WORK
Genyu Terrace
Tadashi Kawamata（Japan / France）
For the previous festival in 2017, the artist created “Genyu Rinkan Terrace”, a platform that blended community and environment to activate more activities in the buffer forest growing around the Northern Alps Eco Park, a general waste treatment facility. In co-operation with students in Japan and France, local woodcutters and nature guides, the artist organised an art school in the forest which provided workshop lessons. For this festival, the artist will bring in debris left in the incinerator of Eco Park as musical instruments and present “Three-day full moon day x Utashima shoka special live” just one day before the full moon.
Tadashi Kawamata（Japan / France）
Born 1953 in Hokkaido / Lives and works in Paris
A world-renowned artist, participating in exhibitions such as the 1982 Venice Biennale and subsequent Documenta. In 2005, he served as the general director of the Yokohama Triennale and is currently a professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (National School of Fine Arts) in Paris, France. His projects are related to architecture and urban planning, history, sociology, and daily communication, even extending into the field of medical care.
Gallery web site：https://www.artfrontgallery.com/artists/Tadashi_Kawamata