September.
Yeah, it’s still hot in Yokohama, but surely the autumn is coming. On September
2nd, 2018, the annual art exhibition is opened its 11th show
in the forest next to the Yokohama Zoorasia. It
will be held till 30 September, organized
by GROUP the Creation and Voice of the Woods 創造と森の声. (Phone/FAX:
045-933-1460, Email: morilabo.ws@gmail.com.
Their Facebook is here.) The show
is free of charge for visitors. As a continuation of organizational change started
since the last year for the GROUP, the concept of 2018 program reflects the
transition from baby boomers (the founders of the group) to Millennials. This year, they named their exhibition
in English: Laboratory of Forest Art.
Next week, I’ll report you what their idea is, which
was presented during the symposium on the opening day. Anyway, it’s better you
yourself go there first and find it out from their work. This week, let me
introduce you the installations the GROUP has presented in the forest for 2018 exhibition.
As there is no parking, the access to
the venue is by bus. The most convenient transportation is a bus ride to
Yokohama Zoorasia, from JR Nakayama 中山 station, Sotetsu Tsurugamine 鶴ヶ峰 Station, or Sotetsu Mitsukyo 三ツ境 Station. (Time
tables are here.) Get off the bus at Yokohama Zoorasia, and proceed further along
for about 400m to the direction of #2 Parking of the Zoo. On the right, there
will be a small gate with the sign GROUP
the Creation and Voice of the Woods. If you visit the place during weekends,
many buses will take us to the North Gate of Zoorasia (terminal stop) that is
the closest to the exhibition entrance. When you leave the terminal stop of
Zoorasia North Gate, go back a bit along the bus road, and on the left there is
the sign for the GROUP. From the sign, enter the forest; the road is a relatively
wide walking promenade. On your left there is an entrance, and you can see a
big banner over there saying “the Creation and Voice of the Woods 創造と森の声.”
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| The gate to the forest for the Exhibition from Zoorasia |
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| The entrance to the exhibition. Welcome! |
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| The banner we can find nearby |
When you enter
the forest, pls. find the reception desk where we can have free pamphlets and
the map of the forest for the show. On the right, there is a wire fence
decorated by acorns and leaves. It’s like a vignette constructed by objects
from the forest. According to the GROUP, it’s for visitors to complete by
hanging whatever they found / created in the forest (+ to protect the trekking
roads from violent trespassing). The GROUP said from this year the City of
Yokohama gave OK to leave picnic benches in the opens space at the entrance. You
can have your lunch there (; though it’s a heaven for mosquito). Below is the
map for this year’s exhibition.
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| Vignette in the forest |
9 artists have installed their work for
the 2018 show. The route for the exhibition is also changed here and there,
which is, I think, an evolved approach (, on which I’m going to talk about next
week). Each installation shows a QR code that can lead us to the concept of the
work explained by the words of the artist. … Yeah, QR code may not be so
familiar for you outside Japan. It’s a 2-dimensional bar code that can carry
more data than the codes you find in the shelves of supermarkets. To use them,
please download a QR code app. on your mobile (you can search “QR-code” in
whichever vendor). In this post, I show you the link for each manifestation of
the concept, which is the same web-page you can open from the QR code.
Installation
1
Noriaki
Oka, “Nature and Un-nature 不自然と自然”
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| https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/noriaki-oka |
Installation 2
Yoko Kiga, “territory”
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| https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/youko-kiga |
Installation 3
Kazuo Ishikuro, “Wind God, Thunder God ふうじんらいじん”
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| https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/kazuo-ishikuro |
Installation 4
Kazuma Horie, “Connecting つなげる”
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| https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/kazuma-horie |
Installation 5
Haruna Chikada, “There and Here むこうとこちら”
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| https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/haruna-chikada |
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| To enjoy this installation, please stand on the stump in the back to the mirror. |
Installation 6
ASADA,
“Dive
into the forest”
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| https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/asada-asada |
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| ASADA has an accompanying video for this installation here. |
Installation 7
Youichiro Yoshikawa, “Green circles and lines 2018 緑の丸と線
2018”
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| https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/youichiro-yoshikawa |
Installation 8
Ayumi
Suzuki, “Ring 輪”
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| https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/ayumi-suzuki |
Installation 9
Akatsuki
Harada, “The Imagination of the Giant Tree – 15 巨木のイメージ – 15”
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| https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/akatsuki-harada |
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| The work is a continuation of his Giant Tree series, following #14 at Yogyakarta last year. |
This year, they have one workshop titled “Let’s make a magic tree in the forest.” It’s on September 16, 10:00-13:00, MC-ed by Noriaki Oka (300 yen for an adult, 200 yen for a kid). RSVP via email below. Enjoy. 😄
If you find a problem in the site
introduced in this post, the best contact address will be GROUP the Creation
and Voice of the Woods.
e-mail: morilabo.ws@gmail.com
In any case, the
city office which is in charge of this forest is
Office for the Park Greeneries in the
North 北部公園緑地事務所
Yokohama Municipal Government
Creative Environment Policy Bureau 横浜市環境創造局
Phone: 045-311-2016
FAX: 045-316-8420
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