Fuse Rintaro: Pavilion ZERO Documents Room

Pavilion ZERO is a project by 2024 CCBT artist fellow Fuse Rintaro that adopts various approaches to explore the nature of the “ground” of Japan from the context of Japanese contemporary art as an expanded land art endeavor.

Pavilion ZERO Documents Room is an exhibition offering an overview of the project. It features the documentation, records, and works that arose over the course of developing the three aspects of the project: the tour-style exhibition that conjured up an fictional aquarium at Kasai Rinkai Park in February 2025; planetarium screenings that replayed that exhibition with narration and video; and a magazine publication bringing together contributions and discussions with artists, architects, manga authors, and more.

Visitors can pick up a copy (while stocks last) of Dream Island, the art magazine produced for the project. (Scanned version available from March 11. Bound version available from March 14.) Prompted by the crisis that Fuse sensed over the dearth of discourse and criticism in the recent art scene, the magazine’s inaugural issue deals with the theme of the earth and ground. People from a wide range of positions engage with this, exploring such topics as architecture, land reclamation, aquariums, expos, virtual reality, animation, and monuments through their respective practices, and the results form a rigorous body of primary sources.

Arguably the essence of his artistic practice, Fuse’s verbal expression has greatly expanded the world he creates through various means and mediums like moving image, painting, and curation, and formed an unshakable “ground.” Pavilion ZERO truly epitomizes this and, as such, is a truly necessary and and ambitious experiment. Enjoy this overview of the project that is both a journey and attempt to return fiction and the imagination to us.