Mori Art Museum is calling for your own episodes and photos concerning the exhibition, "Lee Mingwei and His Relations."
After visiting the exhibition, please write in the "comments" (in 100 to 200 words) with or without your favorite photos you took to share your experience at the exhibition, impressions of each project!
Please be informed that your photos and episodes may be used for the Mori Art Museum Official Website and Blog - in such cases, personal information will be omitted for privacy protection.
■The Mending Project
The Mending Project
2009/2014
Installation view: "Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation"
Mori Art Museum
Photo: Yoshitsugu Fuminari
The artist or a host will mend the clothing brought by visitors and converse with them while mending. The mended articles will remain tied to the cones of thread mounted to a wall, lending the space a dynamism arising from the colorful connections.
■The Moving Garden
The Moving Garden
2009/2014
Installation view: "Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation"
Mori Art Museum
Photo: Yoshitsugu Fuminari
The Moving Garden invites you to take flower from the central channel of the granite table as you leave the museum. By doing so, however, you agree to the following conditions:
1. Take a different route from the one you used to get here when you leave the museum.
2. Give the flower as a gift to a stranger that you meet long the way.
Let the act change between you and the recipient of your gift. The unexpected encounters between strangers triggered by this project will create a "moving garden" that grows from the Mori Art Museum and extends into the city.
■The Living Room
The Living Room
2000 / 2014
Installation view: "Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation"
Mori Art Museum
Photo: Yoshitsugu Fuminari
The Living Room is a project and a place to relax and to listen to the memories and episodes related to the history of Roppongi District. The artist, Director of the Mori Art Museum, or other volunteers recruited from the general public will host the project and share their memory or episode with visitors, using their memorable items and/or photos (the performance will take place at random).
■Sonic Blossom
Sonic Blossom
2000 / 2014
Performance view: "Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation"
Mori Art Museum
Photo: Yoshitsugu Fuminari
The idea for Sonic Blossom came to the artist when caring for his sick mother. Inspired by the fact they both found solace in listening to Franz Schubert's Lieder, the project takes the form of "gift-giving" of the Lieder to a chosen member of the audience.
■Relevant information
・Introducing Artworks and Sections from "Lee Mingwei and His Relations"
(1)Thinking Relations, Connections and In-between Space
(2)Walking, Eating, and Sleeping - Rethinking Everyday Action
・"Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation: Seeing, Conversing, Gift-giving, Writing, Dining and Getting Connected to the World"
Saturday, September 20, 2014 - Sunday, January 4, 2015
・"MAM Project 022: Jacob Kirkegaard"
Saturday, September 20, 2014 - Sunday, January 4, 2015
