Collaborative Planners for “Meet the Artists: Practice for Encountering the Unknown” Now Finalized!

2020.9.24 [Thu]

As part of our search for collaborative planners for “Meet the Artists: Practice for Encountering the Unknown”, we conducted application screening and online interviews of those shortlisted, and have decided on three planners to take on this role.
We would like to thank everyone within and outside of Japan who applied. As a result of this planning, we will be holding a series of online programs along with artist Yamamoto Takayuki and Mori Art Museum Learning for around one year, from August 2020 to August 2021.
We will announce the upcoming program details in “LEARNING ONLINE” and other places.

Profiles of Our Collaborative Planners

Koyama Yuya

Born 1989 in Saitama Prefecture. Koyama considers his body as the place where substance and systems converge. In his work, he experiments with the visualization and erosion of existing structures within society and communication. His means and media of artistic expression include video, performance, sculpture, installations, textual work, photography and more. At the Creative Spiral Laboratory (CSLAB) of Tokyo Zokei University, the Ongoing School and other places, Koyama endeavors to disassemble and reuse existing methods of education and learning. His major solo exhibitions in recent years include DONUT PLANET (Art Center Ongoing, 2019), Kokan ya Shutoku (Exchanges and Acquisitions) SAKSAK vol. 1 (blanclass, 2018), COUNTERWEIGHT (Open Letter, 2017), Remaining Methods (3331 Arts Chiyoda, 2017) and more.

Noguchi Tappei

Born in 1992. Art explorer. Noguchi encountered woodblock prints and performance art at the Musashino Art University, and further experienced conceptual hiking and creative mountain climbing with the Waseda University Exploration Club. Through these experiences, he began to consider the affinities between these in contemporary creation and expression. His activities feature the harmony of “movement, assembly and expression,” including Hitchhiking towards New York and Traveling all the way around Taiwan while pulling tires. Since 2017, he advocates “intervention in the world through the ‘De-systemization’ method, along with written records at a ‘level that surpasses language&rlsquo;” in the name of artistic exploration. Noguchi is presently contemplating the exploration of art in the COVID-19 era, while researching the wisdom, techniques, and spirituality of the “drifters” of all ages and countries.

Sakai Masayo

Completed her musical studies at Toho Gakuen School of Music (Piano major). She has devoted herself to chamber music, and has played in many different ensembles, ranging from duo and Lied accompaniment to piano quintet. She also worked closely with Michael Spencer (Violinist, Facilitator, Educator) acting as an assistant facilitator, interpreter and coordinator. Through this work, she has expanded her career into community-engaged works and educational programming through music.
She started, in 2018, Tokyo University of the Arts open course entitled “Geidai Musitanz,” encouraging a new form of play combining classical music and bodily expression. Through “Atelier Musitanz” (part 1 of the practical education offered via the “Meeting Arasumi!,” a cultural arts promotional project at universities subsidized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan), Sakai works together with the Adachi, Sumida and Taito wards of Tokyo to develop music programs that deal with the issues faced by each ward; and she is involved in training programs for art facilitators and coordinators. Currently an Assistant Professor of the Graduate School of Global Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts.