Koganecho Bazaar is an art festival organized by the Koganecho Area Management Center together with the Hatsunecho-Koganecho and Hinodecho Environmental Cleanup Association as an ongoing effort towards community-renovation of the Koganecho area in Yokohama.
Since 2008, Koganecho Bazaar has been held yearly in the area between the Hinodecho Station and Koganecho Station on the Keikyu Line. It presents art projects utilizing various spaces in the area; including the studios under the railway-bridge, small buildings, existing shops and empty lots. The festival has been consistently working on the theme of “community and art.” In the last six years, a total number of 140 groups of artists, curators and architects from Japan and abroad have participated in the festival.
Opening in this August, Fictive Communities Asia – Koganecho Bazaar 2014 marks the beginning of its new phase as an international art exhibition. With the theme “Fictive Communities,” the exhibition will feature works artists who were selected in consultation with Eight national and international organization, as well as artists who made their way through the open call. Artworks will be exhibited throughout the town. The exhibition aims to situate Yokohama as an important cultural hub in Asia, and provide a new think-tank network and platform among the Asian art communities.
International symposium, theater program and event of local food will be held during the exhibition period.
Dates | Fri, Aug. 1st- Mon, Nov. 3rd, 2014 |
Open | 11:00 am -19:00pm |
Closed on | Every 1st&3rd Thursday |
Venue | Koganecho Area (Studios, neighborhood shops, outdoor areas, etc. beneath and along Keikyu Railway, from Hinodecho Station to Koganecho Station.) |
Admission | ・Koganecho Bazaar 2014 Passport(valid during entire event period):High school and above 700yen; Free for junior high school students and below ・Creative City Tie-Up Ticket:Koganecho Bazaar 2014+Yokohama Triennale 2014+BankART Life Ⅳ |
Organized by | NPO Koganecho Area Management Center / The Hatsunecho-Koganecho and Hinodecho Environmental Cleanup Initiative Committee |
Co-organized by | Yokohama city |
Patronized by | Kanagawa Prefecture / Yokohama Arts Foundation |
Sponsored by | Keihin Electric Express Railway Co., Ltd. / Asahi Breweries, Ltd. / Asahi Soft Drinks CO. LTD. |
In Cooperation with | Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department / Kanagawa Prefecture Isezaki Police Station / Yokohama Naka Hojinkai / Hinodecho Neighborhood Association / HatsunechoKoganecho Neighborhood Association / Hinodecho Station Area A Redevelopment Association / KoganeX Lab. Executive Committee / Yokohama City University / Art Center Ongoing / Bamboo Curtain Studio / Chiang Mai Art Conversation / Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts / KUNCI Cultural Studies Center / MiteUgro / 98B COLLABoratory / Outsiders Factory / ZeroStation / Yokohama Creativecity Ceneter |
Special support | Hatsukoi Shop Association |
Granted by | Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2014 |
Organized by | NPO Koganecho Area Management Center / Culture City of East Asia 2014 YOKOHAMA Executive Committee
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Granted by | Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2014 |
Opening in August 1, 2014, “Fictive Communities Asia - Koganecho Bazaar 2014” gathers a total of 37 artist groups from Japan and abroad to develop artworks throughout the Koganecho town proper.
The participating artists are selected in 4 ways: “recommendations from partnership organizations in Japan and abroad, national and international open call, Koganecho-based artists, and guest artists invited by the curatorial team.”
This release announces the Seven groups of artists from Japan and Fourteen groups of artists from abroad.
Marico Aoki
(Saitama, Japan)
Apirak Jianpinidnun
(Chiang Mai, Thailand)
Cindy Mochizuki
(Vancouver, Canada)
Jiawen Hou+Xianjie Wang
(Quanzhou, China)
Paul Mondok
(Manila, Philippines)
Yaya Sung
(Jakarta, Indonesia)
Syo Yoshihama
(Kyoto, Japan)
Liar Ben
(Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Lee In-Sung
(Gwangju, Korea)
UuDam Tran Nguyen
(Saigon, Vietnam)
Ryoko Kimura
(Tokyo, Japan)
Super Open Studio NETWORK
(Kanagawa, Japan)
Maiko Jinushi
(Tokyo, Japan)
Truong Cong Tung
(Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Zeus Bascon
(Laguna, Philippines)
Masayuki Harada
(Tokyo, Japan)
Masashi Nakamura
(Tokyo, Japan)
Lifepatch
(Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Lulu Shur-tzy Hou
(Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Walter Scott
(Montreal, Canada)
Yeh, Chen Yu
(Taipei, Taiwan)
hinodaily
(Kanagawa, Japan)
Yoshie Yamada
(Kanagawa, Japan)
O-zi Laboratorium
(Kanagawa, Japan)
Kogane-chashitsu
(Kanagawa, Japan)
Taiju Agawa
(Kanagawa, Japan)
YSEMI Art Marketing Research Project 「Gallery SaitouFineArts」
(Okayama, Japan)
BUCHI MOKKOU
(Kanagawa, Japan)
mujikobo
(Kanagawa, Japan)
Koganecho Archive Project
(Kanagawa, Japan)
Masaharu Futoyu
(Kanagawa, Japan)
Fumika Shimayama (RED Profile)+Kana Kikuhara
(Kanagawa, Japan)
momoko johansson
(Kanagawa, Japan)
Koganecho natsunojin jikkouiinkai
(Kanagawa/Ibaraki, Japan)
Naoko Akiyama
(Kanagawa, Japan)
OKADA Hiroko & Alternative Puppet Theater GEKIDAN ★ SHIKI
(Kanagawa, Japan)
Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design
(Nagoya, Japan)
Since its establishment in 2009, Koganecho Area Management Center has been conducting research and exchange program on relationship between modernism and local community in collaborate with art practitioners based in Asia. "Alternative Route" brings together our partnership practitioners and explor the possibilities of how we can develop the future network using some keywords.
Dates:Sun, Aug. 3rd - Wed, Aug. 6th, 2014
Organized by: NPO Koganecho Area Management Center / Culture City of East Asia 2014
YOKOHAMA Executive Committee
→click here for the detail [http://www.koganecho.net/contents/alternative-route2014]
Theater Pavilion will be appeared in Koganecho, Yokohama area as a open space of theater for 3month of August to November,2014. "Theatrical center F" , an artist collective co-founded by stage director Mikiya Ichihara, will deliver the enchantment of theater in various ways. Since April, 2014, Theatrical center F have started their research-based theater projects. Through the period of Koganecho Bazaar 2014, site specific theatre program, exhibition, workshop and event developed by the research will be held in the Theater Pavilion.