Exhibition2020
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- Past
chelfitsch & Teppei Kaneuji
Eraser Forest
2020.2.7(Fri.) - 2020.2.16(Sun.)
Hot on the heels of “Eraser Mountain” for the theater now comes “Eraser Forest” for the museum! “Eraser Forest” is a piece of theater to be staged in the galleries of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Except that rather than the usual theatrical relationship of performer vs spectator, it will attempt to create an experience in which the environment itself becomes the drama. Playwright Toshiki Okada and contemporary artist Teppei Kaneuji will turn the Museum’s galleries into a laboratory in a fascinating work that addresses the use of bodily expression to rethink relationships between people and objects in the Anthropocene era.
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- Current
15th Anniversary Exhibition
Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future［2］
2019.10.12(Sat.) - 2020.4.12(Sun.)
Now in our 15th anniversary year, the museum’s collection stands at 3,880 artworks—an achievement of the two decades since collecting began in 2000, prior to the museum’s opening. In those two decades, society has changed radically, a phenomenon the collection strongly reflects in its growing number of artworks sharply attuned to their times. This exhibition will reinterpret the collected works from the perspective of today’s issues so as to form a picture of where we now stand, in a complexly diversifying world, and begin sketching out a map of the future.
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- Current
lab.4 Space Syntax
2019.10.12(Sat.) - 2020.6.14(Sun.)
“Spaces” are where we live. We perceive spaces, by various means, and if a space changes, so does our behavior. Thus it would seem spatial layout and human behavior are closely related. Where might we find the key to illuminating that relationship? This fourth exhibition in the “lab.” series will search for this key, via research and analysis from the perspectives of connections and relationships. The important term here is “space syntax”: syntax referring to a system for deriving meaning based on the relationship between words. Space syntax is the name given to a thesis developed in the 1970s by Bill Hillier, a professor at The Bartlett (Faculty of the Built Environment) of University College London, and to the eponymous global firm engaged in its practice. The theory and practice of space syntax, which incorporates a scientific approach to analyzing spatial layout, and contemplates the relationship between human perceptions and behavior, has attracted growing attention in recent years as a new technique for the design of urban and architectural spaces. While showcasing this space syntax theory and practice, for the duration of the exhibition we will also be undertaking two research/analysis projects at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. The first will be a study of indoor behavior. A video analysis technique employing new technologies such as machine learning will be introduced to observe the flow of people around pathways inside the museum, and when and where people stop, and sit, to analyze the relationship between spatial layout, and human perception and behavior. The second will target the museum’s Exhibition Zones, surveying the routes taken by visitors. The idea will be to identify new possibilities for the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, by analyzing features of the museum’s spatial layout, and exploring their potential. These research activities will be undertaken by enlisting help from the research supporters who also took part in the “lab.1 OTON GLASS” and “lab.2 Sight” exhibitions, with outcomes being collated and updated in the Design Gallery, venue for “lab. 4.” Perhaps that key illuminating the relationship between spatial layout and human behavior will be found in our transparent glass laboratory.
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