跡の前の後 - After the Before a Trace -
mjk-staffsuzueri and Before a trace (Takako Minekawa + Takahiro Kawaguchi）
Exhibition Period
June 9, 2024 - June 23, 2024 (Performances will be held on June 9 and June 23.)
*On June 9 (Sunday), the exhibition will open at 4:00 PM due to the performance.
Performance
June 9 (Sunday) 2:00 PM, June 23 (Sunday) 6:30 PM
Admission fee: 2000 yen, limited to 15 people, reservation required.
Please send an email to info@art-mjk.com with the subject "Reservation for 'Before and After the Trace'" and include your name, the number of people, and the desired date and time.
Collaboration Exhibition
This is a collaborative exhibition by "Before a trace," a unit consisting of SuzuEri, Takako Minekawa, and Takaaki Kawaguchi. SuzuEri creates layered sound art works that combine light and sound, such as communicating by overlapping sound with the light of a bulb or making a piano play based on the flight patterns of birds.
Musician Takako Minekawa and sound artist Takaaki Kawaguchi have, in the past, performed actions with ambiguous outlines, which are neither improvisational performances nor live installations, at festivals like the Awazu Kiyoshi Residence and Art Site Kouzushima. They have accumulated these actions as the "before" of the "trace." In this exhibition, they will present the "after" of the "before the trace" within SuzuEri's artwork, offering it as a quiet, atmospheric story.
Statement
The river flows to the sea, and the road continues to a past catastrophe. In a gallery that seems to be between the Sumida River and the Hama Kaido, it is a two-week journey of light and sound, leaving traces that connect the past and the future.
Behind the MJK Gallery flows the Sumida River, which was used in the Edo period for water transport to carry rice. The gallery faces Route 6, a significant land route connecting Edo with Mito and Sendai, known as the Hama Kaido. This Hama Kaido continues to Fukushima Hamadori. With important routes for both water and land transport, and the Edo Shogunate's rice warehouse (Asakusa Okura), this place became known as Kuramae.
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Artist Profile
SuzuEri (Eriko Suzuki)
Based in Tokyo. She exhibits and performs using self-made instruments and devices. Interested in the interaction of tools and instruments, body discrepancies, communication technology, and improvisation, she explores the poetry and narrative evoked from these elements. She graduated from Musashino Art University and Gifu Prefectural International Information Academy [IAMAS]. She is currently studying at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 "On Movement" (TOKAS OPEN SITE8)
2020-2021 "Flower Crown and Solar Crown" (gallery and spicyfoods P, Tokyo)
2019-2020 "Three Worlds / Barricade" (switchpoint, Tokyo)
2013 "Recursive Piano" (20202, Tokyo)
2010 "Prepared" (gift_lab, Tokyo)
2007 "Emergencies! 006 Jungfrau Moon" (NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo)
Group Exhibitions
2024 "My Scenery" (Wall alternative, Tokyo)
2024 "Put 'em in a Box" (Coolchange Contemporary, Perth, Australia)
2024 "2024 Hozogan Light Festival" (Hozogan Art Village, Taipei, Taiwan)
2024 "Journey and Dream" (MtK Gallery, Kyoto)
2023 "From Island to Island" (Tokyo Biennale, CET2023, Etoile Kaitori Showroom Hall, Tokyo)
2023 "The Process" (Harvestworks, Governors Island, New York, USA)
2022 "Kaku Between Two Unparallel Lines" (Cross Gallery, Hozogan Art Village, Taipei, Taiwan)
2022 "3331 Art Fair" (3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo)
2022 "Tools for Play" (NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo)
2019 "Tsonami Festival" (Espacio Cultural Warhola, Valparaíso, Chile)
2018 "SFX Seoul 2018" (Alternativa Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea)
2017 "Yo No Bi #2" (Islington Mill, Manchester, UK)
Major Awards and Grants
2023 "Harvestworks Artist Scholarship" (Harvestworks)
2022 "Yamanashi Media Art Award 2022" Honorable Mention (Yamanashi Prefecture)
2022 "New York Fellowship" (Asian Cultural Council)
2020 "24th Japan Media Arts Festival Art Division" Jury Selection
2019 "Overseas Study Program for Upcoming Artists (Short-term Dispatch to Chile)" (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
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Before a trace (Takako Minekawa + Takahiro Kawaguchi）
Formed in March 2023, the group was inspired by words uttered by Minekawa during a duo concert at Permian that resembled fragments of a story. Using Kawaguchi's self-made instruments as tools to influence the space and Minekawa's presence as an aura, they attempt to create landscapes centered around sound.
2024 Activities
May 18: Art Site Kouzushima 2024 Outdoor Performance
February 24-25: 'Before a Trace 3 at AWAZU HOUSE' at Awazu Residence, Minami Ikuta
2023 Activities
December 23: ANTI-WAR Anti-War Angels and Dynamite Exhibition Performance at Awazu Residence, Minami Ikuta
November 12: OTOOTOJAM2023 at Sado Hall, Chiba
November 5: 'Before a Trace 2' at Hatchobori Nanahari
August 13: 'Before a Trace' at Mitaka SCOOL
March 12: Fudomae Permian