［Accessible features in this publication］

Eight pages of text data can be viewed by scanning
the QR codes at the bottom right of the first pages,
which use differently textured paper.

About TURN NOTE
2021 was the second year in which TURN s response to the
COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing. It was a year in which
we developed a wide range of activities, from continuing to
implement programs using methods cultivated the previous
year, to reworking and implementing programs that hadn t
come to fruition. This year s TURN NOTE is a compilation of
the words of people who have developed a shift in their mindset during this time.
In terms of the accessible features of this publication, in
addition to using differently textured paper to represent eachsection, by scanning the QR codes printed on the corner ofthese pages (using smartphones and other digital devices),
users can experience audio readings of TURN NOTE. After
discussing with people with visual-impairments, who havebeen involved in TURN activities together, our aim was to incorporate the pleasure they found in turning the page, andto create a publication that could be passed on to other acquaintances and friends with visual impairments.
In this transitional period for society, many people may havesought to find out what other people feel and think throughtheir words as well as through direct contact. The concept of
Encounters, which TURN has upheld as a keyword since2015, presents a different meaning in 2021.
Lastly, this publication includes words written by Katsuhiko
Hibino during the activities of TURN. What will the messages
delivered at each step over the past few years require us toreconsider at a later date?

This publication is based on the following documentations of TURN projectfrom January to September 2021.
The information is current as of September 30, 2021.

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TURN Meeting

A setting for sharing and exchanging opinions and ideas.
TURN Meetings No.13 and No. 14 were both streamed online.
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TURN Lab Study Groups

A study group for discussing TURN Lab s research andkeywords. Conducted online.
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TURN LAND

In this program, welfare facilities and local groups /communities plan participatory programs together withartists, with the aim of creating a setting for the day-to-day
implementation of TURN. 2021 s activities included online
programs as well.
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TURN FES 6

This event was held at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum from
August 17 through to August 19. The Online Program was heldfrom July 19 through to September 5.
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Publications●

TURN JOURNAL

A periodical journaling TURN s initiatives and its signicancefrom different angles.
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TURN LAND Archives

MAGAZINE Komone-za Special Edition, created by Itabashi-ku
Komone Fukushien (welfare facility). Hand Project: A Recordof 211 days in 2020, a booklet created by Atelier La Mano.
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Others●Interviews by Hiroshi Tamura of RAKUDA STUDIO, creator of

documentary film TURNs 2016 – 2021●

Statements by participating artists of TURN FES 6●

Notes and documenting emails conversations etc. withpeople involved in TURN.

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Daisuke Nagaoka (Artist)
From TURN FES 6 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum –Band Kobo statement
August 17, 2021

Making their hellos heard

What I m acutely aware of since visiting welfare
facilities is the sense of distance between theexistence of the facilities and the local community.
For example, when I went for a walk with the facility
users, a passer-by didn t reply when the facility user
said hello to them. This might be out of some senseof consideration, but it s not a reason to cause thesadness felt by the person from the facility at notgetting a reply to their hello. So together withthe facility users I met on this program, we thought
about ways in which they and people in society atlarge could look at one another eye to eye. This was
the beginning of the Band Kobo project. It s all aboutcommunicating through expression, just like a band
doing a live show.

A parallel world

TURN provides people with the experience of things
they ve never seen or done before, and draws out
their abilities. And for the staff members too, weprobably wouldn t have been able to experienceinteracting with other people from different lines ofwork or in completely different fields without TURN,
so I think it was a great experience for us, and gave
us exciting opportunities to see people interacting
up close.

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Yuko Setoguchi (Sign Interpreter)----------------------------------------------------------------------

From TURN JOURNAL WINTER 2020 – ISSUE 06

Noriko Takada (Staff member,

February 5, 2021

Itabashi-ku Komone Fukushien welfare facility)
From an interview with Hiroshi Tamura, RAKUDA STUDIO
June 25, 2021

Exciting opportunities

In a world inhabited by deaf and hearing people,
I think each group has its own unwritten rules.
And at the same time, people have their individualfluctuations. Fluctuations lie between
regularity and irregularity, so even if you are sharing
the same time and moment, perhaps you re in aparallel world where each person experiences timein a different way.

Difficulty reading other peoples facial expressions----------------------------------------------------------------------

Satoko Mishina (Associate Professor, Faculty of Education,
Miyagi University of Education)
From the 8th TURN Lab Study Group
February 15, 2021

(When I visit Momosan Fureai no Ie,) I don t thinkof myself as an artist. I think people have several
modes of being. According to them I m an artist,
but if I d tried to communicate with people at thefacility from that perspective only, I wouldn t have
had any success in talking to them. So in my nonartist persona, I came up with a succession ofthings I wanted to ask or talk about, and spent mytime at the facility finding opportunities to talk to
the facility users.
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Katsuya Ise (Artists / Professor at Joshibi College of Art and
Design, Joshibi University of Art and Design)
From TURN FES 6 Online Program – MY TURN / YOUR TURN 02
August 18, 2021

My non-artist persona

Actually even people with low vision have difficulty
reading other peoples facial expressions. With very
short words or phrases for instance, it s hard forthem to judge from facial expression if something issaid with a smile, in anger or in disgust, and I often
hear of some being thought of as incapable byothers of picking up on a mood or situation.

Accepting things as they are

People do not change easily. There are somedifficult and painful things regarding how it isconsidered good to be able to respond to thingsin life smartly, flexibly and quickly. Adaptability tochange is one ability, and even if someone callsme stupid, even if I drag my heels, I want to makesure of the raw voices that everybody including
myself potentially have inside, and which comebubbling up before I deal with things.
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Mika Nagamine (Editor / Writer)

Kanayo Ueda (Poet / Founder and Manager of NPO The Room

From TURN JOURNAL SPRING 2021 – ISSUE 07

for Full of Voice, Words and Hearts Cocoroom / Program

March 19, 2021

Director, Sakai Arts Council)
From TURN LAND Harmony – No Charge Cafe 3: In My Brain
February 27, 2021
*obi sash - sash for traditional Japanese dress such as Kimono

I want to make sure of raw voices
before I deal with things

Hello, I m Kanayo Ueda. I thought I wasn t feelingwell because I tightened my *obi sash too much, butinstead I just think of it as something that I have tolive with. Mr.Kobayashi said earlier that he wanted
to smooth out the smallness of his existence, andI think rather than wanting to do something about
his pain or the negative aspects of his life and things
like that, he meant it in the sense of accepting
things as they are. So I m going to go through todaywith that mindset, accepting the way things are.

Ways to connect with the community

Welfare facilities are filled with things you can t
put into words. You communicate in words but at
the same time, if you re a slave to the words they
can trip you up in many different ways.
This goes for artists and everyone at the facilities,
as well as myself, the one filming. If you only relyon the words that are being said in the interviews
regarding TURN you ll have a tough time of it.
I thought this the first time I filmed TURN FES inthe early days.

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Kenji Takano (Director, Atelier La Mano)

Hiroshi Tamura (Director and writer at film production

From TURN FES 6 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Talk –company, RAKUDA STUDIO)

Hands and people: 32 people who connect themselves

From TURN FES 6 Online Program – TURN Tunes Vol.5

to society through their hands

August 4, 2021

August 17, 2021

Welfare facilities are filled with things
you can t put into words

I felt really touched and inspired at TURN FES
we took part in the first year. The yarn we dyed ourselves with indigo was turned into things we couldn t
have anticipated. Usually we connect our facility
users with the community by getting them to makeproducts and sell them locally have people touchand try them directly, things like that.
But looking back, I really think it was TURN that mademe feel that actually there were plenty of other ways
to connect with society.

Preconceptions about hikikomori----------------------------------------------------------------------

Flowers and music are both highly abstract formsof expressions, so that is why it was difficult toconvey a specific message, but at the same time,
you could say there was plenty of margin forfreely interpreting something and applying yourown imagination to it when you receive it.
On both sides we first assimilated what we got
from each other and came up with some interpretation which was also inspired by the sender.
In fact, it could be that we were developing a
fruitful form of communication in an extremely
close way.

Tamaki Saito (Psychiatrist)
From TURN FES 6 Online Program –Dialog: Atsushi Watanabe with Tamaki Saito
August 10, 2021------------------------------------------------------------------Akashi Ikawa (Composer)
From memos of daily activity report
March 11, 2021

Freely interpreting something and applying
your own imagination to it

There is a strange preconception that a hikikomori issomeone who can t leave the house or talk to anyone.
But those who are able to leave the house and talk to
people tend to be shunned by those who can t.
Speaking from my own experience, there are quite
a few hikikomori who, when given the role, become
quite talkative, and can talk about their experiences
in a highly coherent manner. I think it s extremely
unwise to push preconceptions and stereotypes ofhikikomori as people who simply withdraw and don t
open up to anyone.

Nobody comes in through the front door

Until now I ve always felt a bit like I had to dosomething out of responsibility, but now I ve
decided to try things that seem fun and interesting.
I ve gotten more and more this way. The children
have also come to see the fun in this, and I think it s
great that everyone has developed the attitude thatit s OK to try something and it s OK to mess up.

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Kentaro Onishi (Artist / Dancer)

Hiroko Kondo (Owner, Kimagure Yaoya Dandan)

From an interview with Hiroshi Tamura, RAKUDA STUDIO

From TURN FES 6 Online Program – MY TURN / YOUR TURN

June 23, 2021

August 18, 2021

It s OK to try something and It s OK to mess up

I realized nobody comes in through the front door.
I presumed they would, because I d decided here
is where the front door was. Instead I noticed thatencounters sometimes start with a greeting, orwith a name, and sometimes by people suddenly
coming over and hardly giving you any time tobreathe before getting to know them.

A sad and dreary picture

In some ways problems take shape through locking
horns, but if there is no form of flexibility during this,conflicts will occur and things won t get resolved.
I think that culture and art is capable of providing
subtle flexibility, and societal latitude.

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Kento Torii (Player for blind soccer team free bird mejirodai /Tsukasa Mori (TURN Project Director)

CSR Group, Corporate Development Division,

From TURN Meeting No. 14

Santen Pharmaceutical)

August 17, 2021

From TURN Meeting No.13
March 6, 2021

Societal latitude

Under the COVID-19 pandemic there has been adrop in the information we get from the streets andaround us on which we rely, so the picture (the oneof the city I draw in my head) has also become a
sad and dreary one.

Selecting luggage you carry around----------------------------------------------------------------------

Chiaki Yamamoto (Artist)
From TURN FES 6 Online Program –Path to a Blank Space (First volume)
April 20, 2021

The cotton seeds arrived from Atelier La Mano, andmy life with cotton began. The time during which
I imagined the seeds inside the soil not knowing
whether they would sprout or not, turned waiting
into fun. A difference in growth even if the seeds
were sown on the same day turned difference
into individuality. I was surprised to see my plant
sleeping with its leaves down at night, turning
the everyday norms into new discoveries.
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Yasuaki Igarashi (Artist)
From Hand Project: A Record of 211 days in 2020
March 24, 2021

Imagining the seeds inside the soil

Just by selecting luggage you carry around withyou, your behavior and worries change. I found it
fascinating that my choices altered through the way
I saw the landscapes around me, the feelings I had
at the time, and the worries I faced.

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Shinya Ogasawara (Art Event Supporter,
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum / Shuwa Map member)
From an email reflecting on TURN FES 6
August 26, 2021

One-way information

It s difficult perfecting everything, and I also thinkperfection means different things to different
people. I think the cumulative process of practice ofdiscussion, communication and thinking together
on how we can achieve our best and to what extent
we can convey something given the situation andthe people we are working with, is a process that wecan be applied to other subsequent occasions.
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Maria Hata (Staff member, Arts Council Tokyo)
From TURN Meeting No. 14
August 17, 2021

There are different kinds of perfection

When I hear the word accessibility, the first thingthat comes to mind for those of us who cannot hearis sign interpretation, speech-to-text interpretationand other things we are familiar with. But the factof the matter is that most of these represent oneway information – that is, a pattern in which theperson who cannot hear is on the receiving end of
the information.
Information should be something that you receive
and also something that you give, so I think thataccessibility is also about people who cannot
hear proactively disseminating information, and thedevelopment of an environment in which they caneasily and efficiently do so.

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Noriko Takada (Staff member,
Itabashi-ku Komone Fukushien welfare facility)
From an interview with Hiroshi Tamura, RAKUDA STUDIO
June 25, 2021

Are welfare and art similar ?

I think creativity is our life force. I constantly want totrain myself so that in the event of an emergency,
my creativity is not confined to an existing social
framework and I won t stop the process of thought.
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From TURN JOURNAL SPRING 2021 – ISSUE 07
March 19, 2021

So that I won t stop the process of thought

After I d been involved with TURN for about a year,
I had a conversation about whether welfare andart were alike. Before that conversation, art was
something vague and simply cool, and I d neverthought about whether the two were similar ornot, but I gave it some thought. And I thought thatthey were similar. The main things they have incommon is that neither have all the answers, thatyou interact with people, and both involve plentyof discoveries. And they can also provide various
perspectives, right? You discover things about
someone, and you get into discussions aboutsomething even if you don t have the answer.
I thought that kind of aspect was similar, plus theyboth involve what you might call sensitivity. I findthem similar in the way they both touch on thesenses in terms of our sensibilities.

It s very important that there are objects around----------------------------------------------------------------------

Satoko Mishina (Associate Professor,
Faculty of Education, Miyagi University of Education)
From the 8th TURN Lab Study Group
February 15, 2021

Imagine a world you are not familiar with, whichis invisible to you, so you don t get swept away by
grand words as you amble your way through our
incomprehensible world. I think that taking your time
to come face to face with and nourish weakness inthis way creates a heart that becomes the soil forconnecting the head and body. It may take timeto produce carefully cultivated soil, but I m sure it willproduce a keen creativity.
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Akira Aoki (Independent Curator)
From TURN JOURNAL SPRING 2021 – ISSUE 07
March 19, 2021

Taking your time to work on weakness

Some people (with visual impairments) say theywalk around by themselves using echolocation –a method of making sounds and listening forthe sound reflection in order to judge their surroundings. Also many make use of reverberation andreflection. For example quite a few people say when
they re walking between buildings they can tell if
there is a building nearby from the sound their whitecane makes on the ground, or say they know when
they ve come to an alleyway because of changes
in wind current. So it s very important that there areobjects around; if people are somewhere like a big
open field with nothing in it, they probably find it
difficult to get an accurate fix on the space.

Get Back a Sense of Being Yourself in the World----------------------------------------------------------------------TDU Tekisen Democratic University
Chikara Matsumoto (Artist)
From TURN FES 6 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum –a film screening handout
August 18, 2021

Why are we stuck to the ground? We can only get
off it one foot at a time, and if we jump we immediately land back down on it. This is the close
ground we walk on. But oftentimes if you are too
close to something, you ignore it, and you might not
be looking closely at the ground because you areconcentrating ahead on where you re going.
But what if it was a more distant ground? If wecame across this distant ground, and couldn t
see anything else or understand what was goingon around it, how would we try and stand on it, andhow would we try and walk on it? So I decided to
ask for some distant ground from people somedistance away.
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Tomoko Iwata (Artist)
From TURN FES 6 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum –Walking on Distant Ground statement
August 17, 2021

Distant ground

Get Back a Sense of Being Yourself in the World

Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you fail----------------------------------------------------------------------

Yuko Setoguchi (Sign Interpreter)
From TURN Meeting No. 14
August 17, 2021

I go back and forth between the desire to be thesame and the desire to be different. It feels like I musing a rubber band like compass.
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Katsuhiko Hibino (TURN Supervisor)
From TURN Meeting No. 14
August 17, 2021

A Rubber Band Like Compass

TURN is an experimental space. Sometimes you
succeed, sometimes you fail. But it s not a waste
if you fail, because trying something provides
information, and can lead to thinking about why
something failed, and how to improve it. I think
failure is a really, really important source of
information. Tackling things that we found difficult
before is a valuable asset to us, I think.

Immersing oneself in an underground waterway

When I play, I think of the pitch as a sort of canvas
onto which I fill in the picture myself. What I meanby that is that I fill in details like the situation on thepitch or the movement of the ball, and this helps me
imagine scenes in my head. In this aspect, I thinkblind soccer and art are connected.
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Kento Torii (Player for blind soccer team----------------------------------------------------------------------

Natsumi Wada (Interpreter)
From TURN FES 6 Online Program – TURN Tunes Vol. 4
August 29, 2021

free bird mejirodai / CSR Group,
Corporate Development Division, Santen Pharmaceutical)
From TURN Meeting No.13
March 6, 2021

Filling in the picture myself

With Japanese and sign language, there are lotsof words that don t directly correspond to one
another, so when that happens, rather than picking
up on the context or editing in my head, it feels likeI m immersing myself in an underground waterway,
meaning that when I ve made sense of this waterway, the expressions seem to emerge from my bodyas it rides on the flow and movement of the water.

Everybody supplements their understanding

TURN doesn t have to have a physical location
like TURN FES or the Interactive Program,and it s much more simple and accessible foranyone to start. Not everyone knows the concept(of the art project) but it s a gentle processof doing TURN-like things to attain richness
and abundance which is not the richness andabundance of economic supremacy. Setting
up the conditions that allow us to provide thisto people who require it is on a level with thecontribution of a medical team to society, andwe who are engaged in cultural projects should
consider this our duty.

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Shinji Kajitani (Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,

Tsukasa Mori (TURN Project Director)

The University of Tokyo)

From an interview with Hiroshi Tamura, RAKUDA STUDIO

From the 9th TURN Lab Study Group

June 4, 2021

March 22, 2021

The contribution to society on a level to that ofan essential medical workers

The usual measures for information accessibility
are aimed at finding ways to properly convey 100%of shared information to people with disabilities.
But if you work on the assumption that not
everyone has to understand something completely,communication then means someone receives
information in some form or other but nobody
understands it 100%, and everyone ends up
supplementing their understanding. I think we cancall this agentic understanding or interpretation,
but if something is left out on purpose, having
something that you don t understand fully would in
itself be interesting, I think.

To use the imagination without fully being able to empathize

When we listen or talk, the fact that there
is another thing or living creature seems
very normal, and we don t pay much attention.
When something makes a sound, we find it
completely normal that there is an object or aliving thing that makes the sound.
When someone starts talking, there issomeone listening.
When talk is going on somewhere, there is aplace where it is happening.

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Atsushi Watanabe (Contemporary Artist)----------------------------------------------------------------------

From TURN FES 6 Online Program –Miho Inatsugu (Actor)

Dialog: Atsushi Watanabe with Tamaki Saito

From TURN FES 6 Online Program –August 10, 2021

TURN Tunes, production postscript
September 5, 2021

The use of two different verbs for to be

It s no good just relying on empathy when engaging
with others, or providing support or care. I think
the need and importance for empathy is reallyhammered home to us. It s in fact the people who
are unable to empathize or who don t receive any
empathy are the ones that notice when one become
isolated. Another discussion I had was whether it
was possible to use the imagination without fully
being able to empathize.

Being able to say it is the epitome of privilege----------------------------------------------------------------------

Chiki Ogiue (Critic / Radio Personality)
From TURN Meeting No. 14
August 17, 2021

The world that was A has become B because of
COVID-19. After B is over, the world will become
A rather than A. We have to think about our future
activities in anticipation of the world developing
according to the A → B → A formula. I m surewhat will be required of the welfare sector will
also change, so naturally the way art and welfare
interact will and should change too.
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Atsushi Miyata (Artist)
From MAGAZINE Komone-za Special Edition
March 18, 2021

The way art and welfare interact will also change

Some in the majority believe that we re all wonderful because we re all different. But being able tosay this is actually the epitome of privilege, isn t it?

The boundaries of imagination are shaken up

I had a sense of happiness and joy at my images
being given concrete form, and conversely a sensethat my images and my feelings at the time were
saved by what we created. It was a strange andmagical time that filled me with warmth.
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Hiroshi Nagahata----------------------------------------------------------------------

Kentaro Onishi (Artist / Dancer)
From MAGAZINE Komone-za Special Edition
March 18, 2021

(Member, TDU Tekisen Democratic University)
From TURN FES 6 Online Program –Get Back a Sense of Being Yourself in the World comment
August 24, 2021

Inner images given concrete form

When the boundaries of my imagination are shaken
up, a sort of shock that can t be called either
surprise or joy causes a physical reaction where
I suddenly shout out loud, or my whole body starts
to get flushed, and I get the urge to communicate
something to the person I m with. In retrospect
I think this was partly due to a circulation of energy.

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Katsuya Ise

Kentaro Onishi

Through TURN Interactive Program, she has

Artist / Professor at Joshibi College of Art andArtist / Dancer | A performer who continuously

been involved in TURN LAND since 2017.

Design, Joshibi University of Art and Design |seeks the spirit of dance to discover the・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

Ise creates works on the theme of letter or

charm of places, people, and customs. Onishi

Tamaki Saito

character-like shapes formed by objects andhas participated in TURN since its first year.

Psychiatrist | Graduated from the University

images that occur and exist in various environ-

Collaborating with the members and staff of theof Tsukuba s School of Medicine and Healthments like nature, manmade settings, and media

Itabashi-ku Komone Fukushien welfare facility,

Sciences medical specializing in environmental

spaces. Ise has participated in TURN since 2017,

he organized projects such as Komone-za .

/ecological studies. Saito has a MD-PhD.

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He specializes in pubescent / adolescentcare service for the elderly and from July 2021,

Shinya Ogasawara

psychopathology, psychotherapy, andthe Nishiogi Fureai no Ie.

Art Event Supporter, The Tokushima Modern Art

psychobiography. He appeared as a discussion

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Museum / Shuwa Map member | Besides working

guest in TURN FES 6.

Miho Inatsugu

at a company, Ogasawara is active as a facilitator

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Actor | Inatsugu began acting while a student

at museums and art festivals. At TURN FES 6 he

Yuko Setoguchi

at Tokyo University of the Arts, and her work

assisted at the Accessibility Counter, giving out

Sign Interpreter | Setoguchi works and provides

currently centers around stage acting on aadvice and information on the event to visitors.

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freelance basis. In recent years she has also

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everyday life situations to museums and art

Akira Aoki

been actively involved in video narration and

Chiki Ogiue

projects. In recent years she has ventured into

Independent Curator | Through art projects andaudio-only theatrical projects. At TURN FES

Critic / Radio Personality | With a focus on media

interpreting for theater. In addition to participating

the practice of creating alternative spaces, Aoki

6, she organized and appeared in the radio

theory, Ogiue addresses a wide range of topics

in TURN FES and other programs, she oversaw

explores the ways artistic thinking and artworks

program TURN Tunes.

including politics and economics, social issues,organizing accessibility-related coordination for

can generate creative platforms in everyday life.

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and cultural phenomena. He is the representative

TURN Meetings held in 2020.

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Tomoko Iwata

of NPO Stop Ijime! Navi and head of social

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Yasuaki Igarashi

Artist | Iwata s creations, based on the

research support organization Chiki Lab.

Noriko Takada

Artist | With the help and cooperation of local

observation and collection of familiar natural

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Staff member, Itabashi-ku Komone Fukushien

people, Igarashi links the land with nature,objects, give a sense of the cosmic cycle.

Shinji Kajitani

welfare facility | Takada works at Itabashi-ku

modifying scenery in various regions by

Participating in TURN since 2017, from 2020

Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,

Komone Fukushien, a daycare facility whichconnecting local life and culture in aesthetic and

Iwata collaborated in activities with Harmony

The University of Tokyo | Practitioner of Inclusive

provides assisted living and Type B employment

sympathetic ways. He has participated in TURN

Preschool International for children of different

Philosophy, in which participants engage in freecontinuation support services. Komone

since its first year. Together with Atelier La Mano

nationalities as part of the Interactive Program.

discussion on a single theme. Kajitani practices

Fukushien has participated in TURN since 2015,

he conducted the TURN LAND Hand Project・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

activities focused on creating places for thinking

developed TURN LAND programs with artists

for growing and spinning cotton.

Kanayo Ueda

together in school education, local communities

Kentaro Onishi and Atsushi Miyata from 2017.

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Poet / Founder and manager of NPO The Roomand the like, while emphasizing on creating an・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

Akashi Ikawa

for Full of Voice, Words and Hearts Cocoroom

equal ground relationships in doing so.

Composer | Drawn to the texture of the human/ Program Director, Sakai Arts Council | Ueda

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voice, Ikawa s lifework is the search for wovelaunched Cocoroom in 2003, a community hub

Hiroko Kondo

patterns that emerge from its range and overlap.

whose activities revolve around the themes of

Owner, Kimagure Yaoya Dandan | Owner of

In 2019 he began an Interactive Program

creative expression, autonomy, work and society.

organic produce and natural food shop Kimagure

involving music and flowers with ApplauseBased in Osaka s Kamagasaki neighborhood, she

Yaoya Dandan in Ota Ward, Tokyo. Dandan has

Minamiaoyama (florist employing people

initiated projects like the Kamagasaki University

been credited as the first of its kind to start thewith various developmental disabilities). He

of Arts and the Communal Health Center andnow-nationwide initiative Kodomo Shokudo

participated in TURN FES 6.

has run a guesthouse there since 2016.

( Children s Cafeteria ) movement in Japan.

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Kenji Takano

of creation, and video works based on pencil

other people through workshops and drawings,

the Faculty of Fine Arts and Professor of the

Director, Atelier La Mano | In a townhouse overdrawings. In recent years he has implemented

exemplified in projects such as his interactive

Department of Intermedia Art at Tokyo University

120 years old in Machida City, Takano works

an architectural drawing project centering on

Bibuncho book project for children andof the Arts. Hibino also holds the post of Director

together with people with disabilities to create

the realization of a spherical house, The Sphere

adults. Since 2017 he and artist Kentaro Onishiof the Museum of Fine Arts, in Gifu Prefecture

and produce craft items by hand. Atelier La Mano

House. He has participated in TURN since 2016.

have implemented TURN LAND at Itabashi-ku

and Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto. He

has participated in TURN from its first year,

Since 2019 he conducted an Interactive Program

Komone Fukushien welfare facility.

is Member of Executive Committee of Footballhosting Interactive Program activities with artist

at Shibuya City Welfare Center for Persons with・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

Association and Chairman of Committee for

Yasuaki Igarashi, and implementing a TURN

Disabilities Heartpia Harajuku.

Aki Yahata

Social Responsibility. He received the Minister

LAND from 2017.

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Artist | Yahata regards his video installationsof Education, Culture, Sports, Science and・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

Hiroshi Nagahata

as thinking devices for illustrating the concept

Technology Award at Japan s Art Encouragement

Hiroshi Tamura

Member, TDU Tekisen Democratic University |that human expression equates to living,

Prize in 2015 (Art Promotion Division).

Director and writer at film production company,

Nagahata took part in an Interactive Programand creates works based on interviews.

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RAKUDA STUDIO | Since co-founding film

initiative to produce an animated film with

Perceiving that the fundamentals of human

Tsukasa Mori

production company RAKUDA STUDIO,

Chikara Matsumoto.

expression lie at the Henkyo (Frontiers),

TURN Project Director / Project Coordination

Tamura has produced a diverse body of film

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she also established HENKYO.studio in Kyoto

Division Program Director, Arts Council

and video work. Since TURN s first year he has

Mika Nagamine

to pursue and develop these ideas.

Tokyo | As Project Director, Mori is involved

continued to film the project, producing a TURN

Editor / Writer | Nagamine engages in editing

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in the planning and running of art projects in

documentary which was shown at TURN FES 6.

and writing in a wide range of genres with a focus

Chiaki Yamamotocollaboration with NPOs etc., and programs

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on arts, crafts, and design. Since 2020 she has

Artist | Yamamoto s project Walking with a 12-

such as the human resource development and

TDU Tekisen Democratic University

edited TURN JOURNAL.

foot plank has been ongoing since 2016. She

research program Tokyo Art Research Lab, andAn alternative university where students learn

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travels around Japan carrying wooden planks,

Art Support Tohoku-Tokyo (a Tokyo Metropolitan

through their own interests, exploring their own

Chikara Matsumoto

documenting the process and creating works ofGovernment initiative using the medium of arts

way of living and working. As part of Interactive

Artist | Matsumoto is a painter and video /art. She participated in TURN FES 6.

and culture to support disaster-struck areas).

Program, TDU made and produce an animatedanimation artist. He has taken part in TURN since・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

film work together with artist Chikara Matsumoto.

2018 and interacts with Shure University andNatsumi Wada

Maria Hata

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Kanamachi Gakuen. From 2020, he conductedInterpreter | Raised by deaf parents with sign

Staff member, Arts Council Tokyo | Has been

Kento Torii

an Interactive Program initiative to produce anlanguage as Wada s first language, she wasinvolved in TURN since 2016 is interested in

Player for blind soccer team free bird mejirodai

animated film in collaboration with TDU Tekisen

drawn deeper into the possibilities of expressing

cultural policy and art projects undertaken/ CSR Group, Corporate Development Division,

Democratic University.

oneself through the hands when at university.

inpartnership with local citizens.

Santen Pharmaceutical | Torii lost his sight at

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She explores the sensory possibilities of different

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the age of 2 due to a rare malignant tumor of

Satoko Mishina

media through research on visual body language

the retina. At 15 he represented Japan in the

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Miyagi

and collaboration with people who have a variety

World Blind Soccer Championships. At Santen

University of Education | Mishina has been activeof physicalities.

Pharmaceutical his work involves improving

as an interpreter and caregiver since before the・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

awareness and understanding of blindness andestablishment of the Japan Deafblind Association.

Atsushi Watanabe

visual impairment towards the realization of an

She has taught at special needs schools for theContemporary Artist | Watanabe produces

inclusive society.

visually impaired for over twenty years and has

a diverse body of art inspired by his own

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served as advisor for the TURN Lab.

experience of having been a hikikomori recluse.

Daisuke Nagaoka

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He participated in TURN FES 6.

Artist | Constantly looking at the relationship

Atsushi Miyata

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between memory and the body, he produces

Artist | Miyata finds creative opportunities in

Katsuhiko Hibino

experimental drawings capturing the moment

the scrutiny of differences in relationships with

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About TURNSOCIALLY INCLUSIVE ART PRACTICE PROJECTTURN Interactive Program

TURN Meeting

A collaborative program provides

A setting for sharing, speaking about

repeated opportunities for encountersand considering the possibilities ofand mutual interaction between artists
and social welfare facilities as wellas communities of people requiring
various forms of social support.
Artists in the program also carry out
research to explore phenomena notreadily apparent in society and daily life.

TURN. Along with participating artists
and relevant members of partner
facilities and communities, as well as
invited special guests from different
fields, we consider TURN from a variety
of diverse perspectives.

TURN LabTURN LANDTURN is the umbrella term for an art project that intends
to bring creative interaction through encounters amongpeople, transcending differences in customs and backgrounds, such as disabled /non disabled, generation,
gender, nationality and living environment. Over 80 artists,and 60 facilities and communities have participated until

A program where, social welfare
facilities and communities plan
participatory programs together withartists. Added to the sites' originalfunctions is a different role as a cultural
facility open to the community where
members of the public can gather,creating a setting for the day-to-day
implementation of TURN.

now. Based on various programs unfolding throughout

TURN FES

year, practicing both widely across Japan and abroad.

Activities by various artists and partner
facilities who conduct the TURN
Interactive Program and TURN LAND
are brought together under one roof at
this festival, creating the opportunity
to experience TURN through diverse
means including artwork exhibitions,workshops, talks, and original programs
and contents.

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Supervisor: Katsuhiko Hibino (Artist / Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts andprofessor in the Department of Inter-media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts) /Project Director: Tsukasa Mori (Project Coordination Division Program Director,
Arts Council Tokyo) / Organized by: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council
Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), the nonprofit
organization Art s Embrace, Tokyo University of the Arts

A study group discussing andconsidering a variety of perceptual
worldviews and methods of coexistence with diverse people, based on
research themes selected by artists andexperts from every field.

TURN JOURNAL
TURN JOURNAL offers a collectionof diverse perspectives, creative
expression and thinking generated by
TURN-related activities and people thatare involved, along with a view of thefertile world that unfolds as a result.

Overseas Program
In collaboration with cultural andarts organizations both domesticallyand overseas, TURN expands its
practices overseas.
Participating artists interact with welfare
facilities and local communities using
traditional techniques, in each country,
developing exhibitions, workshops
or performances.
［e.g. TURN in HAVANA,TURN in

TUCUMAN, BIENALSUR, etc.］

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TURN Meeting No. 13
Held with guest who are blind soccer players, the focus of discussion for this event wason hearing and physical sensations.

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April

TURN FY2021 begins
In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we continued to conduct activities online.

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TURN FES 6 Online Program
A special website offered a platform for encountering a variety of creative expressions
and artists through online workshops, photographs and videos, giving people a taste of
TURN s activities and creative process, etc. Held July 19 to September 5.
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Exhibits and workshops on the theme of Exploring the Earth and people through art
focusing on artists who participated in TURN activities overseas were held at the National
Art Center, Tokyo in a tearoom motif setting. Held from July 23 through August 9.
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AugustTURN FES 6: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
In addition to exhibitions and film screenings, TURN FES 6 included programs related toaccessibility issues and TURN supporters, with COVID-19 prevention measures in place.
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Under the theme of The Difficulty in Communication, sign interpreters involved in
TURN Meetings online streams and guests from a variety of back-grounds joined us totalk about various forms of communication and inherent difficulties, that occur.
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December TURN Meeting No.15
We looked back on TURN s activities, and talked about what TURN will pass on and its
significance from hereon.

TURN NOTE
Words of TURN 2021

February 10, 2022

Editorial Supervisor: Tsukasa Mori (Project Director of TURN, Arts Council Tokyo)
Editors: Nonprofit organization Art s Embrace (Yuki Tamura,
Takuto Higashino), Arts Council Tokyo (Maria Hata, Tomohiro Hasegawa)
Editorial Cooperation: Nonprofit organization Art s Embrace(Eriko Amo, Kanako Iwanaka, Makoto Tamaoki, Makoto Higashino,
Misako Murakata, Marina Yamaguchi, Laila Cassim),
Arts Council Tokyo (Yasuhiro Misaki)
Design: Tanuki
Translation: Office Miyazaki Co., Ltd
Printing: Yamada Photo Process Co., Ltd

Published by: Arts Council Tokyo,
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Kudan First Place 8F, 4-1-28, Kudankita, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0073
Tel: 03-6256-8435
URL: www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp

TURN official website: https://turn-project.com©2022 Arts Council Tokyo,
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
All rights reserved

Katsuhiko Hibino Statements

The principle of art is that nothing is the same

What you hear from here onwards

TURN is a medium for instilling this principle in the
structure of society

Please....do say to anyone

Living means spending time with people who are not you
Everyone outside yourself is another being

What you hear from here onwards

Feelings of wanting to understand each other even a little,
overlap for a split moment

Never forget to.....remember

Going to places where TURN exists
A landscape where everyone exists without divisions

What you pick up from here onwards

The power of art is the foundation of human society
Becoming an artist means the ability to truly feel that

A twig, a leaf

everyone is alive
Things are not art; the sensible and emotional power ofIs not something you can t take back with you

people is art
Artists can come into being because recipients exist

Whatever happens from here onwards must be

Acquiring TURN s awareness, values, and perspectives

stopped...That just isn t so

Reappraising the innate capabilities people have
TURN time
Something like going to see what s deep inside ourselves
We have still only seen the tip of the iceberg regarding thepower of art in society
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TURN FES 2 (2017)

The relationships between ourselves and others

feeling of not being anxious

Think about what it s like,

we become distanced.

The act of caring about

if experience and knowledge are sometimes obstacles.

When you are happy to getsomething, the act of not

Even if I and other people face the same thing,close, when it is a relief tocaring about something

My experience is not the same as their experience.

become distanced

Sometimes it is a joy that

When it s hard to get close

someone cares about you,

My ordinary is your extraordinary.

When it is sad and lonely tosometimes it is painfulYour ordinary is my extraordinary.

become distanced

Time for sharing

What s ordinary-extraordinary is that they are always

I approach or move awaywith others

found together.

from other people

Time for dialog

Other people approach orwith yourself

move away from me
When we become curious

The relationships between

about other people, or don t

ourselves and others are

become so

not fixed

When we are anxious

For ourselves and others,

about other people, or notconstantly able to comeanxious about themand go at will between

When other people are

relationships,

anxious about you, or aren t

What is the best way toanxious about you

TURN back and forth while

The cloudy sky feeling of

we can...?

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TURN FES 4 (2018)

ordinary-extraordinary

Meanwhile we get close,Imagining imaginationon the TURN program

Thinking thoughts

Empathize with each other.

Contemplating contemplating

The artists have created works out of the vibrations,

Forgetting to forget

the aura of each person they interacted with.

A story creating stories

Because these vibrations are in everyone,

A fairy tale making fairy tales

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When you give shape to them, I feel that people resonate
with each other and this is a big sign of benign feeling for all.

I am me
You are you
Thinking about imagination
Creating thoughts and feelings
Forgetting contemplating
Contemplating forgetting
A fairy tale creating stories
A story making fairy tales
I am you
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TURN 20

All the people on earth who interacted-----------------------------------------------------------------------TURN FES 2021 (2021)