This moon-themed festival focused on three areas: free art displays around the neighborhood, NFT technology-based initiatives, and collaborations with the local community including festival-related events and special limited-menu offerings. Art exhibits included a giant outdoor floating moon model by Luke Jerram in a vacant lot of the Shimokita Senrogai complex; a moonbow-inspired installation by Atelier Sisu being exhibited for the first time in Japan in the parking lot of the Bonus Track commercial complex; and a white rabbit themed work by Amanda Parer at a vacant site in the Shimokitazawa Shotengai shopping street slated to become a road. Additionally, the normally inaccessible rooftop of Higashi-Kitazawa Station as well as a basement area of Setagaya-Daita Station were turned into ticketed venues displaying works by Toshihiko Mitsuya and Wade and Leta respectively. NFT initiatives include a stamp rally offering digital artwork under a collaboration featuring the rabbit-themed characters “Mokoron” and “Rabiyan” and utilizing a special NFT marketing web app. Collaboration with the local community allowed Shimokitazawa’s various shopping streets and stores to get involved, offering roughly 90 collaborative programs – almost twice as many as last year – including one-off menus designed especially for this art event.
【Startbahn, Inc.】
Startbahn, Inc. was established in 2014 with the aim of providing a new system where the creatives need and realizing a better world. We are developing blockchain technology to create an infrastructure for art distribution and evaluation in the coming era.
Anna Kato
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Approximately 80 locations including a vacant lot of the Shimokita Senrogai complex, a vacant site in the Shimokitazawa Shotengai shopping street slated to become a road, BONUS TRACK, the rooftop of Higashi-Kitazawa Station, a basement area of Setagaya-Daita Station, and other local art galleries, stores, etc.