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20th July （Mon）

To the pressVOL.

2A number of exhibited artworks to be donated to Centre Pompidou!
3DVR system virtual exhibition tour and extensive online contents.

POCORART World Exhibition

Chance and Necessity and ...
Liberating raw expression of artists and people with/without disabilities

Latest information about the exhibited artworks and related events.

YONAHA Shun Giant Hospital III (The profusion of new world) 2018, Oil-based pen, calendar, paper, 144×840 cm
photo: MIYAJIMA Kei

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of POCORART, a project supporting art activities by people with disabilities, Chiyoda City and 3331 Arts Chiyoda have organized the “POCORART World Exhibition ‘Chance andNecessity and...’ – Liberating raw expression of artists and people with/without disabilities,” an exhibition thatbrings together the works of fifty artists from twenty-two countries. This exhibition at 3331 Arts Chiyoda presents over 240 works from around the world, selected without the constraints of what would traditionally beconsidered art. Many of these artworks are shown in Japan, or even publicly, for the first time.
We hereby announce the latest information about the exhibited artworks, as well as the details on related
events, online content, catalogues and guidebooks. We sincerely appreciate your cooperation in sharing andpublicizing this information.
＊For more information on the outline and details of this exhibition, as well as the participating artists,
please refer to the press release vol.1 (5th May 2021).
Press release vol.1
https://www.3331.jp/en/news/file/pocorartworld_PR_en_20210414.pdf● A number of exhibited artworks to be donated to Centre Pompidou!
● Seven events will take place, including film screenings + talks, curator tours, and related events.
● 3DVR system virtual exhibition tour and online cross talk
● A remarkable exhibition catalogue with over 200 creations in full color print!
● A free exhibition guidebook that is easy to understand for both children and adults(PDF download also available)[ contact ]POCORART World Exhibition PR Office

Osako(Mr.), Nakada(Mr.)

Unity 501, 6-12-10, Minamiaoyama Minato-Ku, Tokyo JAPAN 107-0062
Tel：+08 3-6450-5457

Fax：+81 3-5539-4255

Mail：3331@skewinc.co.jp

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NEWS

A number of exhibited artworks to be donated toCentre Pompidou!

This exhibition presents a number of artworks from “abcd”, a respected Art Brut collection based in Paris andPrague. A part of this collection will be donated to the Centre Pompidou following this exhibition. It will berare, most likely, to see these works again in Japan. Therefore, it is an extremely valuable opportunity to seethem exhibited at the POCORART World Exhibition.

Eventinformation

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Online Talk

No reservation required

Online crosstalk videos available

URLs for viewing each talk will be posted on the POCORART World Exhibition website andmultiple SNS accounts of 3331 Arts Chiyoda at a future date. (Free to watch)

Date of release

Date of release

1 7 t h J u l y ( Sat)3 0 t h J u l y ( Fri)Approaching the artist's creation andways of communicating creative activities

Staying close to one artist throughtime. Stories about the artist andtheir creative transition(case studies from Belgium and Japan)(case studies from Austria and Japan)

Speakers

SpeakersKANETAKE Keiko

ASAHINA MasuyoAnne-Françoise rouche（Art historian）(Normalization Society social welfare corporation
Nishi Awaji House of Hope, Art club)（La S Grand Atelier Art director）
Facilitator(Specified nonprofit corporation La Mano Craft Studio La Mano)

Elisabeth Telsnig
Facilitator

KANO Rena

KANO Rena（Curator of POCORART World Exhibition）

KURODA Katsutoshi Collapse of humanity
2011–2015, Filler paper, black pen, colored pen
26×18.5 cm、10 books photo: MIYAJIMA Kei

Josef HOFER Untitled2012, Pencil, colored pencil, paper, 44×60 cm

Kostia BOTKINE Untitled2019, Mixed media, paper, 55×73 cm
Kostia BOTKINE,©La“S”Grand Atelier,B

HIRANO Tomoyuki New Miho-san Series I
2012, Pencil, colored pencil, paper, 30.5×24×2.5 cm（File size）
photo: MIYAJIMA Kei（Curator of POCORART World Exhibition）

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“The Cats of Mirikitani-Special edition-”① 14thDate

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Film screening & talkreservation required

A u g u s t (Sat.) ② 1 4 t h A u g u s t (Sun.)

2pm-4pm2pm-4pm

Film screening of “The Cats of Mirikitani”（74min/Dir. Linda Hattendorf/2006）
Film screening of “The Memory of Mirikitani”（21min/Dir. Masa/2016）
After-talk by Masa Yoshikawa (Movie director)*Approx. 20min.
*Japanese only / no simultaneous translation
Venue

3331 Arts Chiyoda, 1F Community Space

Capacity

60 seats

Fee

Photo by Sato Tetsuro | Jimmy Mirikitani in the 90’s

500yen*Chiyoda city residents are free to participate with identification.
*Please see page 6 for registration details.

Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani was born in the United States in 1920 and grew
up in Hiroshima. He returned to the U.S. to become a painter, but the war
forced him to live in a Japanese American internment camp, and in the late1980s he began living on the streets of New York City while working on hisart. His life is full of ups and downs, driven by the times. His works are
depicted with many cats.

Masa Yoshikawa

Producer

Producer, writer, coordinator and journalist, Yoshikawa has
worked in a wide range of video-related fields. He served as
production staff of “Lost in translation” (2003/Dir. Sofia Coppola),
and in 2016, he produced and directed a short film, "The Memories of Mirikitani", which is a memorial to "The Cats of Mirikitani".

4Jimmy Tsutomu MIRIKITANI Untitled
2001–2006
Ballpoint pen, colored pencil, watercolor, collage on paper
38×50 cm
photo: MIYAJIMA Kei“My world, my drawings”

Film screening & talkreservation requiredDate① 21thA u g u s t (Sat.) ② 2 2 t h A u g u s t (Sun.)

2pm-4pm2pm-4pm

Film screening of “My world, my drawings”(90min./Dir. KONDO Takeshi/2019/Distributor: PAO NETWORK)
After-talk by KOKUBO Mitsunori (Artist) × KONDO Takeshi (Film director)*Approx. 20min. *Japanese only / no simultaneous translation
Venue

3331 Arts Chiyoda, 1F Community Space

Capacity60 seats

Fee500yen*Chiyoda city residents are free to participate with identification.
*Please see page 6 for registration details.

We will hold a screening of “My world, my drawings”, a documentary film whichclosely followed KOKUBO Mitsunori, an artist with high-functioning autism whodraws highly detailed large pictures only with ballpoint pen and colored pencils,
over a two-and-half-year period. A talk between KOKUBO and film director
KONDO Takeshi will be held after the screening.

Takeshi KONDO

Film Director

Born in 1973 in Aichi Prefecture. After working for an imaging
technique company, he became a director for the program
production company, PAO NETWORK. Mainly creating documentaries for television, he brings up issues such as the Great East
Japan Earthquake, drug addiction, hospitals and schools under
the COVID-19 crisis and others. Director of “My world, mydrawings”, a documentary film released nationwide in 2019.

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Online screening & talk5

no reservation required

We will hold online screenings of documentary films directed and produced by Bruno Decharme, a film
director and Art Brut collector. We will screen a film featuring Carlos Javier Garcia HUERGO on 8/7, andMelvin WAY on 8/8. A talk will be held online on both days after the screening.
Dates & films

7 t h A u g u s t (Sat.) 5pm-6pm

Screening of a film featuring
Carlos Javier Garcia HUERGO(approx. 20min.)Talk (approx. 40min.)

8 t h A u g u s t (Sun.) 5pm-6pm
Carlos Javier Garcia HUERGO Untitled
1990
Felt-tip pen, acrylic, corrugated cardboard
72.4×50 cm
photo: MIYAJIMA Kei

Screening of a film featuring
Melvin WAY(approx. 20min.)Talk (approx. 40min.)How to watch
Screening and talk will be streamed through YouTube Live(free to watch/live-streaming only, no archive viewing).
The URL will be announced via the POCORART World
exhibition special website and SNS accounts of 3331 ArtsChiyoda.

Melvin WAY Untitled
2000, Ink, adhesive tape, paper
22.6×30.4 cm©collection abcd/Bruno Decharme

Speakers
Bruno Decharme (Film director, Art Brut collector)
KANO Rena (Curator of POCORART World Exhibition)

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Curator Tour

Details will be announced via the POCORART
World exhibition special website and SNS
accounts of 3331 Arts Chiyoda.

no reservation required

The curator of POCORART World Exhibition
will take you through the exhibition.
Tours run for about 45 minutes.
Date

During exhibition period｜held irregularly

Venue

3331 Arts Chiyoda, 1F Main Gallery

FeeFree *Admission ticket required

Capacity

7

KANO Rena

5 -10 (order of arrival / Please come to the ticket counter.)R e l a t e d p r o g r a m by GOETHE-INSTITUT TOKYO

Born in Hyogo Prefecture. Art anthropologist atthe Laboratory of Social Anthropology in EHESS(School for Advanced Studies in the SocialSciences). Received a Master’s degree in Art
History from Paris-Sorbonne University.
Received a Bachelor’s degree in Museology fromÉcole du Louvre. Involved with categorization ofart and its periphery, human creations researchand projects. Currently also serves as acoordinator for “Pocorart National Open Call” at3331 Arts Chiyoda.

no reservation required
Date

Live-streaming of music performanceby Superposition (Julius BOCKELT & Sven FRITZ)

1 8 t h J u l y (Sun.)6 p m -Music performance by Superposition (Julius BOCKELT＆SvenFRITZ）held in Atelier Goldstein, Frankfurt, will be live-streamedby cross-posting on Facebook pages of GOETHE-INSTITUTTOKYO, Atelier Goldstein, and 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Julius BOCKELT, an artist, and Sven FRITZ, a musician, have been working
together since 2014. They use keyboard, modular synthesizer,percussion instrument, field recordings, voice, and other mediums
to create experimental sound and performance.

Performance will be live-streamed bycross-posting on Facebook pages ofGOETHE-INSTITUT TOKYO, Atelier Goldstein, and 3331 Arts Chiyoda (free to watch).
URL will be announced via the POCORARTWorld exhibition special website and SNS
accounts of 3331 Arts Chiyoda.
Supported by GOETHE-INSTITUT TOKYOHow to watch

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OnlineContents

As a preventive measure against the spread of COVID-19, and so that those who
are unable to visit the exhibition from afar can enjoy the POCORART World exhibition, we will offer a variety of online contents.

Online Gallery
Through three-dimensional 360°panorama view of thegallery and video commentary from the curator, 3DVR
virtual tour brings the great presence of the POCORART World Exhibition to your home or wherever
you are.

from the end of July to theend of September (for 2 months)

DurationFee

400yen

How to watch

EXIT
TICKET

W.C.

W.C.

W.C.

ENTER

＊*Viewing ticket is available on the POCORART
World Exhibition special site. (Credit card,bank transfer, PayPal, convenience store
payment options available)

Online gallery opens on the POCORART World Exhibition special site.

https://pocorart.3331.jp/world2021/
Production: ARTLOGUE Inc. ｜ARTLOGUE VR

Guidebookhttps://artlogue-vr.com/

Guidebook will be distributed free of charge at the exhibition
counter (limited in quantity). It explains the exhibition and works inan easy-to-understand manner to children as well as adults
through 20 full color pages. The PDF is also available to downloadon the POCORART World Exhibition special site.
Language: Japanese

Including more than 200 creations by 50 artists
over 22 countries around the world,

Catalogue

the POCORART World Exhibition’s
full color catalogue is worth the read!
Curated based on years of original research, over 240 creations
are gathered in this exhibition under the six themes of; “Innersense and mask”, “From action to form”, “Mysteries of physicallife”, “From surroundings to form”, “Resonating life”, “An exploration of memories transcending space-time”. In this special catalogue, you can see all creations from the exhibition, including theones that have never been shown in Japan, and read discussions
by contributors. Including works such as portrait photos of theartist as various characters, or drawings that express the systemof the world in the form of calendars, the raw expression liberated
in these creations transcends the framework of fine art, and isunrestricted by categories such as nationality, age, gender, orwhether the artist has disabilities.
George WIDENER

Tomasz MACHCIŃ SKIChild,” directed by Alicja Albrecht). In his early twenties, heBorn in Górki in Mazovia Province, Poland.
After losing his mother to tuberculosis and his father died learned the truth about his origin and was shocked. In 1963
in a concentration camp during the Second World War, he started working as an apprentice precision mechanic. InMachciński spent his childhood in hospitals and orphanages. 1966 he began taking photos with himself as the subject,
After the war, Hollywood actress Joan Tompkins initiated and since then has taken over 22,000 self-portraits. For
correspondence full of encouragement, and he came to the shots he assumes diverse identities, regardless of era
believe she was his real mother. Their story was featured or genre, real or fictional, famous or unknown. “I don’t use(“Catalogin the 1994 documentary film
Dziecko z katalogu
hairpieces, tricks, but instead I use everything that happens

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Publishing: Chiyoda City, 3331 Arts Chiyoda
Editing and compilation: Rena Kano
Contributors: Masato Nakamura, Lucienne Peiry,Kenjiro Hosaka, Barbara Safarova, Rena Kano
Book design: O design
Publishing Company: 3331 Arts Chiyoda
Price / 1,900 yen + TAX
Pages / 288 pages Size / 242mm×188mm
Language / Japanese, English
ISBN978-4-9906563-5-5

Born in Covington, Kentucky, USA.
calculate was exceptional, and he had a prodigious memory
Widener was separated from his parents at an early age for names and dates. He draws such things as calendars,
and raised by his grandmother and aunt. His father died charts, maps, symbols, and numbers on paper napkins, orwhen he was nine, and his mother was admitted to a dyes them with tea leaves. By writing numbers in magic
facility for alcoholism.
grid squares, he creates compositions that closely link thisAt the age of seventeen, he joined the U.S. Air Force as an system to the world, seemingly magically. Images intermingle
engineer and began painting as a hobby. However, mental with data on incidents that remain in his memory, such as
disorders led to regular hospitalization. His ability to actual aviation accidents and shipping disasters.

with my organism, such as: regrowth of hair, loss of teeth,
illnesses, ageing, etc.” he says. He grows or cuts his hairand beard, embodying various personas with his own body.
Working alone, he is the director/actor, makeup artist,
costume designer, photographer, and the archivist whorecords his achievements. He initially used an analog camera
with black-and-white film, but from 2006 began taking color
photos with a digital camera.

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How to register for the events

3331 Arts Chiyoda
POCORART World Exhibition

Screening & talk “The Cats of Mirikitani《Special Edition》” and screening & talk“My world, my drawings” require priorregistration. You can resister by email,telephone, or fax.
*Registration is accepted on a first comefirst served basis.
*Deadline for registration is two days
before the event.
*Participation fee to be paid for at thevenue on the day of the event.

POCORART World Exhibition

E-MAIL
TEL
FAX

ws1@3331.jp
03-6803-2441
03-6803-2442

Please make sure to include the following
information when sending email or fax.
Name and date of the event- Number of participants- Names of ALL participants- Phone number- Email address

Chance and Necessity and…

Liberating raw expression of artists and people with/without disabilities

Term

July 16th (Fri) - September 5th (Sun), 2021 Open daily

Hours

11:00~18:00*Last entry 17:30

3331 Arts Chiyoda 1F Main Gallery

Venue

6-11-14 Sotokanda Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo JAPAN 101-0021 Former Rensei Junior High SchoolSeniors ＋65 : ¥500, Student under high-school age free entry /Chiyoda city
residents free entry with identiﬁcation / Visitors with handicap free entry
along with one escort. please present handicap certiﬁcate

GeneralAdmission¥800

Organizers

Chiyoda City, 3331 Arts Chiyoda

SupportSwiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia、Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo

Specialcosponsor

CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.

Cosponsor

MITSUBISHI ESTATE

Endorsed byAssociação Nipo Brasileira Economia e Cultura, British Council, Chiyoda City Tourism Association,Czech Centre Tokyo, Embassy of Belgium, Embassy of Brazil, Embassy of Canada, Embassy of France /Institut français du Japon, Embassy of Italy, Embassy of Sweden, Embassy of Switzerland in Japan,Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tokyo, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Embassy of theKingdom of Morocco, Embassy of the Republic of Cuba, Embassy of the United States of America,
Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo, New Zealand Embassy,Tokyo, Polish Institutein Tokyo, Wallonie-Bruxelles International

https://pocorart.3331.jp/world2021/en/[ contact ]POCORART World Exhibition PR Office

Osako(Mr.), Nakada(Mr.)

Unity 501, 6-12-10, Minamiaoyama Minato-Ku, Tokyo JAPAN 107-0062
Tel：+08 3-6450-5457

Fax：+81 3-5539-4255

Mail：3331@skewinc.co.jp

The schedule and exhibits are subject to change without notice prevent the spreadof the Coronavirus. Please check the website before visiting. In addition, pleasetake the following measures when entering and viewing the exhibition.
● Please wear a mask when entering the facility and galleries.
● Please disinfect your fingers and hands with the alcohol sanitizer, have yourtemperature checked by a staff member, and fill out an entry form whenentering the facility.
● We may temporarily limit the number of visitors depending on the congestion.

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TSURUKAWA Koji, Untitled, 2013-2019
Felt-tip pen, ball point pen, aqueous marker, paper
39.2×27.1cm, photo：MIYAJIMA Kei

KURODA Katsutoshi, Collapse of humanity, 2011-2015
Filler paper, black pen, colored pen, 29.7×21cm
photo: MIYAJIMA Kei

TAKEDA Hiraku, Chopsticks, 2010
Disposable wooden chopsticks
230×80×100cm, 7 more works, photo:MIYAJIMA Kei

HIRANO Tomoyuki, Miho-san series Part 4, 2011
Pencil, colored pencil, paper, 30.5×24×2.5cm
photo：MIYAJIMA Kei

KANASAKI Masashi, One milion years, 2012
Magazine, flyer, wood glue, 24.2×15.4×46.9cm
photo: MIYAJIMA Kei

YONAHA Shun
Giant Hospital III (The profusion of new world), 2018
Oil-based pen, calendar, paper, 144×840cm
photo：MIYAJIMA Kei[ contact ]POCORART World Exhibition PR Office

Osako(Mr.), Nakada(Mr.)

Unity 501, 6-12-10, Minamiaoyama Minato-Ku, Tokyo JAPAN 107-0062
Tel：+08 3-6450-5457

Fax：+81 3-5539-4255

Mail：3331@skewinc.co.jp

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