Exhibit at Mihama-En

Date : July 24th, 2021 (Sat) - August 8th, 2021 (Sun) 18:00 - 21:00 (last admission 20:30)

Venue : Japanese Garden "Mihamaen" (10 minutes walk from the south exit of Kaihin-Makuhari Station on the JR Keiyo Line)

Admission : Free of charge (prior reservation required)

(10 min. walk from the south exit of Kaihin-Makuhari Station, JR Keiyo Line)

The legendary science fiction novel Neuromancer begins with the protagonist looking up at the sky over Chiba City. The protagonists jack into cyberspace, which is somehow similar to our current situation where we are trapped in a double grid of urban planning and the Internet. Both are infinite, yet somehow lonely, worlds of only humans. How can we return to a world of diverse living and inanimate objects?

It was once said that by connecting our thoughts with each other on a global scale, we would come to live in a metaphysical ecosystem of knowledge called the "Noösphere". Now that it is becoming clear that each organism has its own way of perceiving the world, I believe that we can create a new "Noösphere" ​that is not limited to humans.

This exhibition is set in a Japanese garden, an extended environment where nature is artificially reconstructed to create a greater meaning than it originally had, and the works that serve as the nexus of nature, technology and art are arranged in a manner similar to the process of the tea ceremony. It is neither an idealized cyberspace nor a simple natural world, but a place where various cognitive worlds resonate with each other, and at the same time, it is supposed to be a successor to the idea of "Yugen" that has been pursued by tea ceremony.

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