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

DATE

2016.10.26

Second announcement of participating artists

The first Oku-Noto Triennale will be held in Suzu City on Sunday 3 September
2017 less than a year away. Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture is located at thetip of Noto Peninsula which is a rural area surrounded by the sea. OkuNoto Triennale aims to be an unprecedented festival in which participating
artists can rediscover the charm of the place, its pattern of life and its people
while engaging locals and supporters from elsewhere. This Triennale aims tostimulate untapped potentials of the place through diverse networks connectedby art to create foremost culture from the furthest place. Another 8participating artists have been decided.

The list of the participating artists of Oku-Noto Triennale as of 19 October 2016.
Katsumi Asaba (Japan) / Adel Abdessemed (Algeria / France) / EAT & ART TARO (Japan) / Naoki Ishikawa (Japan) / Takahiro Iwasaki (Japan)/ Eko Nuguroho (Indonesia) / Tatsuo Kawaguchi (Japan) / Gim Hongsok (Korea) / Tomoko Konoike (Japan) / Hiraki Sawa (Japan) / Chiharu
Shiota (Japan) / Tobias Rehberger (Germany) / Koji Nakase (Japan) / Kodue Hibino (Japan) / Takafumi Fukasawa (Japan) / Raqs Media
Collective (India) / Jianhua Liu (China)*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

Photo by GILLES BENSIMONADEL ABDESSEMED (ALGERIA / FRANCE)TAKAHIRO IWASAKI (JAPAN)

Born in 1971 in Algeria. Currently based London, UK.

Born in Hiroshima in 1975. Received PhD from Graduate School

Abdessemed s artworks, often use video as a medium haveof Arts, Hiroshima City University. Completed M.F.A at Edinburgh

been presented internationally-acclaimed art festivals andCollege of Art.

institutions including MoMA PS1 (New York, USA), Venice

Presented solo exhibition at Asia Society in NY, Kurobe City

Biennale (Italy), The São Paulo Art Biennial (Brazil), andMuseum and Oyama City Kurumaya Museum in 2015. Major

Pompidou Centre (France). Abdessemed s artworks give rise tointernational art festivals and group exhibitions include: The 10tha public controversy such as his bronze sculpture, headbhutt

Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art (2009), Yokohama Triennale(Coup de tête)revealed in 2012 at Pompidou Centre

2011, The 7th Asia Pacific Triennale (2012), Asian Art

that featured the incident of Zinedine Zidane headbutted

Biennial (2013, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts), The 8th

Marco Materazzi at 2006 FIFA World Cup final. Other renown

Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (2014), Roppongi Crossing 2007:

artworks include Real time (2003), and Décor (2011-Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art (2007, Mori Art2012). Major projects and exhibitions include YokohamaMuseum, Tokyo), Happiness in Everyday Life Contemporary

Triennale 2001 (2001, Japan), The 50th, 52nd, & 56th Venice

Art Center (2008, Mito Art Tower, Ibaraki, Japan), trans ×Biennale (2003, 2007, 2015, Italy), The 27th São Pauloform (2013, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan),

Art Biennial (2006, Brazil), and solo exhibition, Practice Zeroand Nissan Art Award 2015 (2015, BankART StudioTolerance (2006, La Criée, centre d'art contemporain Rennes

NYK, Yokohama, Japan). Selected as a representative artist forand Fonds régional d'art contemporain d'Île-de-France-Le

Japan Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice

Plateau centre d'art contemporain, Paris, France) and Adel

Biennale in 2017.

Abdessemed: Dead or Alive (2007, P.S.1 Contemporary
Art Center, New York).

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI (JAPAN)

GIM HONGSOK (KOREA)

Born in 1940 in Kobe, Japan. Graduated from Tama Art

Born in 1964 in Seoul, South Korea. Currently based in Seoul.

University. Kawaguchi began his creation since 1960s and is

Gim Hongsok has been presenting his artworks at international

one of the most established contemporary artists representing

art festivals including Gwangju Biennale, Venice Biennale,

Japan. Kawaguchi s artworks reveal the relations between

Taipei Biennale and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. He

something visible and invisible. By enclosing the seeds within

visualises ideas and cultures with unique perspective

lead, wrapping torus of lotus in bee-wax, or frottaging

through satirical and humourous installations, video

fossils, his artworks stimulate imaginations and evoke

works, technologies and performances. He filled a small spacevarious consciousness (such as awareness of time andwith over 7000-watt of light for Eyes Wide Shut (2001-space, aesthetic sense and views on life and death) of the2002) implying the tendencies of the excessive consuming

audience. Kawaguchi is an emeritus professor at University ofsociety. The Boat (2001) that appeared to be fully-equipped

Tsukuba and works as a professor at Kanazawa College of Artfor emergency evacuation was actually loaded with essential

since 2014.

entertainments for life in metropolis that were insignificant

Major projects and exhibitions include Tokyo Biennalefor survival.

1970: Between Man and Matter (Tokyo Metropolitan Art

Major exhibitions and art festivals include Echigo-TsumariMuseum / Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art), Magiciens de la

Art Triennale 2003 (Niigata, Japan), The 50th Venice Biennale

Terre (1989, Pompidou Centre / Grande Halle at the Parc de la(2003, Italy), The 6th Gwangju Biennale (2006, South Korea),

Villette, Paris), Tatsuo Kawaguchi: Earth, Water, Plant (2003,Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists fromHillside Forum, Tokyo), Tatsuo Kawaguchi: The Invisible and The

Korea (2009, LACMA, USA), and Yokohama Triennale 2014

Visible (2007, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art / Nagoya City(Yokohama, Japan).

Art Museum), Tatsuo Kawaguchi: Language, Time, Life (2009,The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo), and Echigo-Tsumari
Art Triennale (2000, 2003, 2012, Niigata)

Profiles of newly decided artists of Oku-Noto Triennale
TOMOKO KONOIKE (JAPAN)

HIRAKI SAWA (JAPAN)

Born in 1960 in Akita, Japan. Graduated from Department

Born in Ishikawa in 1977. Completed MFA in sculpture at Sladeof Japanese Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. Konoike

School of Fine Art in London in 2003. Currently lives in London.

has been exploring the boundary of humans and contemporary

He expresses intangible domains such as imaginary landscapemyths using her own creations of paintings and sculptures

or certain senses exist in memories by video installations consist

since 1988 after working as a toy designer. Konoike hasof moving image, three-dimensional and two-dimensional
artworks. By manipulating moving images and three-dimensional

been challenging the conventional form of art which

structures, he realises implausible and yet familiar scene in a given

only deals with thoughts and phenomenon of humans andexhibition space which appeal to audience s imagination.

proactively proceeding projects engaging anthropology, fairyHis recent artworks attempt to intersect moving images

tale research, pedagogical anthropology, and archaeology.

and exhibition space each other by constructing space

Major solo exhibitions include Chapter #0 (2006,

through sculptural arrangements of moving images or laying

Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama), Inter-Traveller (2009,three-dimensional and two dimensional artworks side by side.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery / Kirishima Open Air

Major projects and exhibitions include Lyon Biennale (2003,Museum), Primordial Violence (2015, Kanagawa Kenmin

2013, Lyon, France), Yokohama Triennale (2005, Yokohama,Hall / 2016, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma and TheJapan), Six Good Reason to Stay at Home at National Gallery

Niigata Badaijima Art Museum) and group exhibitionsof Victoria (2006, Melbourne, Australia), Artist File atinclude Guangzhou Triennale (2008, China), Busan Biennale

New National Museum (2008, Tokyo, Japan), the 6th Asia Pacific(2010, Busan Museum of Art Station , South Korea), Nous

Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery,(2016, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa),(2009, Brisbane, Australia), Carrousel at Musée du Temps andand Temporal Turn (2016, Spencer Museum of Art, USA).

Musée National des Beaux-Arts de Besançon (2010, Besançon,

The most recent publication Animal Word has been

France), the 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010, Sydney,

published from Hatori Press, Inc in 2016.

Australia), Lineament at Shiseido Gallery (2012, Tokyo, Japan),
Whirl at Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery (2012, Kanagawa,Japan), and Under the Box, Beyond the Bounds at Tokyo Opera
City Art Gallery (2014, Tokyo, Japan).

TOBIAS REHBERGER (GERMANY)RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE (INDIA)

photo by Barbara Klemm

Founded in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula andBorn in 1966 in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. For twenty

Shuddhabrata Sengupta, RMC is based in New Delhi,years now, he has been working on a consistent body ofIndia. RMC creates and curates contemporary art, andwork in which he undermines artistic ideals such as genius

makes books, teaches, and creates situations. RMC are alsoand authenticity. Using strategies from the realm of design,

philosophical agents provocateur who have made significant

Tobias Rehberger examines the meaning of art and what theinfluence on contemporary culture with their profound works

future possibilities for art production are. Rehberger s artwork
Photo by Barbara Klemm

for the Venice Biennale of 2003 consisted of 222 glasslamps activated by triggers located in seven different locations
around the world, established an alternative relation between
the artist and audience. Rehberger has been extending thehorizon of art as represented by Fichte (2003, EchigoTsumari Art Triennale, Niigata), Was du liebst, bringdich auch zum weinen (japanese franchise version) (2010,Teshima Island, Japan) as well as through collaborations withother artists such as Douglas Gordon.
Major projects and exhibitions include The 50th and 53rd
Venice Biennale (2003 and 2009, Italy), Echigo-Tsumari Art
Triennale 2003 (Niigata, Japan), Setouchi Triennale 2010
(Teshima, Japan), Yokohama Triennale 2011 (Yokohama,Japan), and Home and Away and Outside (2014, Schirn
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany). In 2009 Rehberger
has received the Hans Thoma Prize and The Golden Lion at
Venice Biennale.

and projects highlighting the social issues of today.
Photo by Srinivas Kuruganti

Entry and Open Call for Oku-Noto Triennale 2017 has been started.
The document submission period for Open Call for Oku-Noto Triennale is from Monday 17 October until Monday
31 October 2016. We are looking forward to your application. Further information is mentioned at the link below.

About the Competition（Website page）
http://oku-noto.jp/competition/
Open Call Document (PDF)
http://oku-noto.jp/assets/pdf/okunototriennale2017-koubo-detail.pdf
Inspection tour report (held in September 2016, Japanese ver. PDF)
http://oku-noto.jp/assets/pdf/okunototriennale2017-inspectiontour-report.pdf

OKU-NOTO TRIENNALE 2017
Venue: Across Suzu City in Ishikawa Prefecture
Number of artworks and projects: Approximately 50
Duration: from Sunday 3 September to Sunday 22 October 2017
Organizer: Oku-Noto Triennale Executive Committee
Executive Chairman: Masuhiro Izumiya (Mayor of Suzu City)
Director: Fram Kitagawa
Creative Director: Katsumi Asaba (Graphic Designer)
Communication Director: Toshiya Fukuda (Advertising/Web Strategist)

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