the Final Announcement
Saturday, January 31, 2026/Sunday, February 1 at 13:00~18:00
Final announcement of the 8th
- Present your art project
- review
- about my upcoming art project.
participation fee
32,000 yen (tax included)/8 sessions
capacity
14 persons
* There will be document screening and interview.
How to apply
TARL website.
- application deadline
- Until 13:00 on Wednesday, July 23, 2025
- Notes
- *The schedule and contents are subject to change.
* We do not accept refunds due to cancellation after payment.
* The personal information received will be used only for the operation of this project and for announcements.
※ We will use a communication tool called Discord during the exercise. Please prepare a PC or smartphone. You will learn how to use it on the first day of the exercise.
* Records such as photos, videos and reports during the project will be used for the operation and publicity of the project.
Guest
TAKEDA Tomoya (Performing Arts Producer/President of Bench)

Born in Yokohama in 1983. A performing arts producer. Representative Director of Bench, a general incorporated association.
From 2006 to 14, he was affiliated with the NPO Art Network Japan. He was involved in the launch of the international performing arts festival "Festival Tokyo" as a secretariat staff from 2008 and oversaw production from 2011 to 13. From the winter of 2014, the ROHM Theatre Kyoto opening preparation room was established. In charge of business and planning at the theater. From 2018 to 20, he worked as a freelancer in charge of the project and planning of ROHM Theatre in Kyoto and as a curator of the Saitama International Art Festival 2020. Director of the Open Network of Performing Arts Producers (ON-PAM). Ondo Member Limited Liability Company is engaged in town and place development in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture. He is a part-time lecturer in the Department of Drama and Dance, Faculty of Arts, Tamagawa University.
Tsuyoshi Ozawa (Artist/Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts)

Born in Tokyo in 1965. He is known for his works in various ways such as paintings, photographs, videos and installations that criticize history and society with humor. While he was a student at Tokyo University of the Arts, he started the project of "Jizo erection" in which he erected his own Jizo statues in the landscape and photographed them. In 1993, he started "Nasubi Gallery" and "Consultation Art," which are miniature mobile galleries using milk crates. In 1999, he created the Soy Sauce Art Museum, a remake of a masterpiece of Japanese art history using soy sauce. Since 2001, he has been working on "Vegetable Weapon," a series of portraits of women holding weapons made of vegetables. In 2004, he held a solo exhibition, "Answer Yes and No at the same time!" at the Mori Art Museum; in 2009, a solo exhibition, “The Transparent Runner Continues to Run ” at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; and in 2018, a solo exhibition,“ Incomplete – Parallel Art History ” at the Chiba City Museum of Art. In 2013, he worked for the first time in stage direction and art in "without light. (Prologue?)" written by Elfriede Jelinek. Since 2013, he has been working on the "Returned" series, which combines fact and fiction to create a story based on real historical figures. He received the 69 Fine Arts Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2019.
NODA Tomoko (Art Manager/Director, Twelve Inc.)

Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1983, lives in Kyoto Prefecture. In 2020, he co-founded "Twelve Inc." with the artist Takeru Yamashiro, focusing on art management and media production, to create an environment for art and collaborate with artists. He is a member of the artist collective "Nadegata Instant Party". After experiencing sales of works of contemporary art and public relations for international art exhibitions, from 2013 to 2019 he headed up "Ippongi Production," a private office specializing in art management.
2015 – 2017 Co-director, Minatomachi Art Table, Nagoya[MAT, Nagoya]. 2018 – 2019 Learning Section Management, Aichi Triennale 2019, 2021 – Learning Coordinator, Aichi International Art Festival. Since 2023, he has worked as a producer for "Art Site Nagoya Castle," an art project set in Nagoya Castle. Since 2024, he has worked as a producer for the Kameoka Mist Art Festival.
Navigator
SERIZAWA Takashi (Director of P3 art and environment)

Born in Tokyo in 1951. After graduating from the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Kobe University and the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, he engaged in research on ecological land use planning at Regional Planning Team Co., Ltd. P3 art and environment was established in 1989. It was based in the underground auditorium in the precincts of Tocho-ji Temple until 1999, and since then has been developing various art and environment-related projects without specifying the location. His books include (Wandering the Planet) (Iwanami Shoten), (View from the Moon) (Mainichi Shimbun), and (Beppu) (ABI+P3 Joint Publishing Project).
Credit
- Sponsor
- Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo
- planning and management
- P3 art and environment
Contact Us
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo
Business Coordination Division, Business Coordination Division, Tokyo Art Research Lab (TARL) Secretariat
TEL: 03-6256-8435 (Weekdays 10:00 a.m. ~ 6:00 p.m.)
E-mail: tarl*artscouncil-tokyo.jp (Please replace * with @)




