To accompany the In Between . . . Us? exhibition by 2025 CCBT artist fellow Yamauchi Shota, this talk features the artist in conversation with Ozaki Tetsuya, whose wide-ranging activities includes writing and producing. Yamauchi will discuss the background and conceptual development of the exhibition, while Ozaki’s perspectives will deepen audience’s ideas about the work.
The 2025 CCBT artist fellow Yamauchi Shota’s Encounters with the Unknown project begins with the question of what is the unknown in an attempt to envisage new forms of communication by exploring relationships that emerge beyond verbal dialogue.
The central component of the project is In Between . . . Us?, an exhibition held at two venues. In Nakameguro Park, visitors experience the unknown, while the gallery Aoyama Meguro showcases the process by which the work took shape.
As a related event for the exhibition, this talk features Yamauchi in conversation with author and arts producer Ozaki Tetsuya. Yamauchi will describe the background and conceptual development of the project, and with Ozaki confront its inexplicable nature. How can we experience an encounter with the unknown? Is it even possible to experience that at all? The talk unfolds in the midst of such uncertainties.
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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.
