{"id":5424,"date":"2023-03-17T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccbt.rekibun.or.jp\/?post_type=event&p=5424"},"modified":"2024-02-14T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T06:42:15","slug":"rodework_ver_undercity","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/ccbt.rekibun.or.jp\/en\/events\/rodework_ver_undercity","title":{"rendered":"SIDE CORE \u201crode work ver. under city\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CCBT will present rode work ver. under city<\/em> by the CCBT artist fellow SIDE CORE at a special outdoor location.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

It is the latest in SIDE CORE\u2019s series ongoing since 2017 that deals with architecture and civil engineering from the perspective of the street, exploring post-disaster reconstruction, urban development, and more. Showcasing constantly changing environments, from areas undergoing recovery after a natural disaster to the redevelopment projects initiated by the Olympics, all from the POV of a skateboard, the series aspires to rediscover the ways in which people and urban environments interact.

As the name suggests, rode work ver. under city<\/em> focuses on underground urban space. During its participation in the CCBT Art Incubation Program, SIDE CORE filmed sites normally inaccessible to the general public, such as a giant underground retention basin, disused water treatment facility, and abandoned subway station. Recent technological progress has led to the digitalization and increased visibility of all kinds of urban environments, but many subterranean spaces remain shrouded in mystery. SIDE CORE filmed people skateboarding in underground spaces in Tokyo, using editing tricks to connect the different spaces and create a single \u201cvirtual underground city.\u201d This approach is intended as a reimagining of Agartha, a legendary city that occultists in the early twentieth century believed exists on the inner surface of the Earth, now relocated in the work to underneath Tokyo.

The exhibition takes place at an empty site in Tokyo\u2019s Meguro ward where an observation well used to be. Such wells are facilities for monitoring underground flow conditions and groundwater levels in aquifers, especially in regard to land subsidence risk.
The leading Japanese skateboarder Morita Takahiro is also a collaborator on the project as part of his skateboarding videography unit FESN. Along with performing himself, he directed the skateboarding scenes.

Framed through the lens of skateboarding, the project intersects a range of elements, from various stories about underground Tokyo to geology and disaster prevention, technology and urban studies, and urban legends and fiction. Experience a unique view of Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SIDE CORE “rode work ver. under city”<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dates\uff1a<\/strong>Saturday, March 18, 2023 – Sunday, March 26, 2023 2:00 pm -10:00 pm <\/strong>
Venue\uff1aEmpty Site next to Meguro Observation Well\uff083-6, Aoba-dai, Meguro ward, Tokyo, 153-0042\uff09
Admission: Free

* This work was produced as part of the \u201cArt Incubation Program,\u201d an artist fellowship program of the Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT].<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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