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Shibugya Radio "After the Exibition"
Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery curators will choose topical themes and invite not only artists and experts but a wide variety of guests to talk on the program.
The podcast’s second series “After the Exhibition” will be offered in fiscal 2024.
We will invite artists and facility staff we have met in exhibitions held at the gallery to talk about the “after” of the exhibitions.
Please tune in at your leisure.
#13.～#16. Association “crazy about SHITAMACHI-RETRO” & Okan Art Team [2024/12 Recording date]
#17.～ Coming Soon
(These contents can only be listened to in Japanese.)
| Guest4:crazy about SHITAMACHI-RETRO & Okan Art Team （episode #13. ～ #16.） |
Jingle|ottotto[CLAP] |
Guest 4. Association “crazy about SHITAMACHI-RETRO” & Okan Art Team
Host:KAWAHARA Koya (Curator of Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery)
Edit:KOYAMA Yuya
[2024/12 Recording date]
#13 ● The Night Before the Formation of the Okan Art Team: Part 1
This time, Association “crazy about SHITAMACHI-RETRO” & Okan Art Team joined us in recalling about how the “Okan Art Team” was formed. During their activities, they encountered many handicrafts everywhere they went that “caught their attention. That was “Okan Art,” she said. We will look back on the encounters of each of the “Okan Artists” and their early activities.
#14 ● The Night Before the Formation of the Okan Art Team: Part 2
This time, continuing from the previous installment, we discuss the encounters and connections between each of the Okan Artists. How did the Okan Artists become attracted to “Okan Art,” chance encounters, reunions, destiny! ... the charm of “Okan Art” will be revealed little by little.#15 ● "Okan Art” for Okan Artists
This time begins with the question, “What does ‘Okan Art’ mean to each of the Okan artists? We talked about what we felt and thought through our activities related to “Okan Art”.
#16 ● Looking Back at the Exhibition
This time, we talked about the exhibition “Museum of Mom's Art”, its venue and preparation stages.
Association “crazy about SHITAMACHI-RETRO” & Okan Art Team
Based in Wadamisaki, Hyogo-ku, in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, and led by ITO Yuki (owner of sweets and crepe shop, Awajiya) and YAMASHITA Kaori (director of architecture and urban development firm, atelier situationniste). Since its establishment in 2005, the Association has sought to discover local resources in the form of people and spaces that still remain in “shitamachi,” Japan’s old, inner-city neighborhoods, and communicating their charm to others by holding Shitamachi Excursion tours and publishing Shitamachi Retro maps. After first encountering Mom’s Art here and there along the tour routes, the Association became obsessed with this art from. Today, the Association collaborates with Mom Artists, leveraging passion and taste, to hold the monthly “Mom’s Art University” and the “Mom’s Art Exhibition,” a festival held once a year.
Jingle|ottotto [CLAP]
illust：ARIKAWA Ruriko
Otto & orabu is a 30-member "super amateur group" whose concept is "uneven, good feeling sounds" played on ethnic instruments by Shobu Gakuen staff and members. The song "ottotto" was especially created for the special session "Discovery of Sound from Nowhere," a related event of the exhibition Open to Surprises.
"CLAP," derives from a hand-clapping session originally performed at the song’s end by the chorus group, "orabu" ("shout" in Kagoshima dialect).
While the jingle does not feature any clapping, its good-feeling sounds and rhythm make hard not to clap along and give a spirited opening and closing to the podcast. Please give "ottotto" a listen.
