YATSUGATAKE ART ECOLOGY 2023
Organizer: Yamanashi International Art Festival Executive Committee
General Director: Hiromi Yoshii (Kiyoharu Art Village)
Artistic Directors:
Keiichiro Tao (Tao Planning Editorial Office)
Shinjiro Nishino (GASBON METABOLISM)
Hiraku Moriya (Nakamura Keith Haring Collection)
We are pleased to announce that the Yamanashi International Art Festival | Yatsugatake Art & Ecology 2023, organized by the Yamanashi International Art Festival Executive Committee, will be held from Saturday, November 4 to Sunday, December 20, 2023, across various locations in Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture, centered around the Kiyoharu Art Village.
At the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, we will showcase works by Hayato Isozaki, Dan Isomura, and Risako Yamada (names in no particular order) in the museum’s forest, courtyard, and other interior and exterior spaces.
Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture, is abundant in natural resources, featuring the majestic Yatsugatake Mountains, lush forests, and pristine water sources cherished as natural drinking water and used in local sake production. The region also boasts the longest hours of sunshine in Japan. Inspired by this rich natural environment, in recent years, a diverse range of creators—including those in art, music, crafts, and gastronomy—have relocated to the area, seeking to build sustainable relationships between people and nature.
The inaugural Yatsugatake Art & Ecology 2023 is an art festival that aims to explore a new sense of “richness” for the future—not limited to regional economic revitalization through tourism or retail, or increasing engagement with the local population through migration and tourism. Instead, it seeks to establish a sustainable culture created by people and nature.
We hope that this initiative will become widely recognized as a uniquely Japanese art festival model, deeply rooted in the rich natural environment and seasons of Japan, and resonate with contemporary society’s increasing focus on sustainability and diversity.
CONCEPT
コンセプト
xenogender
Surrounded by Yatsugatake, the Southern Alps, and Mount Kinpu, Hokuto City lies at the heart of a major geological division of the Japanese archipelago created by the Fossa Magna. This unique terrain and climate have fostered a rich ecological niche and cultivated diverse natural and cultural environments.
At the same time, the contemporary focus on diversity often leads to fragmentation and division—across nations, ideologies, and genders—creating feelings of isolation and stagnation. Could we embrace “division” in a positive light and construct an enriched ecological niche? Might the Yatsugatake region, with its rich ecosystems thriving amidst divisions, offer insights into how diversity and solidarity can coexist?
Yatsugatake Art & Ecology 2023 seeks to liberate visitors’ perspectives and identities through artworks and expressions that harmonize with the region’s natural environment. Experience the profound concept of xenogender—an ideology that incorporates relationships with nonhuman entities, such as flora and fauna, into our understanding of gender—born from the Fossa Magna’s division of Yatsugatake, and discover the richness it inspires.
ARTISTS
出展アーティスト
Taro Izumi, Dan Isomura, Hayato Isozaki, Yoichi Ochiai, Taichi Kagami, SIDE CORE / EVERYDAY HOLIDAY SQUAD, SCAN THE WORLD, Fuyuhiko Takada, Takahiro Miyahara, Misa Murata, Risako Yamada, Shotaro Yoshimo, Yoshirotten, Akira Wakita, Shiori Watanabe+Yuko Nagayama, and more
