Street Museum 2000 : MATSUZAKI : Jousenji Tempel to Naka River
1. lighting
There will be a new lighting set up for the Cho-Hachi Museum . It will provide an advanced lighting for the museum, its extension and the outside theatre. The new lighting is an initial point for the Street Museum 2000 and the Street Museum 2001. Pointing out the shadow as a central theme will creat a relation to the Street Museum.
2. exhibition Kura
The Kura will be refurbished and transformed into an exhibition room.
From November 2000 on here will be set up an exhibition called "Homage to Cho-Hachi", including following themes:
a) "What if Cho-Hachi ... had travelled to Switzerland", computer/photomontage; imitation of Cho-Hachi works created by the influence of imaginary trips of Cho-Hachi.
b) "What if Cho-Hachi ... had met Andy Warhol" (Hiroshige, Rothko, Liechtenstein, ...), prints, collages
c) "What if Cho-Hachi ... had have a computer", computer-manipulations
3. movable objects
Along the street between Jousenji Tempel and Naka River movable display vehicles will be shown. Made of bicycle parts, aluminum pipe and cloth they contain:
a) objects that have a relation to Matsuzaki and to its own story.
b) "Cho-Hachi Abroad", postcard collection. Interpretations and associations to Cho-Hachi from New York, Weimar, Chicago, Hongkong, ....
c) Imitations of Cho-Hachi, computer manipulations, real objects
The vehicles will be shown at Sundays, public holidays and during seasons highly frequented by tourists. When they're not in operation they'll be stored in the garden of the Kura.
4. street boxes and panels
The boxes are made of steel with a glass top even with the street level, containing illumination as an orientation system for the Street Museum and objects for permanent display.
The steel panels include a glass area to present information as words, drawings or photos. They will overlay real scenary with additional information.
5. postcards
For November 2000 two postcard projects are planned:
a) cards as a guidebook to Matsuzaki
b) set of seven postcards showing motives of Matsuzaki in its location between Ushibara Mountain and the sea. It is showing as well the installations of the Street Museum.
6. Keitai Museum
An orientation system through Matsuzaki, explaining the town, the Street Museum and its objects will be set up as a homepage. This will work as an information tool for computer users and users of cellphones. The cellphone is the central tool for the Street Museum (Keitai-Museum) offering the information the visitor is needed to have of the real objects he can find in Matsuzaki.
7. festival
The festival works as an opening ceremony for the Street Museum in November 2000. The main theme of the festival are lanterns. They are dedicated to the motives of flowers, stars, fish, swallows, grassbundle and also lantern boats. The newly created room on the second floor of the Kura works as the seventh lantern. These lanterns will be illuminated for the festival creating a bridge between Ushibara Mountain and Naka River.
PHOTO/ARAMAKI-Mainichi Shinbunsha
PHOTO/ARAMAKI-Mainichi Shinbunsha
PHOTO/ARAMAKI-Mainichi Shinbunsha
Kura exhibition
PHOTO/ARAMAKI-Mainichi Shinbunsha
Kura exhibition: Sho by Ken SATO