A room of wonder | Tokyo
A room of wonder is a performing museum project that departs from the
literal but torn meaning behind the word biography: a life that writes. Writing
as related to tracing, to registering, to framing; biography as related to accumulation,
collection of moments, images, and sensations.
Some time ago, I came across the wonder rooms and the
cabinets of curiosities. I was wondering about ways of saving one's memory in
this subtle struggle against disappearance, and at the same time involved in a
private reflection on an artist's ability to leave traces. These collections of
singular objects common during the Renaissance were collections of universes,
whose categorical frontiers were yet to be defined. These wonder rooms were
individual portrayals of the vastness and sublime of the world in a room.
A devotional place, with no apparent rational categorization, but where
the display was meant to produce wonder, to incite one's own imaginative
recollection of the world. They were pre-museums of individual claim and a
model for a microcosm or theater of the world, a memory gallery.
On our present days, the museums have
become the guardians of mankind’s common history, where the categorizations
have gained the force of the absolutes, however, the desire of making one’s own
inventory of the world, one’s own collection of wonders, hasn’t abandoned us.
Visible in the endless quantities of blogs and in the proliferation of virtual
social networks, more than ever, the force of the inventory continues to
attract individuals.
A room of wonder - Tokyo takes inspiration in these wonder rooms and invites a group of
artists to the adventure of creating a collection of wonders and its
translation and insertion in real time in an exhibition room for common share,
with no limit of the medias used. A collection of their artistic trajectories,
of their daily lives, of their belonging to different histories of art, of the
scene, of their imaginaries and of their time. A collection of Japanese men and
women, dancers, actors, sculptors, video artists, performers, working
collaboratively across fields, helping each other, sharing tools and knowledge
for the creation of one room of wonders.
A room of wonder | Tokyo is the result of a residency at Tokyo
Wonder Site, under International Creator in Residency Program
(August-November 2012). Earlier this year, the project created and exhibited A room of wonder | Rio,
with Brazilian artists at Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
At Tokyo Experimental Festival, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
November 15-16-17th
14h-19h
Artist talk : Nov 15th, at 19h.
concept : Gustavo Ciríaco
Colloborators:
Kae Ishimoto (dancer)
Megumi Kamimura (dancer, choreographer)
Yoi Kawakubo (photographer)
Takumi Kitada (visual artist, sculptor)
Daiske Kino-Shita (musician)
Koh Sato (performing artist, visual artist)
Kento Nito (sculptor, performing artist)
Ryo Fujii (visual artist, sculptor)
[Support] Rio de Janeiro State Cultural Secretariat
Special and hearty thanks to Antonio Pedro Lopes, Daisuke Hirose & Digital Studio, Pedro Rivera, Anna Ladeira & Curto Circuito, Daisuke Harada, Takumi Ohsawa, Fumiko, Reina Senga, Miwa Takamura, Ayako Oshima. Tamami & TWS and Tokyo Experimental Festival staffs, Kayoko Imamura, Daisuke Myatsu, Junko Ohno, Noriyuki Kiguchi, Prof. Yoshitaka Mouri and all the artists who contributed to this project became a reality.
グスタヴォ・チリアコ 「A room of wonder | Tokyo」
トーキョー・エクスペリメンタル・フェスティバルVol.8 TEFサウンドインスタレーション ＜推奨プログラム＞
会 期： 2013年11月15日(金) - 2013年11月17日(日) 入場料： 無料主 催： 公益財団法人東京都歴史文化財団 トーキョーワンダーサイト後 援：
東京ドイツ文化センター、ポーランド広報文化センター
会 場： トーキョーワンダーサイト渋谷
アートな体験をコレクションした不思議な博物館が3日間限定で渋谷に登場!!
「髭のナイス・ガイ」ことグスタヴォ・チリアコが集めた日本の若手アーティストたちによる体験型作品が並ぶ「A room of wonder」は、近代的な博物館の原型であるルネサンス期の「驚異の部屋(wunderkammer)」から着想を得て、それぞれの芸術活動の軌跡、異なる美術史、日常生活、環境、想像力をコレクションし、展示空間にリアルタイムに組み入れた体験型ミュージアムです。年齢、性別、経歴、活動の異なる様々な分野のアーティストたちが用意した、ちょっと不思議な"体験"をお楽しみください。
参加アーティスト
石本華江（ダンサー）
神村恵（ダンサー、振付師）
川久保ジョイ（写真家）
北田匠（ビジュアルアーティスト、彫刻家）
木埜下大祐（音楽家）
佐藤晃（パフォーミングアーティスト、ビジュアルアーティスト）
二藤建人（彫刻家、パフォーミングアーティスト）
藤井龍（ビジュアルアーティスト、彫刻家）
ゲスト・パフォーマー
大久保洋平、譱財大輔、中澤沙央里
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