Michino Okuno Art Festival Yamagata Biennale 2024 The main visual and project outline of "Michinoku Art Festival Yamagata Biennale 2024" are now on view!

The "Michinoku Art Festival: Yamagata Biennale 2024" organized by Tohoku University of Art & Design (President: Daisuke Nakayama, Kami-sakurada, Yamagata City) has released the main visual and project outline.

Yamagata Biennale 2024" Main Visual

Yamagata Biennale 2024," which will be held for the sixth time this year, is based on the concept of "restoring physical and mental health through art experiences in hot spring resorts," and will feature a variety of artists, including artists, poets, singer-songwriters, designers, dancers, flower arrangers, restorers, and architects under the theme "Singing for Life. The experiential art festival will be held at Zao Onsen hot spring in Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture and Tohoku University of Art & Design from September 1 to 16, 2012, with the participation of artists and a variety of visitors through exhibitions, performances, events, and workshops.

■Official website: https://biennale.tuad.ac.jp

Main Visual

Art direction: Suginoshita Design Office

Concept: The key color is the red color of magma, the source of hot springs. Things related to Zao will be singing their lives. We imagined an art festival where everyone can feel the geothermal heat, turn red in the face, and sing their hearts out with their mouths wide open.

Suginoshita Design Office: Established in 2017. They are involved in a wide range of work from general design for advertisements, packages, websites, etc., illustration, branding to product planning. Works include "Branding of Endo's Gesoten (food product)" (winner of the 2023 Good Design Award Gold Prize).

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Yamagata Biennale 2024 Highlights

The theme of the festival will be "Singing of Life" in Zao, a place that has healed people's minds and bodies for more than 1,900 years, drawing inspiration from the climate of Zao, including its hot springs, and the artistic culture born in Zao, such as Mokichi Saito. The "Life" and "Songs" of our time will be expressed through four projects: "Hitohi no Uta," "Mountain, Soil, and Tea," "Contemporary Yamagata: The Mountain Sings," and "Summer School. 2.

At the Yamagata Biennale, we invite you to "unwind" your stiffened body and mind with the help of the hot springs, open your senses, "tour" the venue, and listen to the "songs of life" that you will hear there. At the venue, you will be touched by the "words," and at night you will stay in Yamagata, where a deep "sleep" will help you regain your wholeness and "awaken" a new you by sharing the place and time with others and enjoying each other's company.

Please refer to the website for details.

HITOHI NO UTA: Touring exhibition + performance (Zao Onsen, Tohoku University of Art & Design)

This is a traveling exhibition and performance project that focuses on the flow of time in "one day" (hitohi), and will be held at Zao Onsen Hot Spring and Tohoku University of Art & Design.

Participating artists

Yuriko Asano (painter), Kon Ito (poet), Shigeyoshi Saito (poet), Nanana Shibuya (painter), Osamu Sunareo (choreographer/dancer), Keijiro Kan (poet/professor at Meiji University), Naoto Haruhara (painter), Daisuke Nagaoka (artist) + Sadafumi Hama (architect), Ayano Harada (writer), Kenta Maeno (singer-songwriter), Yuka Yamato (artist) Yuka Yamato (artist), Keisuke Yamamoto (artist)

Designers scheduled to participate

Atsushi Hirano (AFFORDANCE)

Director] Satoshi Koganezawa (Tohoku University)

Satoshi Koganezawa (Lecturer at Tohoku University of Art & Design), Kenji Aihara (Art Director/Graphic Designer)

Mountains, Soil, Tea and: Art Event (Zao Onsen)

An art event integrating music, food, tea, agriculture, and performance will be held in the Zao Onsen area. In addition, a program/project under the theme of "sleep" is also planned.

Participating artists

Yuji Ueno (Artist / Flower Artist), Daisuke Nagaoka (Artist)

Participating restaurants

POURPIER, Umayado-Umayado

Director

Director】 Tenji Iwai (Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design), Soichiro Fukai (Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design), Yoshitaka Watanabe (Associate Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design)

Assistant Designers

Misuzu Akimoto (Designer)

Contemporary Yamagata: The Mountains Sing: Exhibition (Tohoku University of Art & Design)

The "Contemporary Yamagata Koh" exhibition has been exploring "Yamagata-ness" from various angles through folklore, natural history materials and contemporary art works. The theme of this year's exhibition is "Mountains Sing. This exhibition traces the shape of Zao, which has changed in various ways over time. What do the mountains sing now?

Participating artists

Yumiko Okazaki (poet), Tomiyuki Kaneko (painter), Hiroaki Kano (painter), Fujinraijin Kou (restoration collective), Mokichi Saito (poet), Toru Nakazaki (artist), Daisuke Nagaoka (artist), Sadafumi Hama (architect), Ayuki (drawing collective)

(*) "Saki" in "Toru Nakasaki" is officially written as "Tatsusaki".

Director

Natsunosuke Mise (Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design), Akira Miyamoto (Associate Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design)

Assistant curators

Maiko Abe (Planner)

SUMMER SCHOOL: Workshop (Tohoku University of Art & Design)

A variety of workshops will be held at the Tohoku University of Art & Design, which is usually a place for students to study, where many generations, from children to adults to the elderly, can experience and create art. The workshops will be held at the Tohoku University of Art & Design, which is usually a place of study for students.

Lecturers

Faculty members of Tohoku University of Art & Design

Director

Hiroyuki Aoyama (Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design), Daigo Adachi (Associate Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design)

Outline of the event

Name:

Michinoku no Okuno Geijutsu Matsuri Yamagata Biennale 2024

Theme:

Singing for Life

Dates:

September 1 (Sun) - 16 (Mon), 2024

Venues:

Zao Onsen, Tohoku University of Art & Design

Admission:

Free of charge / Some programs will be charged

Organizer:

Tohoku University of Art & Design

Special cooperation by:

Zao Onsen Tourism Association

Supported by:

Yamagata Prefecture, Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefectural Board of Education, Yamagata City Board of Education (tentative)

General Producer:

Diceke Nakayama (President, Tohoku University of Art & Design)

Artistic Director:

Toshiro Inaba (Doctor)

General Curator:

Satoshi Koganezawa (Lecturer, Tohoku University of Art & Design)

Director:

Kenji Aihara (Art Director/Graphic Designer), Hiroyuki Aoyama (Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design), Daigo Adachi (Associate Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design), Tenji Iwai (Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design), Soichiro Fukai (Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design), Natsunosuke Mise (Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design), Akira Miyamoto ( Associate Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design), Kichita Watanabe (Associate Professor, Tohoku University of Art & Design)

Art directors:

Suginoshita Design Office