MOT annual 2007 From a world as large as life

The information-oriented society, which enables the exchange of large volumes of information instantly across vast distances, is forming increasingly sophisticated new networks. While granting us barrier-free access to information and other conveniences, however, high-level information technology is producing profound changes in the character of our perceptions and consciousness. As our perceptions and experiences become encoded for electronic transmission, our personal bonds with others weaken, just as our sense of time and locality, and even our own existence, grows thin. Trends in recent years of seeking inner "healing" or a return to nature or tradition reflect the consciousness of people who feel something is not right in the information-oriented society. Such investigations into alternative lifestyles nevertheless depend on information technology and also become encoded to a degree.

MOT Annual 2007 introduces five artists who have looked sensitively through their art at the direction taken by society in recent years. While varying in their art media and methods, Sayaka Akiyama, Izumi Kato, Yuri Shibata, Naoko Chiba, and Daisuke Nakayama all engage in a labor of exploring their relationships with people and things in the world around them―in their region or society in general―from within the daily circumstances of their lives. By doing so, they reveal to us the dangers that our way of life in the information-oriented society poses to our perceptions, awareness, and communication with others. Through this exhibition, we hope to provide opportunities to ponder our relationships with others, our attitudes toward material things, and furthermore, our own existence.

Period
February 20 - April 1, 2007
Closed
Mondays（except February 13)
Opening Hours:
10:00-18:00
*Last admission to the gallery floor & last ticket purchase is 30minutes before the closing hour.
Venue
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) Exhibition Gallery 3F　
Organized by
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Sponsored by
Asahi Beer Arts Foundation, Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities
Supported by
EPSON, Fukagawa Shiryokan Avenue Shopping Street Cooperative Society