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The Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama: Clear-
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Hasegawa describes her concept for the festival as follows:
“While looking to the future, the festival does not depend on sophisticated digital technology or a glut of information. Instead, it detoxes these elements and gives full play to sensibility, knowledge updating, and idea proposals. The enchantment of forests is sure to induce an awakening to a new ecology.”
Features of this festival
Even in the context of Japan, where many art festivals are held, this festival is a unique one, in that it takes forest ecology as its theme and sets forth diverse forms of symbiosis between nature and humanity in five large areas.
It is an art festival showcasing a neo-
The festival encompasses a wide variety of sites including forests, waterfalls, hot springs, highlands, caverns, historical post roads, Japanese-
Anri Sala provides a new interactive experience with use of sound and light in a cavern containing a waterfall with a drop of 50 meters. At the end of another cavern appears a crimson nirvana produced by NINAGAWA Mika with EiM. A display at the Nagi MOCA manifests Arata Isozaki’s bold vision for the marriage of art and architecture. These are just some of the works shown at the festival.
There is another project for the preparation of cuisine, produced by a local chef who has won award in an international competition.
Outline
Title: Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama: Clear-
Festival period: Saturday, September 28–Sunday, November 24
Venue: 5 municipalities in Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Art Director: Yuko Hasegawa
Organizer: Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama: Clear-
Artists
Tarek Atoui, Paola Besana, Bianca Bondi, Masanobu Emi, Leandro Erlich, Lucila Gradín, Katsukichi Higashi, Shiori Higashiyama, AKI INOMATA, Arata Isozaki, Umesh P K, Atsunobu Katagiri, Moe Kato, Hideaki Kawashima, Rinko Kawauchi, Kimsooja, Chiharu Koda, Chien-
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Leandro Erlich, The Nature Above (conceptual drawing), 2024.