SIDE CORE is an art team that develops art projects in public spaces and on the streets. While their activities have been attracting more and more attention in recent years, and this exhibition is their first major solo show in Tokyo.
Including video works that film highways, railroads, and underground waterways in a unique way, installation works that use streetlights, guardrails and road construction signs in public spaces as materials, and a documentary video of a rat puppet simply walking around Tokyo at night, SIDE CORE creates works by focusing on the unique public nature and the system of cities and intervening / negotiating with them. Their way of expression is constantly expanding and updating, making them an artist in progress not to be missed.
This exhibition is not only be inside the museum, but also develops in the surrounding environment, allowing you to see how their imagination of the city is expanding through art.
【SIDE CORE】
Featuring Takasu Sakie, Matsushita Tohru, and Nishihiro Taishi, SIDE CORE launched in 2012. Harimoto Kazunori also participates in the collective as a video director. Unraveling the rules of public space, its practice which unfolds both indoors and out, explores ways to expand expression in urban space with the aim of changing mindsets, intervening in interstices, and broadening expression and actions, through the lens of street culture.
Koichi Watari
Executive committee chairperson
Concrete Planet Exhibition Executive Committee
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WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art and outdoor, Shibuya City, Tokyo