Fictive Communities Asia Koganecho Bazaar 2014

Koganecho Bazaar is an art festival organized by the Koganecho Area Management Center together with the Hatsunecho-Koganecho and Hinodecho Environmental Cleanup Association as an ongoing effort towards community-renovation of the Koganecho area in Yokohama.

Since 2008, Koganecho Bazaar has been held

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yearly in the area between the Hinodecho Station and Koganecho Station on the Keikyu Line. It presents art projects utilizing various spaces in the area; including the studios under the railway-bridge, small buildings, existing shops and empty lots. The festival has been consistently working on the theme of “community and art.” In the last six years, a total number of 140 groups of artists, curators and architects from Japan and abroad have participated in the festival.

Opening in this August, Fictive Communities Asia – Koganecho Bazaar 2014 marks the beginning of its new phase as an international art exhibition. With the theme “Fictive Communities,” the exhibition will feature works artists who were selected in consultation with Eight national and international organization, as well as artists who made their way through the open call. Artworks will be exhibited throughout the town. The exhibition aims to situate Yokohama as an important cultural hub in Asia, and provide a new think-tank network and platform among the Asian art communities.

International symposium, theater program and event of local food will be held during the exhibition period.'

(Abstract from Kogancho Management Area Management Centre website: http://www.koganecho.net/koganecho-bazaar-2014/e-index.html)

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