OuUnPo 10days in 東京・横浜 2nd Phase in a series by OuUnPo

OuUnPo 10days in 東京・横浜
Godzilla and THE PHOENIX
2013年6月18 〜27日
プロジェクトコーディネーター ： Per Hüttner, Samon Takahashi support by Najomo.
ゲストキュレーター :嘉藤 笑子, 近藤健一

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[会場]
森美術館、スパイラル／株式会社ワコールアートセンター、BankART studio NYK、
アンスティチュ・フランセ東京、スウェーデン大使館、Creative Hub 131／Publicus Nihonbashi、Traumaris、黄金町、象の鼻テラス、nitehi works、武蔵野美術大学、シュハリ農園／株式会社シュハリ、亀戸スタジオ


“Godzilla and The Phoenix – ゴジラとフェニックス（不死鳥）“は、OuUnPo主催イベントの最新シリーズの第2弾です。2013年6月18日〜27日に日本で開催されます。

　OuUnPoは 、今回、日本のパートナーとの対話や探求を発展させる切り口として、ゴジラとフェニックス（不死鳥）という想像上の二つの生き物を選びました。その目的は、「再生」と「創造性」がどのように関連しているのか、それをより深く理解するために現地である日本の知恵や知識を用いるためです。ゴジラとフェニックスとは、東（アジア）と西（西洋）の象徴であり、また破壊からの再生も象徴的に表しています。そして、世の中の基本的な社会的変化や事象が状況のとらえ方、視点の違いに依るものだということも示しています。

　各セッションでは、次のような諸問題に取り組みます：1)過去の問題解決法は、どのように現在の私たちを救い、また間違いへと導いてしまうのか。2)私たちの将来に対する期待は、現在の私たちの行動や視点にどう影響するのか。3)異なる規律や宗規との間でなされる交流や異文化間交流が、我々が創造性を養い、多様性を保護するためにどのように役に立っているのか。

　OuUnPoは、前回、レバノン（2012年12月）でセッションを行い、今回の日本でのセッションの後、スウェーデン（2014年5月）、ブラジル（2014年9月）と引き続き様々なテーマや課題に取り組みます。各セッションを通してOuUnPoは、各国においてそれぞれの「再生」という状況に対して人々がどのように反応して、向き合って来ているのか、それらの類似点や相違点を探求します。そして、heritage（遺産、伝統、受け継がれるもの）とcrises （危機／重大局面）がそれらとどのようにリンクしているのかを考えていきます。そして、何よりも重要なのは、否定的な苦難な状況というものが、新しいアイデアや解決法の構築にどのように役立つのか、それを模索することだと考えています。

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　OuUnPoはアーティストやキュレーター、研究者などから成るグループで、さながら旅する研究室のように、各地で芸術的な活動を通して知識を共有・共作しています。本プロジェクトはVision Forum及びGlobal Art and the Museum (at ZKM)(ドイツ／Karlsruhe) 、Linköpings universitet（スウェーデン）の各団体の協力により実施されます。


[Contributors]
Sara Giannini, 西原 鶴真, 武谷 大介, 藤井 光, 高山 明, Natasha Rosling, Yane Calovski, Nikola Nikolovski, 猪飼 尚司, 柳原 照弘, Damien Faure, 塚本 由晴, 東京ピクニッククラブ, Natalia Kamia, 丹羽 良徳, Marcus Petterson, Abake, 山本 高之, 小泉 明郎, Raffaella della Olga,  新野圭二郎, 近藤 健一, Zeina Assaf, Boat People Association, Bucci,  工藤 丈輝, 稲吉 稔, Fatoş Ustek, Stephen Whitmarsh, Queen’s Ostrich, Elena Nemkova, Carl Stone, Christophe Charles, Megane, 遠藤 一郎, 西﨑 健人, 杉田このみ, Jacopo Miliani, 曽我 高明, 中里 和人, 嘉藤 笑子, 伊藤悠, 杉田志保, Art Autonomy Network, 谷山恭子, 吉川晃司, Linea Werken, 樫村有紀, 立花美咲, 大澤美奈, Per Huttner, Samon Takahashi and Claudia Squitieri.


“Godzilla and The Phoenix”は、スウェーデン大使館、アンスティチュ・フランセ、スパイラル／株式会社ワコールアートセンター、武蔵野美術大学、スカンジナビア・ニッポン ササカワ財団の助成を受けて実施されます。

OuUnPo は、CREED、Linköpings universitetの助成を受けて活動を行っています。

NIPPOUUNPO - GODZILLA and the PHOENIX

A CURATORIAL PROJECT PRESENTED BY OuUnPo
TEN DAY EVENT FOR TOKYO / YOKOHAMA
JUNE 17 - JUNE 27 2013


Coordinated by Per Hüttner and Samon Takahashi

The project is initiated in collaboration with Vision Forum,
Global Art and the Museum (at ZKM) in Karlsruhe
and Linköpings universitet in Sweden.



1.    OuUnPo history – A Mobile Laboratory

    OuUnPo is a group of artists, curators and researchers, and operates like an itinerant laboratory co-creating and sharing knowledge through artistic production. Two or three times per year, the group organises sessions in different countries, focusing on a different topic in each location. Each session merges aspects of the festival, the art exhibition and a scientific symposium. The program is well balanced and addresses serious topics in an entertaining fashion.

    Since 2009 OuUnPo has worked on «Orality» (Athens, Greece), «Urgency and Leisure» (Belgrade, Serbia), «Neuro-imaging and Creativity» (Nijmegen, Netherlands), «God and Multiverse» (Rome/Skopje/Paris) to name a few. OuUnPo collaborates both with well-established institutions, alternative venues and informal groups. Trans-disciplinarity is of a key importance for the group and a session mixes events as diverse as performances, film screenings, happenings, music events, lectures, discussions, scientific talks and hybrid forms of these.

    The OuUnPo artists and researchers who visit Japan are known as OuUnPonians.

    OuUnPo is an integral part of the network Vision Forum that is currently hosted by Linköpings universitet, Sweden.

2. How OuUnPo interacts with the Participants

    Each session is a platform for the meeting between local artists, curators, scientists, institutions in the visited city and the visiting OuUnPonians. The ten-day session in Japan is arranged so that it offers both new perspectives to existing problems and generates creative insights for the future. The session creates a bridge between art, science, daily life and their respective audiences.

    The OuUnPonians come from a dozen different European countries and many different disciplines. The local participants are both invited by OuUnPo and by the local partners. Often after a session some of the local participants are invited to become OuUnPonians in one or more future sessions.

3.The topic for Exchange

    In collaboration with ZKM in Karlsruhe OuUnPo will organise four sessions that look at how heritage and crises are linked. Apart from Japan, sessions will be organised in Lebanon, Sweden and Brazil. OuUnPo will explore the similarities and differences in how people respond and deal with situations of regeneration in each country– and most importantly, how negative situations can be used for the development of new ideas and solutions. The outlook is therefore both affirmative and towards the future and not in remembrance of the past.

OuUnPo has chosen two mythical creatures, Godzilla and the Phoenix as a starting point. The theme will be a tool to develop the group’s specific working methods in dialogue with local partners in Japan. The goal is to use local knowledge to gain a deeper understanding of how renewal and creativity are interlinked. By promoting diversity and inspiring difference, OuUnPo and its partners offer tools to encourage future problem solving capabilities. Godzilla and the Phoenix represent east and west, creation and destruction, but also underline that every fundamental societal change is based on a different outlook on the world. Creativity is therefore always a renegotiation of accepted values. Creativity dialogues with traditions, transforms or even breaks them. The session will address issues like: how can historical problem resolution help and/or mislead us in the present? How do our expectations of the future shape how we see the reality that surrounds us and how we act in the present? How can exchanges between different disciplines and between different cultures offer tools to help us to foster creativity and safeguard diversity?

4. What OuUnPo offers - What OuUnPo asks of its partners

    Since 2009 OuUnPo has developed a specific methodology during a dozen sessions in different countries. Nourished by these experiences, OuUnPo will provide expertise and offer a unique program of events with exciting content. Each event will be developed specifically for the hosting venues and institutions, reflecting or reacting to their current program.

    OuUnPo is asking for active participation from its partners in Japan. This participation can take one or more of the following forms:

        - providing OuUnPo with their expertise about the local context
        - proposing local artists and researchers
        - hosting events
        - supplying technical support

5. How OuUnPo operates – process and structure

    The sessions are formed around collaborations between local creators and the visiting OuUnPonians. The exchanges can take many different forms. The dialogues are based on shared interests or overlaps in artistic or scientific practices – whatever it takes for people to engage in a meaningful exchange.

    Each of the ten days is broken down into a series of longer and shorter events. Each event is free-standing and self-contained so that a visitor can choose to attend a single event, a whole day or the entire session.
    During the session OuUnPo will also offer alternative outlooks on existing exhibitions, collections and architecture. OuUnPo does so by creating special performances, guided tours and other interfaces that comment on the context - all with the aim of enriching the level of understanding between the creators, institutions and audiences.


6. OuUnPo and the Audiences

    OuUnPo’s sessions offer an alternative outlook on communication, where creation of knowledge takes place in dialogue between the participants, the audience, the artworks and the local context. The exchange, based on dialogues around a given problematic, therefore evolves in multiple directions.

    "For OuUnPo individuality and difference are resources. These qualities allow the group to maximize the potential of the intercultural exchange at each individual session. The OuUnPo events are participatory on every conceivable level. For instance the sessions often invite the audience to contribute to discussions and performnces. This means that the boundaries between creator and audience are blurred. This is also a reason why the OuUnPo sessions are loved by the audiences - everyone who engages in the event is invited to participate in the reflection and creation."

7. Outcomes

    As part of the wider project, OuUnPo is investigating specific topics and problems in Lebanon (December 2012), Sweden (September 2013) and Brazil (March 2014).
  
    A concise publication that documents the four sessions will be designed by the French design group Åbäke in 2014.

8. Visiting OuUnPonians

•    Per Hüttner, Sweden (artist, curator)
•    Samon Takahashi, France (artist, composer)
•    Fatos Ustek, Turkey (curator)
•    Marco Pasi, Italy (historian)
•    Claudia Squitieri, Italy (artist)
•    Sara Giannini, Italy (curator)
•    Natasha Rosling, England (artist)
•    Åbäke, France-England (designers group)
•    Klas Eriksson, Sweden (artist)
•    Elena Nemkova, Russia (artist)
•    Stephen Whitmarsh, Netherlands-England (neuro scientist)
•    Yane Calovski, Macedonia (artist, curator)
•    Jacopo Miliani, Italy (artist)
•    Cristina Regadas, Portugal (artist, curator)
•    Raffaella della Olga, Italy (artist)
•    Sachi Miyachi, Japan (artist)