Website：https://www.turn.geidai.ac.jp/turn-chakai?lang=en
Overview
TURN chakai, Tea Ceremony of TURN project, is an international meeting platform where Tokyo University of the Arts meets its overseas partner institutions* with the subject ‘to question the Earth and Humanity with Art’. Yet, no actual tea will be served in the ‘chakai’ (tea ceremony), instead, we offer a space where the both parties could exchange their own feelings, just like an old-style tea ceremony room, spending a moment together to create something by hand or to share thoughts of each other. In the exhibition hall, 12 bamboo structures represent the tea ceremony rooms (‘chashitsu’). In the chashitsu of the center, dialogues between faculty members of Tokyo University of the Arts and partner institutions who attend online (‘International exchange chakai’) over the subject to exchange feelings will take place. The other 11 chashitsu are the exhibition and workshop spaces for introducing TURN overseas programs (‘workshop chashitsu’); the artists who took part in the past programs conduct workshops for visitors associated with the program contents. The floor of the hall is filled with cardboards and visitors will freely glue pieces of blue paper on them that will become like an ocean. In this way, each chashitsu will be connected with the sea, so that the whole exhibition will make a unique landscape. Any visitors can participate in the activities.
* ‘(overseas) partner institutions’, ‘(international exchange) partners’ intend universities or educational institutions which have contact or collaborate in academic programs with Tokyo University of the Arts, and they are not limited to those who have international agreements.
Institutions take part in the International exchange chakai and faculty from Tokyo University of the Arts
University of Applied Arts Vienna/Seiichiro MIIDA; Central University of Ecuador/Katsuhiko HIBINO; Silpakorn University/Mitsuko OKAMOTO, Nobuyuki FUJIWARA, Yusaku IMAMURA; The National University of Tres de Febrero/Katsuhiko HIBINO; National University of Tucumán/Katsuhiko HIBINO; University of the Arts London, The Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Zurich University of the Arts (Shared Campus)/Yusaku IMAMURA and others; Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts/Haruya KUDO; The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw/Michael W. SCHNEIDER; National Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts of Peru/Katsuhiko HIBINO; University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University/Sputniko!; Politecnico di Milano/Fumi KASHIMURA; University of Fine Arts Münster/Hotaro KOYAMA, Takeshi HAYASHI
Supervision (Host of the International exchange chakai)
Katsuhiko Hibino, Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts and Graduate School of Fine Arts
Artists (Host of the 11 workshop chashitsu)
Yasuaki Igarashi, Sachie Takiguchi, Tomoko Iwata, Daisuke Nagaoka , Kentaro Onishi, Ryuichi Ono, Naoko Hayashi, Moeko Tokumoto, Kazuya Matsuhashi, Taro Takaoka, Yoon Huh, Shogo Nunoshita, Mai Sone
About TURN project
TURN is the umbrella term for an art project that brings about interaction in expressive form through encounters among diverse people, transcending differences in customs and background such as disabled/non-disabled, generation, gender, nationality and living environment. TURN was launched in 2015 as one of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's leading projects in the cultural program of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Since 2017, it has been implemented as part of the Tokyo 2020 Cultural Olympiad.
Tokyo University of the Arts has been leading the international programs of TURN project since 2018. In the past, it has carried out programs in Japan and overseas; Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Cuba and Poland.
TURN official Website:
https://turn-project.com/en/
| Date | July 23 (Fri.) – August 9 (Mon.), 2021 Closed: Tuesdays |
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| Opening Hours | Opening hours: 10:00-18:00 *10:00-20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays *Last admission 30 minutes before closing (Opening hours for the exhibition are subject to change) |
| Venue | The National Art Center, Tokyo, Special Exhibition Gallery 2E |
| Organized by | Tokyo University of the Arts;The National Art Center, Tokyo; Tokyo Metropolitan Government; Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture); The non-profit organization Art’s Embrace |
| Co-organized by | The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |
| Cooperated by | International exchange partners of the Tokyo University of the Arts |
| Admission | Admission free |
| Inquiries | +81(0)47-316-2772 (Hello Dial) |
*The TURN chakai organizers will take measures to prevent the spread of infection in line with the infection prevention guidelines of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
Please wear a mask in the exhibition space.
*Details of each program may be subject to change without notice.In addition, the event at this venue may be canceled if a state of emergency or restrictions on the holding of events is announced by the government or prefectural authorities.
*Please note visitors may be subject to waiting for entry into the venues due to crowding.
