- Tokyo's Representative Art Event, Attracting As Many As 700,000 Visitors -
As part of the Tokyo Culture Creation Project, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture will hold the largest all-night art event in Tokyo, bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;Roppongi Art Night 2013bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;, on March 23-24, 2013.
An artistic-director system will be introduced for Roppongi Art Night 2013, and Katsuhiko Hibino, an artist, has been appointed to the post. bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;TRIP - Witness today's transformation into tomorrow.bcゲーム 紹介コードuot; has been chosen as this year's event theme.
Based on this year's event theme bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;TRIP - Witness today's transformation into tomorrow.bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;, Hibino and other artists will turn their ideas of bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;excursions of time and spacebcゲーム 紹介コードuot;, bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;elation of seeing the morning after the night beforebcゲーム 紹介コードuot;, and bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;thought for disaster-stricken regions beyond time and spacebcゲーム 紹介コードuot; into some forms as well as into some actions, and a variety of programs will be constructed for visitors to make a trip, along with the artists, around the Roppongi district.
Various places in Roppongi considered as a bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;harbor/port/terminalbcゲーム 紹介コードuot;, participants will witness and experience sailing into a one-night-only extraordinary trip. On the day, making the works of art by Hibino bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;the activistbcゲーム 紹介コードuot; -- molded out of his feelings for the Tohoku region -- a starting point, an bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;art boatbcゲーム 紹介コードuot; created by Hibino in collaboration with up-and-coming artists will be navigated through places all over Roppongi. Moreover, a program arisen from the relationship with the local community following observations of Roppongi as a bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;localbcゲーム 紹介コードuot; community as well as the works of installation art which make the most of Roppongi streets will be deployed in the streets.
bcゲーム 紹介コードuot;Roppongi Art Nightbcゲーム 紹介コードuot; has been around for five years (the fourth event) and so far received participation of more than 200 teams of artists. The event has a high profile in various circles as Tokyo's representative art event, and it attracted as many as 700,000 visitors (the total number of visitors to all programs) in 2012.
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