Sonoaida Residency

Sonoaida #Shin-Yurakucho Artist-in-Residence

Sonoaida #Shin-Yurakucho (Tokyo)
Residency period: January 18 – February 26, 2023
Final exhibition: February 24–26


In February 2023, I took part in the ninth term of SONO AIDA #Shin-Yurakucho ARTISTS STUDIO as a winning artist of the A-TOM ART AWARD 2022. The venue was a vacant storefront on the ground floor of Mitsubishi Estate’s Shin-Yurakucho Building. The project is run by A-TOM Co., Ltd. as part of A-TOM ART ACTION, an initiative that uses vacant urban spaces as “spatial media.” For about a month and a half, I moved my working environment into this space and made the process of production itself public as I worked.

ON LIMITS – research collage of photographs and handwritten notes on the requisitioned buildings of Yurakucho
ON LIMITS – research collage with a hand-drawn map of the Yurakucho area and handwritten notes
ON LIMITS – research collage comparing photographs of Times Square in New York with handwritten notes
ON LIMITS – research collage around a front page of the Stars and Stripes newspaper from the occupation period
ON LIMITS – research collage of occupation-era newspaper clippings and handwritten notes on entry permits
ON LIMITS – research collage of OFF LIMITS signs and neon club signs from occupied Tokyo
ON LIMITS – research collage on the post-war Recreation and Amusement Association, with handwritten notes
ON LIMITS – interior of the #Sonoaida studio with the ON LIMITS sign hung above the entrance
ON LIMITS – night view of the open studio with visitors inside, seen from the street

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