Event

switch – kouichi okamoto solo exhibition

DATE : April 27 - June 3, 2012
opening hours 11:00-20:00
LOCATION : POLA MUSEUM ANNEX
POLA Ginza building 3F,
1-7-7, Ginza, chuo-ku,Tokyo
URL : http://www.pola.co.jp/m-annex/

Related event :
live performance by Kouichi Okamoto
April 28, 13:00-13:20/15:00-15:20
LOCATION : POLA MUSEUM ANNEX

Presented by POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC.
http://www.pola.co.jp/

Production & Curation NPO Hexaproject
http://www.icn-global.com/

Okamoto's new creation "musical table" and "lighting chair" are exhibited during in the period.

Musical table :
The musical table installed 504 volumes on the top plate, and there are 504 musical box movements which play only a single sound in the point of the 5-m electric line extended from there. The motor revolving speed of the musical boxes are adjusted by the volume of the table, and the musical boxes play sound at random.

Lighting chair :
They are a chair in which the electric socket plates are embedded, and a chair in which the switch plates are embedded. The electrical cord extended from the plug inserted in the electric socket is to a switch, and the electrical cords are transmitted to brass and copper gas pipes. The lamp of the colander made from pure copper of various sizes illuminates the chairs. The Musical table and the Lighting chair were created by cooperation of POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC.

TOO MUCH

http://toomuchmagazine.com/

今回のRomantic Geographyでは、都市とアートの関係を考えてみたいと思います。
1限目では、社会学者の南後由和氏と、ある1人の画家が考えた都市計画について、2限目ではアーティストの大山エンリコイサム氏と、都市環境と制作の関係を考えていきます。

2012.4.22 (sun)
1限目 open 14:00/ start 14:30
2限目 open 16:30/ start 17:00
料金:各回￥1,000、通し券￥1,500

From 4 to 13 April 2012 COLORS will be at the Design Museum in London with “Happiness and other survival techniques”, an exhibition inspired by the Survival Guides trilogy (Happiness, S**t and Transport). The exhibition will be simultaneously presented at Benetton Icon Stores in London, Milan, Barcelona and Paris through the projection of videos and artistic animations on the Benetton Live Windows.