SCREENINGS
Mood Hall/Mood Hole Nite (Nite One)
December 25, 2016 at 8 PM

Sound direction by Marihiko Hara
Audio set-up by Tatsuya Shimada and Maho
KitanoMood Hall/Mood Hole Nite (Nite Two)

Artwork restoration and venue construction by

January 14, 2017 at 8 PM

Seido Ikeda, Ryuichiro Ando, Nae Imai, Ayumi
Imamichi, Satoshi Kawata, Mitsuhiro Kishimoto,
Takuya Kumagai, Shunsuke Mano, Seiji

PUBLICATION
Kawai + Okamura: Mood Hall/Mood Hole (2 vols.)
scheduled to be published in 2017

Matsumoto, Eriko Mukai, Ryoji Nakagawa, andTomoshi Yasuda
Electrical construction performed with thecooperation of Piki, Hideyuki Nishimura, andHaruo Miyashita

More information: http://gallery.kcua.ac.jp
Research performed with the cooperation ofABOUT THE ARTISTS
Takumi Kawai: Born 1968 in Osaka, Japan. Based in Kyoto, Japan.

Kyoto Art Center, the Kyoto Arts and Culture
Foundation, Nobu Amenomori, Jungo Aoki, Zon
Ito, Man Katano, Naho Kawai, Toshiro Jinjin

Hiroki Okamura: Born 1968 in Kyoto, Japan. Based in Kyoto, Japan.

Kimura, Mika Kuraya, Tamaki Okamoto,

Kawai and Okamura graduated from the Kyoto City University ofParamodel, Koya Segi, Masako Tago, et al.

Arts in 1992 and received their MAs from the Kyoto City
University of Arts Graduate School in 1994, Okamura in oilpainting and Kawai in sculpture. They formed Kawai + Okamura

Exhibition logo designed by Kawai + Okamura

as a visual art unit in 1993. Their film Ficfyon 7 (2004) won thePublicity materials designed by Kentaro

grand prix at the Under 10 Minutes Digital Cinema Festival, andNakamura

Head Wrest – 3001 Series (2000) won the special prize at theOther exhibition materials produced with theChofu Film Festival in Japan. Their works have also been

cooperation of Kosuke Inada, Naoki Mizobe, andpresented as visual art installations in various venues aroundIzumi Nakata

the world, such as the École nationale supérieure desBeaux-Arts de Paris, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,and Art Tower Mito in Japan. Currently, Kawai and Okamura are

Planned by the Mood Hall/Mood Hole Project

associate professors in the Department of Information Design

Team (Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Shinat the Kyoto University of Art and Design.

Fukunaga, Yuko Fukuoka, Teppei Kaneuji)

Organized by Kyoto City University of Arts
With funding from the Japan Arts Council
And with the cooperation of Kyoto University ofArt and Design and the Vermilion Pleasure NightProduction Committee

January 22, 2017 11 – 7 Free admission
December 17, 2016
Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA
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Closed on Mondays (exception: open on January 9, 2017 and closed on January 10)
and from December 29, 2016 to January 4, 2017

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Ficfyon Nine
2009
Animation
16:4.9, 5 min. 32 sec.
Music by Marihiko Hara

Portrait K2005
Photograph
500 × 500 mm

Mood Hall/Mood HoleUP2016
Video installation(4 animations)16:9, approx. 13 min.
Music by Marihiko Hara

Portrait Y
2005
Photograph
500 × 500 mm

Portrait P
2005
Photograph
500 × 500 mm

Portrait H

DOW N

1994
Paint on lightbox
2,500 × 1,400 × 160 mm

Superstar
1995
Paint on lightbox
3,483 × 2,630 × 660 mm

Ficfyon 7

1999
From The Man of the Genre Mountains
Animation
4:3, 5 min. 15 sec.
© Vermilion Pleasure Night Production
Committee

2004
Animation
4:3, 3 min. 40 sec.

Head Wrest – 3001 Series

Edited by Shin Fukunaga

Ficfyon Drill
2002
Animation
4:3, 12 min.

Edited by Kosuke Inada

Columbos

EVAmazon (part of work)
UP2005
Animation
4:3, 8 min. 30 sec.

Kawai + Okamura
Chronology

EV

Promotional video

Airs

2001
Animation
4:3, 9 min. 44 sec.
© Vermilion Pleasure Night Production
Committee

2005
Photograph
500 × 500 mm

Amazon (Japanese version)

Holy & Cheap

1993
Paint on lightbox
In exhibition: 2,840 × 2,840× 660 mm

DOW N

2012
Animation
16:9, 9 min. 30 sec.
Music by Marihiko Hara

Y. I. Lordblairs

Puppet (2002): Approx. 235 × 120 × 50 mm (seated)
Chair (2005): Approx. 200 × 150 × 130 mm
Spatial composition by Teppei Kaneuji

Mood Hall/Mood HoleMain visual