Main Venues│Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya City（ Shikemichi and Endoji）, Toyota City（ Toyota Municipal Museum of Art and other venues in the vicinity of Toyotashi station） IMAZU Kei, Long-Term Memory, 2019, Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (Japan), Courtesy of ANOMALY Japan’s largest international art festival kicks off again with 4 main venues in Aichi Prefecture. Many concerns are shared around the world However, Humans are capable of lending a sion) that can break through these problems. (emotion and information) with jō (compas- today. At the source is anxiety—the anxiety hand and offering solidarity to others in need They say that the etymology of the word “art” sion). This is precisely the original denition of an uncertain future, and the anxiety of on the spur of the moment, even if their can be traced to the Latin word ars and of “art.” From Aichi, a leading region in the feeling unsafe and vulnerable to danger. traditions and ideals are different or it is corresponds to the Greek word techne. manufacturing industry, and a unique Uncertainty makes people anxious, makes against their rationally conceived interests. “Art” referred generally to the “skill (ars) of society that is at once a metropole and on them gure that it is more reasonable to Though the problems facing humanity today commanding knowledge and methods the periphery, Aichi Triennale 2019 explores treat gray matters as black and white, and have their causes in jō (emotion and informed by classical knowledge.” We must the middle grounds of various oppositions, understand the world in terms of oppositions. information), it is this very same jō (compas- develop the skills (ars) for taming jō to recapture the lost original domain of art. B2 B1 2F Art Plaza Cafe Shop A35 Accessway Access Bridge to Oasis 21 to Oasis 21 A52a →P7 A18b A60a A64 A66 A69 →P7 Forum A52c →P7 Main Theater A52b Large A50 A51 Rehearsal A61 A63 A65 A67 →P7 →P7 Mini →P7 Room Theater Art Space X A34b A34a 8F 10F 12F A30 A28 Restaurant A31 A29 A14 A12 A11 A27 Rooftop A15 A13 A70 →P7 Art Space A A32 A26 Garden A10 A71 →P7 A33 A25 Observation Corridor A16 A17 A02 A09 A80 ～ A93 →P7 A18a A40a UP A60b →P7 A24 A01a A08 A01b A03 A18c A22 A04 A19 A20 A06 A07 A40b A21 A23 A05 Address 1-13-2, Higashi-sakura, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, 461-8525 Open 10:00-18:00 (Fri.-20:00, 9/14(sat)-21:00) Last entry is 30min. before closing time. Closed Every Monday (Except for Public Holidays) Gateway to Aichi Triennale 2019, with greatest number of works and performances of any edition thus far Enter a brilliant world of art, painted by James Bridle. However, many with the official app in hand visitors will enter the venue via Oasis 21, which connects to various locations including Aichi Arts Center, one of the main venues, is a subway Sakae Station, Hisaya-odori Station, large-scale cultural facility that includes the and Meitetsu Sakaemachi Station. Awaiting Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and the Aichi viewers in the atrium, with a height of 20m, is Prefectural Art Theater, capable of accommo- a huge installation and stage created by Pia dating large, medium, and small concerts and Camil. After taking the elevator to the 10th performances. Located in the liveliest, central oor of the Aichi Prefectural Art Museum, area of Nagoya City, it is surrounded by where there is a ticket counter and informa- government ofces, department stores, tion desk, the audience will be immersed in broadcasting stations, television tower, and the world of contemporary art. James BRIDLE, Drone Shadow 006, 2013, photo courtesy of Steve Stills high-rise ofces of banks and securities companies. There is no visible evidence today What “Taming Y/Our Regina José Galindo produced works in collects “last testaments” left for loved ones that the city was bombarded more than 60 Passion” means to artists collaboration with Aichi’s many Latin at the end of life, rendering visible traces of times during World War II and approximately American immigrants. the hesitation inherent to this process. one third of it was destroyed. Dora García’s work at the entrance gives a After being exposed to the gestures and Heather Dewey-Hagborg shows a controver- premonition of what might await viewers. The expressions of each of Ugo Rondinone’s sial work on the issue of the exploitation of Wide-ranging contemporary works of Amanda Martinez, Murayama Goro, clowns, viewers encounter Claudia Martínez biometric information by corporations and art with the theme of Imamura Yohei and Anna Witt appear at rst Garay’s installation consisting of many small others. After a small but dramatic installation “Taming Y/Our Passion” autonomous and machine-like, but also items relating to Peru. Tanaka Koki presents by Ceal Floyer and the dynamic drawings of convey a persistently continued physical an installation based on the concept of the Bunya Yukari, viewers encounter a huge For those walking aboveground, the rst work presence. Noting that the number of foreign quasi-family. three-dimensional object by exonemo. Suge encountered may be the shadow of drone workers in Japan has reached a record high, Syunichi’s work is simple, yet delivers an New relationships between amazing experience to all. Following this, media and the arts visitors descend to the 8th oor, where video work by Yuan Goang-Ming overows with Nagata Kosuke and Ishiba Ayako, both of political anxiety. Park Chan-kyong and Lim whose works extend the possibilities of Minouk present works on the theme of “passion” photography, feature the fascination of the between North and South Korea. There are many trompe l’oeil painting and the intrigue of works by people actively expanding journalism, interpretation. Ito Gabin reveals relationships such as the US non-prot news organization CIR, between media art and immersion, presenting known for its investigative reporting, and the works that encourage discussion. dividual inc. works previously featured in the exhibition Pia CAMIL, Telón de Boca, 2018, Photo: Ramiro Chaves SAWADA Hana, Gesture of Rally #1804, 2018, Bouncing Sounds of an Invisible Ball (solo), courtesy of Museo Universitario del Chopo Gallery PARC, Kyoto, Japan, Photo: Hyogo Mugyuda, Courtesy of Gallary PARC 2 “Freedom of Expression” held in 2015. Aoi invite viewers to think about what it Stuart Ringholt's enormous clock, an object means to be a “concerned party.” The works that dees common sense; Walead Beshty’s Being a concerned party in of Javier Téllez, who works with people with work, which is transformed in the process of today’s information society illnesses, and of Candice Breitz, who explore presentation; and Sawada Hana’s tenacious the conditions under which empathy is re-examination of what images reect, and Also on view are Pangrok Sulap's innovative generated, can be viewed in a similar way. the confusion that results from them, offer woodcuts that convey the power to overcome The works of Tania Bruguera and KatoTsubasa diverse interpretations of what “Taming Y/Our difculties and overturn adverse situations. compellingly show that the mind and body are Passion” means. The paintings of Miriam Cahn and Fujiwara contradictory and cannot easily becontrolled. IMAMURA Yohei (Making a print at his solo exhibition, live printing) Photo: Kei Okano The International Contemporary Art Exhibition starts here A01a,b Dora GARCÍA A02 exonemo A03 Amanda A04 Regina MARTINEZ José GALINDO The audience becomes entangled in Since the dawn of the Internet, These sculptures, which appear to Galindo stages performances dealing Garcia’s performance the Romeos, draw exonemo has created and presented be mechanically carved but are actually with human rights, gender discrimination, inspiration from a Cold War strategy works that deal with the Net itself. made by hand, visually represent the and the harassment intrinsic to social designed by East Germany spymaster. Specializing in distinctive hacking-like diversity of music. Viewers can enjoy power structures. While her style The posters are a key element of the methodologies, they exhibit works interpreting the rhythms and patterns exposes these realities and condemns performance to inform the audiences and stage performances in the real world. found throughout her works, which violence and abuses of power, her works of the possibility of encountering utilize the most archaic techniques convey a generous gaze directed the Romeos. possible and show an interest in simple toward humankind. science and the natural world. A05 Anna WITT A06 Ugo RONDINONE A07 Claudia A08 NAGATA Kosuke MARTÍNEZ GARAY In this video work, actors playing Clowns in psychedelic costumes Martinez Garay’s artistic practice is Focusing on how our interpretations typical ofce workers maintain forced, carry out 45 actions that one person concerned with socio-political issues are largely dened by language and professional smiles for 60 minutes. performs within a 24-hour period, related to Peruvian history. She focuses media, Nagata creates his works dealing Witt is known for works that emphasize such as dreaming, passing gas, on how colonialism has inuenced the with the uncertainty and diversity human body movements in a social wishing, and telling lies. use of tools from everyday life, creating of perception. Here he presents context, as dened by political or What are their facial expressions an installation featuring plain and yet photographs that utilize computer- economic logic. and poses trying to tell us? subtle tragic motifs. based image processing, and video work dealing with the “translation” of languages and cultures. A09 ISHIBA Ayako A10 MURAYAMA Goro A11 TANAKA Koki A12 ITO Gabin By intervening only slightly in shots Murayama takes a strong interest in Tanaka explores the question of In recent years, as “immersive media art” of commonplace daily items, the biological patterns of cell division “whether multiple people can share has expanded in popularity beyond the Ishiba creates photographic works that and proliferation, and is known for past, present, or even future art world to the general public, the engender a sense of visual incongruity paintings seemingly created experiences or events as their own” question “Is XXX art?” is frequently and unease.