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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/4C03" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/4C03">
  <Name>&quot;Visual Circus&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/DA237357">
    <Name>Skip City Sainokuni Visual Plaza</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>3-12-63, Kamiaoki, Kawaguchi, Saitama　333-0844</Address>
    <Phone>048-265-2500</Phone>
    <Fax>048-265-2628</Fax>
    <Access>12 minutes by bus from Nishi-Kawaguchi Station on JR Keihin-Tohoku Line, 10 minutes by bus from Hatogaya station on the Saitama railway line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a public holiday Monday, the venue is open blut closed on the following tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Introduces the work of artists and groups that merge video footage with performance, two media forms that at first glance may not seem to work together harmoniously. Featured artists include off-Nibroll, AR Sankyodai (Augmented Reality Three Brothers) and Maywa Denki. During the three-month exhibition period there will also be performances and the exhibition area will be transformed into a vivid, varied space.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>5.20179</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥500, Junior High and Elementary School Students ¥250</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-08</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>9:30-17:00 (Admission until 16:30), Closed 12/29-1/3 &amp; 3/21-23</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>53</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.823886</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.723828</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/07BD" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/07BD">
  <Name>&quot;Aurora Seen From Space 2012&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/5F87B487">
    <Name>Konica Minolta Plaza</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Shinjuku Takano Bldg. 4F, 3-26-11 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022</Address>
    <Phone>03-3225-5001</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3225-0800</Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from East exit of Shinjuku Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Last day until 15:00 only.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features aurora photographs taken from the International Space Station and other photographs taken from space using a camera co-developed by JAXA and NHK.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>14.0476</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.688636</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.705197</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3A25" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/3A25">
  <Name>&quot;Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2012&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/D0F45C7B">
    <Name>Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1 Space</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>1-1 Shinko, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 231-0001</Address>
    <Phone>045-211-1515</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from Nihon Odori or Bashamichi Stations on the Minato Mirai Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="kanagawa">Yokohama, Kanagawa</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>22:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[TPAM is an international platform for performing arts.

It is a place for “Meeting” consisting of a discussion/presentation section for the improvement and development of activities in the performing arts sector through networking professionals and a performance section for discovering and introducing works that are responsive to the contemporary reality. 

It has almost been a year since the 3/11. The disaster of the earthquake and tsunamis and the accident of the nuclear power plant have been undermining the condition of survival and the structure of society. TPAM in Yokohama 2012 tries to be a response to the situation in the belief that performing arts relate deeply to the fundamentals.

Please see the event website for further details of performances, showcases, talk events and the industry booth fair.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/3A25-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>4.30556</Karma>
  <Price free="0">One Day Pass: ¥3500</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>February 17 (Fri), February 18 (Sat): from 16:30. February 19 (Sun): from 14:00 and 19:30</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.44915</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.64725</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4ABE" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/4ABE">
  <Name>Mineki Murata &quot;Daruma&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/685EA742">
    <Name>Art Center Ongoing</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-8-7 Kichijoji-Higashicho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-0002</Address>
    <Phone>0422-26-8454</Phone>
    <Fax>0422-26-8454</Fax>
    <Access>9 minutes walk from the North exit of Kichijoji station on the JR Chuo and Keio Inokashira lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="musashino_tama">Musashino, Tama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Gallery open until 21:00.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Mineki Murata was born in Gunma in 1979 and graduated from Tama Art University in 2005. Since then he has been giving unique performances at various exhibitions and events throughout Japan, including the inaugural Aichi Triennale in 2010. Using his own body as a medium, Murata's performances consist of actions repeated again and again in relation to other objects. Previous performances involved making ballpoint drawings on dictionaries and photocopying paper, or using crayons to scrawl over a white dress shirt that he was wearing. 

For this exhibition, Murata will give performance every day throughout the duration of the exhibition. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">¥400 + 1 selected tea</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-10" start="19:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.705156</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.585883</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/78D1" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/78D1">
  <Name>&quot;Re: Open&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/1DF6F166">
    <Name>Waitingroom</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-8-11 3F 4B Ebisu-nishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021</Address>
    <Phone>03-3476-1010</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3476-1010</Fax>
    <Access>4 minutes walk from exit 2 at JR Ebisu Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="1" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>mondays openinghour 17:00 mondays closinghour 23:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Tuesday to Thursday, Sunday by appointment only.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Held to commemorate the post-renovation reopening of the gallery, this exhibition features improvisatory works centered around the moving image, sound and the body.

February 19th: in.out.project
February 20th-26th: Yuko Mohri
February 27th-March 4th: onnacodomo]]></Description>
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  <Karma>3.67521</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>18</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.646261</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.71076</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/854A" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/854A">
  <Name>&quot;The 17th CG Contest for Students Selected Exhibition&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/2E174B58">
    <Name>Open Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Canon S Tower 2F, 2-16-6, Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8011</Address>
    <Phone>03-6719-9021</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from the Konan exit of Shinagawa Station on the JR and Keihin-Kyuko lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Organized by CG-Arts, this contest was founded in 1995 to recognize and honor exceptional student works  of computer generated graphics and arts. On display are various works that make use of media and new technology in the realms of art, design, animation, film, manga, games, and applications.

[Image: Hiranoryo, &quot;Holiday&quot; Tama Art University, Animation award]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>10</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-29</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>14</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.622401</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.743391</Longitude>
 </Event>

 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9070" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/9070">
  <Name>Tetsuya Umeda &quot;Trash Box Music&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/603694BD">
    <Name>Yokohama Museum Of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>3-4-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 220-0012</Address>
    <Phone>045-221-0300</Phone>
    <Fax>045-221-0317</Fax>
    <Access>10 minutes walk using &quot;moving walk way&quot; from Sakuragicho station on the JR, Tokyu Toyoko or Yokohama lines. 3 minutes walk from the &quot;Museum&quot; exit at Mimatomirai station on the Minatomirai line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="kanagawa">Yokohama, Kanagawa</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Tetsuya Umeda is an installation and live performance artist who combines self-made devices with existing found objects and the surrounding environment, collaborating with various &quot;phenomena&quot; to make his work. His previous exhibitions have been held in warehouses, disused schools, old tunnels and other unconventional spaces. This is Umeda's first solo performance in the Kanto area in two and a half years.

February 18th (Sat) 18:00
February 19th (Sun) 17:00
Lecture Hall, Yokohama Museum of Art]]></Description>
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  <Karma>6</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Advance ¥2000, On the day ¥2500</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>18th (Sat) 18:00, 19th (Sun) 17:00</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.453511</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.633489</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/ABA2" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/ABA2">
  <Name>Ay-O &quot;Over the Rainbow Once More&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/4A4AABB8">
    <Name>Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Metropolitan Kiba Park, 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0022</Address>
    <Phone>03-5245-4111</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>11 minutes walk from Exit B2 at Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon Line; 14 minutes walk from Exit 3 of Kiba Station on the Tozai Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on a Public Holiday Monday, but closed on the following Tuesday. Closed around the end of year celebrations (12/28~1/4)</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Ay-O (1931 - ) is known as ‘the Rainbow Artist’ for the way in which he depicts all his motifs through a spectrum of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. He was a member of the international avant-garde artist group, Fluxus, using everyday actions or objects as his material to produce a form of art that could be experienced physically through smell, touch and the other senses. This exhibition will present a large-scale, participatory installation and a new painting, 30 meters in length, as well as oil paintings, prints, and performance records or re-creations, tracing the course of his career.

Performance by the artist scheduled for late March. See website for details and updates.

[Image: Ay-O “My 192 (Ikkuni) Friends” (2011)]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>21.5212</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1100, College Students &amp; Adults over 65 ¥850, High School &amp; Junior High School Students ¥550, Free for Elementary School Students and under</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-06</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open on April 30th, closed on May 1st</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>81</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.676344</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.810483</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/CA70" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/CA70">
  <Name>“Cosmic Travelers - Toward the Unknown” Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/D5301380">
    <Name>Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>7F, 5-7-5 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-5766-1094</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>4 minutes walk from Exit A1 at Omotesando Station on the Ginza, Chiyoda and Hanzomon lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="aoyama_omotesando">Omotesando, Aoyama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Irregular holidays</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[For its third exhibition, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo presents its first group show entitled “Cosmic Travelers – Toward the Unknown”. This is also its first show dedicated to Japanese contemporary scene and attests its desire to acknowledge the long-standing relationship between Louis Vuitton and Japan. Within an artistic and institutional landscape paying an increasing attention to young artists, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo wishes to present a dissonant but complementary point of view. Around the historically grounded figure of Noriyuki Haraguchi, who firmly embodies the links between Western and Japanese avant-gardes, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo will present artists from two different generations, representing various trends and media.

The word “cosmic” means many things. While the most universal meaning for the word relates to our universe referencing outer space, its connotations are manifold; it can mean limitlessness, infinity, liberal and unifying. As a metaphor, “cosmic” is a state of being with expansive associations, and when combined with the word “travelers,” it becomes a journey of the mind and body involving the senses, intuition, emotions and thoughts. It is in this sense that we are all cosmic travelers moving through space and time searching for truth and the meaning of life.

The five artists selected for the exhibition - Noriyuki Haraguchi, Ataru Sato, Tomoko Shioyasu, Masakatsu Takagi and Go Watanabe - are all forerunners in exploring the multitudes of cosmic aspects in their creative processes. In conceiving new works for the light filled space of Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, the artists have inevitably incorporated this predominant feature into their works, but each on their own terms. Just as light is the source of all life and the underlining principal for creation, so too, here, it is the unifying element between the artworks presented.

Haraguchi is known for his use of discarded or no-longer functional industrial materials to make simple geometrical structures that reveal a hidden relationship between space and materials in a way that challenges our perception of reality. He has created site-specific works since the Seventies, and for this exhibition, he presents “Triad”, which consists of the three deeply related pieces including an aluminum container with a black liquid filled to the rim. The lacquer-like surface reflects the surrounding space with stunning clarity paradoxically disclosing its overwhelming solidity as an illusion. Interacting with the immense structure of the space, where the polarities of light and shadow are unified, this work transforms the space into a charged field of exquisitely balanced and composed forms.

Sato sensed sacredness from the exhibition space where the abundant natural light continuously streams through the glasses, and he created a portrait of a god entitled “Sign”. His provocative and diabolic visions are composed of convoluted amalgamations of deformed, fragmented body parts, internal organs and bodies cut wide open, unknown creatures, faces of people, animals and bugs. What might be called “trans-surrealistic, micro-maniac” portrait invites us past the surface into the vast stretches of a deep mysterious world within. Sato will also create his work with the universe as its theme in a live performance over several sessions.

Shioyasu makes exquisitely detailed paper-cuttings that transform the traditional decorative medium of Kiri-e into a dynamic harmony of patterns emulating natural elements such as water droplets, bubbles and cells. A large piece of paper work, eight meters in length and two meters in width, floats in the exhibition space just as its title “Flowing Sky” refers. Her other piece, “Bubbles”, a three-dimensional collage of round shapes made with pierced holes in synthetic paper, floats freely in an acrylic case. Astoundingly subtle interplays of light and shadow literally create and quietly amplify, through intricately cut patterns, a sense of harmony and interconnectedness between the visible and the invisible.

Watanabe creates new worlds in landscapes with animated surfaces. He crafts images with a variety of digital techniques, taking everyday objects from interior spaces as well as landscapes for his motifs, paring them down to their essential components and giving autonomy and freedom of movement to their surfaces. For this exhibition, he presents “one landscape, a journey”, an animated landscape composed of everyday cups and bowls stacked in a kitchen sink that is based on the panoramic landscape seen through the glass walls of the exhibition space. Suggesting a world in constant motion, Watanabe’s work reveals the origins of the word animation, the imparting of anima or soul to inorganic objects. The way he gives motion to the objects encourages us to consider the possibility of another dimension of reality in which all things are alive and conscious.

Multi-media artist Takagi’s work offers multi-dimensional adventures in virtual dreamscape through free association. It is a “moving painting” that brings forth a delightful feeling of riding on the oceanic waves of constantly changing color and form. For this exhibition, Takagi presents a visionary landscape that simulates the energy and radiance of the sun in which elements of fluid color and form merge and coalesce to form a larger whole, eventually creating a symphony of energy that transforms our inner vision.

All five of these artists are Cosmic Travelers in every possible sense of the term as the configuration of the exhibition mimics the vortex of cosmic energy already moving within the space. Walking through this exhibition literally becomes a journey from the darkness into the light offering a dynamic rhythm to the overall experience, in which visitors will be provided different traveling experiences every time they visit the exhibition.

Curator: Midori Nishizawa

[Image: ©Louis Vuitton / Jérémie Souteyrat, Courtesy of Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-06</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open everyday during exhibition period. Closed on Feb 6th.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Name>&quot;Adventures of Practice&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Chateau 2F</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Chateau Koganei 2F, 6-5-3 Honcho, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-0004</Address>
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    <Access>5 minutes walk from the South exit of JR Musashi-Koganei Station. </Access>
    <Area areaId="musashino_tama">Musashino, Tama</Area>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition showcases the work of 5 artists whose practices incorporate chance encounters, farewells and discoveries from everyday life - a process that may be likened to the act of being an adventurer or explorer who leaves on a journey with a map that has not yet been completed.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>12:00-20:00, basement exhibition until 18:00 on Sunday </ScheduleNote>
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  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
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