“In Between… Us?”—created as part of the project “Encounters with the Unknown” by 2025 CCBT Artist Fellow Yamauchi Shota —will be exhibited at the MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2026 art exhibition “REFLUX: Rising Signs.”
To embody its mission of “Discovery,” “Development,” “Co-creation,” and “Collaboration,” Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] conducts “CCBTx”—an initiative involving partnerships with diverse collaborators across various fields, both in Japan and abroad.
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.
Photo: Haraguchi Ryota, Direction: Kikuchi Masashi (Nippachi Factory) (Left)／Photo: Nishiyama Koichi (Right)
MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2026
Japan’s Largest Art Festival
Four days where art and culture intersect, stimulating your senses.
Art exhibition “REFLUX: Rising Signs”
The art exhibition “REFLUX: Rising Signs,” which embodies the festival’s concept, focuses on the reversals, reactions, and intersections of multiple currents that emerge in our ever-accelerating times. Using “REFLUX,” meaning reverse current or reversal, as a starting point for understanding this situation, the exhibition explores how we can grasp this era by looking at various reverse currents and reversals that cannot be fully described by words such as development, progress, and future. Subtle changes that precede the resulting events. The ability to read these signs has long been ingrained in us, intertwined with our lives. Let us re-examine them once again. Sensations, atmospheres, and omens that precede words. This exhibition is held as a space where diverse possibilities emerge and intersect.
Exhibiting artists in the art exhibition: Ideal Copy, Isomura Dan, evala, Tsuda Michiko, Tezuka Osamu, Yamauchi Shota, Ryu Ika (in alphabetical order)
Art Exhibition Performers: Kanakity, QUICK | Takahiko Fukui, contact Gonzo, So Souen, Hara Saori, Tomohito Wakui (in alphabetical order)
Artistic Director: Mirai Moriyama
Curators: Yama Yoshida, Kentaro Watanabe
Spatial design: Tatsuya Koizumi (Weekend Studio), Junpei Mori
Executive Producer: Nanana Kanmuri
Produced by: Lee Seung-wen, Gao Seong-ho
Construction: Artifact Co., Ltd.
Technical Director: Kosaku Namikawa (7ild3)
Cooperation: ANOMALY, Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Store Co., Ltd. Ladder Project, See by Your Ears, TARO NASU, Tezuka Productions, EUKA RYO TE
Click here for details about “REFLUX: Rising Signs”
MYAF2026 is a highlight program of “ARTE TOKYO.”
ARTE TOKYO：https://artetokyo.jp/ja/
MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2026：https://artetokyo.jp/ja/programs/meet_your_art_festival_2026/
