Dream Island
Fuse Rintaro
Artist. Fuse Rintaro’s practice explores urban solitude since the appearance of the first smartphones and ways in which we can recover states of being with others. His output includes films and websites featuring his poetry and texts, exhibitions, book publications, and events.
Year Selected
2024
Project
Dream Island
Summary
Dream Island is an art project that treats the various examples of reclaimed land that dot Tokyo Bay as both industrial and political “grounds” and the grounds for certain ideologies. It will unfold across three programs (magazine publications, an outdoor exhibition experienced like a guided tour, and an exhibition at a planetarium) as well as talks and symposiums at CCBT with experts. The project will explore how land is made in the Web 3.0 era in partnership with a range of contributors, including artists, poets, novelists, musicians, researchers, and members of the public.
Profile
Fuse Rintaro
Artist
Fuse Rintaro’s practice explores urban solitude since the appearance of the first smartphones and ways in which we can recover states of being with others. His output includes films and websites featuring his poetry and texts, exhibitions, book publications, and events. Major exhibitions include the solo show New Corpse = Dead Corpus (2022, PARCO Museum Tokyo), Planet Samasa (2022, former site of Odaka Binding Factory), which he curated in a disused printing factory, and Quarantine Close Contact Chamber (2020), an online exhibition that can only be accessed by one website visitor at a time. His publications include How to Write Love Letters (2023, Shobunsha) and the poetry collection Catalogue of Tears (2023, PARCO Publishing).
CCBT Art Incubation Program
One of CCBT’s core programs, the Art Incubation Program provides opportunities for creative talent to undertake new projects and makes those processes accessible to the public, facilitating forms of artistic expression, exploration, and action that change our city for the better. Selected through an open call, five artist fellows will act as CCBT partners, developing their projects, making the creative process public, exhibiting the results, and holding workshops and talks.
▶︎Details: CCBT Art Incubation Program
