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Exploring New Connections: Chapter 3 – The Future of Community
In the final chapter, The Future of Community, the exhibition highlights works and projects that explore new forms of connection. Before Instagram existed, Tsuyoshi Ozawa produced the handwritten Nasubi Newspaper via fax; Cai Guo-Qiang carried out community-based projects in Iwaki, Fukushima; and Yu Sone’s Her 19th Foot, a bicycle that appears ordinary but shares a wheel, requiring communication to ride, demonstrates the possibilities of collaborative interaction. The exhibition reveals how communities can emerge outside the logic of the market economy, fostering resilient and inventive forms of exchange.
Exhibition view at the National Art Center, Tokyo, 2025, from Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989–2010
Exhibition view at the National Art Center, Tokyo, 2025, from Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989–2010
Chapter 3 features particularly dynamic and unique works, with sound, video, and light filling the exhibition space. The chaotic energy of these creative expressions seems to embody the spirit of the era itself.
Created for the exhibition that toured Seoul, Tokyo, and Osaka, the work uses the barber’s pole as its subject. In Korea, however, a brightly colored, rotating pole can sometimes signify a sex-related business.
Exhibition view at the National Art Center, Tokyo, 2025, from Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989–2010
