AAT committee
[judge]
Taro Amano (Assistant Director of Yokohama Museum of Art, Head of Curatorial Education Group)
Shihoko Iida (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Curator)
Shigeo Goto (Editor/Creative Director, Professor, ASP Department, Kyoto University of Art and Design)
Kazue Kobata (Art Producer, Professor, Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts)
Tomio Koyama (Representative of Tomio Koyama Gallery)
Naoki Sato (ASYL DESIGN Art Director, Associate Professor, Department of Design, Faculty of Art and Design, Tama Art University)
Yuko Hasegawa (Director, Business Planning Division, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Specially Appointed Professor, Department of Art, Tama Art University)
[Guest judge]
Yoshitomo Nara (Artist)
Alanna Heiss (PS1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA Director)
Others <50 syllabary order/honorific title omitted>
logo/graphic design
Hideki Nakajima (NAKAJIMA DESIGN)
Examination method
[Work research]
Researched graduation exhibitions at major art universities. The "AAT" secretariat will select works for the first round of judging. (This time, we focused on graduation exhibitions from art universities in Tokyo and Kyoto.)
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[First screening]
The screening committee will select the works that passed the first screening (held on 3/24)
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[Gallery exhibition]
- Exhibition of works that passed the next screening at Yukiyuki Underground Gallery (4/27-5/27)
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[Second screening]
The AAT committee (judges and guest judges) will decide the award winners from among the exhibited works.
*The second screening will be held in public in front of the general public. (5/6 Sun 15:00~at the exhibition Venue)
Number of award winners and benefits
Grand Prix: 500,000 yen
Second Grand Prix: 300,000 yen
Special prize: 100,000 yen x 2 people
(To be used for tuition/production expenses)
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Judge's comment
The significance of this event should be seen as a mechanism to support new young Artist. Therefore, in the future, I have high hopes for the efforts of artists who will take advantage of the anticipated constraints on exhibition space.
Taro Amano
AAT is most properly perceived as a new system with a purpose to support young artists. Therefore I have great expectations in seeing how the artists advantageously deal with the various restrictions in the exhibition space which will most likely present themselves in the future.
Taro Amano
To continue to be a place that produces good writers. It must be a flexible system that fits into the character of the city center, underground, and passageways while still maintaining its distinctive character. I also want young Artist to be sincere and challenging in their own expressive practice, going beyond that framework.
Shihoko Iida
Keep AAT as a platform that produces good artists. Keep it as a system
with its own colors yet flexible enough to slip into the nature of the
location as an urban and underground passage. And, I expect young artists
to be sincere and challenging to your own artistic practices so as to
surpass the framework AAT tries to establish.
Shihoko Iida
Art Award Tokyo, like Michelin in contemporary art, must be a project that goes beyond school and career to secretly discover and value the most emerging and noteworthy talents in Tokyo, or indeed in Japan. What I was keenly aware of during this selection process was that the ``next movement'' that surpassed even ``superflat'' and ``micropop'' was starting in Japan.
Shigeo Goto
Art Award Tokyo must become the "Michelin" in the world of contemporary art, a project that surveys all schools and careers in order to discover and value the hottest and emerging talents not only in Tokyo but in the whole country of Japan. In making the selections I became keenly aware of the fact that what is now arising in Japan is quite beyond "Superflat" and "Micropop"; It's the "Next Movement."
Shigeo Goto
Some kind of detonator has been planted underground in the center of the capital. Not only will it be a place to present and support young artists, but what will happen to pedestrians who happen to pass by? I dream of becoming a place where we can have a chance encounter that will completely change our future. Become Gyoko-dori Ave., a lucky street!
Kazue Kobata
A priming is set up in the heart of the metropolis under the ground. Not only does AAT provide a space for young artists to present themselves in public, but it also gives a bit of thrill as to what could possibly befall upon the passers-by who just happen to walk through it. I'm fancying how this could become a place of excitement filled with chances that may completely change the future for both artists and lookers. May Gyoko -dori (Imperial Parade Boulevard) become a Gyoko-dori ( Good Luck Boulevard)!
Kazue Kobata
The works created in the school's atelier are seen by many people, move them, and become etched in people's memories. At that moment, the work appears as something socially realistic, and I think that at that moment, Artist is born in the true sense of the word.
Tomio Koyama
An artwork produced in an artist's studio in school is brought out to be seen by the eyes of many people. It touches the people's hearts to make a deep and memorable impression. That is when a piece of work comes forth as socially real, and, at that very moment, an artist is born in the true sense.
Tomio Koyama
Behind every outstanding expression is a movement. There is a good chance that AAT will become an important stage for generations to come, and the outlines of the next movement are already visible in the collection of works that are coming together.
Naoki Sato
A social movement always lies behind an exceptional form of expression. AAT holds enough potential to become a significant stage for the upcoming generation, and, from the groups of works collected so far, I have already caught a glimpse of what seems to be the contour of the next movement to come.
Naoki Sato
The work is waiting to be seen and given meaning. I believe that it is a job that requires courage and perseverance to select works and information that are produced like bubbles every day and place them in the coordinates of meaning. From within these coordinates, the viewer will experience an encounter with the work and its meaning for themselves. AAT will contribute to the production of meaning.
Yuko Hasegawa
Any piece of art work longs to be seen and to be given meaning. Making the selection from numerous artworks and information that daily bubbles forth and giving them a meaningful allocation is a task that requires a lot of courage and patience. Viewers shall experience a special encounter with what has been allocated―an encounter meaningful to each and every one of us. AAT is certain to make a great contribution in creating more denotations.
Yuko Hasegawa