Tokyo Wonder Site is now calling for international creators who could perform new creative activities based on the subjects which are core of our projects such as "Art and Environment", "Cultural diversity and the activities of New Art Centres", or "Possibilities of collaboration" during their residency at TWS Aoyama:Creator-in-Residence for three months.

Thank you very much for your interest in the Exchange Residency Program 2013!

We have selected the following creators as the result of the impartial screening by juries.

*Application for Instrumental Course and Composition Course now Closed.
*We will announce Open Call for Visual art and Performing art Course on this website soon.

We are looking forward to application from musicians/ artists motivated for new expressions!

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Ensemble Modern & Tokyo Wonder Site Academy is a cooperative project with Ensemble Modern (EM), who has been standing on the front line of contemporary music creation. It is an educational program that EM draws on their thirty years of experience to nurture the next generation of young musicians as well as a laboratory where TWS addresses to create contemporary acoustic space with EM. Now that the border between music and art is disappearing, multi-media expression is also required for contemporary musicians. To meet that sort of need, the academy will invite Asian master artists as tutors to newly open Visual Art and Performing Art Courses, in addition to Instrumental and Composition Courses.
Stepping forward from the theme, "EAST×WEST TOWARDS NEW TRADITIONS", this time (Vol.6) we will focus on the three figures: John Cage, Toshi Ichiyanagi, D.T. Suzuki (Zen philosopher, who gave a great influence on Cage). We will examine the influence by oriental thought and ways of expression on contemporary music descended from occidental art through lessons, lectures and workshops. Setting a goal to represent a new music theater at Vol. 7 scheduled in December, 2013, it is an innovative program to work through multimedia expression collaborating with various artists.

 

Tokyo Wonder Site is calling for both international and local creators who are planning to undergo cultural study or research based in Tokyo. Please make inquiry to the Embassy or art and cultural institutions of your country regarding the program.

Thank you very much for your interest in the International Creator Residency Program 2012!

We have selected the following 2 creators as the result of the impartial screening by juries.

 

Participating Creators;

 

Sutthirat Supaparinya (Thailand)

 

Gustavo Ciríaco (Brazil)

 

Residency period: From the end of August 2012 to the end of November 2012

 

*Juries' comments will be updated shortly

*Closed.

Established for the purpose of supporting and training young individuals aspiring to plan and host art exhibitions, this part of the "Emerging Artist Support Program" is open to proposals of concrete exhibition plans from the general public. With the support of TWS, the selected plans will be given the opportunity to stage actual exhibitions at TWS Hongo.
In this time of significant transitions, we have come to a point at which we reconsider the very foundations of our mission at the forefront of art and culture, along with the meaning of staging exhibitions, and other issues that have been taken for granted without much examination in the past. Against the backdrop of a multifarious, fluctuating global community, our approach to value standards and information is changing, and the act of "curating" along with the underlying philosophies has come under critical review. In addition, endeavors aiming to capture reality through a redefinition of art based on artistic practices and processes at large, rather than on artworks as objects, have become increasingly prominent.
"What is curation?" - this is the theme and central question that the program's 7th installment in 2012 addresses. How can we commit to society and break new collaborative ground, not only by way of possible new forms of artistic expression, but also through the exhibition format itself as a stage for expression? TWS is calling for plans designed to re-examine the framework of the "exhibition" as we know it, while thoroughly investigating together what functions it can fulfill. We are looking forward to hearing innovative ideas, and seeing exhibition plans with lots of energy.


Please check more details for applications　below.

*Closed.

Tokyo Wonder Site is now calling for international creators who could perform new creative activities based on the subjects which are core of our projects such as "Art and Environment", "Cultural diversity and the activities of New Art Centres", or "Possibilities of collaboration" during their residency at TWS Aoyama:Creator-in-Residence for three months.