This public meeting shares the creative process behind In Between . . . Us?, held in a park in Tokyo as part of the 2025 CCBT artist fellow Yamauchi Shota’s Encounters with the Unknown project.
This public meeting shares the creative process behind In Between . . . Us?, held in a park in Tokyo as part of the 2025 CCBT artist fellow Yamauchi Shota’s Encounters with the Unknown project.
The 2025 CCBT artist fellow Yamauchi Shota’s Encounters with the Unknown project starts from the simple question of what is the unknown, and then attempts to envisage new forms of communication not reliant on linguistic frameworks. As part of this project, Yamauchi is holding a public meeting to share the creative process behind In Between . . . Us?, his upcoming exhibition in a park in Tokyo.
A distinctive feature of the Encounters with the Unknown project is its rhizomatic production approach in which rather than bring about a single artist’s vision, the work is produced as it transmutes in relation to the collaborators’ various expertise and the environment. A rhizome originally refers to an underground stem, and but as a conceptual term, means a state of having no center or starting point, growing in multiple directions with various generative bases. Though Yamauchi’s project does indeed begin with ideas of one artist, the work produced over the course of it does not converge into a single complete image, but rather emphasizes the process itself, out of which it arises while encompassing branches and deviations.
The public meeting brings together collaborators with various expertise, including artist Yamauchi Shota, a director, engineers, performers, and sculptors. Instead of a one-sided talk where participants simply talk at the audience, the event aspires to broaden the regular production meetings that Yamauchi holds and to make the proceedings and content available to the general public.
The event offers audiences the chance to glimpse the process of trial and error by which the exhibition is created, and to gain insights into thought process of the production team.
There will be breaks during the event as well as outdoor tests. Audiences can enter and exit at any time.
プロジェクト「未知との遭遇」
「未知なるものとは何か」という問いを出発点に、言語の枠組みに依存しない、新たなコミュニケーションの形を構想するプロジェクト。パフォーマンス&インスタレーションとして屋外での発表を予定しており、未知なる存在と人間が重なり合っていく瞬間を描く。未知なる存在は、公園の中に息づくように光や音を介して現れ、人間の身体は次第にその光と共鳴し、やがて言葉なき交信がはじまる。観客はその過程を目撃しながら、存在の境界が揺らぐ瞬間に立ち会うことになる。
CCBT「アート・インキュベーション・プログラム」とは
CCBTのコアプログラムのひとつである「アート・インキュベーション」は、クリエイターに新たな創作活動の機会を提供し、そのプロセスを市民（シビック）に開放することで、都市をより良く変える表現・探求・アクションの創造を目指すプログラムです。公募・選考によって選ばれる5組のクリエイターは、「CCBTアーティスト・フェロー」として、企画の具体化と発表、創作過程の公開やワークショップ、トークイベント等を実施し、CCBTのパートナーとして活動します。
