In an ordinary park, something is happening.
The 2025 CCBT artist fellow Yamauchi Shota’s exhibition In Between . . . Us? takes place at Nakameguro Park. Light, voice, body, and environment all intersect, conjuring up new interrelationships in urban public space.
The 2025 CCBT artist fellow Yamauchi Shota’s Encounters with the Unknown project is an attempt to envisage new forms of communication by exploring relationships that emerge beyond verbal dialogue, starting from the question of what is the unknown.
Based around an installation evoking a rhizomatic structure spreading out in multiple directions without a center or levels, In Between . . . Us? features performers intertwining with the structure to limn relationships through their voices. The exhibition environment keeps on transforming, its state constantly updating over the course of time. The scenery of the park likewise transmutes, as if in response to something, and permeating the entire space with a unique aura.
Concurrently with the main event, the satellite venue of Aoyama Meguro focuses on the background and conceptual development of the Encounters with the Unknown, tracing how the ideas behind the project evolved. Shuttling between the two locations, visitors can witness the practice and process created by the work.
Don’t miss three days of flux and encounters with the unknown in urban public space. Friday, March 13–Sunday, March 15, 2026 / 3–8 p.m. (held concurrently at two locations)
Access
main：Nakameguro Park（2-3-14 Nakameguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo）
Satellite：Aoyama Meguro（2-30-6 Kamimeguro, Meguro, Tokyo）
Project: Encounters with the Unknown
What is the unknown? Starting from that question, this project envisages new forms of human-to-humanoid communication that do not rely on conventional linguistic frameworks. The project will result in an outdoor performance and installation, limning the moment when an unknown entity and human intersect. The unknown entity appears in the form of light and sound, as if alive in the park, and the human body gradually resonates with the light until nonverbal communication eventually begins. As the audience witnesses this process, they encounter a moment when the boundaries of existence blur.
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.
