English edition

Universal / Remote

Photo by Keizo Kioku

March 6 (Wed.), 2024 – June 3 (Mon.), 2024
The National Art Center, Tokyo | Special Exhibition Gallery 1E
Universal / Remote, a group exhibition

capital and information showed no sign ofconceived during the COVID-19 pandemic,

stopping. In fact, it seems we are seeing thewas aptly organized through remote meetingstrue visage of capital and information systems

due to the constraints of the time. Thisfor the first time. The rich and the poor, theambitious show explores various aspects ofpowerful and the powerless: imbalances in ourour digital society, revealing hidden realities

world are becoming more explicit all the time.

and disrupted worldviews lurking beneath theconvenience of remote connectivity without

The exhibition title Universal / Remote

face-to-face engagement.

references prevailing conditions in the 21st

century as capital and data flow freely on a

Since the late 20th century, people, capital,

global scale. Conveying comical aspects ofand information came to move on a global

the excesses of surveillance and high-techscale. We entered a new phase in the 2010s

networks, as well as the profound isolation ofalong with the proliferation of smart devices

human beings, works in this exhibition seem

and issues such as excessive tourism, shiftingto grapple head-on with the current era andof industry's production costs andwith the post-COVID world. The exhibition

environmental impact to developing nations,presents the works of 8 artists and a group of

the digital divide and so forth were only

3 artists that address the state of society inworsening as the 2020s dawned. And whilethe 21st century as shaped by the conditions

the outbreak of a pandemic that recognizes nodescribed above, focusing on two concepts,

borders suddenly put the brakes on the“Constant Growth at a Pan-Global Scale” andmovement of people, the limitless flow of“The Remote Individual.”1

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Featured Artists

Daisuke Ida

Xu Bing

Trevor Paglen

Hito Steyerl+Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze+Miloš Trakilović
Maiko Jinushi

Tina Enghoff

Evan RothNatsuko Kiura

Jeamin Cha

*The order is based on the exhibition concept.

Exhibition Curator

Jihye Yun
Curator at the National Art Center, Tokyo.
She curated Universal / Remote (2023-24, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto;
National Art Center, Tokyo; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art) andserved as assistant curator for Lee Ufan, 15th Anniversary of the National Art Center,
Tokyo (2022, National Art Center, Tokyo), Ashiya Time: A Large Collection Exhibition(2020, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History), Christian Boltanski ‒ Lifetime (2019,
National Museum of Art, Osaka).

About theExhibition Title

This exhibition is a look back, through the lens of contemporary art, at the three
years of the pandemic, which abated so recently but is already fading from ourcollective memory day by day.
Living in these globally interconnected times, it is difficult for us to perceive
distance, but spatial and geographical distances can never be negated. During the
pandemic, a two-meter distance between people was mandated, this being
considered far enough to prevent aerial transmission of the virus. Meanwhile, theimposition of entry restrictions and travel bans revived our awareness of the
distance between countries. Slowdowns in logistics reacquainted us, theinhabitants of Earth, with the reality of the planet's vast distances. The pandemic
forced us to recognize how far apart things are, a truth unnoticed or
unacknowledged by so many in advanced nations. Many of us adopted remote
work, which seemed to resolve or at least mask the distances between us, and as
the pandemic waned, we rapidly lost our sense of distance once more.
The title Universal / Remote was devised to encourage us not to forget theperpetually distant realities of the present day. The phrase “universal remote”
originally signifies a multi-functional remote control, but dividing it with a slash

disrupts the implication of “universal effectiveness” and lays bare the dual aspects
of universal (i.e. global) and remote (i.e. distant, contactless). This title conveys theconviction that is vital to remain aware of the sense of distance that came to theforeground during the pandemic, as well as the unchanged reality that we are allliving separate lives.

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Exhibited Highlights

Contemporary Art's Responses to the Pandemic
How did all of us experience the last approximately three years, starting in 2020
when the COVID-19 pandemic became a global crisis? How did society get where
it is today? Through contemporary art, this exhibition will investigate possibilities
for post-pandemic society and the state of the individual, and consider directions
for the future.

Picturing How We Inhabit a Global Capitalist Society
This exhibition has a two-part structure, with Part 1 titled “Constant Growth at a
Pan-Global Scale” and Part 2 “The Remote Individual.” While “Pan-” (i.e.

“Universal” ) and “Remote” may seem worlds apart, they are not opposing

concepts, but rather resemble two mirrors reflecting each other. The exhibition
reinterprets existing themes in contemporary art from the perspectives of the

global-scale “Universal” and the “Remote” that isolates flesh-and-blood humans
and controls things from afar, addressing global capitalism and society's shift to adigital future.

Opportunities for Viewer Interpretation After Three-Plus Years of Crisis
Much of the art presented here was made not during the pandemic, but in 2019 or
earlier. After the experiences of the last few years, can we ever view these works inthe context in which they were first exhibited? These works, evoking theabsurdities wrought by excessive surveillance and precision technology and the
profound isolation of human beings within these systems, intrepidly confront both
Giorgi Gago Gagozhidze, Hito Steyerl,
Miloš Trakilović
Mission Accomplished: Belanciege, 2019
Installation view of the exhibition “Universal/ Remote”
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto,
2023
Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)the current era and prospects for a post-COVID world.

Works by Internationally Active Artists Currently Making a Global Impact
Universal / Remote features a large number of works by artists based outside
Japan. In addition to video art by Xu Bing, a renowned, globally active
contemporary artist based in New York and Beijing, the National Art Center, Tokyo
presents works by Hito Steyerl (in collaboration with Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze andMiloš Trakilović), who has been at the forefront of the international art scene sincethe 2010s; Trevor Paglen, who integrates cutting-edge science and technology
with contemporary art; and Evan Roth, who applies a hacker mind to the creationof art in diverse media. Works by the Danish photographer Tina Enghoff, whospans the fields of photojournalism, fine art, and activism, and the up-and-coming
Maiko Jinushi
A Distant Duet, 2016

Installation view of the exhibition “Universal /Remote”
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, 2023
Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)South Korean video artist Jeamin Cha will be exhibited in Japan for the first time.
We are also pleased to present a work by Maiko Jinushi that encompass both of
the show's two key concepts, ambitious works by Daisuke Ida and new works by
Natsuko Kiura including those created for this exhibition.

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Exhibition Structure

Constant Growth at a Pan-Global Scale
Strengthening of state authority and public acceptance of surveillance systems, so
as to prevent the spread of disease and curtail the flow of people across borders,have achieved results in addressing the issues at hand, but remain major points ofcontention for the post-COVID society of the future. One could say our sense ofbalance between state power and individual freedom is being tested like neverbefore. However, capital and information are sure to continue moving around theglobe with increasing rapidity and acting as relentless drivers of humanity. There
have also been recent moves toward adoption of cryptocurrencies andblockchain-based NFTs (non-fungible tokens), mechanisms that enable society tofunction and continue expanding even when people are physically separated. Thissection of the exhibition features works that focus on such issues of capital andinformation.

Xu BingDragonfly Eyes, 2017

Installation view of the exhibition “Universal / Remote”
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, 2023
Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)

The Remote Individual
Our society has continued to expand on a global scale even during a pandemic.
However, strangely and paradoxically, isolation of the individual is also
progressing. Today it is thoroughly commonplace for individuals to connect andreach across borders online, without leaving the comfort of their homes. The
COVID crisis accelerated a paradigm shift toward the remote, and moving forward,
our sense of geographic distance will surely continue to fade in the future. The
figure of the worker laboring silently for the sake of a world to which he or shelacks connection, and will never see or actually visit, conveys isolation andprofound loneliness, and this cannot fail to have a major impact on the human
psyche. This section explores how people work and live in increasingly remoteways premised on contact-less interaction.

Evan RothSince You Were Born, 2023

Installation view of the exhibition “Universal / Remote”
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, 2023
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Artists and Works

Video works that metaphorically “sculpt”
the anxieties and desires of people in present-day society

Daisuke Ida
Born in Tottori, Japan in 1987. Lives and works in Tokyo. He
earned an MFA in sculpture from Tokyo University of the Arts
in 2015 and completed MAD Art Practice in 2016.
He has had solo exhibitions at Tezukayama Gallery (Osaka,2023), Decameron (Tokyo, 2021-22) and 3331 Arts Chiyoda(Tokyo, 2018). Group exhibitions include the Tokyo Biennale(2021) and the Constitution of Japan (part 2) (Aoyama Meguro,
Tokyo, 2023). He was selected for the 19th Taro Okamoto

Award for Contemporary Art (Japan, 2016).

For Whom the Bell Tolls?
While repeatedly returning to the classics of sculpture, Ida
uses a variety of media to question what sculpture is. Three
video works, first presented in 2021, For Whom the Bell Tolls?,
IKAROS and Fever are reconstituted as a trilogy for thisexhibition. Flames play an important role in all the works
and visualizing a society under the COVID pandemic
through the metaphors of three phenomena – flying,
ascending, and falling (or collapsing).

Daisuke Ida
For Whom the Bell Tolls?

2021

Video (loop)
Collection of the artist© Daisuke Ida

Courtesy of the Artist

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Artists and Works

The first video work by an internationally acclaimed contemporary master weaves
a grand fiction from real-life surveillance camera footage

Xu Bing
Born in Chongqing, China in 1955. Lives and works in Beijing
and New York. He earned an MFA from the Central Academyof Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing in 1987.
Among his solo exhibitions are Xu Bing: Found in Translation(Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, 2021-22) and Traveling to
the Wonderland (Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2013-14).

In 2015, he received the Medal of Arts from the U.S.

Department of State. In 2003, he was also awarded the Arts
and Culture Prize of the 14th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes inJapan, among other internationally significant awards.

Dragonfly Eyes

Xu Bing Studio

Showtimes for this film are as below.

Xu's first video work, Dragonfly Eyes, tells the poignant lovestory of a woman named Qing Ting and a man named Ke
Fan who suffers unrequited love for her. However, there
were no actors or camera crews involved in its making. All
the scenes were stitched together from surveillance camera
footage freely available on the internet. Xu and his
production team downloaded approximately 11,000 hoursof footage using 20 computers, then edited it to fit the story
with its young male and female protagonists.

Xu BingDragonfly Eyes

2017

Video, surveillance camera footage taken from public live-streaming websites (81min)

Collection of the artist© Xu Bing Studio

Courtesy of the Artist

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10:20-11:41 / 13:20-14:41 /15:20-16:41 / 17:20-18:41**The last screening (17:20-18:41) isavailable only on Fridays and Saturdays.
Except for the above time, the making ofDragonfly Eyes will be screened (approx.

10 min).

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Artists and Works

The artist sheds light on unseen issues, rendering visible
the interconnected mechanisms of technology and power that surround us

Trevor Paglen
Born in Maryland, USA in 1974. Lives and works in New Yorkand Berlin. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Geography from the
University of California, Berkeley.
Among his solo exhibitions are Trevor Paglen: Hide the Real.
Show the False (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 2023) andTrevor Paglen: You've Just Been F*cked by PSYOPS (Pace Gallery,

New York, 2023). He has been participating in Don't Follow theWind, a group exhibition that opened in 2015 in the exclusionzone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power
Station in Japan. He was also awarded the Nam June Paik
Art Center Prize (South Korea, 2018) and MacArthur

Photo by Axel Dupeux
Courtesy of the Artist and Pace Gallery

Fellowship (USA, 2017).

Landing Sites series, Undersea Cables series,

Hallucination series
He has explored a wide range of topics such as geography,
military secrets, surveillance and communication systems,
and AI-generated images. He presents three photographic
series in this exhibition: Landing Sites, capturing the places
where intercontinental undersea cables make landfall,
Undersea Cables, capturing cables laid on the ocean floor,and Hallucinations, images generated by an AI engine
designed by Paglen.

Trevor Paglen
NSA-Tapped Fiber Optic Cable Landing Site, Mastic Beach, New York, United States

2015

C-Print, 121.9 152.4 cm
Collection of the artist© Trevor Paglen

Courtesy of the artist, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, and Pace Gallery, New York

Trevor Paglen
A War Without Soldiers (Corpus: Eye Machine), Adversarially Evolved Hallucination

2017

Dye sublimation print, 81.3 101.6cm

Collection of the artist© Trevor Paglen

Courtesy of the artist, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, and Pace Gallery, New York

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Artists and Works

BALENCIAGA for the fashion elite, BELANCIEGE for the working class:Interpreting the current sociopolitical climate in light of the “Balenciaga Method”

Hito Steyerl
Born in Munich, Germany in 1966. Lives and works in Berlin.
She studied documentary film at the Japan Institute of theMoving Image and the University of Television and Film
Munich. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Academyof Fine Arts Vienna in 2003.
Among her solo exhibitions are Hito Steyerl: The City of Broken
Windows (Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, 2023) and
Hito Steyerl: A Sea of Data (National Museum of Modern andContemporary Art, Koea, Seoul, 2022). She has participatedin numerous group exhibitions, including Hello World―For the
Post-Human Age (Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito,

Japan, 2018). Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War,published in 2017, was translated into Japanese in 2021.

She has been on Art Review's “Power 100” list since 2013

Photo by Leon Kahane

Giorgi Gago Gagozhidze
Born in Kutaisi, Georgia in 1983. Lives andworks in Berlin. He studied fine arts at theState Academy of Arts in Tbilisi (2001–07)

and topped in 2017.

and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The

Mission Accomplished: Belanciege

film and video with Hito Steyerl at the BerlinThis work was initially presented online as a digital lecture

participated in the Taipei Biennale 2023.

Hague (2008–10), as well as experimental

delivered by the three artists and was later reconfigured asa physical installation. It is a journey through the landscapeof capitalism, continuously showcasing disparities that have
unfolded over the three decades since the fall of the Berlin
Wall in 1989.

University of the Arts (2012–16). He

Miloš Trakilović
Born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina in

1989. Lives and works in Berlin and
Amsterdam. He studied fine arts at theWillem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam(2009–12) and experimental film and video
with Hito Steyerl at the University of theArts in Berlin (2012–16). In 2023, he had
his solo exhibition Colorless Green Freedoms
Sleep Furiously at the Grazer Kunstverein in

Austria.

Giorgi Gago Gagozhidze, Hito Steyerl, Miloš Trakilović
Mission Accomplished: Belanciege

2019
3 channel HD video (color, sound), environment (47min 23s)

Collection of the artist

Exhibition view Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.): Hito Steyerl, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: BELANCIEGE, 2019, video
installation, environment, written and co-produced by Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl, and Miloš Trakilović

Courtesy the artists; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Esther Schipper, Berlin
Photo © Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) / Jens Ziehe8

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Artists and Works

A video piece following the trail of the artist's “spiritual lover”

and exposing the depths of Japanese society:If we forget something, does it mean we never saw it?

Maiko Jinushi
Born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1984. Lives and works inTokyo. She earned an MFA from the Tama Art University,
Tokyo, in 2010 and participated in the Jan van Eyck
Academie residency in 2019-20.
Among her solo exhibitions are MAM Project 031: Jinushi
Maiko (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2023-24), Intimacy andDistances (Centre A, Vancouver, 2023) and Brain Symphony(Hospitale Project, Tottori, Japan / Art Center Ongoing,
Tokyo, 2020). Group exhibitions include Women's Lives –Decease, Aging, Death and Rebirth (Plaza North, Saitama,

Japan, 2023), Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (Japan, 2022) andPhoto by marisa shimamoto

And again {I wait for collision} (KINGS Artist-Run: Side Gallery,

Melbourne, 2019). "Tomurai-to-Camera," which she

co-edited with Satbyul Kim, was published in 2021.

A Distant Duet
Jinushi describes her work, which combines elements

including video art, performance, and text, as “a new formof literary experience.” A Distant Duet is based on her trip to

Spain, the final resting place of Roberto Bolaño(1951-2003), a poet and novelist whom she considers her“spiritual lover.” The film consists of five chapters in which

she reconsiders Japanese society through dialogue withthe people she meets there.

Maiko Jinushi
A Distant Duet2016
HD video (40min)
Collection of the artist© Maiko Jinushi
Courtesy of HAGIWARA PROJECTS

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Artists and Works

Photographs of sites where people died alone pose the question:
Does a robust social safety net mean we are all guaranteed happiness?

Tina Enghoff
Born in Denmark in 1957. Lives and works in Copenhagen.
She studied photography at the International Center of
Photography (ICP) in New York.
Possible Relatives project was first presented in her solo

exhibition at Nikolaj Kunsthal (Copenhagen, 2003). She
also had her solo exhibitions, include Displaced (The Black

Diamond, the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, 2022)

and Migrant Documents (Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen,2013/ Gallery Tegen2, Stockholm, 2013). She wasawarded the Swedish Photo Documentary Prize from

Photo by Kent Klich

Arbetets museum, LO, TCO, ABF, Sensus and Dagens
Arbete in 2018.

Possible Relatives
This is her first exhibition in Japan. Her work is situatedwithin the Nordic context of colonialism, the institutional
violence of the welfare state, and the power-structures of
the archive. Possible Relatives is inspired by a shortnewspaper article that seeking next of kin of people who
had died alone in Denmark, and it questions social isolationin the city.

Tina Enghoff
Possible Relatives / Man born 1954, deceased, found inhome February 14, 2003

2004
Archival pigment print, 120 160 5cm
Collection of the artist© Tina Enghoff
Courtesy of the Artist

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Artists and Works

The hands of workers diligently connecting the cables that unite the world:
Surveying our vast world through the overlooked handiwork of individuals

Jeamin Cha
Born in South Korea in 1986. Lives and works in Seoul. She
earned a BFA from the Korea National University of Arts in2010 and an M.A. from the Chelsea College of Design andArts, London, UK, in 2011.
Among her solo exhibitions are Troubleshooting Mind I, II, III(Kadist, San Fransisco, 2020) and Love Bomb (Samyook

bldg, Seoul, 2018). She has participated in international
exhibitions and film festivals, including the 14th Gwangju
Biennale, Postartistic Assembly (South Korea, 2023). She wasalso awarded the Special Mention of the International
Competition Jury of the 69th International Short Film

Photo by Jungwoo Park

Festival Oberhausen (Germany, 2023) and the Special JuryAward of the 47th DMZ International Documentary Film
Festival (South Korea, 2022).

Chroma-key and Labyrinth
This is her first exhibition in Japan. Her practice spans arefilm, performance, installation, and writing. Her work deals
with the relationship between psychology, emotional, andthe physical. She approaches the reality of individual
through processes of field study and notes personal
interviews of hard-to-articulate experiences. She is alsointerested in preserving unknown areas that are graduallyshrinking as technology advances. Chroma-key and Labyrinth
depicts the labor of individuals supporting the invisible
infrastructure of cables underpinning South Korea, asociety that prides itself on being extremely online.

Jeamin Cha
Chroma-key and Labyrinth

2013
Single channel HD video(color, sound, 15 min)Collection of the artist© Jeamin Cha
Courtesy of the Artist

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Artists and Works

An artist who hacks art-making:Weaving a portrait of the 21st century from a random array of countless images

Evan RothBorn in Michigan, USA in 1978. Lives and works in
Berlin. He holds a B.S. in architecture from the
University of Maryland and an MFA in Design &Technology at Parsons.
Since You Were Born was exhibited at Jeu de Paume(Paris, 2020) and MOCA Jacksonville (Florida, 2019).

Among his solo exhibitions are Skyscapes: Berlin-Mitte(/rosa, Berlin, 2023) and Red Lines with Landscapes at
the Ucher Gallery (Lincoln, UK, 2019). He participatedin the project team to develop The EyeWriter, an
eye-tracking system to draw using just their eyes andwas awarded the Excellence Prize of the 14th JapanMedia Arts Festival in 2010.

Since You Were Born
Pointing the similarities between the two pursuits intheir fundamental capacity to completely alter oursurroundings, Roth applies the notion of the hackinto art making. Since You Were Born is one of his
Internet Cache Self Portrait series, ongoing since 2012,

which utilizes images stored in his computer'scache. In this immersive installation, images stored
since the birth of his second daughter present a
new form of self-portrait.

Evan RothSince You Were Born

2023
Custom wallpaper, dimensions variable
Collection of the artist
Installation View of the MOCA Jacksonville: Since You
Were Born, 2019
© Evan RothCourtesy of the MOCA JacksonvillePhoto by Doug Eng

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Artists and Works

A changing world, unchanging scenery:
Where do you locate your everyday life?

Natsuko Kiura
Born in Kagoshima, Japan in 1985. Lives and works
in Kagoshima. She earned an MFA from Onomichi
City University in Art & Design in 2010.
She has had solo exhibitions, including at Takashi
Somemiya Gallery (Tokyo, 2022) and EUREKA(Fukuoka, Japan, 2022). In 2019, she received the45th Kagoshima City Newcomer Award, Spring andheld her solo exhibition Umi to Koen to, (Sea, Park

Photo by Realizeand) in this honor (Kagoshima City Museum of Art,
Japan, 2021). She has participated in groupexhibitions including VOCA: The Vision ofContemporary Art (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo,

2022).

Park
Kiura consistently paints landscapes, especiallyeveryday scenes, in oil. Her paintings, which are
based on scenes in her surrounding environment
captured by her camera, are executed simply andsoftly, but have a sense of otherworldly charm.
Through familiar landscapes such as Sea, Park andMountain, she captures the unchanging essence of

our lives. In this exhibition, paintings of varying
sizes fill the wall in the manner of an installation thatshe personally determined the arrangement ofworks.

Natsuko Kiura
Park

2021
Oil on canvas, 97 145.5cm
Collection of the artist© Natsuko Kiura
Courtesy of the Artist
Photo © EUREKA

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Related Programs
and Events

Artistsʼ Relay Talk
Daisuke Ida, Maiko Jinushi, Tina Enghoff, Jeamin Cha, Evan RothDate: March 10 (Sun.), 2024, 13:00-16:30
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo, 3F Auditorium
Admission: Free
How to Participate:
Numbered tickets will be distributed from 10:00 at the Information Counter (1F).
※Japanese - English simultaneous interpretation available.

Lecture: Xu Bing
Date: March 17 (Sun.), 2024
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo, 3F Auditorium
Admission: Free
How to Participate: Pre-registration required※Chinese - Japanese simultaneous interpretation available. (No English translation available.)

Artist Workshop
Natsuko Kiura
Date: May 12 (Sun.), 2024
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo
How to Participate: Pre-registration required

Conversation: Hito Steyerl

Trevor Paglen

Date: May 25 (Sat.), 2024
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo, 3F Auditorium
Admission: Free
How to Participate: Pre-registration required※Japanese - English simultaneous interpretation available.

Gallery talk by curator
Jihye Yun（Curator at the National Art Center, Tokyo / Curator of the Exhibition）
Date: Multiple times during the exhibition period.
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo, Special Exhibition Gallery 1E
Admission: Free
*Details will be announced later on the NACT's website.

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Exhibition Catalogue

The exhibition catalogue features nine short stories by novelist Shin Fukunaga. The catalogue,
designed by Yuta Murao, also includes commentary on the works, conversations with theartists, interviews and more.

Shin Fukunaga
Novelist Shin Fukunaga was born in 1972 in Tokyo. His books include Seiza kara mita chikyu(Earth Seen from the Constellations), ichi ichi ichi ichi ichi, and Jitsuzai no musumetachi (Real Girls).
His editorial and writing works include Konnichiwa bijutsu (Hello Art) and Shosetsu no ie (House ofNovels).

Yuta Murao
Graphic designer Yuta Murao was born in 1990. He is engaged in various graphic design, bookdesign, and web design projects related to art, fashion, and music, and has also been active asa member of the design studio “well” since 2017.

Size: 25.7cm 18.2cm（B5）
Pages: 141
Language: Japanese, English
Price: 1,500 yen (incl. tax)
Publication date: October 6, 2023
Book design: Yuta Murao
Edited by: Jun Asami, Jihye Yun
Published by: The National Art Center, Tokyo
ISBN：978-4-910253-10-7

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General Information

Exhibition Title: Universal / Remote
Exhibition Period: March 6 (Wed.), 2024 – June 3 (Mon.), 2024
Closed on Tuesdays *Open on April 30 (Tue.)
Opening Hours: 10:00–18:00*10:00-20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays (Last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo | Special Exhibition Gallery 1E

7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8558
Admission: General 1,500 yen (Adults), 1,000 yen (College students)*Visitors who are under 18, including high school students, will be admitted for free.
*Disabled persons (along with one assistant) will be admitted for free upon presenting
the Disabled Person's

Booklet or an equivalent form of government-issued ID.

*More information about tickets will be posted on the exhibition website.
Organized by The National Art Center, Tokyo
Supported by Goethe-Institut Tokyo
Exhibition Curator: Jihye Yun
Inquiries: (+81) 47-316-2772 (Hello Dial)
Web Site: https://www.nact.jp/english
Touring Information:
Hiroshima: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; June 29 (Sat.) - September 1(Sun.), 2024

About The NACTThe National Art Center, Tokyo was founded in 2007 with themission of contributing to the creation of a new culture that
advances mutual understanding and inclusion through the powerof art. Since then, the NACT--the fifth institution to be establishedunder the Independent Administrative Institution National Museumof Art--has functioned as an art center without permanentcollections that provides the public with a place where they canexperience many different forms of artistic expression, make new
discoveries, and share diverse values. In addition to hosting abroad spectrum of art shows in one of Japan's largest art

exhibition spaces (14,000 ㎡ ), the NACT also collects, provides,
and makes publicly accessible diverse art information/resources
and runs various educational and public programs.

Press Images

The latest exhibition press images are available on our website for downloads:
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Press Inquiries: Universal / Remote Public Relations Office (YOUTH PLANNING CENTER Inc.)
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