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(OPENING) MORI ART MUSEUM 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITIONWORLD CLASSROOM:CONTEMPORARY ART THROUGH SCHOOL SUBJECTSAPRIL 19 [WED] - SEPTEMBER 24 [SUN], 2023 MORI ART MUSEUM (53F, ROPPONGI HILLS MORI TOWER)

ENCOUNTERS AND LESSONS IN THE UNKNOWN
The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, is proud to present the Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition
entitled WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects to be on view from
Wednesday, April 19, to Sunday, September 24, 2023.
Since the 1990s, when the development of contemporary art began to be considered from multiple
perspectives in different parts of the world, we have been seeing that contemporary art today goes far
beyond the framework of arts and crafts and ﬁne art in the school classroom. It is a composite ﬁeld withconnections to all subjects, including language and literature, mathematics, science, and social studies. In
each of these disciplines, researchers are exploring the “unknowns” of the world, delving into history, andmaking new discoveries and inventions from the past to the future in order to enrich our perception of
the world. The stance adopted by contemporary artists that seeks to go beyond our preconceptions in acreative way is also connected to this exploration of these unknowns. In this sense, the contemporary art
museum is something akin to a “classroom of the world ” where we can encounter and learn about these
unknown worlds.
WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects , commemorating the 20th
anniversary of the Mori Art Museum, is an attempt for us to encounter a world we have never seenor known from a wide variety of perspectives, using the subjects we learn at school as a gateway tocontemporary art. Even though this exhibition is divided into such sections as “Language and Literature,”“Social Studies,” “Philosophy,” “Mathematics,” “Science,” “Music,” “Phys. Ed.,” and “Transdisciplinary,” each
work, in fact, crosses over multiple subjects and domains. While over half of approximately 150 exhibited
works will be drawn from the Mori Art Museum Collection for the ﬁrst time ever, there will also be newlycommissioned artworks for this exhibition - altogether creating a “classroom of the world,” place oflearning with works by 54 artists/artist groups.

Wang Qingsong Follow Me 2003 C-print 60 x 150 cm
Collection: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

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FEATURED ARTISTS/GROUPS * In alphabetical order of the artists surnames’

Ai Weiwei, Aoyama Satoru, Ericka Beckman, Joseph Beuys, Johanna Billing, Luke Ching, Manon de Boer, Sam Falls,
Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Fujii Hikaru, Gu Minja, Shilpa Gupta, Hatakeyama Naoya, Aziz Hazara, Susan Hiller, Jakarta Wasted Artists,
Christian Jankowski, Katayama Maki, Kazama Sachiko, Kikuchi Tomoko, Jacob Kirkegaard, Joseph Kosuth, Dinh Q. Lê, Lee Ufan,
Klara Lidén, Park McArthur, Mario Merz, Miyagi Futoshi, Miyajima Tatsuo, Miyanaga Aiko, Morimura Yasumasa, Nara Yoshitomo,
Pangrok Sulap, Sopheap Pich, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Vandy Rattana, James Richards, Hrair Sarkissian, Aki Sasamoto, Seto Momoko,
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Martine Syms, Mika Tajima, Takayama Akira, Tamura Yuichiro, Rodel Tapaya, Tsai Charwei, Tse Su-Mei,
Umetsu Yoichi, Wang Qingsong, Yang Haegue, Yee I-Lann, Yoneda Tomoko, and Yu Cheng-Ta

General Information
Exhibition Title: Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition
WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects
Organizer: Mori Art Museum
20th Anniversary Sponsors: OBAYASHI CORPORATION, SHIMIZU CORPORATION,
KAJIMA CORPORATION
Corporate Sponsors: Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co., Ltd., TAKENAKA CORPORATION,
Nihon Bunkyou Shuppan Co., Ltd., Benesse Holdings, Inc.
Grant from: Nomura Foundation
Curated by: Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum), Kumakura Haruko (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum),
Kondo Kenichi (Senior Curator, Mori Art Museum), Tsubaki Reiko (Curator, Mori Art Museum),
Tokuyama Hirokazu (Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum), Yahagi Manabu (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum),
Martin Germann (Adjunct Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Exhibition Period: April 19 [Wed] - September 24 [Sun], 2023
Venue: Mori Art Museum, 53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Hours: 10:00-22:00 | Tue: 10:00-17:00 | * Open until 22:00 on Tuesdays of May 2 and August 15, 2023.
* Admission until 30 minutes before closing. | * Open every day.

［Weekdays］

Admission:

On-SiteOnlineAdults¥ 2,000

Students (University/High School)［Sat., Sun. & Holidays］
On-SiteOnline¥ 1,800¥ 2,200¥ 2,000¥ 1,400¥ 1,300¥ 1,500¥ 1,400

Children (Age 4 through Junior High School)

¥ 800

¥ 700

¥ 900

¥ 800

Seniors (Ages 65 and over)¥ 1,700¥ 1,500¥ 1,900¥ 1,700* It is encouraged to make advance booking for a designated date/time slot and purchase the admission ticket on the booking website.
* Admissions without advance bookings will be allowed so far as the time slots have not ﬁlled up on the day of your visit.
* All prices include tax.
* Audio Guide combo tickets (+¥500) are also available for purchase.
* Admissions to Tokyo City View (indoor observation deck), Sky Deck (rooftop observation deck) and Mori Arts Center Gallery areseparate. However, those who enter the Heatherwick Studio: Building Soulfulness exhibition, currently on view until June 4, 2023 at
Tokyo City View (52F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower), will be admitted to the WORLD CLASSROOM exhibition (Mori Art Museum)by adding ¥500 across the board.

General Inquiries: 050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial, within Japan) / +81-(0)47-316-2772 (Hello Dial, from overseas)www.mori.art.museum/en

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HIGHLIGHTSGroups Contemporary Art in Eight Accessible Subjects
Liberating contemporary art from the conﬁnes of ﬁne art, drawing and craft to present works in eight sections by othersubjects: Language and Literature; Social Studies; Philosophy; Mathematics; Science; Music; Phys. Ed.; plus a mixed
section titled Transdisciplinary, the exhibition will offer encounters with unknown realms and opportunities to learn about
them, transforming the art museum into an open classroom for lessons on the world. Encompassing both large and smaller
galleries, WORLD CLASSROOM will unfold across an exhilarating 1,800 square meters-plus of display area.

Superb Showcase for the Mori Art Museum Collection
Pandemic restrictions on the movement of people and goods have prompted museums across the globe to revisit theirown holdings, and pay fresh attention to the activities of local artists. From a sustainable development viewpoint thishas also been an excellent opportunity to review the energy required to transport art, and for other museum activities.
Over half of approximately 150 works in this exhibition will be from the Mori Art Museum Collection. Many of around460 works currently in that collection were acquired in association with exhibitions, and thus also serve to trace theMuseum’s trajectory over the past two decades.

Includes Seminal Works from Contemporary Art History
The exhibition will include a number of seminal works serving as excellent references for reflecting on contemporary
art from multiple perspectives. Joseph Kosuth is a towering figure of 1960s conceptual art, which deemed ideas andconcepts to be of greater importance than visual attractiveness. This is an approach that still underpins contemporary
art today, and is exempliﬁed by Kosuth’s One and Three Shovels (1965) on show here. Joseph Beuys meanwhile, one of
the most inﬂuential artists of the 20th century, championed the expanded concept of art known as “social sculpture,”
in which everyone is an artist helping to fashion an organic social structure. In a fitting choice for an exhibition titledWORLD CLASSROOM , the exhibition will include a blackboard written on by the German artist in a lecture he gave
at Tokyo University of the Arts on his ﬁrst visit to Japan in 1984. This opportunity for dialogue with Beuys had a lifechanging impact on many of the young Japanese present who went on to forge careers as artists and curators.

Also Offers New Works from Artists of Global Stature
The world-renowned Yang Haegue will unveil an installation drawing on phenomena from around the world such as
topical energy issues and climate change, and making reference to sculpture by Japanese-Brazilian artist Tomie Ohtake.
Jacob Kirkegaard, Park McArthur, and Miyanaga Aiko will also present newly-commisioned works for the exhibition.

Traces 20 Years of the Mori Art Museum in Figures and Infographics
In the 20 years since its opening, the Mori Art Museum has undertaken 59 major exhibitions, staged 72 small
exhibition programs, and run numerous associated learning and other programs. Displayed at the entrance to WORLD
CLASSROOM will be a world map showing the names of artists and artist units - approximately 1,600 in total - whohave exhibited at the Mori Art Museum, by their place of origin. A display at the exit will trace the Museum ’s activities
over the past two decades and present, in numerical and infographic form information, ranging from the total numberof visitors to date, to number of learning programs, and more.

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EXHIBITION STRUCTURE: THE EIGHT (8) SECTIONS
1. LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
The “Language and Literature” section presents works on the theme ofwords or language, or including literary or poetic elements. In addition to itsrole in forms of expression like literature and poetry, “language” has featured
frequently in contemporary art down the decades as part of the current ofconceptual art. Showcased here are works from conceptual art behemoth
Joseph Kosuth; Susan Hiller, whose works pursue the political and social
nature of language; Miyagi Futoshi who focuses on aspects of identity
such as nationality, race, and gender; Yoneda Tomoko; Wang Qingsong;
and Yee I-Lann.

2. SOCIAL STUDIES
Kicking off with a blackboard left by “social sculpture ” champion
Joseph Beuys on a visit to Japan, the “Social Studies ” section, largest
in the exhibition, deals with historical, political, geographical, economic
and identity issues around the world. Since the 1990s, art has been
disseminated from every corner of an increasingly globalized world, andperhaps, by taking up some of the millions of individual stories spilling overfrom official versions of history and sweeping national narratives, as well
as minority viewpoints, artists do take on a role of growing and adding
diversity to our ways of seeing the world. Here, Ai Weiwei and Morimura
Yasumasa address art historical themes, while Dinh Q. Lê, Fujii Hikaru
and Hatakeyama Naoya engage with the legacies of war, violence anddisaster; Park McArthur, exhibiting in Japan for the ﬁrst time, debuts works
on accessibility in cities; and Tamura Yuichiro and Gu Minja address the
economics of everyday living.

Yoneda Tomoko
Tanizaki’s Glasses - Viewing a Letter to Matsuko(from the series “ Between Visible and Invisible ” )1999
Gelatin silver print
120 x 120 cm
Collection: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Morimura Yasumasa
Une Moderne Olympia 20182017-2018
C-print, transparent medium
210 x 300 cm
Collection: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Installation view photo: Muto Shigeo

3. PHILOSOPHY

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Miyajima Tatsuo
Innumerable Life/Buddha CCI -01
2018
Light Emitting Diode, IC, electric wire,
steel, stainless, transformer, LED type “ Time
Hundred ” (Red) 100 plates
251.7 x 251.7 x 15 cm
Collection: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Photo: Omote Nobutada
Photo courtesy: Lisson Gallery

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Exploring what it means to be alive, and the truths and universalities of thisworld, philosophy has long been intimately connected to art. Philosophy
relates to everything about the way human beings are born, live, and die,and the same can be said for artistic endeavor. Both attempt to elucidate
the fundamental principles of life and the wider world, and doggedly tackle
questions for which there are no fixed answers. This section includes
the work of Miyajima Tatsuo, whose blinking LED counter expresses a
Buddhist view of life and death; Lee Ufan, who explores the existence ofthings and their relationship with their surroundings; and a painting by Nara
Yoshitomo of a young girl seemingly at prayer. Works on the themes oftime, nature, the afterlife, “being” plus faith and salvation demonstrate howeach artist in this section observes, interprets and gives expression to theworld.

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4. MATHEMATICS
Arithmetic, or mathematics, is actually a highly creative domain. Numbers arealso connected to the universal theme of “time” taken up by artists acrossthe centuries. A survey of art history yields Renaissance figures such as
Leonardo da Vinci, not only an artist, but an extraordinary polymath whose
interests extended to mathematics, science, anatomy, and astronomy; andAlbrecht Durer, also known as a mathematician. The Golden Ratio describedby mathematician Luca Pacioli in his Divina proportione (1509) is anotherexample of the close link between mathematics and art. This section
opens with a large piece by Mario Merz using neon tubes to show the
Fibonacci sequence, before going on to works by Katayama Maki, Hiroshi
Sugimoto, and videos by Aki Sasamoto, who projects mathematicalconcepts onto performance/installations.

5. SCIENCE
Natural sciences such as physics, biology and chemistry are not without
connection to contemporary art, either. Ecosystems the world over are
naturally projected on the materials artists adopt for their works, and thenatural laws and visions of nature emerging from scientific viewpoints havelong served to inspire artistic creativity. Artists were also some of the firstto sound warnings about the climate crisis and environmental problems
that constitute some of the most serious issues facing the planet today.
This section presents a video piece by Peter Fischli & David Weiss
showing everyday household items sparking a series of chain reactions andtransmitting energy, plus another video work by Seto Momoko, a newoffering from Miyanaga Aiko using naphthalene, pieces from Mika Tajima
making use of black light, and more.

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Conceptual Forms 0010
Surface of revolution with constant negative
curvature
2004
Gelatin silver print
58.4 x 47 cm
Courtesy: Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

Seto Momoko
Planet Σ
2014
Video, sound11 min. 40 sec. (loop)
Collection: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

6. MUSIC
In the sense of being vibrations of the air, music qualifies as a scientificdiscipline alongside subjects like science and mathematics. In contemporaryart, we find works informed by the visual elements of sound and music,
conceptual art that prompts us to ponder the meaning and mechanisms ofsound and acoustics, works in which we actually experience sounds, andothers in which we sense its absence. Manon de Boer’s video employing
John Cage’s 4 ′33 ″focuses on both pianist and audience to present aninterlude of silence. Music is also closely tied to identity, for example,
through its use in religious rites. And examples in this section are Aziz
Hazara’s lyrical video featuring Islamic prayer drifting through the Afghannight; Johanna Billing’s work in which children born after the formerYugoslav wars sing the song “Magical World;” and a work by Martine Syms
that focuses on hand gestures and sounds that evoke images of black
women.
* Works on video will be presented in a screening format, in two terms.
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Johanna Billing
Magical World
2005
Video, sound
6 min. 12 sec. (loop)
Courtesy: Hollybush Gardens, London

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7. PHYS. ED.
Expression in contemporary art that turns its gaze on physical movement andconduct, and turns the body itself into a work of art, became establishedin the 1960s as “performance” and today is a common theme of works
on video. Examples of artists using their own bodies to express different
themes include the standards and copying expressed by Klara Lidén
through ballet. Bodies on film may also represent the “politicality of thebody,” such as the history and liberation from that history seen in the workof Christian Jankowski. WORLD CLASSROOM also focuses on thearchitectural aspects of a stadium where sport takes place, and sport seen in
the media, observing how “Phys. Ed.” extends into society.
* Works on video will be presented in a screening format, in two terms.

Christian Jankowski
Heavy Weight History
2013
Video, sound
25 min. 46 sec.
Courtesy: Lisson Gallery

8. TRANSDISCIPLINARY
None of the works in WORLD CLASSROOM ﬁt entirely into the frameworkof any single subject, language or section. There are mathematical themes inthe Language and Literature section, and social topics in Science. This ﬁnal
section, “Transdisciplinary,” presents such artworks and projects that do not
fit neatly into any one subject area, but instead occupy somewhat broader
territory. Now globally high-profile Yang Haegue, and Denmark-based yetinternationally prominent Jacob Kirkegaard, present new-commissioned
works for the exhibition. Also featured is a project by Takayama Akira
employing a theater-based methodology to transform everyday scenes fromthe metropolis of Tokyo, via our own consciousness.

Yang Haegue
The Sonic Hybrids – Dual Energy(The Sonic Hybrid – Cooling Overturning and
The Sonic Hybrid – Migrating after Ohtake )2023
Collection: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Photo: Studio Haegue Yang

Works Screened for “ Music ” and “ Phys. Ed.” Sections* For the screening schedule, see the Mori Art Museum website. www.mori.art.museum/en
Term I: April 19 [Wed] - July 4 [Tue], 2023 (Total Running Time: Approx. 45 min.)[Music]Manon de Boer
Two Times 4 ’ 33 ”
2008 12 min. 36 sec.
Tse Su-Mei
L ’ écho2003 4 min. 55 sec.
Aziz Hazara
Takbir (praying for the god)
2022 9 min. 58 sec.
[Phys. Ed.] Klara Lidén
Warm Up: Hermitage State Theater 2014 4 min. 20 sec.
Yu Cheng-Ta
adj. Dance2010 5 min. 11 sec.
Ericka Beckman
Tension Building
2017 8 min. 16 sec.
Term II: July 5 [Wed] - September 24 [Sun], 2023 (Total Running Time: Approx. 56 min.)[Music]Johanna Billing
Magical World
2005 6 min. 12 sec.
James Richards
Radio at Night (Extended Version) 2015 13 min. 39 sec.
Martine Syms
Notes on Gesture2015 10 min. 30 sec.
[Phys. Ed.] Christian Jankowski Heavy Weight History
2013 25 min. 46 sec.

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Exhibition-Related LEARNING Programs
RIKKYO UNIVERSITY / MORI ART MUSEUMSPECIAL JOINT PROJECT
As part of its menu of learning programs throughout the WORLD CLASSROOM exhibition, the Mori Art Museum Learning
will run a number of programs embodying the exhibition concept, i.e., approaching contemporary art as a composite domain
common to many of the subjects we study at school. With the backing of the Rikkyo Educational Corporation, during theﬁrst half of the exhibition period, we will offer two programs connecting the Museum with university, senior and junior highschool education settings.

TALK SESSION SERIES “ CONNECTING WITH UNFAMILIAR WORLDS”* Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available

Emanating concurrently from different corners of the globe, contemporary art brings encounters with a plethora of values
reflecting the times, the history of different places, and artist identity, and at the same time offers us a chance to finduniversal connections with worlds other than our own. During their schooling, students also study the world from various
angles, however learning today is formalized and divided into specialist subject fields. At the “Connecting with Unfamiliar
Worlds” talk sessions organized by the Mori Art Museum in conjunction with Rikkyo University, participants will learn
about topical issues in ﬁelds including literature, social studies, philosophy, mathematics, and science, and discuss the links
between these ﬁelds, and with contemporary art, and the diverse and simultaneously universal qualities of different realms.
Dates & Times: [Day 1]18:00-20:30, Friday, June 16, 2023
[Day 2]14:00-19:00, Saturday, June 17, 2023
[Day 3]14:00-18:30, Sunday, June 18, 2023
Venue: Academyhills (49F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower) Capacity: 150 (each day; booking required)
Fee: NOT Free (TBC; Details will be announced on the Mori Art Museum website on a later date. www.mori.art.museum/en)
Organizers: Mori Art Museum; Research Center for the Humanities, College of Arts, Rikkyo University
In Association with: Rikkyo Educational Corporation Booking: Mori Art Museum website www.mori.art.museum/en* Speakers at each of the talk sessions will include Rikkyo University teaching staff, plus curators and artists. Speaker details tofollow on the website.

DAY 1: 18:00-20:30, Friday, June 16, 2023
[Introduction]
Appearing: Nishihara Renta (President, Rikkyo University; Professor, Department of Christian Studies, College of Arts,
Rikkyo University), Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum)[Talk Session I]
Appearing: Hachikai Mimi (Poet; Professor, Department of Letters, College of Arts, Rikkyo Univeristy), and others
DAY 2: 14:00-19:00, Saturday, June 17, 2023
[Talk Session II]
Appearing: Kameda Shingo (Professor, Department of Physics, College of Science, Rikkyo University; Specially Appointed
Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and others[Talk Session III]
Appearing: Koizumi Motohiro (Professor, Department of Contemporary Culture and Society, College of Sociology,
Rikkyo University), and others[Talk Session IV]
Appearing: Yamagata Mariko (Specially Appointed Professor, Curator Course, Certiﬁcation Courses, Rikkyo University),
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DAY 3: 14:00-18:30, Sunday, June 18, 2023
[Talk Session V]
Appearing: Okuno Katsumi (Professor, Department of Intercultural Communication, College of Intercultural
Communication, Rikkyo University), and others[Talk Session VI]
Appearing: Kato Masue (Professor, Department of Christian Studies, College of Arts, Rikkyo University), and others[Synthesis]
Appearing: Okuno Katsumi (Professor, Department of Intercultural Communication, College of Intercultural
Communication, Rikkyo University), Kato Masue (Professor, Department of Christian Studies, College ofArts, Rikkyo University), Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum), and others

ART CAMP VOL. 10 “ WORLD CLASSROOM YOUTH AMBASSADORS ”* Conducted in JapaneseIn this program exclusively for Rikkyo Junior and Senior High School and University students, participants will serve as youth
ambassadors for the WORLD CLASSROOM exhibition. Following a lecture by the Mori Art Museum Director, students will
try their hand at composing descriptive labels for the works in the exhibition with help from the WORLD CLASSROOM
curators, and Museum staff. These labels will be displayed at the exhibition from August 2023 onward.
Dates: Four (4) sessions between Sunday, May 14, and Sunday, June 25, 2023
Venue: Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
For: Students of Rikkyo Ikebukuro Junior and Senior High School, Rikkyo Niiza Junior and Senior High School, andRikkyo University * Note this program is not open to the general public
Capacity: Approximately 30 Organizer: Mori Art Museum In Association with: Rikkyo Educational Corporation

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM“ ART CAMP FOR UNDER 22 VOL. 11IN/BETWEEN: CONNECTING MUSEUMS ” * Conducted in JapaneseThis program was launched in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with the Sakamoto Zenzo Museum ofArt (Oguni, Kumamoto). For this third year, participants will view the Mori Art Museum’s WORLD CLASSROOM exhibition
online on the first day, hear the story behind Collection Reading Vol. 7: “Saying that You Like What You Like” – A Zenzo
Exhibition Put Together with the Oguni Art Club, in Conjunction with the Mori Art Museum ,1 an exhibition organized at
the Sakamoto Zenzo Museum of Art by junior high school members of the Oguni Art Club2 on the second day, and takepart online in a learning program at the same museum on the third day. Brought together by an exhibition drawn from thecollections of both museums, participants will meet artists and museum staff, and discuss art in their own words in a fourday program aimed at getting to know others through art appreciation.
*1 Exhibition period: Saturday, July 22 - Sunday, November 26, 2023 (TBC)*2 The Oguni Art Club is a community art club launched in April 2021 by the Sakamoto Zenzo Museum of Art, following closing of the art club at the local
junior high school in Oguni, Kumamoto. Membership comprises junior and senior high school students from two adjacent towns, who engage in various artrelated activities with museum staff. Since May 2021, Mori Building Company and the Mori Art Museum have been engaged in a program of ongoing, interregional exchange between the Oguni Art Club and those participating in the Mori Art Museum “Art Camp” learning program which is one of their Community
Engagement Programs.

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Dates (Total of four): Tuesday, June 27, 2023; Tuesday, July 18, 2023; Saturday, July 22, 2023; andTuesday, August 1, 2023 * Applicants, please be sure that you can attend all four upon booking.
Appearing: Yamada Tsuyoshi (Artist; Representative of Tadahon-ya )Yamashita Hiroko (Curator, Sakamoto Zenzo Museum of Art)
Venue: Online program using Zoom (video conferencing/meeting)
For: Youths aged 13-22 Capacity: 30 (booking required) Fee: Free
Organizers: Mori Building Co., Ltd., Mori Art Museum, Sakamoto Zenzo Museum of Art
Booking: Mori Art Museum website www.mori.art.museum/en* Details of the program will be announced on the Mori Art Museum website on a later date. www.mori.art.museum/en■ SCHOOL-MUSEUM PROGRAM* Conducted in JapaneseDuring this program, we will be holding a discussion between the instructors and Museum staff regarding contemporary art
and what children can learn. The program is not only for instructors of fine arts or arts and crafts - teachers interested in
making use of the art museum activities are also welcome to join.
Date & Time: 16:00-18:00, Friday, July 28, 2023
Venue: Auditorium, Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
For: Preschool, elementary, middle and high school teachers, and college/university instructors
Capacity: 15 (booking required; ﬁrst-come basis) Fee: Free
Booking: Mori Art Museum website www.mori.art.museum/en■ ACCESS ONLINE PROGRAM “ ART ONLINE ” * Conducted in Japanese
The Mori Art Museum Learning staff will introduce the WORLD CLASSROOM exhibition and talk about how to enjoy
contemporary art and explore the town of Roppongi where the Mori Art Museum is located. The program will be in a
dialogue format, tailored to the particants. So including those who have never visited the Mori Art Museum or those who
cannot go out as freely as they wish to, everyone is welcome.
Upon applying, please let us know what type of assistance you might require of us in joining this program as well - such as
the need for artwork description in verbal or in sign language and others.
Dates & Times: [1] 12:00-13:15, Thursday, August 31, 2023
[2] 12:00-13:15, Thursday, September 14, 2023
Venue: Online program using Zoom (video conferencing/meeting)Capacity: 10 groups each (booking required; ﬁrst-come basis)
Fee: Free Booking: Mori Art Museum website www.mori.art.museum/en* Please note that the Programs are subject to change without prior notice.
* A series of Artist Talks, Gallery Talks, School Programs, and Access Programs are currently in planning. Visit the Mori Art Museum
website for the program & booking details and updates. www.mori.art.museum/en
Inquiries on the Programs: Learning, Mori Art Museum
E-mail: mam-learning@mori.co.jp

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Press Release VOL.2

APRIL 18, 2023

RELATED INFORMATIONAUDIO GUIDE
Use the web-app-based WORLD CLASSROOM audio guide for the featured works, and message from Mori Art
Museum Director Kataoka Mami.
* Visitors are requested to bring and use their own devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets) and earphones. Neither devices nor earphones will beavailable for rent on site.

Available in: English / Japanese Number of Tracks: 15 Length: Approx. 30 minutes
Fee: ￥500 (incl. tax) Produced by: i-Theatre Supervised by: Mori Art Museum

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
Essays by:
Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum), David Elliott (Independent Curator; Founding Director, Mori Art Museum),
Suhanya Raffel (Museum Director, M+; President, CIMAM [International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art]),Angga Wijaya and Leonhard Bartolomeus (Gudskul Ecosystem), Shiraki Eise (Associate Curator of Learning, Mori Art Museum)Size: A4 variation (28.2 x 21 cm) Number of Pages: 176
Languages: Japanese-English bilingualPrice: ￥3,960 (incl. tax)
Date of Issue: April 19, 2023
Edited by: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Published and Distributed by:
Culture Convenience Club Co, Ltd. and Bijutsu Shuppan-sha Co., Ltd.
To Be for Sale at: MORI ART MUSEUM SHOP 53 (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower),
MORI ART MUSEUM SHOP (3F, Roppongi Hills West Walk) andMORI ART MUSEUM ONLINE SHOP (https://shop.mori.art.museum/)
Inquiries: MORI ART MUSEUM SHOP 53
Tel: +81-(0)3-6406-6118 (Hours subject to those of the Museum)press release Press Inquiries: Mori Art Museum Public Relations Office [within Kyodo PR]

Tel: +81-(0)80-2340-8755 (Ms. Wada) E-mail: mam-pr@kyodo-pr.co.jp

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