Osaka Contemporary Arts Festival
Cultural Activation City Programme
Breaker Project 2003 - 2005
Creation is not a privilege that is given only toartists. There is a creativity found in everyday life
cooking 、 tidying up 、 changing the layout of yourroom, selecting what you wear every morning 、and even coordinating a tie with your suits
Deskwork and housekeeping, which look like very
simple jobs 、 still have room for creativi↑yCreativity is also indispensable to solving thetrivial daily problems. It is a source of energy thatenriches ou「|ivesMy definition of artistic expression is somethingthat stimulates and foste「s that potentialcreativi↑y. The role of art in society should lie
there. Unfortunately, however. for whateverreason, art is cut off from our daily life, and does
not have a place to fully function

This is a project to reconsider the role ofculture/art in contemporary society and toreorganize the "active relationship between art
and viewers"
Here, I selected 4 artists who dare to present theirworks in their own unique ways rather than whoshow in the orthodox venue of a closed white
cube
FUJI Hiroshi、 who develops his projects inspired by
the locations at each time、 proposes and creates
new public spaces through a dialogue andcooperation with people who are involved. DATE
Nobuaki, who organizes the "Ukulele-ization: a
Building Conservation Project" 、 discovers beautyon the surface of building cons↑ructions where
human activity happened to leave its trace andhe transforms it into an art piece. KIMURA Toshiro
Jinjin takes out the process of the ceramics (raku­yaki) to the streets and performs the'mobilecafe - Nodate'. It is a charming scene ↑hatdraws out that'something' lying subconsciously
within all of us. Franck BRAGIGAND, who thinksthat it is important to place himself inside ofsociety rather than to relate to it from outside as
on artist, makes works that also function in thereal world

My essential criterion↑o see art is whether I am
moved or not. When I am moved、 the adrenalin
pours out of my brain. It is as if I got hit on thehead by a new perspective ↑ha↑| have neverseen or thought about 、 which then gives me aclear consciousness. The same thing can happen
not only with visual art, but also with music,writing and theatre, o「 trees and insects in nature,
and an encounter with people andconversation. If I put it a lit↑|e roughly, the worth
lies only in the experience of being moved. And
the experience becomes a food to the next
actionAlthough this project is entitled " CulturalActivation City Programme", the activation of
the town is not the initial pu「pose. Nowadays as
economic depression drags, there are many
cultural projects tha↑ a↑tempt to activate towns
throughout the country. However, art is心tsucha convenient magic tool that can change towns
all of a sudden by temporary events, nor a quick­ac↑ing medicine to change economic situations
A town is made by residents over years 、 andabove all spontaneously. Our last two years'
activity is just a beginning. As we have built therelationship with a town, Shinsekai, various sensesof values from both artists and public have met
and crossed directly through ↑he projects, by
sharing time, place and/or work. This new'platform of creativity'has just come into bud
Each one of us can thus regain his/her own
creativity and develop a new way of living by a
new perspective, that eventually leads us↑O
acquire the image of'our town'in the true senseof the word, by the continuation andaccumulation of such grass -roots artistic
activities. And when we can finally be p「oud of
where we are, the town or the city becomes aculturally a↑trac↑ive place, that will also resul↑ ineconomic development. I↑ is therefore needlessto say that culture is indispensable for us, and an
important factor to bring a future ↑0 us
AMENOMORI Nov

They keep an eye on the trivial phenomena of
everyday life, each operating as'living person'、1+t.
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The Breaker Project, which started as a part of
the Cultural activation City programme in the
Osaka Contemporary Arts Festival that City ofOsaka promotes 、 gave me a golden opportunity
to answer the above questions with the chance
to realize some long-cherished plans to solvethese problems

before being an 'artis↑' ． This is the starting point
ifor their ideas and act vities. As they are joining
with daily life, whatever the outcome, it isconnected to ou「 underlying consciousness andsenses. The strength of the philosophies behind
their actions arises as a quality of the place theycreate