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2020.6.23

2020.6.26 update

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
are carrying out this exhibition as part of the Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Cherish, your imagination
Sat. 18 July – Sun. 27 September, 2020

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) is delighted to announce its upcoming exhibition“Cherish, your imagination” which invites parents, children and people of all ages to revisit thechildlike innocence within each one of us, as a first step of experiencing the magnificent potentialof artistic expression.
The exhibition returns us to the creative child’s mind that we may have forgotten as we became
adults, and features media-technology based artworks and screenings to appeal to adults andchildren alike. Wandering through the themed spaces of “Senses” – as Body, Sound and Words,
Oblivion and Galaxy, visitors experience art based on interactive participation, physical expression,
sound, writing and video, as well as historical documents and artworks from the MOT Collection.
Throughout the duration of this exhibition, we will also offer several workshops held incooperation with local communities and educational institutions.
While also a “contemporary art show for children,” this exhibition takes a neotenic approach(=adult mind with childlike appearance) to equalize adults and children temporarily. Through theexhibition, we try to learn and consider highly acclaimed new and old art and technology sent out
into the world from Japan after the end of the Second World War. Visitors are invited to regard
the artworks in close detail, become part of interactive pieces, take commemorative photos andget in touch with outer space as they take a tour through the exhibition area. After enjoying ascreening of artworks at the end of the exhibition, visitors are given back their forgotten “realnames,” like in Michael Ende’s Neverending Story, in order to reunite them with the fascination of
the familiar world. We would be delighted if visitors young and old, children and parents, friends,
couples and single visitors return from the museum with fresh, newly discovered sensualities, asif having been reborn. As art and our daily lives adapt to new changes, in the brief period between
summer and fall 2020, when we may just witness the singularity between culture and technology,
we invite you to enjoy this exhibition that aims to remind us of the childlike wonder within us alland asks us to consider new possibilities of artistic expression.

Contact

Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Chiako Kudo / Mihoko Nakajima
TEL: +81-3-5245-1134

E-MAIL: mot-pr@mot-art.jp

URL: https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en* All Programs are subject to change.

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１ An explorable exhibition space & related program
Beginning with an exhibition introducing artworks of the MOT Collection, visitors tour spaces centered on the themes
Senses, Body, Sound and Words, Oblivion and Galaxy, enjoy large-scale video screenings or participate in workshops
aimed at all ages (workshops scheduled to be held in the exhibition space during the exhibition period; remoteworkshops also included]. Leaving the Forest of Oblivion and then the Forest of Space, visitors find themselves at thebeginning of the exhibition, reborn and ready to start anew.

2 Ultra-high-resolution artworks
The exhibition also includes screenings of artworks in 8K resolution (as part of the introductory exhibition; free ofcharge). We invite you to pay close attention to the possibilities of expression in every corner of the finely detailed
images, and to take part in various related programs such as special video screenings in 3D (tentative) held during
the exhibition period.

3 STEAM education and awareness exhibition
Programming has become a mandatory part of Japan’s school curriculum in 2020, and with it the importance of“STEAM” education – adding an A for Art to the “STEM” term (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) –also gains in importance. In this exhibition we introduce new and old works from the 1960s until today that make useof technology to expand the range of expression – from “Generated Art” to works created at the intersection of art
and technology, using technologies such as VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality) that have become
widespread in contemporary art, ultra high-definition resolutions, artificial intelligence, and human augmentation(including an excursion into superhuman sports). We invite you to experience this technology-heavy side ofcontemporary art during your visit.

Exhibition outline / Artworks
Introductory exhibition
Experience artworks of a beauty that seems to halt the flow of time (from the MOT Collection) and the audiovisual
impact of 8K artworks.

“Senses”
An exhibition that reminds us of the importance and delight of our tactile senses, with regard to traditional kinds ofartistic expression that usually veer towards the visual.

“Body, Sounds and Words”
An experiment in experiencing bodily expression through works involving books or the written word, and works that
require physical participation.

“Oblivion”
Old and new media, historical documents and recent artworks asks us to reconsider our images and our memory.

“Outer Space”
As we imagine the expanding vastness of space, we are being reborn along with our creative imagination.

Participating artists
The Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Kohei Nawa, Tokujin Yoshioka), MADD. (Movie for Art,Design and Data) works in 8K, GRINDER-MAN, Hideyuki Ando, Jun Fujiki, Noramoji Project, Optical Illusion Block
Project, Justine Emard, phono/graph, IDEAL COPY, CTG, Masao Komura, Hiroyuki Moriwaki, Jun Kosaka, AR 3 Brothers,Rhizomatiks Research / ELEVENPLAY / MIKIKO / Daito Manabe / Motoi Ishibashi / Kyle McDonald, Junji
Watanabe( NTT Communication Science Laboratories), Yoichi Ochiai & JPO Project (Visual: WOW) and more
Contact

Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Chiako Kudo / Mihoko Nakajima
TEL: +81-3-5245-1134

E-MAIL: mot-pr@mot-art.jp

URL: https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en* All Programs are subject to change.

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PRESS IMAGES

1 GRINDER-MAN, HERO HEROINE, 2018
Supported by

3 Kohei Nawa, PixCell-Bambi #10, 2014
Collection: MOT
Photo by Ichiro Otani

2 Tokujin Yoshioka, ROSE, 2013
Collection: MOT
Photo by TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA Inc.

Contact

Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Chiako Kudo / Mihoko Nakajima
TEL: +81-3-5245-1134

E-MAIL: mot-pr@mot-art.jp

URL: https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en* All Programs are subject to change.

34 Justine Emard, Co(AI)xistence, 2017, video installation, 12′with Mirai Moriyama & Alter (developed by Ishiguro lab, Osaka University and Ikegami Lab, Tokyo University)© Justine Emard / Adagp, Paris 2020

５ Jun Fujiki, P055E5510N, 2011.
©Jun Fujiki

６ Hiroyuki Moriwaki, TOKIHANA, 2010
© Hiroyuki Moriwaki

Contact

Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Chiako Kudo / Mihoko Nakajima
TEL: +81-3-5245-1134

E-MAIL: mot-pr@mot-art.jp

URL: https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en* All Programs are subject to change.

47 One for Every Household: Diagram of Our Universe 2018
Author and distributor: The Japan Foundation of Public Communication on Science and Technology (PCOST)
Production: “One for Every Household: Diagram of Our Universe” Production Committee
Art Direction: Jun Kosaka

Available to download "Diagram of Our Universe" below.
Diagram of Our Universe 2018

8 AR 3 Brothers©Tom KawadaContact

Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Chiako Kudo / Mihoko Nakajima
TEL: +81-3-5245-1134

E-MAIL: mot-pr@mot-art.jp

URL: https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en* All Programs are subject to change.

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Related events
We plan to host a variety of additional events, such as screenings of 8K high-resolution video artworks (3D, reservationrequired), presentations and workshops by participating artists and educational institutions (incl. remote workshops and the“Childlike Wonder Museum (working title)”), stargazing and read-aloud events and many more.
＊may be subject to change＊Please visit the MOT’s website for up-to-date information related to the exhibition

Information
Exhibition Period

Sat. 18 July – Sun. 27 September 2020

ClosedMondays (except August 10, September 21), August 11, September 23

Opening Hours

10:00－18:00 (Tickets available until 30 minutes before closing.)

Admission

Adults – 1,300 Yen / University & College Students, Over 65 – 1,000 Yen / High-school &Junior High-school Students – 800 Yen /Elementary School Students & younger – freeVenue

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Exhibition Gallery 3F

Organized by

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation forHistory and Culture

Co-organized by

NHK Enterprises, Inc.

Special support by

MADD. Committee / ASTRODESIGN,Inc.

Equipment cooperation by

SHARP CORPORATION / Canon Marketing Japan Inc.

Cooperated by

The Japan Foundation of Public Communication on Science and Technology (PCOST) /“One for Every Household: Diagram of Our Universe” Production Committee /Nissha Foundation for Printing Culture and Technology / Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency（JAXA）/ Video Research Ltd., / MinebeaMitsumi Inc.

Curated by

Tomoe Moriyama (Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)

Concurrent Exhibitions“Olafur Eliasson: Sometimes the river is the bridge”“ Things Entangling , a collaboration between MOT and KADIST”“MOT Collection: Present Day and in Times Past― Multiple Perspectives”

Contact

Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Chiako Kudo / Mihoko Nakajima
TEL: +81-3-5245-1134

E-MAIL: mot-pr@mot-art.jp

URL: https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en* All Programs are subject to change.

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GRINDER-MAN, HERO HEROINE, 2018
Supported by ASUS

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Tokujin Yoshioka, ROSE, 2013
Collection: MOT
Photo by TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA Inc.

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Kohei Nawa, PixCell-Bambi #10, 2014
Collection: MOT
Photo by Ichiro Otani

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Justine Emard, Co(AI)xistence, 2017, video installation, 12′with Mirai Moriyama & Alter (developed by Ishiguro lab, Osaka University and Ikegami Lab, Tokyo University)© Justine Emard / Adagp, Paris 2020

5Jun Fujiki, P055E5510N, 2011.
©Jun Fujiki

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Hiroyuki Moriwaki, TOKIHANA, 2010
© Hiroyuki Moriwaki

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One for Every Household: Diagram of Our Universe 2018
Author and distributor: The Japan Foundation of Public Communication on Science and Technology (PCOST)
Production: “One for Every Household: Diagram of Our Universe” Production Committee
Art Direction: Jun Kosaka

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AR 3 Brothers©Tom KawadaContact

Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Chiako Kudo / Mihoko Nakajima
TEL: +81-3-5245-1134

E-MAIL: mot-pr@mot-art.jp

URL: https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en* All Programs are subject to change.

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