Delicate Liminalities / 些細な狭間
1.02 – 1.03.2025
Opening on 1.02.2025 at 19:00-21:00 Tokyo time
Location 1: Art Lounge Room 101, Hanazono Alley 101 3-3-9 Ikenohata, Taito, Tokyo
1. – 29.3.2025
Hybrid PechaKucha on 13.03.2025 at 10:00 UK / 19:00 Tokyo time
3月13日 午前10:00（イギリス時間）／午後19:00（日本時間）
Location 2: NewBridge Books, The Newbridge Project. Clarence Walk, Shieldfield Centre 4 - 8, off Stoddart St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1AL, United Kingdom
If you would like to attend online from outside of the United Kingdom, please email: admin@thenewbridgeproject.com to book your free ticket. You will receive a Zoom link with information on how to join.
Artists: Kyun-Chome, Momoko Seto, Petra Szemán, Takumi Tsuji, Wolfgang Weileder, Ella Yolande.
Curators: Polina Chizhova, Siying Li, Yuqi Wang, Hal Xing, Ning Zhou, Vivi Zhu.
Documentation by Hal Xing, Polina Chizhova and Jesse Howarth.
The exhibition “Delicate Liminalities / 些細な狭間” explores how humans relate, co-create and impact the natural environment that surrounds us in the context of the climate emergency. The videos delve into the intricate intersection between our bodies, environments, and the shared consciousness of the ecosystem. Challenging techno-solutionism, ‘”Delicate Liminalities / 些細な狭間” inquires how our bodily experience of nature can foster a deeper personal and cultural understanding.
By closely examining the numerous liminalities of the physical body, social structure, and living ecosystem, artists from the UK and Japan present a dialogue on how humans and non-humans deal with expectancy, uncertainty, and fluctuating living conditions. Navigating liminality and augmented experiences of natural, the exhibition showcases a multilayered understanding of “nature” under the current social consciousness.
PechaKucha
13th March at 10:00 am UK time / 19:00 Japan time
Join us for an informal PechaKucha style event part of the ‘Delicate Liminalities / 些細な狭間’exhibition at NewBridge Books. The event will take place in person at the NewBridge Cinema Room, as well as online on Zoom. Book your free ticket on the NewBridge’s website.
Drawing inspiration from the PechaKucha format, the event will welcome short presentations by artists around the theme of ’Simply Nature’.
Kale Ishigami representing VIRIDIAN magazine, available at the NewBridge bookshop. VIRIDIAN is a community for kids with multicultural experiences with Japanese roots. Japan lacks multicultural representation, especially those who were exposed to different worldviews, languages, and cultures early on in their life. VIRIDIAN Magazine celebrates and shines a spotlight on emerging talents in the scene of music, art, and education. We aspire to celebrate these creatives and share their inspiring journeys, showcasing how they overcame challenges to become who they are today.
Wolfgang Weileder will speak about his work ’Trees – the time it takes’, which is on display as part of ‘Delicate Liminalities’.“Trees – the time it takes” is an experimental short film filmed in the UK, Germany and Canada. In a completely new way it reveals the dramatic changes of space when a tree is removed from its environment. Weileder uses a new recording and post-production method, developed specially for the project. CTS (continuous time-splitting) technology allows time to be presented so that each tree can be seen simultaneously before, during and after its removal in each frame. The individual frames represent a timespan between five minutes and six hours, adjusted to reflect the felling process of each tree, with the time progressing from of top to bottom.
Matthew Rosier will introduce his work ‘Wood Rots Like We Do’ (2023). The film was inspired by the ancient shrines of the Ise Jingu, Japan, entirely rebuilt of wood every 20 years for over a millennia. The outcome of a four-year collaboration between Matthew and Ise; the film tells the stories of 14 participants including priests, politicians, artists, activists, foresters, carpenters and architects. Their stories explore the origins of this ritual and the ancient relationship between Japanese people and forests; exploring how new generations are looking to regenerate Japan’s forests and reimagine their future role in society.
3月13日 午前10:00（イギリス時間）／午後19:00（日本時間）
『Delicate Liminalities / 些細な狭間』展の一環として、ぺちゃくちゃスタイルのカジュアルなイベントを開催します。NewBridge BooksのNewBridge Cinema Roomでの対面開催に加え、Zoomを通じてオンラインでも参加可能です。参加無料となっておりますので、NewBridgeのウェブサイトよりお申し込みください。
イベント前半ではアーティスト マシュー・ロジア（Matthew Rosier） [@mfprosier] をお迎えし、彼の作品『Wood Rots Like We Do（私たちのように木も朽ちて）』（2023）をご紹介します。本作は、日本の伊勢神宮の式年遷宮に着想を得て制作された作品です。
この作品は、マシュー・ロジアと伊勢市の4年間にわたるコラボレーションの成果であり、伊勢神宮の神職、政治家、アーティスト、活動家、林業関係者、大工、建築家など14名の参加者の物語を通して、日本人と森林の関係の変遷や、式年遷宮の儀式の起源を探ります。さらに、新世代がどのように日本の森林を再生し、その未来を再構築しようとしているのかを考察します。
イベント後半ではイギリスと日本をつなぎ、「自然・テクノロジー・ビデオアート」をテーマにしたディスカッションを行います。
本イベントでは、日英通訳がサポートいたします。
ぜひご参加ください！
If you would like to attend online from outside of the United Kingdom, please email: admin@thenewbridgeproject.com
