概要
概要
概要
Thread Reeling
Reeling thread as if passing around a cup of tea among companions
Yasuaki Igarashi
Concept
This workshop involves thread as tool for communication. I have had exchange programs using threads with people with disability or with autisum who attend welfare facilities in Tokyo, in Brazil, and in Peru. When we reel the thread with them, the thread extended from hand to hand connects people gradually even to who is not able to speak in oral words or who has difficulty to touch directly, which, eventually created a place where everyone can stay together and feel, think of and care each other. The workshop aims that the participants exchange their own feelings, like a warm flow, and experience the possibility of the thread that works as a tool of communication.
Process
We will make thread balls from the reeled threads in two or up to 5 participants. Who stays in between them pick the thread and pass it to the other. Two participants will sit cater-cornered. More than two participants will sit in a circle to conduct the workshop. The participants will be invited to stay inside the chashitsu, just like a tea room where the guests of the tea ceremony pass around a cup of tea among companions. You will enjoy more if you refrain from talking.
Where to participate
Program details
Number of participants
2/5 persons per turn
How to participate
Preparation: Nothing in particular is needed to participate in the workshop.
The work completed during the workshop will be:
exhibited in the Chashitsu; it will not be returned to the participants.
Requests and cautions for visitors
* Please do not touch the thread balls hung in the Chashitsu.
* Your cooperation NOT to speak loudly will be highly appreciated.
*Please do not touch objects hung in the Chashitsu.
* The structures of bamboo chashitsu may be fragile and the visitors are asked not to force them to move by hanging or leaning.
Timetable
Visitors can join the workshop during the exhibition period.
The Artist may not be present at the workshop point.
* Details of each program may be subject to change without notice. In addition, the event at this venue may be canceled if a state of emergency or restrictions on the holding of events is announced by the government or prefectural authorities.
* In order to avoid close contact, we are limiting the number of people who can enter the exhibition. For this reason you may have to wait when crowded.
About the Artist
Yasuaki Igarashi
Artist. Born in 1978 in Chiba. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School with a Master’s Degree in 2005. Through collaboration with local residents, he has exhibited art projects in many places to use art to connect local cultures and nature, and to even remake how we view the local landscape. He thinks that art can now serve as a tool for connecting diverse people with each other. The perspective he gained from sailing the 4,000 km from Micronesia to Japan in 2005 formed the foundation for his later work.
See the past activities for TURN project by the Artist: Yasuaki Igarashi