Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13 that excites Tokyo from the cultural aspect We are developing various programs!

All 13 projects are finally unveiled. Until September 5th

The Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13 sponsored by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo is developing a variety of programs to boost the cultural aspects of Tokyo in the summer of 2021, which is drawing attention from all over the world. increase. From August 4th, the manga "Moshimo Tokyo" exhibition will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and finally all 13 programs will be available. Several projects are being held until September 5, and we are taking measures to prevent infection such as online, reservation system, and outdoor exhibition, so please enjoy this summer-only art program.

Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13 is a 13 program selected from 2,436 applications from Japan and overseas through open recruitment in order to boost the culture of Tokyo, where the Olympics and Paralympics will be held. Some programs will be implemented in 2019, and after the business postponement due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection in 2020, all programs will be held by September 2021. We will develop programs in various parts of Tokyo that cross various genres, are rich in originality, and are full of challenging spirit that opens up the future.

[About measures to prevent infection with the new coronavirus]
・ Each project complies with the Tokyo Metropolitan Infection Control Guidelines and takes infection control measures.
・ When you come to the venue, please cooperate with infection control measures such as wearing a mask, measuring the temperature, and disinfecting with alcohol.
・ The implementation details may change depending on the status of the new coronavirus infection.
・ For the latest information and other details, please see the official website of each project.

The Constant Gardeners Planning and Management: Jason Bruges Studios

Date: July 28th (Wednesday) -September 5th (Sunday), 2021

Venue: Ueno Onshi Park Takenodai Square

Website: https://theconstantgardeners.art
Four industrial robot arms "gardeners" that digitize the movements of the body produced by athletes in various sports competitions and read the movements pattern the movements of the athletes on a huge 14-ton gravel canvas. A large-scale outdoor robotic art installation that creates a Zen garden like a dry landscape garden.

Sumida River Rage Planning and Management: NPO Topping East

Dates: Mid-August-Early September 2021

Venue: Around Sumida River

Website: https://dotou.tokyo
A participatory music and art festival that resembles the Sumida River as a stage. Live music-centered live performances, performances, installations, etc. will be held twice, in "spring" and "summer". During the spring session held on May 22nd (Sat) and 23rd (Sun), three programs will be held online, including a one-night outdoor concert at Hamarikyu by Shuta Hasunuma Phil. Was done.

TOKYO SENTO Festival 2020 Planning and Management: TOKYO SENTO Festival 2020 Executive Committee

Date: May 26th (Wednesday) -September 5th (Sunday), 2021

Venue: All public baths affiliated with the Tokyo Bathhouse Association

Website: https://tokyosentofestival.jp/
An art project in which about 500 public baths in Tokyo participate. In "Sento Mural Paint Painting Art", "Thermae Romae" author Mari Yamazaki and NHK E-Tele "Miitsuketa! In collaboration with four public baths, artists from various fields representing Japan, such as manga, art brut, contemporary art, and popular characters, such as Ichio Otsuka, who is in charge of the art direction of Draw down. Mizuki Tanaka, a paint painter, supervises paint paintings at each public bath. Approximately 500 public baths are holding an original noren art drawn by Mari Yamazaki, and a stamp rally to receive "TOKYO SENTO Festival 2020 Special Tenugui".

Tokyo Large Mural Planning and Management: Drill Co., Ltd.

Date: July 17th (Sat) -September 5th (Sun), 2021

Venue: Marunouchi Building / Shin-Marunouchi Building

WEB site: http://www.tokyodaihekiga.jp
A huge mural art work with a total area of ​​7,752 m2 by artists Tadanori Yokoo and Mimi Yokoo. It will be exhibited on the wall of the Marunouchi Building and Shin-Marunouchi Building, which are also landmarks in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Based on the concept of "Space COSMO POWER", both of them created original works with the theme of water (aqua) and fire (ignis) as the elements that form the basis of space life. Using montage and collage techniques, parts of the work are composed of things that are not simple fire or water, and by viewing from various places up, down, left and right while moving from time to time, the place, viewpoint, time and weather A work in which different discoveries can be obtained.

TOKYO REAL UNDERGROUND Planning and operation: NPO Dance Archive Concept

Date: April 1st (Thursday) -August 15th (Sunday), 2021

Venue: Online and multiple locations in Tokyo

Website: http://www.tokyorealunderground.net/
An experimental art festival that reproduces various expressions influenced by "Butoh", which was born in postwar Japan and spread all over the world, in a modern underground space. We will explore the history of cities and physical expressions that will change drastically before the Olympics and Paralympics with the keyword "underground." Photo exhibitions in the underpass, city walking experience using AR, online performances, etc. are held. From August 3rd, the "Butoh New Archive Exhibition" will be held as a program to mark the end (advance reservation), and a new video work by photographer Takano Takano and a chronology of Butoh "Butoh Event Logistics" published online. The original illustrations and pseudo-holograms will be exhibited.

DANCE TRUCK TOKYO Planning and production: Japan Trucking Association

Dates: Thursday, September 5, 2019-September 2021

Venue: Various places in Tokyo, online

WEB site: http://dance-truck.jp/tokyo/
Mobile "DANCE TRUCK" that uses the loading platform of transportation trucks is being developed in various places in Tokyo. The performance in front of JR Takanawa Gateway Station, which was held at 5 locations in 2019 (1 location was canceled due to stormy weather) and was held without spectators in 2020, is being released on the website. In addition, the video of the unattended performance at Tsukiji Honganji in March 2021 will be released soon. In 2021, it has been implemented at two locations, Tachikawa San San Road (Tachikawa) and the former Nakagawa / Kawano Station (Higashi Ojima).

Pavilion Tokyo 2021 Planning: Watarium Art Museum

Date: July 1st (Thursday) -September 5th (Sunday), 2021

Venue: Various parts of Tokyo, mainly in the area around the New National Stadium

WEB site: https://paviliontokyo.jp/
The world's first attempt to propose a free and new urban landscape by installing buildings and objects in multiple locations centered on the New National Stadium. Nine pavilions by six architects who are attracting attention around the world and Makoto Aida and Yayoi Kusama, who represent Japan, are on display. In addition, Daito Manabe + Rhizomatiks also participated specially. Audiences can go around the pavilions where architects and artists active in the world express their wishes for the future, like a treasure hunt with a map in one hand, or while taking a walk. Related events such as symposium recording videos distributed by creators and guest speakers who designed the pavilion and related exhibitions at the Watarium Art Museum are also being held (some advance reservations required, some admission fees).

After School Diversity Dance Planning / Production: ADD Executive Committee

Schedule: May 2021-August 2021 (Workshop will be held from September 2019)

Venue: Minato Ward, Kunitachi City, Hinode Town

Website: https://addance.net/
From September 2019 to 2021 6 as a multicultural workshop project that bridges the diverse dance cultures of Tokyo and allows children to learn to dance regardless of age, gender, nationality or body. Conducted in three areas, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Kunitachi City, and Hinode Town, over the month. After receiving workshops by professional choreographers and various people involved in dance in the community, the children themselves challenged to create dance. Due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, we were forced to make major changes from the original plan, such as creating a hybrid with online, but as a culmination of the online debriefing session and documentary video in late August 2021. Scheduled to be released.

Manga "Moshimo Tokyo" Exhibition Planning and Management: Manga "Moshimo Tokyo" Exhibition Executive Committee

Date: August 4th (Wednesday) -September 5th (Sunday), 2021

Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo B2F Auditorium, courtyard, water and stone promenade

WEB site: https://mangamoshimotokyo.jp/
Twenty works drawn by 20 leading Japanese manga artists, including Taiyo Matsumoto of "Ping Pong", Inio Asano of "Solanin", and Shinichi Ishizuka of "BLUE GIANT", with the theme of "Tokyo". Project to be exhibited. The 20 "Moshimo Tokyo" works produced by cartoonists are exhibited, including the public spaces in the museum, such as the auditorium on the second floor of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and the courtyard, based on the concept of "reading Tokyo, walking manga". A new type of manga exhibition where you can appreciate existing works. Admission is free, and only in the auditorium is reserved in advance.

◆ Holding report
Masayume Planning: Eyes[mé]

Date: Friday, July 16, 2021

Venue: Central Tokyo

Website: https://masayume.mouthplustwo.me
Contemporary art team eyes[mé] Is planned. On July 16th, a project "Masayume" was held to solicit faces from all over the world regardless of age, gender, or nationality, and to float the selected "one real face" in the sky of Tokyo. From the viewpoint of the concept of the work, which values ​​the experience of encountering the work by chance, and the prevention of the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the date and place were not announced in advance. Through various channels such as, the huge face that suddenly appeared in the city center from early morning attracted a lot of attention. The floating "face" is the face of a real person selected from more than 1000 faces gathered in the "face recruitment" held in 2019, and it is a three-dimensional model with a height of 6 to 7 floors of the building. It has become. The overwhelming scenery has caused a great deal of shock and attention to many people.

World Intangible Cultural Heritage Forum Planning and Production: Japan Folk Performing Arts Association

Date: Sunday, August 1, 2021

Venue: Hulic Hall Tokyo

Website: https://wfes.jp/wforum/
An event that introduces folk performing arts handed down all over the world and lets you experience the importance and charm of world intangible cultural heritage. The performing arts of six countries on five continents (Republic of Indonesia, Republic of Estonia, Republic of Ethiopia, Kingdom of Tonga, Kingdom of Bhutan, Republic of Honduras) were scheduled to be invited to Tokyo last year as "World Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival 2020", but the new coronavirus infection Canceled due to expansion. In the form of a forum, we visited each country and gave reports on local research and talk sessions inviting guests. By introducing the images taken during the research, the report conveys the charms that cannot normally be seen unless you go to the site, such as the culture of each area where each performing art was nurtured and the colorful costumes. In addition, in the talk session where various guests such as His Majesty the Demon and Mr. Kanae Takeuchi, a mystery hunter, took the stage, we talked about the surprising commonalities between the world and Japanese performing arts and the variety of Japanese Bon Odori, and many people talked about it. It was an opportunity to experience the charm and value of the world's intangible cultural heritage, which was unknown until now.

Speed of light -The Speed of Light- planning: Marco Canale

Schedule: Theatrical performance May 22, 2021 (Sat), movie version released May 1, 2021 (Wednesday) -31 (Monday)

Venue: Nishitaishido Park, various places around Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Taishido Hachiman Shrine outdoor special stage

Website: https://tsol.tokyo/
A tour-type theater project by Argentine theater and videographer Marco Canale, who will travel around the city of Tokyo with performers aged 65 and over who live in Tokyo. At the theater performance held on Saturday, May 22, the senior generation living in Tokyo talked about their personal history with performances, and then Canale wrote down the past, present, and future based on research in Tokyo. Performing a story of fiction where the world intersects. This work, which deals with death, the afterlife, and faith, was set in the sacred art of the ability of the living to meet the dead. Everything the performers can have, with the desire of the Canale to share with the audience the memories and pains left by the war, and the memories and stories of the performers who survived the remarkable postwar reconstruction. This work, which has been created by pouring in, has greatly moved the hearts of the audience. Theatrical performances and the movie version of "Speed ​​of Light" ended in May, but in the short video series "Breathing in Tokyo, Each History", which is still being released, the actual experiences that the performers talk about, You can experience each personal history filled with memories, memories, and emotions. From August 14th (Sat) to September 20th (Mon), the recorded video of the theatrical performance will also be released on the official YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ_YUoDFpz8xucuZGCFx5Bg).

Light and Sound Installation “Coded Field” Planning / Production / Direction: Rhizomatiks

Date: Saturday, November 16, 2019

Venue: Zojoji Temple, Minato Ward Shiba Park, Tokyo Metropolitan Shiba Park

Website: https://coded-field.tokyo/
A public art project that weaves light and sound, set in Zojoji, the main temple of the Jodo sect in Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, and its surroundings. Participants with a balloon-shaped device specially developed for this project created a field in which information for generating light and sound was embedded by analyzing the architectural data and topographical data of Omotoyama Masueji Temple. When migrating, the light and sound emitted by the device change depending on the positional relationship. With a total of 1000 devices moving at the same time, the lights shimmered, the sounds wriggled, and the venue around Omotoyama Zojoji, which has history and tradition, transformed into a fantastic near-future Tokyo. In addition, Rhizomatiks technology is available, such as directing according to the movement and density of participants, and a dolly-type robot that moves freely back and forth and left and right, which was unveiled for the first time as a live production device that runs completely autonomously. It was an installation that I had never seen before. In addition, the dance company "ELEVENPLAY" led by director choreographer MIKIKO will also appear on the day. He performed while freely moving around the stage and the venue, fascinated the audience.

[Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13] (Plan name in alphabetical order)

<Currently held>
Project name: The Constant Gardeners
Schedule: July 28th (Wednesday) -September 5th (Sunday), 2021
Venue: Ueno Onshi Park Takenodai Square

Project name: Sumida River Rage
Schedule: Mid-August-September 2021 * Spring session has been held in May 2021
Venue: Around Sumida River [Online distribution available]

Project name: TOKYO SENTO Festival 2020
Implementation schedule: May 26th (Wednesday) -September 5th (Sunday), 2021
Venue: All public baths affiliated with the Tokyo Bathhouse Association

Project name: Tokyo Large Mural
Implementation schedule: July 17th (Sat) -September 5th (Sun), 2021
Venue: Marunouchi Building, Shin-Marunouchi Building

Project name: TOKYO REAL UNDERGROUND
Implementation schedule: April 1st (Thursday) -August 15th (Sunday), 2021
Venue: Online, Ginza underground walkway, Ginza / Shinbashi street, etc. [Online distribution available]

Project name: DANCE TRUCK TOKYO
Implementation schedule: September 5, 2019-September 2021
* 5 locations in 2019 and 2 locations in 2021 * Recorded in September 2020 and March 2021 as unattended performances
Venue: Tokyo's 23 wards, Tama area, islands [online delivery available]

Project name: Pavilion Tokyo 2021
Implementation schedule: July 1st (Thursday) -September 5th (Sunday), 2021
Venue: Around the New National Stadium, etc.

Project name: After-school diversity dance
Date: May-August 2021 * Workshop will start in September 2019
Venue: Kunitachi City, Hinode Town, Minato Ward, etc.

Project name: Masayume
Date: Summer 2021
Venue: Tokyo

Project name: Manga "Moshimo Tokyo" Exhibition
Implementation schedule: August 4, 2021 (Wednesday) -September 5, 2021 (Sunday)
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

<End of holding>
Project name: World Intangible Cultural Heritage Forum
Implementation schedule: Sunday, August 1, 2021
Venue: Hulic Hall Tokyo

Project name: Speed ​​of Light -The Speed ​​of Light-
Date: May 22, 2021 (Sat) ・ Movie version: May 12 (Wed) -May 31 (Mon)
Venue: Nishitaishido Park, Taishido Hachiman Shrine, etc. [Online delivery available]

Project name: Light and Sound Installation “Coded Field”
Implementation schedule: Saturday, November 16, 2019
Venue: Zojoji Temple, Minato Ward Shiba Park, Tokyo Metropolitan Shiba Park

[What is Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL]
In order to liven up Tokyo, where the Olympics and Paralympics are held, from a cultural perspective, we are developing a variety of cultural programs to convey the charm of Tokyo, an art and cultural city.
Official website: https://tokyotokyofestival.jp/

[What is Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13]
The Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo will carry out a wide range of innovative and original projects and projects that will allow more people to participate, and will color the core of Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL. 13 projects selected from 2,436 applications from Japan and overseas are collectively called "Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13" and are being developed.
Official website: https://ttf-koubo.jp/