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Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock (2024)

 Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock
(International Exhibition and Global Networking Project)

 

Exhibition Overview

Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock is an international exhibition and global networking project conceived and curated by Yutaka Inagawa, whose practice moves across the roles of artist and curator. The project brought together 19 participating artists and collectives with diverse cultural backgrounds and practices, spanning the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, China, Colombia, Germany and Japan.

Rather than bringing disparate works together under a single theme or narrative, the project explored how new relations might emerge between artworks, people, spaces, languages and events while allowing their differences and complexities to remain active. Developed through prior dialogue and agreement with the participating artists, the exhibition was shaped through creative interventions by the artist-curator and a co-conspiratorial relationship with the artists who accepted the uncertainties these interventions entailed. Talks, workshops and performances further extended these relationships beyond the exhibition space.



展示概要

「奇数ソックスとノード / Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock」は、アーティスト・キュレーターとして領域を横断する稲川豊が企画した、19組のアーティストによる国際展/グローバル・ネットワーク・プロジェクトである。英国、香港、シンガポール、韓国、中国、コロンビア、ドイツ、日本など、多様な文化的背景と実践を持つアーティストが参加した。

本企画では、異なる作品を一つのテーマや物語へ統合するのではなく、それぞれの差異や複雑性を保持したまま、作品、人、空間、言語、出来事のあいだに新たな関係が生まれる可能性を探った。参加アーティストとの事前の対話と合意のもと、アーティスト・キュレーターによる創作的な介入と、それを受け入れるアーティストとの共犯的な関係によって展示を構築するとともに、トーク、ワークショップ、パフォーマンスを通して、その関係を展示空間の外へも展開した。

 

Curated by: Yutaka Inagawa (artist-curator)

Venue: Art Gallery Miyauchi (2 and 3 floor)

Exhibition Dates: 20 April to 30 June 2024

Organized by: The Miyauchi Art Foundation

Assisted by: STUDIO PINK HOUSE


Participating Artists:

Yu Araki (JP) / Bouie Choi (HK) / Anthony Chin (SG) / Kara Chin (SG/GB) / Gary Clough (GB) / Taro Izumi (JP) / Rikako Kawauchi (JP) / Kong Chun Hei (HK) / South Ho (HK) / Tang Kwok Hin (HK) / Kyung Hwa Shon (KR/GB) / Daniel Silva (CO/ES) / Alma Tischlerwood (DE/GB) / Ryo Uchida (JP) / Ayaka Ura (JP) / Wang Ruobing (SG) / Sai (SG) / Guanyu Xu (CN/US) / The Portland Inn Project (GB)
*Click the artist's name to visit their website

参加アーティスト
荒木悠(日本) / ボウイー・チョイ(香港) / アンソニー・チン(シンガポール) / カラ・チン(シンガポール/英国) / ギャリー・クロフ(英国) / 泉太郎(日本) / 川内理香子(日本) / コン・チュン・ヘイ(香港) / サウス・ホー(香港) / タン・クォック・ヒン(香港) / キョン・ファ・ソン(韓国/香港) / ダニエル・シルヴァ(コロンビア/スペイン) / アルマ・ティシュラーウッド(ドイツ/英国) / 内田涼(日本) / うらあやか(日本) / ワン・ルオビン(中国/シンガポール) / サイ(シンガポール) / グァンユー・シュー(中国/アメリカ) / ザ・ポートランド・イン・プロジェクト(英国)

For more information about artists:
(en): 
https://miyauchiaf.or.jp/exhibition/nnnos-en/
(JP) : https://miyauchiaf.or.jp/exhibition/nnnos-jp/

Press Release | プレスリリース

English PDF →
日本語PDF →



INTERVIEW WITH GLASS MAGAZINE

 

Lower Floor | Installation Views

Photo by Kensuke Hashimoto | Courtesy of Art Gallery Miyauchi

A diverse collection of artworks on the first floor, each creatively juxtaposed within the enigmatic realms designed by Yutaka Inagawa.

Photo by Kensuke Hashimoto | Courtesy of Art Gallery Miyauchi

Featuring a series of eight A1-sized posters displaying manipulated email correspondences reenacted by AI avatars of both Yutaka Inagawa and Taro Izumi. These works, alongside art by Alma Tischlerwood, South Ho, and Kara Chin, are structured within uniquely whimsical environments crafted by Inagawa.

A diverse collection of artworks on the first floor, each creatively juxtaposed within the enigmatic realms designed by Yutaka Inagawa.

A diverse collection of artworks on the first floor, each creatively juxtaposed within the enigmatic realms designed by Yutaka Inagawa.

For more installation views of the lower floor, click HERE


 

Upper Floor | Installation Views

Photo by Kensuke Hashimoto | Courtesy of Art Gallery Miyauchi

A broad selection of artworks on the second floor, each strategically juxtaposed within the interwoven environments envisioned by Yutaka Inagawa.

Photo by Kensuke Hashimoto | Courtesy of Art Gallery Miyauchi

 Second-floor installation view juxtaposing works by Anthony Chin, Guanyu Xu, and Ryo Uchida within bespoke environments structured by Yutaka Inagawa.

A broad selection of artworks on the second floor, each strategically juxtaposed within the interwoven environments envisioned by Yutaka Inagawa.

A broad selection of artworks on the second floor, each strategically juxtaposed within the interwoven environments envisioned by Yutaka Inagawa.

 

For more installation views of the upper floor, click HERE

 

 

Related Events:

  1. “See like a Bee” by Bill and Hayley – Performed by Anna Francis and Rebecca Davies on 19 June 2024.

  2. "Send a Zamboa, Receive a Pomelo, Return No Buntan" – A performative act by Taro Izumi, held on 22 and 23 June 2024.

Scene from “See Like a Bee” by Bill and Hayley, played by Anna Francis and Rebecca Davies.

Moment from "Send a Zamboa, Receive a Pomelo, Return No Buntan" by Taro Izumi.

 

Talk Sessions: BE/BIND/BREATHE/BUILD/BLOOM/BESTOW/BOND

20 April 2024 (Saturday) / 8 June (Saturday) / 15 June (Saturday) / 16 June (Sunday)

The sessions highlight artists from four diverse countries, engaging in discussions on coexistence, codependency, resonance, co-creation, and co-prosperity to explore network building opportunities.

Talk Sessions: BE/BIND/BREATHE/BUILD/BLOOM/BESTOW/BOND
From left to right: Nemi Kubota (interpreter), Ying Kwok (moderator), Yutaka Inagawa (speaker), and Kodama Kanazawa (independent curator). On the screen, top to bottom: South Ho (artist) and Kong Chun Hei (artist).

 

Workshops

1. Portland Palissy Session
2. The Everyday Mindfulness

[FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE WORKSHOPS]→

workshop: Portland Palissy Session designed and Conducted by: The Portland Inn Project

Workshop: The Everyday Mindfulness designed and Conducted by: Wang Ruobing and Sai 

 

Curatorial Approach

At the core of the project was an experiment in treating not only the artworks themselves, but also the boundaries and relations between them, as something mutable. Through prior dialogue and agreement with the participating artists, the boundaries through which each work might be perceived as a self-contained entity were deliberately destabilised. Working as an artist-curator, Inagawa intervened creatively in and between individual works and the exhibition environments surrounding them.

These interventions extended beyond the placement or juxtaposition of artworks. Inagawa introduced his own creative units, as well as tailor-made environments developed in response to particular works and spatial conditions. In some instances, newly introduced elements entered into the structure of a work itself, altering its form, appearance, or the conditions through which its meaning could emerge. Through this process, temporary configurations arose that could not have existed had each work been presented independently.

Within the project, a node is understood not as a fixed point within an established network, but as something more porous: an entity with multiple potential points of entry, remaining open to intervention and connection by other artworks, people, languages, spaces and events. The network proposed by the exhibition was therefore not conceived as a stable structure linking one point to another. Instead, a connection could alter the state of what was being connected while simultaneously opening further possibilities for connection. In this sense, the exhibition developed through a nonlinear and fluid process in which relations could continually shift, multiply and reconfigure.

Such interventions were not intended to disregard the authorship or intentions of the participating artists. Rather, their possibility—including the potential for an intervention to extend into the structural and perceptual conditions of a work—was shared with the artists in advance. The project was made possible through a co-conspiratorial relationship with those who accepted the uncertainties this entailed. Instead of resolving works with different cultural backgrounds, methods, media and value systems into a coherent meaning or conclusion, the exhibition allowed their differences and complexities to remain active. What emerged was a temporary and multiple contour of an exhibition—almost mirage-like in character—existing only through a particular constellation of place, time, artworks and people.

Talks, workshops and performances were likewise conceived not as supplementary programmes added to a completed exhibition, but as further nodes within this structure. Relations generated within the exhibition space could move in other directions through encounters with different voices, bodies and experiences, opening further possibilities for connection. Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock was therefore conceived not as a singular or completed image of an exhibition, but as a temporary hosting ground in which artworks, people, places, languages and events acted upon one another, continually producing different configurations.

Curatorial Statement as Creative Writing →

 

キュレトリアル・アプローチ

本企画の核にあったのは、展覧会を構成する作品をそれぞれ独立した単位として扱うだけでなく、その境界や関係そのものを可変的なものとして捉える試みである。参加アーティストとの事前の対話と合意のもと、個々の作品を単体として見るための境界を意図的に揺さぶり、アーティスト・キュレーターとして、作品と作品、そしてそれらを取り巻く展示環境のあいだに創作的な介入を行った。

その介入は、作品の配置や組み合わせにとどまらない。稲川自身が制作したcreative unitsや、それぞれの作品と空間の条件に応じて構成したtailor-made environmentsを介在させ、ときには新たに加えられた要素が作品の構造そのものに入り込み、その形態や見え方、意味が立ち上がる条件にまで変化をもたらした。こうしたプロセスを通して、個々の作品を単体で提示した場合には生じ得なかったconfiguration(複合的な構成体)が、一時的に立ち現れた。

ここでいうnode(接続体)は、固定されたネットワーク上の一点を意味するものではない。それは、多孔質な表面のように複数の入口を潜在的に持ち、別の作品、人物、言語、空間、出来事から介入され、また別のものへ接続していく可能性を保持するものとして捉えられている。したがって、本展におけるネットワークも、個々の点を安定した線で結ぶ構造としてではなく、接続によってそれぞれの状態そのものが変化し、そこからさらに別の接続可能性が生じていく、非線形的で流動的なものとして構想された。

こうした介入は、参加アーティストのオーサーシップや意図を無視することを意味しない。むしろ、アーティスト・キュレーターによる介入が作品の構造や知覚の条件にまで及ぶ可能性を事前に共有し、その不確実性を受け入れた参加アーティストとの共犯的な関係によって成立している。異なる文化的背景、制作方法、メディア、価値観を持つ作品を、一つの明瞭な意味や結論へ収束させるのではなく、それぞれの差異と複雑性を保持したまま共存させる。その結果として、特定の場所、時間、作品、人物の関係のなかでしか成立しない、蜃気楼のように一時的で多重な展覧会の輪郭が立ち現れる。

トーク、ワークショップ、パフォーマンスもまた、完成した展示に付加される関連プログラムではなく、この構造を構成するnodeの一部として位置づけられた。展示空間で生じた関係は、異なる立場からの言葉、身体、経験との接触を通して別の方向へと展開し、さらに新たな接続を生み出していく。「奇数ソックスとノード」は、完成された一つの展覧会像を提示するのではなく、作品、人、場所、言語、出来事が互いに作用し、その都度異なるconfigurationを生成する、一時的なhosting groundとして構想された。

 
 

Exhibition PR materials, including the poster, leaflet, and website/social media banners, were designed by Mihoko Homma.

In corporation with: BAERT GALLERY, Blindspot Gallery, Galerie du Monde, Grotto Fine Art, LINSEED Projects, MUJIN-TO Production, Take Ninagawa, WAITINGROOM

Supported by: Hatsukaichi Municipal Board of Education, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Hiroshima Broadcasting Center, FM Hatsukaichi 76.1MHz, The Chugoku Shimbun, RCC Broadcasting CO., LTD., TSS-TV CO., LTD., Hiroshima FM Broadcasting CO., LTD., Hiroshima Television Corporation, Hiroshima Home Television CO., LTD.

Funded by: The Great Britain SASAKAWA FOUNDATION, Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation,
NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL SINGAPORE