TO The Press and Whom it may concern
FROMOku-Noto Triennale Executive Committee

DATE2017.2.19

Photo: Naoki Ishikawa

Oku-Noto Triennale Executive Committee will hold the first Oku-Noto
Triennale from September 3 to October 22 2017. We have made thethird time announcement of participating artists. Information about
the passport which gives you access to the artworks of the Oku-Noto
Triennale 2017 and the recruiting volunteers have been informed aswell. Please check it out on our website.

ABOUT THE TRIENNALE
OKU-NOTO TRIENNALE 2017

ORGANIZERThe Triennale of Contemporary Art from the Furthest PlaceOku-Noto Triennale Executive Committee

DURATIONEXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN

September 3rd – October 22nd 2017

DIRECTORVENUE

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Across Suzu City in Ishikawa Prefecture

COMMUNICATION DIRECTORNUMBER OF ARTWORKS AND PROJECTS
31 artists from 10 countries and regions

Masuhiro Izumiya (Mayor of Suzu)

Fram Kitagawa (Art Director)
Katsumi Asaba (Art Director)

Toshiya Fukuda (Advertising / Web Strategist)
OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER(as of 19 February 2017)

http://oku-noto.jp/en/

Naoki Ishikawa (Photographer)Third announcement of participating artists

The city of Suzu is located at the tip of the Noto peninsula. Suzu has developed
its unique culture by the people who interacted frequently from the sea and theland. Suzu has been geographically isolated. Thatʼs why the traditional lifestyleand the customs have been remained in the city. Forgotten Japan is still there.
The Oku-Noto Triennale 2017 will be held in autumn, the most vibrant timein Noto peninsula. Thatʼs because traditional Kiriko festivals will also be heldthen. Itʼs the great encounter of the traditional culture and the contemporaryart. This Triennale aims to stimulate untapped potentials of the place and create
foremost culture from furthest place with participating artists from Japanand around abroad. Another 14 participating artists have been decided.

The list of the participating artists of Oku-Noto Triennale as of 19 February 2017.
Katsumi Asaba(Japan) / Adel Abdessemed(Algeria/France) / Allora&Calzadilla(Puerto Rico) / Naoki Ishikawa(Japan) / EAT&ART TARO(Japan) /Takahiro Iwasaki(Japan) / Ongoing Collective(Japan) / Bunpei Kado(Japan) / Kanazawa College of Art Project Team SUZUPURO / Tatsuo Kawaguchi(Japan) / Maki Kijima(Japan) / GYOKO YOSHIDA+KINOURA MEETING (Japan) / Tomoko Konoike (Japan) / Masayoshi Koyama(Japan) / Aleksander
Konstantinov(Russia) / Hiraki Sawa(Japan) / Chiharu Shiota(Japan/Germany) / Jianghua Liu(China) / Nobuyuki Tanaka (Japan) / Yasushi Nakase(Japan)/ Eko Nuguroho (Indonesia) / Noto Aburi Project(Japan) / Basurama-Collective(Spain) / Kodue Hibino (Japan) / Takashi Fukazawa (Japan) / GimHongsok(Korea) / Rikuji Makabe(Japan) / Ohji Yoshino(Japan) / Raqs Media Collective(India) / Rikigosan(Japan) / Tobias Rehberger(Germany) / and more.
*The artists underlined are the group of newly decided.
The detailed profile and past artworks of each artists can be seen at the link below.

http://oku-noto.jp/artists/

Profiles of newly decided artists of Oku-Noto Triennale
ALLORA & CALZADILLA (PUERTO RICO)ALEKSANDER KONSTANTINOV (RUSSIA)

The collaborative duo was established in 1995 and currently

Born in 1953, Moscow.

based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They are highly acclaimed for1992. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

through research, critical interpretation and creative approach1994. Forward and Reverse Perspective of Russian

to a single object. Their artworks feature environmental issues,Minimalism. Ljubov Popova 1924–1994 Aleksander

anthropology, military and political tensions between countries

Konstantinov. Palace Liechtenstein, Feldkirch, Austria.

and social systems and expressed through video, sound,2004. Betrachtungen. New York University, New York.

sculpture and performance.

2005. White District. State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts,

Selected international exhibitions include US Pavilion atMoscow.

54th Venice Biennale (2011/Italy), the 29th Sao Paulo Art

2006. Wandering Walls. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Biennial (2010/Brazil), dOCUMENTA (13) (2012/ Kassel,Germany), Gwangju Biennale (2004, 2008, 2014/South Korea),
Aichi Triennale (2013/Japan) and solo exhibitions such as
Performance 9: Allora & Calzadilla (2010/Museum ofModern Art NY, USA) and Intervals (2014-15/Philadelphia
Museum of Art, USA).

ONGOING COLLECTIVE (JAPAN)

BUNPEI KADO (JAPAN)

An artist group being set up in 2016 by Nozomu Ogawa, aBorn in Fukui in 1978. Reside in Tokyo. Graduated fromdirector of Art Center Ongoing in Kitchijoji consists of thirty-Department of Industrial, Interior and Craft Design atfour artists, one musician, six curators, and four coordinators.

Musashino Art University.
He creates sculptures by combining ordinary objects from

[Major activities]

everyday existence into unusual combination evoking fresh

November 2016 Hybrid Video Art Theory (Cinema Maebashi,meanings. He has recently presented installations in anGunma, Japan)

abandoned house or classroom in a school which incorporated

July 2016 Ongoing Collective exhibition (Art Center

the spacial context within the work.

Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan)[Major projects and exhibitions]Tokyo Midtown Award 2012［Tokyo, 2012］
Setouchi Triennale 2013［Ogijima, Kagawa, 2013］
Ichihara Art Mix［Ex-Satomi Primary School, Chiba, 2014］
Rokko Meets Art 2014［Rokko Orgel Museum, Hyogo, 2014］
Morikarahajimaru Monogatari［Kanaz Forest of Creation,Fukui, 2015］
The Railway Art Museum ［The Taro Okamoto Museum ofArt, Kanagawa, 2016］

Profiles of newly decided artists of Oku-Noto Triennale
KANAZAWA COLLEGE OF ART PROJECT

MAKI KIJIMA (JAPAN)

TEAM SUZUPRO (JAPAN)
Born in 1976 in Tokyo. Studied at Oil Painting at Graduate School
SUZUPRO consisting of teaching staff members and students
across different disciplines was formed in preparation for OkuNoto Triennale: Suzu 2017.
Under the theme around calm ocean current , SUZUPRO
will present artwork(s) featuring historical and socialof Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Under the theme ofreality and imagination she creates artworks made by carefulcraftwork transforming usual objects such as pieces of cloth,
plastic products into vivid plants and dresses. She ran series ofworkshops to engage local residents for creation of artworks for
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in 2009, 2012 and 2015.

background to the development of the Japan sea and Suzu-city

She has being expanding her field of work through her

in an abandoned house in the iida area. In addition, SUZUPRO

involvement as an art producer for Art Rink , an ice-skating

will organise collaborative projects with Kamikuromaru area.

rink set up in front of Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse in 2013

Since April 2016, SUZUPRO has launched fieldworks forand running a workshop at Ichihara Lakeside Museum in 2014.

a research and study focusing Oku-Noto culture with aperspective of Japan-sea rim. The outcome of the researchhas been presented at Cultural Typhoon at Tokyo University ofthe Arts in July 2016 and elsewhere. SUZUPRO has also been
deepening the engagement with the local community throughparticipation in local rituals (i.e. yobare) and festivals.

GYOKO YOSHIDA + KINOURA MEETING(JAPAN)【GYOKO YOSHIDA】
Born in 1970 in Nagoya, Aichi. Completed her study at Graduate
School of Tama Art University. She has explored the primitive
structure of art in East Asia with particular focus on Japan andexpressed differences in context between the east and the west.
Although expressing media have been diverse, all of her artworksMASAYOSHI KOYAMA (JAPAN)

are within the field of Japanese painting. She received Asian
Cultural Council grant and stayed in New York, USA in 2001 -2002
and returned to New York under international studio & cultural
programs by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan in 2004-2005.
She has presented artworks at many solo and group exhibitions
including Ima Kokoniaru Fukei (2002/Shizuoka Prefectural
Museum of Art), Kaiga no Kozo・Jocho no Iso (2001/Gallery
Kuranuki, Osaka), and being a representing artist pf Japan at the11th Triennale-India in 2005. Major publications include GYOKOYOSHIDA 1993-2014 work & texts (2014 BTAP / Tokyo Gallery)
and Pink Blood (2001 Rikuyosha Co., Ltd.) She has been
directing through engaging with longer-term projects to help
develop younger artists from Hokkaido to Kyushu since 2005.

The landscape of bleak wilderness, primitive scarecrows
standing still inthe fields, and the drifts washed ashore andabandoned on the fiercely windy beach...
Those existences that are washed away and vanish in thecurrent of times sometimes strikingly catch our eyes in
the gentle daily life. Such strange existences that makeremarkable contrast of light and shadow to the materiallysatisfied happiness of the present day. To correspond to
the sorrows and fierce rages radiated from such strange
existencesʼ souls is a theme of my artworks. In the westeringsun, showing my back which drags floating feeling, solitude
and the senses of loss behind, I walk on becoming myself【KINOURA MEETING (Kinoura-bay a tea house at the edge

one of such strange existences. And those feel attracted inon the ocean project team) 】

looking at the back side of life may pursue me...

The project member include artist, craftsman, economist,I find importance in making such expressions.

philosopher, fashion designer, charcoal master, and tea master
who all contribute their respective wisdoms and skills totea house floating on Kinoura bay. The project will have its

1981 Born in Aichi. 2011 Graduated MFA, Tokyo University ofthe Arts (Oil Painting Techniques and Materials). Live in Tokyo.

base in the area where the film set of Saihatenite (2015)
featuring a café in Suzu-city still remain with intention to fully
enjoy both art and community building.
Nobutoshi Sawa /Choichiro Ohno /Ayumi Yasui/Yoshio
Kamitani /Yuichi Takemata/ Akitaka Kawakami / Futoshi
Hoshino / Seiko Hiratsuka /Yuko Murayama /Shu Hamada /Terumasa Ikeda / Rumi Karera / Contemporary Art mixt med.
seminar / Gyoko Yoshida, and more2013 Setouchi Triennale (Shodo-Island,Kagawa)2014 The Exhibition of TARO OKAMOTO Memorial
Contemporary Art Award(Taro OKAMOTO Museum of Art,Kanagawa)2014 The Power of Expression Tokyo University of the Arts
Selection (Takamatsu Castle Ruins Hiunkaku,Kagawa)2015 Nakanojo Biennale (Nakanojo,Gunma)
2016 Who By Art (Seibu Shibuya Art Gallery,Tokyo)

Profiles of newly decided artists of Oku-Noto Triennale
NOBUYUKI TANAKA (JAPAN)
1959: Born in Tokyo
1985: M.F.A., Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2003: Received Takashimaya Art Award, Takashimaya CultureFoundation
2012: Received the 18th MOA Mokichi Okada Prize craft arts
section award[Selected Exhibitions]
2005: Ars Nova − Between the Contemporary Avant-garde
Art and the Crafts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2007: Uchu-Miezu, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art,
Aichi / Roppongi Crossing 2007, Future Beats in JapaneseContemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2008: JAPAN! CULTURE ＋ HYPER CULTURE Exhibition,Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
2009: NIZAYAMA FOREST ART MUSEUM,Toyama
2010: China Hubei International Lacquer Triennial 2010,Hubei
Museum of Art, China (2013,2016) / AIZU URUSI ART
FESTIVAL ,Fukushima Museum (2011,2012)2012: New Footing Eleven Approaches to Contemporary
Crafts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2013: Kuroda Tatsuaki,Tanaka Nobuyuki − The Power ofLacquer, Toyota Municipal, Museum of Art/Aichi
2015: Simple Forms, Contemplating Beauty, MORI ART
MUSEUM/Tokyo
2016: Imaginary Skin, The Royal Museum Gallery/Tokyo,Kanazawa Artgummi/Ishikawa

NOTO ABURI PROJECT (JAPAN)
Noto Aburi Project (NAP) was launched as an outcomeof one of the life-long education classes for community
building producer which was organised by Morning
University of Marunouchi in summer 2013. NAP
highlights charm of Oku-Noto by featuring diatomite
cooking stove (called shichi-rin in Japan) and handmade charcoals(called sumi in japan), distinctive local
products of Suzu-city as well as joy of aburi, charcoalgrilled cooking. NAP promotes special time and experience
produced by aburi as it invites people to stay around thecooking stove as ingredients are slowly being cooked.
Major activities include organising demonstration of aburi
across Japan (2014), Suzu Aburi Tour

collaboratedwith Suzu-city (2014), commercialising aburi kit (2014),
and producing aburi kit as thanks token of furusato-tax
contributors (2016) while promoting information relating toaburi through its official website.

[Selected Collections]
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa,Ishikawa
Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum
The Japan Foundation, TokyoSHISEIDO Art House, Shizuoka
MORI ART MUSEUM, Tokyo
Metroporitan Museum, New YorkBrooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Arts,Minnesota
Philadelpia Museum of Art
Gitter-Yelen Foundation, New Orleans
Victoria and Albert Museum, England
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
Grassi Museum,Leipzig,Germany
HUBEI Museum of Art, CHINARIKUJI MAKABE (JAPAN)
BASURAMA-COLLECTIVE (SPAIN)

Born in 1971 in Ishikawa. Graduated from Tama Art
University. Currently based in Kanazawa. He sets out six

Basurama is an artist collective dedicated to research,

key words to work under: life and death, nothingness

cultural and environmental creation and productionand infinity, chaos and order. Expressing integration of

established in Madrid in 2001, whose practice revolves

wonder of nature and life beyond words with diversearound the reflection of trash, waste and reuse in all

cultures and value structures across the world throughits formats and possible meanings. They find gaps in

intuitive paintings.

contemporary processes of production and consumptionthat not only raise questions about the way we manage[Major exhibitions]

our resources but also about the way we think, they

2016 Mori / Jokei (BASE GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan)

work, they perceive reality. Basurama acts like a2015 Morikara hajimaru monogatari (Kanaz Forest ofcreative linking platform where different agents of theCreation, Fukui, Japan)

same social network come together. It has created more2014 Hoshi Kukan / Kiri-Kyoto (STAR GALLERY,

than 100 projects in the four continents.

Beijing, China)
2013 forgotten myth (Gallery TEN, Kanazawa, Japan)
2012

SUSTAINABILITY(TRIUMPH GALLERY,

Moscow, Russia)
2012,13 Ichibanari Art Project (Okinawa, Japan)
2010,13,16 Setouchi Triennale (Kanagawa, Japan)

Profiles of newly decided artists of Oku-Noto Triennale
OHJI YOSHINO (JAPAN)

RIKIGOSAN (JAPAN)

Born in 1964 in Kagoshima. Graduated from Kyoto Seika

2017

University. He is a sculptor and professor at Kyoto Seika

Odawara Biennale 2017 (Odawara , Kanagawa, Japan)

University. He has presented installations mainly using

2015

wooden sculptures but since his participation in Echigo-Tsukuru-ten: Chigasaki Charinko Art Project (Chigasaki

Tsumari Art Triennale 2009, he has put more focus on

City Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan)

his own identity and site specificity. His allegoricalContact with Birthplace at Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale

works often feature farm animals and fish, suggesting2015 (Takakura, Niigata, Japan)

farming and fishing are deeply rooted in the natural

2013

environment and climate of different regions and are inBridge at Setouchi Triennale 2013 (Honjima, Kagawa, Japan)

indispensable relations while humans are made existed

2012
FESTIVAL-Birthplace at Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012as a part of such reproducible nature.

(Takakura, Niigata, Japan)
2009[Main exhibitions and projects]

Birth Place at Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2009 (Takakura,2015 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2015 (Tokamachi,Niigata, Japan)

Niigata, Japan)
2015 OAP Sculpture Path 2015-15(Osaka, Japan)
2013 Setouchi Triennale (Kagawa, Japan)
2009 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2009 (Tokamachi,Niigata, Japan)

PASSPORT
The passport gives you access to the artworks of the Oku-Noto Triennale and various benefits at the restaurants,accommodations and events. The advance ticket will be on sale at the ticket agencies in late May.

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School Students

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yenyenyenyenyenyenABOUT SUPPORTERS
The Oku-Noto Triennale will be created in cooperation with the local people of Suzu City by artists, staff and volunteers
from all around Japan and abroad. Are you interested in participating in the festival by doing some volunteer activities
such as creation of artworks and welcoming visitors? For more detailed information, please check the link below.
http://oku-noto.jp/support/