Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other
plans. Transmitting the aesthetics of contingency
Group show
Period 1: 11 September - 23 September 2024, Kyoto Art Center, Gallery South
Period 2: 26 September - 27 October 2024, Kyoto Art Center, Japanese-style room “Meirin”
Curator: Sébastien Pluot

Artists/Craftsmen: William Anastasi, Katinka Bock, Mel Bochner, Fabiola Burgos Labra, Mark Geffriaud, David Horvit,
Tony Jouanneau, Eva Jospin, Yuhi Kaneko, Toshikatsu Kiuchi, GéraldineLongueville, Ariane Michel, miura mai (moss studio), Hisashi Mori, Pauline Oliveros, SoAndrew Saito, Yann Sérandour, Megumi Sahoyama, Mieko Shiomi, Yohko Toda.

Exhibition design: Toshikatsu Kiuchi and KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; KYOTODesign Lab Adaptive Design & Assembly System StudioOrganized and co-produced by Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto Arts and Culture Foundation)Co-organized by Institut français du Kansai, Villa Kujoyama

Cooperation/support: agnès b; Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris; Kyoto Institute of Technology, Château de Montfrin.

The works produced in real time in this exhibition testify to a particular proclivity on the partof artists and craftsmen to negotiate with contingencies. They show a pleasure incomposing encounters with the personality of materials, their souls, the aging of things, theaccidents, transformation of contexts, and the unpredictability of the living.

As part of Nuit Blanche Kyoto 2024 on the topic of transmission, this exhibition involvescollaborations between artists, craftsmen and the curator. The artists provide the curatorwith instructions to produce their works, which are then made on site with the help ofJapanese craftsmen who transmit their know-how.

A program of conversation, performances, activations, tea Ceremony and a banquet areproposed to the public, who are invited to take part in these situations.