WRO Art Center: Eco Expanded City Project

Eco Expanded City_WRO Art Center program_photo by_Zbigniew Kupisz (12)

Wroclaw2016

Fine Arts

Wide-ranging exhibitions and workshops on the themes of interrelationships among art, society, nature and technology.

Eco Expanded City, an exhibitions-cum-workshops project, has combined series of events, exploring imagined and real, historical and potential relationships within society, art, nature and technology as they are rendered in artistic and design practices, revealing their mutual interpenetrations and interdependences. In this context, Japanese media art has served as a kind of metaphoric laboratory for applied futures in which art, science and technology are equitably employed for the recognition of the world. Cooperation with Japanese artists and guest curators resulted in a selection of splendid installations, video screenings, artist talks and presentations. These collaborations, both ongoing and just initiated, continue within such projects of the WRO Art Center, as the Mots, Crabs, Fluids exhibiton at the Koszyki Hall in Warsaw (October-November 2016) or the 17th Media Art Biennale WRO 2017 Draft Systems (May-June 2017).

Eco Expanded City:

Date	Exhibition	Japanese participants and their works	Venue
13 May – 3 Jul. 2016	UTOPIAS of Expanded City	Takahiko Iimura, MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji Hajime Narukawa, AuthaGraph AKI INOMATA, Why Not Hand Over a «Shelter» to Hermit Crabs? (curator: Junya Yamamine) Akira Wakita, Furnished Fluid	WRO Art Center, Wrocław
15-19 May, 2016	Puryfications	Ichiro Higashiizumi + Selene creative team, Moonbell	the Mikveh of the White Stork Synagogue, Wrocław
14-31 May, 2016	Synthetic Nature	exonemo – Kensuke Sembo + Yae Akaiwa, Fireplace (curator: Junya Yamamine) Kazuhiro Goshima, Shadowland (curator: Koyo Yamashita) Ai Hasegawa, I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin (curator: Yukiko Shikata) Takamasa Iwasaki, The Symptoms of Nature: From Four Poems (curator: Yukiko Shikata) Macoto Murayama, Botech Compositions Shota Yamauchi, El Condor Pasa (curator: Yukiko Shikata)	the Pokoyhof Passage, Wrocław
13 Jul. – 4 Dec. 2016	Metabolism of the Anthropocene	Ai Hasegawa, I Wanna Deliver A Dolphin, video installation+chart AKI INOMATA, Why Not Hand Over A «Shelter» To Hermit Crabs? White Chapel Series, video, documentation of artist talk Hajime Narukawa, Authagraph World Maps, wallpaper, prints + video + video documentation from the Utopias exhibition in WRO Art Center	WRO Art Center, Wrocław

Related Program:

Date	Program	Japanese participants and their works	Venue
15 May 2016	Meta-ecologies. The World Inside Us －screening program with introductory lecture	Hikaru Suzuki, Mr. S and Doraemon Yoko Kuno, Airy Me Ayaho Kawakami, Odekake Ryo Hirano, Paradise Chiaki Ishizuka, Portrait of Daucus Carota Natsumi Aoyagi, Incubation Diary Maaya Miki, On 3.11, Walking Back Home With Growing Soap Bubbles: 2016 ver.	the White Stork Synagogue, Wroclaw
15 May 2016	Ichiro Higashiizumi – artist talk	Ichiro Higashiizumi, Simon Laroche (CA), David Szanto (CA), Lynn Cazabon (US)	the Mikveh of the White Stork Synagogue, Wrocław
15 May, 17, 24, 31 Jul. 7, 14, 21, 28 Aug. 2016	ASA – Japanese Matinée, a screening of Japanese animation for families and children	Shiriagari Kotobuki, Dog & Bone Yoji Kuri, Funkorogashi Koji Yamamura, Fig Yoshihisa Nakanishi, Bio City, Loopic Cube	WRO Art Center, Wrocław
15 May 2016	Authagraph – the new world map, a performative lecture for families and children	Hajime Narukawa	WRO Art Center, Wrocław
17 May 2016	Conference Interfaces, Codes, Symbols. The Future of Communication. Lecture by Hajime Narukawa – Authagraph World Map – The New View of the World, lecture, introduction to the session titled The Map and Territory. The Cartography of Hybrid Reality	Hajime Narukawa	the White Stork Synagogue, Wrocław
8 Jun. 2016	AKI INOMATA – artist talk	AKI INOMATA, Junya Yamamine, Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka	WRO Art Center, Wrocław
9 Jun. 2016	Cracks of Reality a screening with introductory lecture	Akihiko Taniguchi, Holly Herndon, Chorus Masashi Yokota, Kioku Zenkei Michiko Tsuda, She Would Come Back There to See Her Again on the Following Day #1, Occupants and King in the Configuration Forest – Defective Formal Logic #1 Shota Yamauchi, Flying Bread Eriko Sonoda, Space is the Place Noriko Koshida, on the shore of the desk, something in the spiral world	WRO Art Center, Wrocław
29 Jun. 2016	Behind the Walls – screening program with introductory lecture	Mikio Okada, hierophanie Isamu Hirabayashi, Textism Kazuhiro Goshima, Z Reactor Isamu Hirabayashi, 663114 Shigeo Arikawa, It Has Already Been Ended Before You See the End Shunsuke Hasegawa, Vanishing Circuit Rieko Ouchi, Reply; Repeat Repeated; Delete; Favorite Favorited Akira Miyanaga, Wavy	WRO Art Center, Wrocław

Co-curator from Japan:

Yukiko Shikata, Junya Yamamine, Koyo Yamashita

EEC_Pokoyhof_Syntetyczna_Natura_Macoto Murayama (4)

Eco Expanded City_WRO Art Center program_photo by_Zbigniew Kupisz (11)

Eco Expanded City_WRO Art Center program_photo by_Zbigniew Kupisz (7)

Eco Expanded City_WRO Art Center program_photo by_Michal_Woroniak (2)