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Tokyo Experimental Festival -Sound, Art & Performance- vol.6 now announces that "Citymixer" by Navinko with Yu Kuwabara, which has been scheduled at 16:00 on January 15th has, with regret, been canceled. Due to the technical problem, Navinko couldn't continue preparing for the performance. Tokyo Wonder Site sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience. All other programs including "The Perception Opera" by Exotikdot which is scheduled at 17:00 on January 15th will be performed as scheduled.

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【Apology from Participants】
It is with extreme regret that the Navinko team is forced to pull out of the Tokyo Experimental Festival in 2012. Due to a devastating technical malfunction beyond our control, we will not be able to perform as scheduled. We offer our sincerest apologies to the organizers and staff at Tokyo Wonder Site for the disruption to their well planned event, as well as to audience members who were planning to attend our show. We are grateful to both TWS and the public for their support over the past year and wish everyone an enjoyable festival experience and a wonderful year in 2012.
The Navinko Team

Concert, December 17 (Sat.) 14:00-18:00
Venue: Tokyo Women's Plaza Hall
Admission: Free (Reservation required: performingart11@tokyo-ws.org)

Program
* Please note that the pieces and the performers are subject to change

Younghi Pagh-Paan, HANG-SANG, 1933
Daisuke Kinoshita (Flute), Gaku Yamada (Guitar), Rainer Römer (percussion)

Isang Yun Garaku
Maiko Kimura (Flute), Haruka Miyazaki (Piano)

Goffredo Petrassi, Alias, 1977
Mizuha Nakagawa (Piano), Gaku Yamada (Guitar)

Karlheinz Stockhausen, In Freundschaft, 1997
Megumi Ito (Clarinet)

E. Carter, 90+,
Noritaka Ito(Piano)

Frederic Rzewski, To the earth 1985
Rainer Römer (percussion)

Daisuke Kinoshita, F-fur Piccolo
Daisuke Kinoshita (Piccolo)

Manfred Stahnke, Koto Solo, 2008
Shogo Hiyoshi (Koto)

Pierre Boulez, Incises 1994
Ueli Wiget (Piano)

Akiko Yamane, p/b twin, 2011 *premiere
Haruka Sakurada (Clarinet), Tomomi Ganchiku (Violin)

Tomi Raisanen, Stheno, 2006
Gaku Yamada (Guitar), Haruka Sakurada (Clarinet), Daisuke Kinoshita (Flute)

Kazuo Fukushima, Mei, 1962
Mayo Kajiyama (Flute)

John Cage, Five, 1988
Tony Doyle (Piano), Saori Nakazawa (Violin), Shigeo Tachibana (Shakuhachi), Yoshitaka Sugimoto (Trumpet), Shougo Hiyoshi (Koto)

Bernd Alois Zimmermann, an den Gesang eines Engels, 1955
Megumi Kasakawa (Viola)

Toshi Ichiyanagi,　transfiguration of the moon,　1998
Hanako Nakamura (Sho), Saori Nakazawa (Violin)

Giacinto Scelsi, Pwyll for Solo Flute, 1954
Dietmar Wiesner (Flute)

Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor - duo violine, piano, 1940
Yuiko Yasuda (Piano), Tomomi Ganchiku (Violin)

Yukiko Watanabe, Merry go round for my lady, 2011 * premiere
Yuiko Yasuda (Piano), Gaku Yamada (Guitar), Rainer Römer (percussion)

Shitanda Motoyuki, Path2000
Shigeo Tachibana (Shakuhachi)

Cathy Milliken, Memorial, 2011  * premiere
Tony Doyle (Piano), Saori Nakazawa (Violin), Shigeo Tachibana (Shakuhachi), Hanako Nakamura (Sho), Shougo Hiyoshi (Koto)

Stage Production

Pre-Concert, December 16(Fri.)18:00-20:00
Venue: Tokyo Women's Plaza Hall
Admission: Free (Reservation required: performingart11@tokyo-ws.org)

Program
* Please note that the pieces and the performers are subject to change. 

Paul Hindemith Kanonische Sonatine 1924
Mayo Kajiyama (Flute), Maiko Kimura (Flute)

Arvo Part Spiegel im Spiegel 1978
Kametani Yoshihiro (Piano) Asako Ueda (Violin)

Paul Hindemith Sonata for Trumpet 3rd movement 1939
Yoshitaka Sugimoto (Trumpet) Ueli Wiget (Piano)

Olivier Messiaen Vingt regards sur l'enfant - jesusⅩ- Regard de l'Espit de joie 1944
Haruka Miyazaki (Piano)

John Cage Five 1988
Kametani Yoshihiro (Piano), Asako Ueda (Violin), Lachlan Skipworth (Shakuhachi), Mayo Kajiyama (Flute), Haruka Sakurada (Clarinet)

Galina Ustvolskaya Torio - 3rd movement 1949
Megumi Ito (Clarinet), Makiko Nakatsukasa (Piano), Saori Nakazawa (Violin)

Genoel von Lilienstern sun rise tool 2008/2011
Sachiko Horibe (Piano)

Bruno Mantovani Bug à Phillipe Berrod
Haruka Sakurada (Clarinet)

Michio Mamiya 6 Etudes for piano 2003-2004
Nanae Hasegawa (Piano)

Morton Feldman Why patterns? 1978
Mayo Kajiyama (Flute), Rainer Romer (Percussion)

Pre-Concert, December 16(Fri.)18:00-20:00
Concert, December 17 (Sat.) 14:00-18:00

We are pleased to inform you that "ENSEMBLE MODERN & TOKYO WONDER SITE ACADEMY Vol.5" will introduce a new production on December 16(Fri.) and 17(Sat.). Please do not miss this opportunity!

Venue: Tokyo Women's Plaza Hall
Admission: Free (Reservation required: performingart11@tokyo-ws.org)

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Tokyo Wonder Site is pleased to announce the group show curated by Taro Chiezo at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin, Germany as a part of Berlin- Tokyo Exchange Residency Program 2011.

The exhibition is entitled  "Crisis and Modern Art Manner" which is included four artists who used strong relationships to Tokyo: Taro Chiezo, Jarg Geismar, Kengo Kito, and Mamoru Tsukada. Taro Chiezo curate this exhibition from his experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake and all after effects of the crisis. This experience gave him an opportunity to think about our civilization in conceptualized. Chiezo said  "When a crisis of our modern civilization, I rediscover Power of Art.  Especially on mid 20 century Modern Art. "

Venue: Tokyo Wonder Site Residency Program Berlin
            Room 139  Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2,
            10997 Berlin
            http://www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de/

Exhibition period: November 25 (Fri.)-December 16 (Fri.)
Open: Friday & Saturday  15:00 - 18:00
          or / by appointment 030-90298-1455 (Kunstraum)
Admission: Free
Artists: Taro Chiezo, Jarg Geismar, Kengo Kito, and Mamoru Tsukada.

Chiezo Taro; Born in 1962, Tokyo, Japan and graduated from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 1984. His major solo shows including IMAGINARY MUSEUM of the O-collection - magical museum tour Room 5"Chiezo Taro - Posthuman artist" TWS Hongo, Tokyo, Japan, "Two Towers Phantom above Buildings, Mountain, and Water," at Dai-ichi　Life Gallery (2008), and  "Amoras Project " at Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo (2002) and group exhibitions including "Human Figure 20 Century," Gunnma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japan (2008), "Magical Art Life," TWS Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan(2007)

"On the Agenda of the Arts" is a project that examines current and future role of art through dialogue in diverse cultures. "Education program," the related event of the exhibition we are having now at TWS Shibuya will start this weekend.  We are announcing the detail information of the event  starting by Young-Hae Chang heavy industries.

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【vol.1: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries】

"WHY DO YOUNG-HAE AND MARC LOVE JAPANESE LIFE SO MUCH, AND CAN THEY BE CURED? "

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On the Agenda of the Arts" is a project that examines current and future role of art through dialogue in diverse cultures. As a related event of this exhibition which is currently ongoing at TWS Shibuya, we will have a Educational Program by some of the leading Artists from Asia.

This Educational Program include  open lectures to reveal the secret of their creative process, workshops intended for wide variety of audience and mentoring sessions for young artists, curators or researchers.

* We have extended the deadline for the application from Nov 8th (Tue) to Nov 15th (Tue). It is quite close, but we are looking forward to your apply!

*For the further information regarding the program details, please refer to this page.

*For the information on the exhibition, please refer to this page.

Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya is now showing the exhibition entiled "On the Agenda of the Arts 2011 -Where do we go from here ?-." As an associate program, there are some talk events and educational programs are scheduled.

*For details about the exhibition, please check this page.
*For details about educational programs, please check this page.