Foam drawing — Gap filler and acrylic paint, 2015.
Joel Kirkham
‘The road outside my house’ — Inkjet print, 2014.
Bjorn Houtman
Shoes Off
Teppei Togashi
Shoko Yoshida
Bjorn Houtman
Joel Kirkham
For Shoes off Teppei Togashi and Shoko Yoshida, two Tokyo-based sound artists, will use the apartment's six-mat tatami room as their stage to cleanse the space and inaugurate it through sounds, songs and noise. Photographer Bjorn Houtman and installation artist Joel Kirkham — the founders of Goya Curtain — will also present their recent work, helping to set the initial shape for this slightly awkward art space.
イベント当日は、東京を拠点に活動するTeppei TogashiとShoko Yoshidaがサウンドや歌、ノイズでステージとなる六畳の和室を浄化し、新し くオープンするギャラリー空間を盛り上げます。
Teppei Togashi setting up his equiptment and meditating with noise.
Shoko Yoshida performing in the tatami room.
Goya Curtain is a 1DK apartment — a standard type of rental space in Japan, consisting only of a dining room and kitchen and bedroom — in Tokyo's Naka- Meguro neighborhood. The building it is part of was built in the 1950s, during Tokyo's period of rapid expansion, and is scheduled to be demolished in 2017. During the coming 12 months Goya Curtain will host exhibitions, projects and live performances; the type of work that lends itself towards inquiry and experimentation.
Goya Curtainをオープンした写真家のBjorn HoutmanとインスタレーションアーティストのJoel Kirkhamもこの一風変わったアートスペースの道しるべとなるべく、最新作を展 示いたします。日本では一般的な大きさである1DKアパートのGoya Curtainは中目黒にあります。高度経済成長真っ只中の1950年代に建設され、 2017年に解体予定です。今後12ヶ月間に渡って、様々な実験的で探求的なプ ロジェクトやパフォーマンスを開催予定です。
Foam drawings - Gap filler and acrylic paint, 2015. Joel Kirkham
‘Shoes Off,’ the first event, will introduce Goya Curtain to Tokyo and bring levity to all the nooks, crannies and corners of the apartment. Come down for a beer, say hello and be part of a new community in 2016.
はじめてのイベント「Shoes Off」では、Goya Curtainを東京の皆さまに紹介するだけでなく、アパートの部屋の隅々、裂け 目、すべての角に明るい笑いと活気をもたらすでしょう。2016年にできるこ の新しいコミューティーの仲間になりませんか。
Translation by Kaoru Sakai 酒井 郁
Installation view of the wardrobe space. Joel Kirkham
Installation view