In Mam Project 031, curated by Kumakura Haruko (assistant curator, Mori Art Museum), taking hints from sounds she has heard, Jinushi Maiko attempts to create in a museum gallery setting the rich, lyrical space that lies between the multifarious phenomena and technologies surrounding us from day to day, and the senses we use to assimilate them.

Elements comprising this exhibition include a large projection featuring a poem on the mysterious sounds heard by the artist at her grandfather’s memorial service, a rotating monitor, and a length of industrial ducting emitting the sound of stones rolling. Though vague and elusive in nature, they all are attempts to take topical themes such as the multilayered nature of the time surrounding us including past and future, and the relationship between technology, and the human body as well as memory, and turn them into works by employing a highly personal methodology.

About “Mam Project”
Mam Project is a series of experimental projects produced by the Mori Art Museum in collaboration with artists from around the world, showcasing a comprehensive array of contemporary art that goes beyond the traditional exhibition format, including newly commissioned works, performances, and workshops.

Mori Art Museum
53F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
Tokyo

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The impact of humanity on the planet since the Industrial Revolution, especially in the second half of the 20th century, is said to match that of the thousands of preceding years of geological change. What has turned into an environmental crisis on a global scale has its origins in countless yet specific local events and situations in industrialized countries around the world, which provides a framework for Our Ecology.

This exhibition features four chapters of diverse expression courtesy of an impressive lineup of 34 artists from home and abroad, and about 100 works in total, from historical works to a number commissioned especially for the exhibition.

Mori Art Museum
53F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
Tokyo

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For over 30 years since 1990, Yasuko Toyoshima (1967–) has kept the perspective of “I” and continually confronted, in her ways, various systems, values, and rules that surround us. Toyoshima leverages her interests and feelings of alienation to reexamine and reinterpret the frameworks and rules that govern our thoughts and actions, from the mechanisms of objects and tools, school education, and economic activities to various everyday actions, that we have inevitably internalized and automated. By doing so, she questions how human thought patterns, society, and the self are formed.

This is the first major museum exhibition to bring together nearly 500 works by Toyoshima, from the earliest to the latest pieces, to examine her artistic activity in its entirety.

Photo: Masaru Yanagiba (Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2019)

MOT - Museum of contemporary art Tokyo
4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku
135-0022 Tokyo

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The Commission Project was launched at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 as a new program of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, in which artists based in Japan are selected and commissioned to create and exhibit moving-image works as products of the new festival. At the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024, an exhibition by Yu Araki and Kim Insook, Special Prize winners of the previous edition, is realized while aligning the exhibition with the overall theme “30 Ways to Go to the Moon.” In addition, as in the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023, the first screening for the next edition is held concurrently during the festival, in which a jury of five Japanese and international members with expertise in the field of moving images select four artists.

Photo: Yu Araki, Unmasked (Bootleg), 2023 Photo: Inoue Sayuki

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku Tokyo
Tokyo

DXP2 (Digital Transformation Planet2)
"With developments and changes in technology that are updated daily, the relationships between technology and our bodies, our daily lives, and our environment, including all living things, are also being generated anew. In this world, the digital is no longer an extrinsic tool, but our neighbor, partner, and part of our bodies. DXP’s messages come from a variety of perspectives, not only from artists, but also architects, designers, scientists, and programmers, spanning food, clothing, and shelter."

Exhibiting artists:

・AFROSCOE (Republic of Ghana)
・Merve Akdogan (Turkey)
・Refik Anadol (Turkey, USA)
・David Blandy (UK)
・Bert Chan, Takashi Ikegami Laboratory, The University of Tokyo (Hong Kong, Japan)
・Sarah Ciraci (Italy)
・Group (Japan)
・Hatra+Yuma Kishi (Japan)
・Keiken (Japan, U.K., Mexico)
・Tomihiro Kono (Japan)
・Emi Kusano (Japan)
・Shoei Matsuda (Japan)
・Homei Miyashita Laboratory, Meiji University (Japan)
・Till Nowak (Germany)
・David OReilly (Ireland)
・Sputniko! (Japan)
・Vuild (Japan)
・Jonathan Zawada (Australia)

Public Zone / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Tokyo