Satellite exhibition for the "exhibition that can not be actually going to see," being held in the vicinity of nuclear power plant

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Chim ↑ Pom, exhibition and coming contemporary artists such as Ai Weiwei is carried out in return difficult area of ​​Fukushima Prefecture "Do not Follow the Wind (below, DFW)" until the satellite exhibition November 3 days, It has been held at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art.

DFW is March 11, 2015 was celebrated just fourth year from the Great East Japan Earthquake, international exhibition, which started the Chim ↑ Pom of the artist as a proposer. The Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, based in "feedback difficult areas", which currently also limited the general public off-limits, exhibition works domestic and foreign artists 12 pairs is. Work is to obtain a formal permission, it has been installed in the land and houses of evacuees scattered in the area. But we can actually go to see the exhibition works, blockade of the feedback difficult area is the fact that since it was released. Is not standing concrete prospect of still blockade release reached the four-and-a-half years from the earthquake, DFW as "exhibition that can not be going to see in practice", still a serious problem from many fields also currently It has become a antithesis to continue nuclear accident.

In honor of the information office for visitors, such as national parks and World Heritage "Visitor Center", the exhibition, which was named after the "Non-Visitor Center." As DFW of satellite exhibitions, exhibitions and of each artist associated with the installed work in the feedback difficult in the area, materials exhibition surrounding DFW, to introduce such as video installation by film director Sono Sion.

To participate, proposer Chim ↑ Pom, China's Ai Weiwei to put even a force in social movements in contemporary artists, critics of Noi Kino clothing and Gran Ginyoru future by the director of Ameya method water, et al., Of Frankfurt resident curator Nicholas Hirsch, in the artist has published works by video and performance, forest "MAM project" Akio Koizumi et al also taken up by the museum, home and abroad of 12 pairs. In addition to the Non-Visitor Center Exhibition, also participate Sono Sion and Naohiro Ukawa et al.
The third floor of the exhibition hall that can not be seen is completely blocked.

In the DFW theme largely inherited venue, it is represented in the entire space of the subject matter of "can not be seen." Movies are ordered to mainly the third floor of the exhibition room, but the state and go up on the third floor in the elevator entrance is blocked. It has become a mechanism to watch the third floor of the exhibition through the glass up a special staircase was assembled at the venue the second floor of the atrium.
State of the exhibition hall that must be watched through the glass.
At the entrance providing a reception counter that officials feedback difficult area born convey the current state of the area, and the manner in which the conversation artists of Tokyo, Milan, Berlin in Skype in the fourth floor, the landscape of the feedback difficult area at the same time It is screened at more than one monitor.

Audio and video, put in an appearance here and there of the exhibition "feedback difficult area". Its location is that we are forbidden to visit freely, is the home of someone else, is a place with a radiation dose of about uninhabitable people, place to convey the damage of the earthquake and tsunami in the now of your untouched. Feedback difficult areas DFW tell is, suffer from the scars that resulted in our earthquake disaster that now the location of the two and a half hours from Tokyo, there.

Show what you can not see, reminds me of what I had forgotten, emotions did not know come springs, none of the world of "art" is the with us a special experience that brought to our viewers. Through the power of such art, or keep up what the call to modern turmoil. DWF efforts, far from the elegant cultural experience of viewing art. Forgetful us to also pose the awareness of the issues again and again. How do we answer the obtained experience in the exhibition, think it is or not than good to say that another of our way of life problem.

Do not Follow the Wind Non-Visitor Center Exhibition
Yes held: 2015 November 3 until (Tuesday)
Yes hours: 11:00 to 19:00 (every Wednesday extended until 21:00 Closed on Mondays)
Yes Venue: Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Shibuya-ku Jingumae 3-7-6)
Yes Rates: Adults 1,000 yen In addition
Yes official: more informationThis direction

Editorial Yokota

Born in 1980, Kanagawa prefecture. Shibuya since he moved to Tokyo in the period in the university is a sacred place of culture. While now belong to the Shibuya culture project editing unit, is the straw sandals life of two feet to act as a caregiver.