9/11 Wed　Free Entrance All day
19:00～21:00 Reception Party

9/14 Sat　17:00～19:00
Maki UEDA　Workshop “Sniffing Spaces like a Dog vol.2 ”
￥1,500（up to 15 persons／Please E-mail for reservation： ab@l-amusee.com ）

9/21 Sat　17:00～19:00
TALK：Fuyuki YAMAKAWA ＋ Chihiro MINATO(Photographer)
￥1,000 (in Japanese)
9/28 Sat　17:00～19:00
TALK：Kenshu SHINTSUBO ＋ Natsuki SETA(Film Director)
￥1,000 (in Japanese)
9/29 Sun　19:00～21:00　Closing Party

On "Sharing Vibes: As Part of Resonating Place"

I. Shibuya, Crossroad, ATSUKOBAROUH

The building that houses ATSUKOBAROUH is called “Crossroad Bldg.” It has a knot-like presence in Shibuya, tying disparate areas such as Bunkamura, Dogenzaka and Maruyamacho onto which it overlooks across the intersection, and the quiet residential area behind it. This is evident from the name of the building too. This building, with its characteristic façade covered entirely with diagonal stripe-shaped windows, was created in 1981, eight years before the opening of Bunkamura. It was the son of a lady who had a cigarette shop there that designed it. In the place now occupied by Bunkamura once stood an elementary school, and the lady would watch the children come to school from all kinds of households. What happened in the recent past, what happened before that, what might happen from now on . . . A place weaves the memories of the past so that they may be reevoked in the present and the future. We may not be able to see it, but we can always immerse ourselves into that place by relying on imagination to go beyond time.

Shibuya. A bustling town that brings together diverse people, things and information. It is a place that seemingly has a distinctive field of influence. Would it be far-fetched to think of the natural/artificial topographical features related to water as having contributed to this? Shibuya station is wedged between the lowest points of two slopes, Dogenzaka and Miyamasuzaka. Shibuya river (an underground drain) that runs on its side derives from the Kohone river (which inspired the school song Haru no Ogawa [Spring brook]) – Ugagawa (Uda river), which source is located in the Yoyogi-hachiman area, and the Onden river, which originates from around Shinjuku Gyoen. Although controlled and regulated by urbanization and thrust into a realm of invisibility, memories and ghosts of water are inevitably awakened in Shibuya.

Shibuya, Crossroad, and ATSUKOBAROUH. The idea for this exhibition was spontaneously and inevitably born out of those elements.

II. Perceiving invisible information to resonate, to become a part

“Sharing Vibes” is presented as a place where we may discover the world anew by starting to recall the diverse invisible and immaterial information—odors, water veins, flows, etc.—that we usually cannot sense, or fail to notice.

Due to its diagonal windows and moveable walls, ATSUKOBAROUH has a spatial property of confounding the visitor about whether it is the space, or their perception or body that is distorted. Moreover, the inflow of varied external information such as the weather and the bustle from the streets ceaselessly interferes with the works and the space. In a place that does not remain the same even for a single moment, the visitor too becomes part of its world: he or she is transformed into ever-changing information.

It is in this space that Fuyuki Yamakawa, Maki Ueda and Kenshu Shintsubo will attempt to originate a resonance using, sounds, odors, photography and other media. All three avoid confining their works into distinct media or meanings, and instead regard them as potential information so to prompt us to open up our perceptions and thinking.

Yamakawa showcases a new work that makes underground water flows audible and visible. The research he carried out to create this work will also be presented in the form of a portable map that visitors can take with them in order to feel the water veins in Shibuya. Ueda’s “labyrinth” composed of multiple odors is a place where each person gives active attention to the sense of smell. Shintsubo’s works vividly capture the phases of water that circulates the world through the atmosphere and trees.

The mutual interaction among the works，the mutual influence between those who share the space, and the new vibrations that are born through the multiple resonances between the space, the works and the people... A place each of us participate as a part of the exhibition, of the space and of the world. “Sharing Vibes” does not end.

(Yukiko SHIKATA, Curator)