- Meeting
Meeting
December 13, 2019
A meeting with Hattori and the museum curators takes place at Artizon Museum. Details and budget, as well as the events during the exhibition, are discussed. He also takes part in a TV interview.
Meeting
November 20, 2019
Following design considerations, a phone meeting is held with Arimoto (HIGURE) of the installation team. Reducing installation costs is discussed.
Meeting
November 18, 2019
Tanaka and Hattori consult about the graphics and design of the homecoming exhibition . As there are bodies of material that deviate from the original framework of the installation work, they discuss the arrangement and presentation.
Meeting
October 10, 2019
Hattori visits the office of HIGURE 17-15 cas and have a meeting about the exhibition installation with Arimoto. In the afternoon, at Tanaka’s office, Tanaka, Shibahara, and Hattori have a meeting about the organization, structure, and graphics of the second catalogue.
Meeting
October 6, 2019
A meeting for the homecoming exhibition is held at Nousaku’s office. In addition to Shitamichi, Yasuno, Nousaku, and Hattori, Tadokoro from Artizon Museum joins. They move forward in solidifying exhibition details to some extent and securing the budget.
Meeting
August 30, 2019
A meeting with Amino (torch press), Shibahara, Tanaka, and Hattori takes place. It is decided that the second catalogue for “Cosmo-Eggs” will be published through torch press.
Meeting
July 15, 2019
Shitamichi, Yasuno, Ishikura, and Hattori gather at Nousaku’s office for a meeting about the homecoming exhibition. An exhibition plan, which reproduces and examines the Japan Pavilion space within the Artizon Museum like stage sets and where the present and archive overlap, is born. After the meeting, Tanaka and Shibahara join, and a roundtable discussion between the artists, curator, and designer to be included in the second catalogue takes place.
Meeting
July 12, 2019
Hattori, Tanaka, and Shibahara visit the Ishibashi Foundation. They have a meeting about PR materials such as the flyer, website, and catalogue. The relationship between the archival website for the overall “Cosmo-Eggs” exhibition and the website for the homecoming exhibition is discussed.
Meeting
June 13, 2019
With the artists and curator all together, they make their first visit to the Artizon Museum that is currently under construction. Artizon Museum has three floors of exhibition space from the 4th to the 6th floor. Although they were first suggested to use the 6th floor, due to the plan of the Tomoko Konoike exhibition taking place at the same time, it is decided in the end that they will exhibit on the 5th floor. The 5th floor is a unique space with a large opening in the center of the room that connects to the open atrium on the lower level. In the afternoon, there is a meeting at Tanaka’s office to discuss the second catalogue to be published for the homecoming exhibition.
Meeting
May 21, 2019
At the Ishibashi Foundation office, museum staff and Hattori have a meeting. The Biennale opened without problems and planning for the homecoming exhibition is underway. The framework of a homecoming exhibition, in addition to what can be realized, the conditions and such, are discussed with the foundation.
Meeting
March 24, 2019
Hattori is in the second day of setting up the exhibition in Venice. He holds a video conference with Shibahara, who had suddenly become involved in the editing team for the catalogue and the designer Tanaka. The Appear In online video conference service works pretty well.
Meeting
March 15, 2019
Tanaka, LIXIL, and Hattori hold a meeting on the catalogue at Tanaka’s office. Finally, the overall image becomes visible, and everyone is relieved.
Meeting
January 8, 2019
A visit is made to Case Publishing to discuss the publication of a catalogue.
Meeting
December 25, 2018
A visit is made to LIXIL Publishing in the morning to discuss the possibility of publishing a catalogue. Afterwards, there is a meeting at the Ishibashi Foundation’s office regarding the returning exhibition. Furthermore, in the afternoon, a meeting involving Tanaka is held at Nousaku’s office to discuss the graphics and sign design in the exhibition space.
Meeting
October 26, 2018
Shitamichi and Hattori meet in Nagoya and discuss the video loop and possibilities for collaboration.
Meeting
October 19, 2018
Hattori travels from Kanazawa to Tokyo to visit Yoshihisa Tanaka. They talk about thoughts on design for more than an hour. There are many things that Hattori can empathize with, so Hattori discusses Tanaka’s participation in the project as a graphic designer.
Meeting
October 4 – 9, 2018
Nousaku visits Venice. On October 8, a meeting is held over Messenger with Nousaku in Italy, Ishikura and Hattori in Akita, and Shitamichi in Aichi.
Meeting
July 5, 2018
The first overall meeting is held at the Japan Foundation. Finally, the four artists and the curator all meet. They also visit the Ishibashi Foundation, co-organizer of the returning Venice Biennale exhibition in 2020.
Meeting
May 28, 2018
Hattori holds a Skype meeting with the artists to make some minor revisions before the press release. They talk about issues that the selection committee had pointed out.
Meeting
May 4 – 5, 2018
Shitamichi, Yasuno, Nousaku, and Hattori spend the night in Nagoya brainstorming ideas to flesh out a proposal. Ishikura joins the group via Skype. They imagine the floor holes and wall space in the Japan Pavilion in their actual dimensions while looking at a model to consider the composition of the project. Yasuno proposes several music plans. Essentially, he is pursuing music composition rather than sound art, so everyone settles on mimicking the songs of birds with Zombie Music on recorder flutes. Ishikura brings up egg creation myths, in which the universe is born from an egg, so they decide on “Cosmo-Eggs” as the title.
Meeting
April 23, 2018
Hattori visits Nousaku’s residence and office, Holes in the House, along with Shitamichi, and is shocked by the architectural space. It is an outstanding structure. Hattori feels a sense of empathy for so much of Nousaku’s thoughts and actions and is sure that they all could create a wonderful project together.
In the afternoon on the same day, Hattori and Shitamichi meet with Yasuno at Coffee L’ambre in Shinjuku, Tokyo. They talk about how to involve a musician to launch a project centered on Tsunami Boulder.
Meeting
April 15, 2018
Hattori meets with Shitamichi at Komeda’s Coffee in Hoshigaoka, Nagoya. They decide to see if Taro Yasuno and Fuminori Nousaku would be interested in participating.
Meeting
April 5, 2018
Hattori has a Skype meeting with Shitamichi and Ishikura.
Meeting
March 18, 2018
After seeing an exhibition at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Hattori meets with Motoyuki Shitamichi at a Mos Burger restaurant in Nisshin and tells him that he will be entering the competition for Venice. They talk there about Shitamichi participating as an artist, and as Hattori was listening to him speak about his recent works and activities, he becomes interested in his Tsunami Boulder. Hattori asks him things such as if they could work on a project as a team.
