【Call for Participation】Karoku Recycle | Creating Expression from Records 2025

It is a workshop to create expressions by looking at the remaining records or making new records. It started in 2022 and this is the 4th term.

We start by listening to people who practice expressions based on past records, and by looking at and discussing those expressions. Then, we actually set a theme based on the interest of the participants themselves, and search for expressions created from records related to that theme. We also introduce talking or listening into the process to face the record with diverse perspectives.

There are no restrictions on presentation techniques such as reports, plans for exhibitions and projects, pictures, texts, photographs, videos, performances, installations, etc., but on the last day there will be an exhibition. However, it is not necessary to complete it as a work, but to create a form in order to share one's interests with others and have a dialogue.

It is recommended for those who record things on a daily basis, those who are interested in listening and researching, and those who want to make a production that involves these processes.

*The contents of the program are subject to change.

Workshop Flow

Saturday, July 19
In the first half, we will have a lecture on "Expression from Recording" and a workshop on listening and writing. In the second half, we will see an artist's practice of "creating expression from records," and then we will discuss and try to create expression ourselves.

Saturday, July 26
We will go to the Tokyo Metropolitan Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall in Yumenoshima, Koto-ku, for research, listen to the stories of the practitioners, and then create a small exhibition with each person's hands. Also think about your interests and future research.

Based on the activities of the above two days, they will work on their own. They go to talk to people they are interested in and look up materials, and then they try to create expressions based on their own production methods.

Saturday, August 2 and 3rd (Sun)
Free consultation days. As you work through your practice, you can speak with a facilitator as needed. You can also go online.

Sunday, September 7
Bring your own expression and discuss.
※ The previous day 6th (Sat) will be the delivery work day.

＊ワークショップ開催レポート：カロクリサイクル「記録から表現をつくる」2023 レポート
＊「記録から表現をつくる」ではワークショップ終了後、毎年参加者の有志によって同名の展覧会を開いています。今年度は2026年3月頃の開催を予定しています。
　参考 展覧会開催レポート：展覧会「記録から表現をつくる2023」 

facilitator

Ryuhei Koya

Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1982. He graduated from the Department of Advanced Art Expression, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. He graduated from the doctoral course of the Department of Language and Information Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo. He is a part-time lecturer at Takasaki Keizai University. I am interested in the relationship between oneness and universality in the process of the actualization of symbols. Participated in the Tokyo Project Study "Building a Lab from a Room" 2018 as a facilitator. Participated in "Tokyo Sudara 2019 - Creating a Song and Dance of Hope" 2020 as a coordinator. "Pronouns as' Empty 'Signs: Emil Banvenist's Problems of' Speaker ',' Meaningful Action 'and' Reality '"("Linguistic style 13," 2014).

Mina Isozaki (filmmaker, singer/songwriter/NOOK)

Born in Tokyo in 1992. Using children's songs and labor songs that are rooted in a particular place as clues, he creates new "songs" that match the place, and creates works with an interest in singing voices and people's lives. The main exhibition he has exhibited in recent years is "Restoration of Narrative" (Sendai Mediateek). From 2023 to 24, he moved to Vilnius, Lithuania, where he researched the Singing Revolution, a movement for independence from the former Soviet Union.

Natsumi Seo (artist, poet, NOOK)

Born in Tokyo in 1988. While thinking about the records of the language and scenery of the local people, he creates pictures and sentences. After volunteering after the Great East Japan Earthquake, he started working in a unit with filmmaker Haruka Komori. After creating a place for dialogue and creating works in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture, he launched the collective "NOOK" to record activities through collaboration with the land. Currently, based in Koto Ward, he is working on the project "Karoku Recycle" to research disaster records and explore expressions using them, while traveling and writing stories on the theme of "inability to speak". He is the author of "Awai Yukoro: Rikuzentakata, Living After the Earthquake" (Shobunsha), "Double Town/Song of the Alternate Land" (Shosho Kankanbo), "The Stratum of Voices: Talking about Disaster and Pain" ( Surviving Books), co-authored "Memoirs of the 10th Year" (Ikusuru Books), and "New Habitations: from North to East 11 years after 3.11" (YYY PRESS).

DAICHI NAKAMURA (Writer/Director/Director of Atsuba Heights/NOOK)

Born in Tokyo in 1991. He graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Tohoku University. While still a student, he started the theater group "Atto Heights" and has been based in Sendai for eight years. He has lived in Tokyo since 2018. Even now, he moves back and forth between Sendai, Yokohama and Tokyo, and continues to create plays that are useful for people to survive. "Koko wa deguchi na nai" (It's Not the Exit) won the 2nd Ningen za 'Minoru Tabata Drama Award.'. In the Toga Drama Competition 2019, he won the Audience Award and the Outstanding Director Award for his performance of Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard." He won the Playwright Prize at the 14 Senkawa Theater Theater Play Contest for "Mirai ga tateteru." He is also a member of # Rooms and Theater, a group that reimagines theater on the scale of rooms.

capacity

12 people
* Priority will be given to those who can participate in the whole day.
* Please note that selection will be conducted if there are many applicants.

Admission Fee

Participation Fee
10,000 JPY/General/5,000 JPY/Student (All sessions)
* You will be responsible for your own transportation and lunch expenses.
* Payment will be made in cash on the first day (July 19). We cannot accept a refund for absence in the middle of the tour.

Venue

Studio 04
4-1 Oshima, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136 0072 Oshima 4-chome Danchi Building 1, 1st Floor 106
and other spaces in Tokyo

How to apply

Please fill out this application form to apply.
* Personal information will be strictly managed and used only for the operation and information of this project.
* Selection results will be sent to the e-mail address you registered at the time of application by Monday, June 30.

Application deadline

Until Friday, June 20, 2025 at 23:59

Credit

Sponsor

Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo, NOOK

cooperation

Urban Renaissance Agency, Tokyo Metropolitan Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall

Contact Us

NOOK
E-mail:karoku.nook*gmail.com (replace * with @)