"RESONANCE 2"
at Super Deluxe
in the Roppongi, Akasaka area
This event has ended - (2009-06-06)
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Pecha Kucha Night Vol.63
at Super Deluxe
in the Roppongi, Akasaka area
This event has ended - (2009-06-24)
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Things to see and do
Today (Saturday June 6) sees a one-off performance at Super Deluxe that promised to be really quite unusual. Fusing multi-media design, music and tap dancing, “RESONANCE II” might just be the most interesting thing happening in Roppongi, if not Tokyo, this weekend.
Recently TABlog featured an interview with the Natural House Project organizers. No sooner have David Pollard and Tomonari Waku finished their workshops at the Yebisu Garden Place then they have started the next one. Every Sunday in June they will be building a small toilet out of their trademark natural materials in Kunitachi, west Tokyo. Local residents should definitely check it out. For more information on the location see the WAKUWORKS website’s page (pdf).
The amusingly named Skip City venue in Saitama is hosting its film festival for sixth time, with a record fifteen titles featured in July. Former TABlog writer Jason Gray wrote this article for Screen Daily.com about the festival. For details of the films and show times see the official site.
How to get ahead in advertising…
Check out this design competition which opens from June 18, where anyone can design an ad under the theme “the structure of words”. You are encouraged to use the MORISAWA fontpark 2.0, and if you know what that is then this competition is definitely for you. Winning entries will be used by MORISAWA and BCCKS as a real advertisement. Checking out more details, including examples and entry at the official website (Japanese).
New Publications
Who said print was dead? We previously reported on TABlog the preview of Information Architects’ annual Web Trend Map, and now it has finally been published this week. Although most copies are reserved in advance by corporate clients it is also available for purchase by the ordinary public.
Otaku of the world unite! In what promises to be the ultimate yet accessible book on the subject, Kodansha International is releasing The Otaku Encyclopaedia by Patrick W. Galbraith later this year. If you are interested, check out Pecha Kucha Night this month, where the author is rumoured to be giving a presentation.
Talks
Acclaimed theatre director Robert Woodruff is currently in Tokyo and is giving an informal bilingual talk at Yotsuya Art Studium on Wednesday June 10 from 20:00.
Daryl Cagle (Daily Editorial Cartoonist, MSNBC.com) will be giving a lecture on June 13 at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art from 15:00. The lecture is free, but visitors are required to reserve their place in advance and to pay the admission costs for the current Hara show, “Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art”. Cagle, a prolific cartoonist, will discuss the evolving role of political cartoons.
Venice
The art news is of course dominated by the start of the Venice Biennale this week. Everyone who is anyone has descended upon the Italian city. (I’m still in Tokyo, so clearly I am not anyone.) As widely publicised, Japan is mainly represented by Miwa Yanagi at the national pavilion but there are also some high profile Takashi Murakami works at La Dogana.
Further, French billionaire Francois Pinault has unveiled the Punta della Dogana, a modern art museum created from a disused customs house at the entrance to Venice’s Grand Canal. It has been orchestrated by none other than architect superstar Tadao Ando. For two years Ando worked on converting the seventeenth centry building after Pinault competed against global institution the Guggenheim Foundation and won the thirty-year lease. The new museum is supposed to be a mix of Ando’s trademark concrete with restored brick walls, skylights and the original seventeenth century facade.
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