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Alive Shinjuku
"Parallax City"
[Exhibition] [Talk]
1-1-8 Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku
photo：Michio Nakagawa and more...
In 1975, MoMA held a strange exhibition titled "Shinjuku: The Phoenomeral City." This exhibition, which has remained largely unreviewed until now, satirically expressed the cultural and geopolitical gap between the West and Japan at the time, presenting a diminished version of "Tokyo" through a limited perspective. The critic Koji Taki was invited to direct the exhibition alongside Henry Smith and Peter Gluck. Taki, a gifted urban enthusiast, portrayed Shinjuku as literally kitschy and perverse, but it seems as though a new method for expressing "Shinjuku" as a symbol has yet to be invented. This exhibition aims to consider the current state of Shinjuku, and ultimately the city's history, through this distorted, idealized, and distorted image of Shinjuku. Koji Taki left behind over 2,000 photographs of Shinjuku for the "Shinjuku Exhibition." These photographs, a series of snapshots of private experiences, fold in Taki's gaze from 1975. From there, I would like to analyze and develop Shinjuku as Taki Koji's model, depicting a possible image of the city. This would be to generate a Taki Shinjuku without Taki in 2025, and to immerse myself in our own Shinjuku, a place we do not know.
Venue: WHITEHOUSE
Date and time: November 1st (Sat) - November 16th (Sun) 13:00-22:00
(*Open until Sunday, November 16th)
Price: 500 yen or BENTEN2 ticket Curation: Tomohito Wakui Artist: GROUP
Research cooperation: Toshiya Yoshimi, Michio Nakagawa, Yosuke Taki, Waseda University Spatial Image Laboratory
[Dialogue Event]
◆ November 2nd (Sun) 19:00-20:30
Toshiya Yoshimi x Ryuta Ushiro (Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group)
Venue: Ojo Building
◆ November 3nd (Mon) 15:00-17:00
Toshiya Yoshimi x Toyo Ito Venue: WHITEHOUSE
（The talk show has reached full capacity, and registration is now closed.）
*This exhibition will be held as part of "Ikirareta Shinjuku" , which consists of three venues in Shinjuku.
https://www.ikiraretashinjuku.com/
GROUP
Architectural collective that designs, researches, and constructs architectural projects, aiming to build temporary and sustainable spaces where people with different specialties can work together. Major activities include the design and construction of "Yumeshima Garden" (Osaka Prefecture, 2025), the design and operation of "Ebina Art Expressway" (Kanagawa Prefecture, 2021), the design and construction of "Shinjuku White House Garden" (Tokyo, 2021), the planning and editing of "Notes" (NOTESEDITION, 2021, 2024), the design of "EASTEAST_TOKYO" (art fair venue design, 2023), the group exhibition "InvolvementRain/Water passage" (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa DXP Exhibition, 2023), and the solo exhibitions "Creating an Island | Planning Another Island" (MYNAVI ART SQUARE, 2024) and "Repair" (WHITEHOUSE, 2021).
HP: https://www.groupatelier.jp/
Toyo Ito
Born in 1941. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. After working at Kikutake Architects and Associates, he founded Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects.
His major works include House in Nakano Honmachi, Silver Hut, Yatsushiro Municipal Museum – Museum of Mirai Forest, Sendai Mediatheque, Tama Art University Library (Hachioji Campus), Minna no Mori Gifu Media Cosmos, National Taichung Theater, and the EXPO Hall for the 2025 Japan World Exposition.
He has received numerous prestigious awards, such as the Architectural Institute of Japan Award, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, and the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
In 2011, Ito established the Ito Juku, a private architecture school dedicated to exploring the future of cities and architecture. He is also actively involved in ongoing community development projects on Omishima Island in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture.
(Photo: Mitsumasa Fujitsuka)
Shunya Yoshimi
Born in 1957. Sociologist. Professor at the Faculty of Tourism and Community Development, Kokugakuin University, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo.
Yoshimi has played a central role in the development of Cultural Studies in Japan, advancing urban and media theory through a performative approach. Over his long career at the University of Tokyo, he served in numerous key positions, including Dean of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Director of the University’s Center for Research and Development of Higher Education, Director of Educational Planning, Vice President of the University of Tokyo, Chairman of The University of Tokyo Shimbun, President of The University of Tokyo Press, President of the Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, President of the Japan Society for Digital Archive, and Chairman of the Tokyo Cultural Resources Conference.
His major publications include The Dramaturgy of the City (Kawade Bunko), The Politics of Expositions (Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko), Tokyo Turned Inside Out (Shueisha Shinsho), and Tokyo as a Loser (Chikuma Shobo), among many others.
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