Titled "Inspiring Questions – Questioning Inspiration," this year's ICC Kids Program focuses on the way children find their own inspirations and questions. The exhibition invites children to experience various displays while thinking and imagining how artists generate from their unique points of view instances of "!" and "?."
On display are a variety of artworks based on such everyday items as toy railway tracks, knitting, clapping, pixel art, animation, shadows or pinhole cameras, highlighting slightly off-beat perspectives that evoke in the viewer both "inspiration" and "questions."
The exhibition was designed with the aim to make visitors aware of possible alternative views and perspectives by way of exchanging the personal "inspirations" and "questions" generated in each viewer's mind.
"Pixel Factory" | "Clap Light Drawing" | "Knit Invader" |
"Paramodel Joint Factory" | "Faraway Factory" | "Scale Scopic" |
"Pinhole Cinema" |
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Running a sheet printed with dot patterns through a wooden box triggers the playback of a little animation. Inside the box, the row of pixels on the sheet is rearranged into a matrix before appearing on the display. This work reproduces a computer's pixelated display by an analogue technique.
Cooperation: TOSA Masamichi (Maywa Denki)
KANEBAKO Junichi
"Clap Drawing Project" 2013
photo: bozzo
This installation revolves around light drawings made using "Clap Lights." Attached to the palm of the hand, this device developed by the artist himself transforms the pressure generated by clapping one's hands into electricity, which is then used to light up LEDs.
Cooperation: ENDO Takanori
Design cooperation: ITAKURA Mika
Using an automatic knitting device called "Knit Invader Machine," the artist wraps handrails, chairs, and various other objects at ICC up in knitting. Things certainly look different once they are covered with knitted fabrics...
Cooperation: TASKO Inc., Hannan Cheese Co., Ltd., SAKATA Ryoichi, WADA Shoma, SASAKI Kana, KATO Koyuki
Paramodel
"Let's play the plarail with Paramodel" 2012
As part of this hands-on installation, visitors connect Plarail * (plastic model railway) tracks to "paint" graffiti-like patterns and designs. This process is filmed, and the resulting footage is projected in multiple layers to ultimately create what looks like one large graffiti.
Cooperation: DOISHITA Tai, HORIGUCHI Junshi
* Plarail © is a registered trademark of Tomy Company, Ltd.
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A large, bizarre scenery with all sorts of plants, buildings and animals is projected onto the wall of the exhibition space. This animated work was created with the aim to inspire visitors to imagine their own narratives while watching the landscape and the creatures wriggling in it.
Cooperation: FOGHORN
Stuffed creature made by Gyunyuya
* On August 2, the event by HIRANO Ryo will be held in the exhibition space for "Faraway Factory."
During the event, "Faraway Factory" will not be exhibited.
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The enlarged shadow of a visitor peeking into this gadget is projected onto the wall. The visitor can now overview the exhibition space from the elevated perspective of that large shadow, and thus enjoy the feeling of observing the world through a giant's eyes.
Visitors wearing this device based on the principle of a pinhole camera on their heads can see the surrounding scenery being gradually turned upside down. Watching these panorama images created by the way of light that falls in through a little hole on the back of the box, the visitor feels as if being in his/her own private cinema.
Date: July 19, 20, 2014
[Finished]
Time: 11:30am -, 1:30pm -, 2:30pm -, 4:00pm -
Instructor: Paramodel HAYASHI Yasuhiko
Capacity: 10 persons (first-come basis, Registration will take place as needed from 10 minutes ahead of each session.)
* Visitors are free to look around
Venue: ICC Gallery A
Participation fee: free of charge
Target participants: 5 years old children and above (kindergarden children must be accompanied by an adult.)
Required time: about one hour
Date: July 25, 31, August 8, 14, 19, 26, 2014
[Finished]
Time: 11:00am - 3:00pm(Registration will take place as necessary until 2:30pm at ICC)
Instructors: CHIKARAISHI Saki
Venue: ICC Entrance Lobby
Capacity: 50 persons (first-come basis)
* Visitors are free to look around
* About 10 participants may join this workshop at a time.
Participation fee: 865yen per 1monster (for the work kit)
How to apply: Please purchase the ticket for the workshop at ICC shop on the day.
Target participants: 3 years old children and above (kindergarden children must be accompanied by an adult.)
Required time: about 30 minutes
Date: July 27, 30, August 15, 23, 2014
[Finished]
Time: 2:00pm -
Instructors: FuwariLab (HIYAMIZU Kunie + OKADA Kenichi)
Capacity: 10 persons (Application required. Participants may be decided by lot)
* Visitors are free to look around
Participation fee: 1,400yen (for the work kit)
Target participants: 5 years old children and above (Kindergarden children and lower grade elementary school children must be accompanied by an adult.)
Required time: about two hours
Date: August 2, 2014
[Finished]
Time: 2:00pm -
Venue: ICC Gallery A
Admission Free
Required time: about 15 minutes
* On August 2, the event by HIRANO Ryo will be held in the exhibition space for "Faraway Factory."
During the event, "Faraway Factory" will not be exhibited.
Date: August 9, 2014 [Finished]
Time: 2:00pm -
Instructor: KANEBAKO Junichi
Venue: ICC 4F special stage
Capacity: 20 persons (Application required. Participants may be decided by lot)
* Visitors are free to look around
Participation fee: 850yen (for the work kit)
Target participants: 5 years old children and above (kindergarden children must be accompanied by an adult.)
Required time: about two hours