BEING

THERE Artist Residency and Retreat Camp

Artist Residency

28.8 – 7.9.2017

Retreat Camp

8.9 – 10.9.2017

Participating Artists

Samson Cheung Choi-sang Arumimi Hifumi Fiona Lee Wing-shan Frank Tang Kai-yiu Junko Kido Reina Kimura Soichiro Mihara Hiromi Miyakita Makoto Oshiro Tomohiko Ogawa Akio Suzuki Akinori Yamasaki

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音のある芸術祭

Artist Residency

28.8 – 7.9.2017

Retreat Camp

8.9 – 10.9.2017

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黃嘉淇聲音掏腰 行政總監BEING THERE 2017策展人

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It all makes sense to me when I reflect on this year’s programme design. If BEING THERE

2014 could be described as a programme that took a “broad” perspective in understanding a

place, then BEING THERE 2017 can certainly be seen as our endeavor to go “deep” into the

place, the space and the culture of Kyotango by considering several of its distinctive and

representative locations and things. By gathering together artists from a diversity of regions

and backgrounds, we will be taking an eclectic approach of artmaking in our effort to create

an impression/imagination about Kyotango.

The exhibition “listening, seeing, being there” invites the audiences to step into the campus of

the former GO Elementary School, take in the sound and sight experienced by the artists, and

then listen, see and explore the sceneries of Kyotango for themselves. While their impressions

and imaginations about Kyotango may be fragmented or episodic, the artists will all be

putting their unique interests, insights and ideas on display. Once these are collected in the

same space, the works will morph harmoniously into a site-specific viewing experience that is

nevertheless not entirely “local”, and turn the unused school into a space that is temporarily

frozen in time.

Another programme highlight, “Timetable of the Day – Tango~Toyooka Performance Train”,

is a railway journey that combines art appreciation and sightseeing. The moving train

connecting Amino and Toyooka will be turned into a performance space, where artists can

make use of the body and other objects, or even reconfigure the space, to lead passengers on

an exploration in and outside the car with their body and senses. Listen up when you are

walking and looking around – always in the knowledge that time will drag you back on the

departing train before you could stop and really take in the moment.

Our gratitude must go to ART CAMP TANGO for their support and hospitality; they are not

just partners of soundpocket, but also our fellow enthusiasts in sound and listening, in art and

culture, who continually inspire and push us to keep our faith and further explore the

possibilities of sound and listening.

Thank you to all the participating artists.

Thank you, Kyotango.

The depth and breadth of a place; the shifting of soundscape and the stillness of landscape; the

people who wander and the people who stay: these random or intentional configurations are

all set to end up forming our spectrum of experiences. For to listen and watch is really to

linger and immerse yourself in that environment; you need to be there to feel it.

AROUND and BEING THERE.

Alice WongExecutive Director, soundpocket Curator of BEING THERE 2017

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Kyotango city (also known as Tango) overlooks the Sea of Japan in the northern part of Kyoto

Prefecture. The city has a long history and has fostered a unique culture due to its unique

geographical conditions and abundant nature. ART CAMP TANGO (ACT) is a project that

began in 2013 and involves artists and local volunteers from Kyotango City. This year they are

working together with the Hong Kong based NPO soundpocket on a creative programme that

allows artists to spend time away from the city and be close to nature in Tango, and to create

art works and share in cultural exchange with the local community. In 2014, the first edition

of 'BEING THERE - artist residency and retreat camp', also known as ART CAMP Amino and

as part of the of Around sound art festival 2014, was held in Amino-cho, Kyotango City. Local

artists, artists from Hong Kong and young local residents all enthusiastically took part in the

event, and it would have been a pity if it had remained an isolated event. Thus the project was

renamed ART CAMP TANGO and its activities widened to include Kyotango City. A research

residency was held during August 2016 so that artists could stay in Tango and research the

local culture and natural environment.

This year is the second ART CAMP TANGO following the one held in 2014, and the focus is

on artists and participants experiencing the appeal of Tango together. The theme of this year’s

festival is ‘listening, seeing, being there’ with a wide range of interpretation based upon

‘sound’. Prior to the festival, twelve artists from Kyotango, Kyoto, Tokyo and Hong Kong,

each with an acute and flexible sensitivity, will participate in a two-week residency and present

works that they have conceived and created during their stay in Tango. Each artist will

introduce their creative expressions that evolved from their experience of listening and

observing their surrounded environment from their unique perspectives.

Several events will be held during the first week, including an opening performance onboard

a local train and an art exhibition held at a former elementary school. ACT will also host the

BEING THERE 2017 - artist residency and retreat camp to welcome the group of

participating artists from Hong Kong. Through these artistic activities, we hope that

participants can experience the unique charm of Tango.

Furthermore, ACT will also hold various events and projects during following two weekends

until 24th September. These include a sound workshop, where participants can stroll through

the soundscape of the old town streets, and an archive of sound projects in Tango created by

Akio Suzuki including ‘the Space in the Sun’ and ‘The Festivities of the Ancient Hill in Tango’.

Guests can also experience a project to recreate a traditional Japanese Wasen boat in

Kumihama. The Asian Meeting Festival comes to Tango as a series of tour, to visit specially

selected sites for listening to the sounds of nature. Through this festival many people from

backgrounds diverse in age, nationality, cultural and language will gather in Tango, and we

hope the event will create a platform for diversity in our society.

Last but not least, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Executive Director of

soundpocket, Ms Alice Wong, and to the soundpocket administration team. Their great

contribution and support to the co-curated exhibition programme and opening performance

was invaluable. Our long friendship and the mutual trust that we share with soundpocket are

very important to us all at ART CAMP TANGO.　

The expression of ‘sound’ does not rely upon sound alone. Rather it is an artistic expression

that includes the person who creates the sound, the listener and the surrounding environment.

Sound is something open to many people and there is no barrier to understanding it. By

sharing such an open art form and all the expressions associated with sound, we aim to create

a platform where numerous values and diversity can openly exist together.

We hope to see you all in Tango at the end of the summer.

ART CAMP TANGO 2017 Administration team

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Samson Cheung Choi-sang (Hong Kong) dreamt of being a farmer, bus driver, football player

when he was a teenager and thankfully enjoyed looking at the sea every day. He gained a

Postgraduate Diploma in Photography from HKU SPACE in 2012, and started open up his ear

and explore sound as medium since 2013, after being inspired by coffee marks left on coffee

cups. He is the awardee of soundpocket’s Artist Support Programme 2014-15. He participated

in artists residencies organized by Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago (2015) and Waley

Art in Taipei (2015). He has recently started exploring his ideas through performance, spatial

intervention and by putting himself and participants in different situations.

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Arumimi Hifumi (Taiwan/Hong Kong) is an award-winning stage artist and indie musician.

Arumimi was born in Taiwan and lives and works in Hong Kong. She graduated from Taiwan

Woman's College Of Arts And Technology and became a professional dancer. She then moved

to Hong Kong and studied Stage Management at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing

Arts. She received Butoh training under the supervision of Kazuo Ohno, founder of Japanese

Butoh, and has also taken courses on Lester Horton Technique and Contemporary Dance at

STEPS Dance Studio, Wellsville, New York and Studio Harmonic, Paris, France. She is

currently Director of Performing Arts of Skyhigh Creative Partners.

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Fiona Lee Wing-shan (Hong Kong) was born in Hong Kong. Lee obtained her Bachelor of

Arts Degree majoring in Critical Intermedia Laboratory from the School of Creative Media,

City University of Hong Kong. Her works of art are derived from the intersection between

installation and performance. Listening creates an important connection between Lee and the

world; this is when she feels the movement of every single moment. Lee's installations and

improvisational performances with various artists have been featured in a number of art

festivals, including Ryogoku Cinema Tendon 2017 (Tokyo), ifva Carnival 2016 (Hong Kong),

Around Sound Art Festival 2014 (Kyoto), Transi(en)t Manila Project Glocal 2014 (Manila)

and The 12th Seoul International NewMedia Festival (Seoul). Her sound and light

performance “delight” has been hosted internationally in Taiwan, Korea, Macau and Hong

Kong. She was invited to perform at the Asian Meeting Festival 2016 in Japan, and she also

takes part in improvisations with a variety of musicians & sound artists. Lee’s self-published

album "walking in a daze" (2016) collected sound works she created.

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Frank Tang Kai-yiu (Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-based artist whose artworks look into

the performative elements of Chinese painting and are provocative to human thoughts,

senses and behaviours.

Tang received his Bachelor of Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2010. He

was awarded Grant Award by Muses Foundation (2012) and the Louis Mak Chinese

Painting Award (2012). In 2014, he was invited to a 6-month residency in Zurich by The

Zurich University of the Arts. Tang participated in such exhibitions and projects as “A

Taste of Hong Kong” (Belgium, 2016 & Hong Kong, 2017), “From 4am to 10pm” at chi

artspace (Hong Kong, 2016-17), “around sound and site –specific” (Kyoto, 2016), “China

8 – Tradition Today – Ink Painting and Calligraphy” at Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen

(Gelsenkirchen, 2015) and “Creating the future: Thinking About the Unthinkable” at

Momentum (Berlin, 2015). His artworks have also been exhibited in museums, art

organizations and galleries in Germany, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Taiwan.

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Participating Artists | Participating Artists |

Junko Kido (Japan) was born in Toyama, Japan, in 1976, and now lives and works in Kyoto.

Kido creates various installations that arise from a sensitive process of reading and

understanding the nature of the location through her own perceptions. The passage of time

and the unique dynamics of particular spaces are important elements in her installations, and

this allows her to create site specific works, the qualities of which gradually emerge in a series

of random experiences. By creating random encounters between spectators and the location,

Kido aims to create a personalized experience that appeals to the sensitivities of each

individual.

Kido’s various solo exhibitions include: ‘MEIRIN CHAKAI’(Kyoto Art Center, 2014), ‘Night

and Day’ (GALLERY CAPTION, Gifu, 2014), ‘Winter Bloom’ (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of

Art, Kobe, 2014) and ‘Calling’ (Minokamo City Museum, 2009). Her group shows include:

‘Moonlight Reflected on the Water’s Surface’ (Kyoto City University of Arts, Art Gallery

@KCUA, 2015), ‘NOW JAPAN’ (KAdE Kunsthal, Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2013), ‘MOT

Annual, Nearest Faraway’ (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2011), and ‘Ways of World

making’ (National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2011).

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Reina Kimura (Japan) was born in Aomori, Japan. She started to study ballet and modern

dance at the age of four and is now a dancer and choreographer who is currently based in

both Tokyo and Kobe. She is interested in the influences that the environment and language

has upon the body, and has carried out her research and work in a variety of different

places. Kimura participated for an extended period in Sioned Haws’ project starting in

2008, during which time she performed in Japan, Asia and Europe as dancer and

co-choreographer. She also took part in the choreography course ‘DANCE KOKUNAI

RYUGAKU’ in Kobe as a scholarship student and then she started her choreographer

career. Kimura was a finalist at the Yokohama Dance Collection 2014EX and at the 2014

Toyota Choreography Award. She participated artist in residence program at Kinosaki

International Art Center in 2014 and ART CAMP TANGO in 2016. In her current work

she considers the difference between choreographing her own body and choreographing

those of others.

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Hiromi Miyakita (Japan) is a dancer and visual artist living in Kyotango, Japan. After

graduating from the department of dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

she started her dance career in Japan in the latter half of the 1990s. Miyakita’s practice works

with the concept of ‘dance through stillness’, and the motion of the human body when

considered as an object rather than as a living being. This leads her to start experimenting

with an improvised performance and visual arts. Since 2011, Miyakita has continued to work

on site-specific performances with Akio Suzuki, and her most recent performances include

Okayama Prefectural Art Museum (Okayama, 2015), Kinosaki International Art Center

(Toyooka, 2016), the Imago Dei Festival (Krems, 2014) and. She has applied her own sense of

space and time to visual art since 2012, and presented installations such as ‘Permanent Red’

(MEDIA SHOP, Kyoto, 2015) and ‘point A point B’ (ozasahayashi_project, Kyoto, 2016).

Since 2014, Miyakita has organized and participated in ART CAMP TANGO as a curator and

artist.

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Soichiro Mihara (Japan) was born in 1980, Tokyo and currently works in Kyoto, Japan.

Aiming to make art that openly engages with the world. Soichiro Mihara creates systems that

employ a wide range of materials, media, and technologies, such as acoustics, bubbles,

radiation, rainbow, microbes and moss in order to continually questions the here and now.

Since 2011, after an earthquake and tsunami struck the East coast of Japan, he has been

working on ‘blanks project’, which explores the boundaries of the systems that drive modern

society. In other projects he has collaborated with specialists from different backgrounds such

as musicians, artists, electronic instrument engineers and researchers specializing in a haptic

study. Mihara has exhibited extensively both at home and abroad, and several of his projects

have won awards nationally and internationally. His solo exhibition ‘The World Filled with

Blanks’ was held at Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien in Berlin in 2013, and Kyoto Art Center

in 2016. Group exhibitions include: ‘Open Space 2017’ (NTT ICC, Tokyo, 2017), ‘Elements

of Art and Science’ (Ars Electronica Center, Linz, 2015-16), ‘Sound Art - Sound as a Medium

of Art’ (ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2012-13), ‘Open Space 2012’ (NTT ICC, Tokyo, 2012), ‘Simple

Interaction-Sound Art from Japan’ (Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark,

2011) and ‘ISEA RUHR 2010’ (Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, 2010).

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Tomohiko Ogawa (Japan) was born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido in 1971, and currently lives and

works in Kyoto. As a visual artist Ogawa’s focus is upon landscape and he also organizes

various workshops as a way to explore different ways of looking at landscape through

creating art. In recent years Ogawa became interested in traditional Japanese wooden boats

known as ‘Wasen’, which require different methods and materials for their construction

depending upon the region where they are made. This variation is a source of fascination for

Ogawa, who started to study the construction methods with skilled local boat builders.

Ogawa has exhibited both nationally and internationally, and his solo exhibitions include:

‘Free study for landscape’ (Studio J, Osaka, 2014), ‘Full of emptiness’ (Muury, Helksinki,

2002), ‘TEMPORARY #51’ (TEMPORARY SPACE, Sapporo, 1999). Group exhibitions

include: ‘Art Obulist 2016: Hurry! Slowly!’ (Obu, 2016), Botão Exhibition vol.5 ‘MOUN-

TAIN LINE / RYOSEN’ with Alec Finlay (Botão gallery, Nagoya, 2016), ‘Kei Fu Shu Jo - Well

practiced hands’ (Kyoto Art center, 2013) and ‘Silent Shadows’ (residency at Laboratoire

Village Nomade, Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland, 2008).

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Makoto Oshiro (Japan) was born in Okinawa in 1978, and is a Tokyo based performer and

artist. His primary medium is sound but he also combines other elements including light,

electricity and moving objects. In his live performances, Oshiro uses self-made tools and

instruments constructed from electronic devices, everyday materials, and junk. His

installation work examines sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon by focusing on

phenomena such as vibration and interference. Oshiro is a member of the live installation /

performance group ‘The Great △’ along with Takahiro Kawaguchi and Satoshi Yashiro, but

also recently released his first solo CD ‘Phenomenal World’ on the Japanese label Hitorri.

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Akio Suzuki (Japan) is the legendary Japanese sound artist who has continued to perform,

building instruments and exhibit sound installations for almost 50 years. Suzuki’s journey

as an artist began in 1963 with a performance at Nagoya station in which he threw a

bucket full of junk down a flight of stairs. In 1988, he set up the "Hinatabokko no kukan

(Space in the Sun)" for listening to the sounds of nature over the course of a day in Kyotan-

go, a place located exactly on the meridian line. Suzuki's performances and installations

have been presented by numerous festivals and museums in several continents such as

Docmenta14 (Athens, 2017), The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (2007), British

Museum (London, 2002), Donaueschingen Festival (Donaueschingen, 1998), Docmenta8

(Kassel, 1987), Festival d' Automne (Paris, 1978) and many others.

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Akinori Yamasaki (Japan) is a guitarist and composer based in Kyotango, Japan. Yamasaki

worked as an assistant to the sound artist Akio Suzuki from 2001 to 2003 and, in 2005,

released his first album ‘Red Field’ with support from the British music magazine ‘Wire’.

The album received good reviews from critics including David Toop, a leading critic and

musician of the UK experimental music scene. Yamasaki currently performs his solo music

live, as well as performing and compositing for the Kyoto based theatrical company

‘Karasuma Stroke Rock’. Besides his musical work he is actively involved in various

artistic fields of collaboration, such as contemporary dance, theater performance, and

visual art exhibitions. In 2014, Yamasaki released his second album ‘Etude of the Sea’, and

is currently recording his third.

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Alice Wong (Hong Kong) graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, majored

in Language and Communication. She received her Master’s Degree in Values Education

from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Alice previously worked for such art organizations and companies as PIP Theatre (former

Theatre Ensemble), ABA Productions, Osage Gallery and City Contemporary Dance

Company. She is also the Producer of Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong Productions:

Brian Eno’s Music For Airports – New Audio-visual Counterpoint (2010), Silent Film New

Music: Chaplin & Philip Glass (2011), Electric Company: An Orchestra of Laptops (2013)

and Windmill Grass Theatre Production: Super Mama Super Market (2015). Projects and

exhibitions she curated include Around sound art festival and retreat 2013 (Hong Kong,

2013), Around sound art festival 2014 - Japan (Amino, Kyoto, 2014) and Frank Tang

Kai-yiu: I was away for a while (Hong Kong, 2015). She joined soundpocket in 2011 and

is currently soundpocket’s Executive Director.

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and assistant curator at various institutions and organizations since completing her

Master’s degree in aesthetics at the Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University. Kiyosa-

wa worked as an art coordinator at Kyoto Art Center from 2008 to 2011, during which she

curated several visual arts exhibitions and managed the artist in residence program. Since

2011, she has been involved in several international art festivals, including KYOTO

EXPERIMENT, 2011, the Aichi Triennale, in 2013 and 2016, and Sapporo International

Art Festival (SIAF) in 2014, where she was a coordinator / assistant curator overseeing the

production and administration of a number of large-scale art festivals and projects.

Currently she is a member of the curatorial team of ART CAMP TANGO 2017.

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Aya Aoshima (Japan) is a freelance art coordinator, translator, and interpreter based in

Kyoto, Japan. She studied Arts Management with a focus on Music at Long Island Univer-

sity in New York and completed a Master’s degree in Arts Administration at Shenandoah

University, Virginia in the U.S. in 2007. After working at Kyoto Art Center as an art coordi-

nator from 2008-2011, she currently works for Kyoto City University of Arts as an interna-

tional coordinator, responsible for various international art projects. Her specialized field

is international cultural mobility and interdisciplinary projects between contemporary arts

and music. Currently, she studies musicology at the doctor course, the Graduate School of

Letters, Osaka University. She is also an adjunct lecturer at the School of Art, Osaka Seikei

University.

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ART CAMP TANGO (ACT) is an art project organized by artists and volunteers from the

local community of Kyotango city. ACT aims to create a platform for diversity, different

values and contemporary artistic expression that cultivates openness in our society. The

project was launched in 2013 in collaboration with ‘soundpocket’, a Hong Kong based art

and charitable organization, and it holds various events including an artist’s residency, art

presentations, performances, research projects, workshops and gatherings, to promote an

artistic experience within the sights and sounds of the natural environment of the Tango

region.

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soundpocket was established in 2008 and has been a promoter, educator, gatherer and

archivist in supporting the art and culture of listening. Throughout the years, soundpocket has

facilitated a cross-disciplinary approach to programming and education in partnership with

arts practitioners, corporations and social groups from diverse backgrounds. The Library by

soundpocket aspires to share the use of sound resources with like–minded individuals to

explore the potential for more creative collaborations.

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soundpocket is financially supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council

ART CAMP TANGO (ACT) | soundpocket |

kanabun, Kyoto Tango Railway, MEDIA SHOP, Morigen Ryokan, Nihonkai Bokujoh,

Toyooka Art Season 2017 (Toyooka City)

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Kyotango City, Kyotango City Tourism Association, Kyotango Municipal Board of

Education, Kyoto Prefecture, UMINO Kyoto DMO

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Alice Wong Satoko Kiyosawa

Vanessa Lai Itsuha Seno

Maya Tamura Kenta Umeda

Hiromi Miyakita

Blair Kan

Liu Ka-wai

Kenneth Leung

Aya Aoshima

Curators

Project Assistants

Alice WongProject Manager (soundpocket)

Akio SuzukiArtistic Advisor

Ctone Cheng (Hong Kong) Yuko Kawaguchi (Japan)Publicity Design

Yuki LukEdmund LeeTranslation

Event Video Documentation

Aya Aoshima Kazukiyo KawabuchiProject Managers (ACT)

Aiko Oizumi Public Relations

Takashi Kuroyanagi @POLAR DESIGN

@POLAR DESIGN

Naruki Tone

ART CAMP TANGO Web DesignART CAMP TANGO

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

presented by

Supported by

soundpocket is financially supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council

In collaboration with Financially supported by

Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Kyoto Prefecture ‘Bunkaryoku Challenge’ Subsidy

The Asahi Shimbun Foundation

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PROGRAMME-AT-A-GLANCE

Dates

9.9 – 24.9.2017

Opening Hours 日時10:00 -17:00 on Fridays,

Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays.

Closed Monday through Thursday.

10:00 -18:30 on 18.9.2017 (Monday)

The Presenters reserve the right to add, withdraw, reschedule or substitute artists and/or vary programmes and fees.

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Pre-opening Performance/ Welcome Party

Breakfast

Kyoto Station, Kyoto City, Japan

Assemble :Morigen Ryokan

The former GO Elementary School

Toyooka

The former GOElementary School

Amino Community Center/

Assemble :Morigen Ryokan

8.9.2017 (Fri)

DATE TIME EVENTS ARTISTS VENUES

9.9.2017 (Sat)

10.9.2017 (Sun)

Opening PerformanceTimetable of the Day － Tango~Toyooka Performance Train

Samson Cheung Choi-sang

Arumimi Hifumi

Fiona Lee Wing-shan

Reina Kimura

Hiromi Miyakita

Makoto Oshiro

Akio Suzuki

Akinori Yamasaki

Samson Cheung Choi-sang

Fiona Lee Wing-shan

Frank Tang Kai-yiu

Junko Kido

Soichiro Mihara

Tomohiko Ogawa

Makoto Oshiro

19:00 Dinner

08:30-09:30Breakfast

09:30-10:30Secret tour secret

10:30-12:00 Artists/ Curators Sharing

Lunch

12:30- 13:30 Lunch

14:00 End of Retreat Camp

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^Exhibition — ‘listening, seeing, being there’

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