10月14日

Ken SASAKI: Impurity / Immunity (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo)

SASAKI Ken, Untitled (quarry), 2017, Oil on canvas, 116.7 × 91.0 cm

OPEN SITE 2017–2018

Oct. 14 – Nov. 26, 2017
Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo
11:00 – 19:00 —— Last entry: 18:30
Monday Closed / Admission Free

Access:
Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo — Formerly Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo
2-4-16 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033
http://www.tokyo-ws.org
http://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp

Artist:
OWADA Shun
SASAKI Ken
TANINAKA Yusuke
NAKAMOTO Hirofumi
HYAKUTOU Takeshi
MUKAI Eriko

Organizer:
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Arts Program and Residency Division
Sponsorship
I-O DATA DEVICE, INC., ERIKA MATSUSHIMA, gigei10

Cooperation:
AOYAMA MEGURO, STUDIO TOKOYO, This and That, tochka, PARADISE AIR

Executive Committee of Impurity / Immunity:
Curator: HASEGAWA Arata
Assistant Curator: WAKAYAMA Mitsuhiro
Logo based on: TAKAKURA Kazuki
Design: KUMAGAI Atsushi
Installer: HIJIKATA Dai
Assistant Installer: NISHIO Yuma
Engineer: KUBOTA Kenji
Translator: NISHIDA Maki
Publishing: MASUDA Chie

More info: http://impurityimmunity.jp/

Statement

Impurity / Immunity

HASWGAWA Arata, exhibition curator

‘Impurity / Immunity’, which has been selected for ‘OPEN SITE 2017–2018’ is a project to face our contemporaneity in the form of an exhibition. Participating artists are Shun Owada, Ken Sasaki, Yusuke Taninaka, Hirofumi Nakamoto, Takeshi Hyakutou and Eriko Mukai. This exhibition will tour to Okinawa after the premiere at Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo.

To search for the ways to ‘co-exist’ in the contemporary society where complexity and confusion are seemingly growing greater, this exhibition introduces two concepts; ‘impurity’ and ‘immunity’. Vividly describing a civilisation where attempts of protecting the uniqueness and purity of own ironically results in extinction of their community, Roberto Esposito uses the concept to ‘immunity’. Such attitude seen in the ‘9.11’ or in Nazism, for example, can be explained as a thorough ‘autoimmunization’. Anything can conflict with a certain immune system as an ‘impurity,’ rather, ‘coexistence’ is a continuous active tension between impurities and immunities.

‘Impurity / Immunity’ is a project that confronts the era, together with a faith to be an ‘impurity’.