2025 Open Studios!

12.Sep.2025

Presentation of the Results of the Artist in Residence Program.
Three artists – Avani Tandon Vieira, Ibrahim Kurt and Sato Koichi – will present the results of their residency at the ARCUS Studio, located in the Moriya Manabi-no-sato. Visitors will have the opportunity to view the works created through each artist’s vision, research and productive, as well as their creative processes.

Open Studios at Moriya Manabi-no-sato have continued for 32 years, yet this will be the last. From next year, the program will move to a new location within Moriya City. 143 artist groups have participated in the program until now, filling the ARCUS studio with so many memories. Please visit this space, which has played a role in the domestic and international art scene for over 30 years, and record its legacy in your memory.

Period
November 13th (Thurs) — November 16th (Sun) 13:00 -18:00
Place
ARCUS Studio
Admission Fee
Free (except film screening)
Artist
Avani Tandon Vieira
Ibrahim Kurt
Sato Koichi
Contact
TEL 0297-46-2600 arcus@arcus-project.com

※The programs and timetable are subject to change

PROGRAM

November 15 (Sat) 13:00-14:30

Artist Talk

Avani Tandon Vieira, Ibrahim Kurt, and Koichi Sato, the three artists invited to this year’s Artist-in-Residence program, will each speak about their projects. ※In Japanese and English. No booking required.

　　　　

November 15 (Sat) 15:30-17:30

Talk | Art Practice in the Post-Truth Era

This talk will explore artistic practice in the post-truth era, where what is real is becoming more elusive, through the key concepts of sensibility, research, and artistic creation. As our daily lives are flooded with overwhelming amounts of information and images, what are we being told, and what is being hidden from us? In these times where it is difficult to determine truth and falsehood, and it is often only much later that the facts becomes apparent, artists engage in research guided by their own sensibilities to reveal aspects of society that have been obscured or altered through societal forces. This talk will welcome two guests – artist Fujii Hikaru who conceptualized his recent work based on research into United States government archives, and Nakai You, whose practice weaves together research and creation, while also translating the works of research group Forensic Architecture and the posthuman aesthetics movement. The conversation will be moderated by Director Ozawa Keisuke, exploring the relationship between art and research today.

　　　　　　　

Speaker:
Fujii Hikaru (Artist)
Nakai You (Ars Nova/Side Effects Lab, University of Tokyo )
Ozawa Keisuke (ARCUS Project)

※In Japanese and English. No booking required.

November 16 (Sun)　10:30-11:30

Kids Tour

Guided Tour for Kids ※In Japanese. Booking required by November 14th.

▸ For booking

November 16 (Sun) 13:30-14:30

Guide Tour

Studio Guided Tour by ARCUS Staff

※In Japanese. No booking required

November 16 (Sun) 15:00-16:45

Film Screening | Record of a Summer Holiday, Directed by Kawada Jun

Maximum 30 people. Reservation required.

95 minutes (color)
Japanese and English subtitles

▸ Reservation By November 14th 5pm

　　　　　　

▸ Payment ¥1,000　By November 14th 5pm

　　　

▸ Official site

2025 Resident Artists

Avani Tandon Vieira

Born and based in India. Curator, writer, and archivist Avani Tandon Vieira uses her practice to query the relationship between space and form. With a focus on Asian contexts and a transnational frame, her approach spans interdisciplinary investigations, collaborative art-making, and dialogue-based research. As part of her practice, she runs the open-access archival project The Museum of Ephemera – a space of resistance – as well as the digital platform for young creatives from India and Pakistan, The Pind Collective. She has also participated in projects such as RAW Académie, Cameroon and the Gwangju Biennale Curators’ Academy, creating works that explore experimental rebuilding of maps that dismantle existing cartographies, and a film on the theme of trauma and place memory. Other works include participation in the MMCA International Researcher Residency Program (Seoul, 2024) and writings in “STIR” and “ASAP art.”

Ibrahim Kurt

Kurt was born and raised in a Kurdish home in the mountainous region of Eastern Turkey, and is currently based in the Netherlands. Through video work, installation and performance, in his recent projects Kurt – himself an immigrant – portrays the multi-layered sense of belonging through the process of finding a “home,” inviting dialogue about diaspora and the experience of living separated from one’s birthplace. The methodology of linking both personal and the collective Kurdish experience is also evident in his film works. In the collaborative work Our house is only half finished, Kurt’s fragile and shifting identity is likened to the houses common in his hometown, repeatedly rebuilt and yet abandoned before completion. Past exhibitions and activities include Ijssel biennale 2025 (Deventer, The Netherlands, 2025) and Our house is only half finished（Netherlands Kurdish Institute, Amsterdam, 2024.

Sato Koichi

Based in Tokyo, Sato explores society through the natural environment and living organisms, as well as production and consumption, and engages in creative work combining not only video but also scent and sound. The departure point of his work is a questioning of the environment or society, and he conducts on-site research in places where these issues manifest concretely. A recent work deals with PFAS contamination of tap water in western Tokyo, and how this contaminated water enters the body as a foreign object, unconsciously turning one’s own body into the “other.” From enquiry to research and artistic creation, Sato creates a holistic viewing experience that examines the relationship between the environment and living organisms from various angles. Past exhibitions and activities include Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visons 2023: Technology? (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, 2023), Thailand Biennale Korat 2021 (Korat, Thailand, 2021), and Third Landscape (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2019).