Curator Program vol.1
OPEN PARK MINE:
Our Street Style Play
Period: 2023.5.20 [Sat] – 5.27 [Sat]
Hours: 13:00 – 19:00
Event
Workshop 2023.5.20 [Sat] 15:00 – 18:00
Talk and mini Live 2023.5.20 [Sat]19:00 –
Performance 2023.5.21 [Sun] 18:00 –
＋and more
We are pleased to announce that "Open Park MINE : Our Street Style Play" will be held at "MINE", an annex of Yamanaka Suplex, as part of the curatorial program vol.1 as the first installment. As a commemorative first step, we have invited independent curator Kaho Ikeda to plan an exhibition using the space of "MINE" from May 20 to 27, along with various events such as workshops, live performances and a pup-up bar during the exhibition period. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Aokid (artist) and Yohei Kiyoyama (urban planning researcher) participate in “Open Park MINE : Our Street Style Play” and will hold an exhibition, performances, and workshops. Although they are from different fields, both work with a focus on the relationship between the urban landscape and its people. Aokid emphasizes physicality while Kiyoyama focuses on architectural and historical aspects. For this project, the curator facilitated a power-distributed, horizontal curation process, engaging in dialogue with both Aokid and Kiyoyama from the planning stage, and proceeding organically.
MINE is a project space that retains the atmosphere of a former residence, with a large living room and an exhibition room coexisting in this unique building. In front of MINE, there is a public street and park, creating a location of contrast between the private buildings and adjacent public space. Going back in time, the area has a history of being on the periphery of a castle town where a brothel was located during the Edo period, and where a diverse range of people from inside and outside the castle town came and went.
In this project, we use the word "street" to think about the locations where these various boundaries exist. The word "street" originally meant "a public road in a city or town," but for this exhibition, it refers to the perspective and improvisational approach of street artists who expand their creative possibilities with unique ideas in all kinds of conditions. In the exhibition room, which is imagined as a playground, Aokid and Kiyoyama will combine "street" with the "boundary lines" associated with MINE to express their ideas, resonating with the park in front of them. Their attempts may provide playful inspiration to our thoughts and bodies, and may even induce practical applications of everyday "street" practices.
Kaho Ikeda (Curator)
Curator Program vol.1
OPEN PARK MINE : Our Street Style Play
Period: 2023.5.20 [Sat] – 5.27 [Sat]
Hours: 13:00 – 19:00
Venue: Yamanaka Suplex annex MINE 4F and 5F
Admission: Free
Aokid
Artist. Aokid has a root in breakdance, and started improvising in dance while a student at Tokyo Zokei University. His methods have been expanded to words, music, drawing, and events, transforming the scale of his activities to the stage, on paper, and in the city. He has developed projects such as "Aokid city" (2012-), "Animal En" (2016-), and "Street River & Beer" (2019-).Major achievements; Winner of the 12th "1_WALL" Graphic Grand Prix and the Jury Prize of Yokohama Dance Collection Competition in 2016. Solo dance performances include "Earth Freedom!" (ST Spot, 2019), and "Omochi to Light Moon" (Geishuku, 2019) as solo exhibitions. Participating group exhibitions include "STAYTUNE/D" (Gallery Muryoku, 2019) and Chim↑Pom "Ningen Restaurant" (Kabukicho Book Center, 2018)
Tumblr https://iamaokid.tumblr.com/
Port A Blue, 2022 Photo: ShinichiroIshihara
us, 2019- Photo: ShinichiroIshihara
Yohei Kiyoyama
Urban planning researcher. Through research and practice, he seeks to find local characteristics (locality) in the omnipresent contemporary landscape. For example, in non-planned urban areas of the modern era, he attempts to construct a theory for the genuine evaluation and creation of seemingly chaotic common areas by looking at casual conditions such as peeled off signboards and vacant land left behind as the traces of a detailed history. Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
Photo: Rimma Doi
Kaho Ikeda
Kaho Ikeda Independent curator. Since 2016 she has begun her independent research of collective movement and DIY culture, mainly in East and Southeast Asia. She has collaborated with local artists to organize exhibitions and workshops in various regions of Indonesia. As her recent achievement, she curated Teom Chen's solo exhibition "Nagaya Physics" (INTA-NET KYOTO, 2021), and co-curated open lab "Recipe Library'' (Rumah Budaya Sikukeluang/INTA-NET KYOTO, 2022) with the Indonesia curator. She is interested in cross-disciplinary curation that combines exhibitions, performing arts, and learning programs.
Event Guests
Moe Nakatani
Born in 1989 in Katano City, Osaka. Studied Kamigata traditional performing arts at Higashi Sumiyoshi High School. Also studied acting and dance at Kyoto University of Art and Stage Design Course. After graduation, worked as a freelance actor before joining the Kyoto-based theater company Knit Cap Theater. She also does solo performances and craft workshops for children.
Amateur Riot Radio
FM radio from the mysterious collective "Amateur Riot", based in Koenji, Tokyo, which runs a group of stores including a recycle shop, bar, and guesthouse, and is mainly active in networking with underground culture in Asia, and setting up the anti-government protests whenever it sees an opportunity!
Participating artists: Aokid, Yohei Kiyoyama
Curator: Kaho Ikeda
Designer: Mami Shimizu
Photographer: Tomohiro Yamatsuki
Videographer: Nishi Junnosuke
Related event cooperation: Moe Nakatani, Amateur Riot Radio
Organizer: Yamanaka Suplex
Co-organizer: NANEI ART PROJECT
Cooperation: Research Group for Contemporary Urban Thermo-Locality
Grant: City of Osaka Subsidy for Artistic Projects and Activities, Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation
Related Events
Workshop “Park again!”
Date/Time: 2023.5.20 [Sat] 15:00 – 18:00
Venue: Shinmachi Minami Park (2-6, Shinmachi, Nishi-ku, Osaka City, Osaka, 550-0013)
Workshop Leader: Aokid
Talk and mini Live
Date/Time: 2023.5.20 [Sat] 19:00 –
Venue: Yamanaka Suplex annex MINE 4F
Talk guest: Aokid, Kaho Ikeda, Yohei Kiyoyama
Moderator: Taro Komiya
Language: Japanese only
Performance “Hoi! Osaka!”
Date/Time: 2023.5.21 [Sun] 18:00 –
Venue: Shinmachi Minami Park
Artist: Aokid
Performance “plant a flag”
Date/Time: 2023.5.22 [Mon] 14:00 –
Venue: Yamanaka Suplex annex MINE
Artist: Moe Nakatani
FM radio “Amateur Riot Radio”
Date/Time: 2023.5.24 [Wed] 19:30 – 21:30
Venue: Yamanaka Suplex annex MINE
Radio personality: Hajime Matsumoto, Ruquitwora Matsumoto, Kaho Ikeda
Pop-up Bar “IKEDA BAR”
Date/Time: 2023.5.27 [Sun] 15:00 – 20:00
Venue: Yamanaka Suplex annex MINE 4F living room
Owner: Kaho Ikeda
Contact: yamanaka.suplex@gmail.com
About “Curator Program”
The Curator Program provides collaborative opportunities for emerging curators active in the field, and those who aim to become curators in the future, primarily with artists and cultural workers through situating themselves in the physical spaces and mutual communicating processes. The program offers a place for curatorial practices under site-specific conditions, taking into account the context, resources, and histories of the former residential MINE Building, where the landlord used to live on the 4th and 5th floors and various people lived on on the 3rd floor as residents.