Exhibition：Parallel Circuit

Project Description

Parallel Circuit is an exhibition which broadens the themes explored in Permission to Drive, a mobile exhibition held last November on an advertising truck. Building on the concept of coexisting with the regulations and boundaries in urban spaces, the artists presented in this exhibition confront these limits directly. The artists featured will include those from Permission to Drive, as well as new artists including Rui Yamagata, Ryosuke Higo, Vikram Divecha.

The term “parallel circuit,” referring to components of an electric circuit, seeks to reinterpret space-time and multi-layered relationships between figures in the city from individual perspectives. The seemingly static urban space is interwoven with diverse elements such as history, culture, economics, laws, and personal memories. However, it is also a stage scripted by social regulation where participants willingly serve the spaces’ already coded function with common behavioral patterns, for example waiting at a red light to cross the street until it turns green. In this environment, can we use this as a method to access an alternative space-time opened up by art? Can we change our perception from imagining from one real space to multiple spaces; diverse, parallel urban realities; and social lives and bodily experiences?

We hope that the questions and concerns that have captivated our own minds will spark a change in the way you view our daily world with the works presented in this exhibition.

Project Overview

Title:Parallel Circuit
Schedule:2025.3.20(thu) -4.6(sun)　Closed on Mon, Tue and Wed.
time:10:00 – 17:00 (Final Admission:16:30)
Venue:Chinretsukan Gallery 1F Tokyo University of the Art
Organized by:Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Global Arts, Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices
Co-organized by:Culture Vision Japan
Supported by:GAT Ltd., Misato Park Misato Yoshikawa Partners
Artists:Hanako Kimura, Ibrahim Owais, Kate Carr, SIDE CORE, Simon Weckert, Tomotosi, Rui Yamagata, Ryosuke Higo, Vikram Divecha
Co-Curators: Atsuko Sugimoto, Chisa Hasegawa, Daichi Matsumura, Elizabeth Jesse, Shurin Miyahara,Vivi Zhu
Visual Designer: Kazuma Masuda
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Exhibition website: https://parallelcircuit2025.com/

Artists

Hanako Kimura

Born in Kyoto Prefecture. Graduated from Doshisha University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Aesthetics and Art Theory in 2012. Through two extremes, such as “existent/non existence,” “ meaningful/meaningless,” “original/copy,” Kimura’s practice is centered on touching the gray zone that lies in between, creating conceptual works that embrace the zeitgeist.

Ibrahim Owais

Ibrahim Owais is a creative producer, sound artist, founder of recordat, and one part of Radio alHara. Currently based in Bethlehem, Palestine where he joined Wonder Cabinet to help shape and build the space for art production and cultural development. His work revolves around designing, developing, and creating cross-media experiences for both digital and physical spaces. Owais uses turntables as instruments combining improvisational elements to create soundscapes and form cinematic sonic narratives.

Kate Carr

Kate Carr’s practice explores the textures and technologies entangled with field recording using objects and experimental recording techniques. She creates intimate, delicate and hybrid soundworlds which centre the interactions and collectivity which generate soundscapes. In her live work she combines live foley work with field recording techniques. As such her instruments have included scientific rockers, massage guns, bird horns, frog rattles, watering cans and bicycles. Carr works across composition, performance and installation.

SIDE CORE

Active since 2012. Members are Sakie Takasu, Toru Matsushita, and Taishi Nishihiro. Kazunori Harimoto also participates as a video director. Explores the rules which govern public spaces, both inside and outdoors, using street culture as an avenue “to expand expression in urban areas,” with the goal of creating shifts in thought, disrupting openings, and expanding the possibilities for action and expression.

Simon Weckert

Simon Weckert is a modern-day digital wizard and playful innovator who enjoys sharing his insights on topics ranging from generative design to physical computing. He views code and circuits as both tools and ironic statements. Instead of focusing soley on practical uses, he explores how future generations will perceive our tech habits. Weckert’s work combines art and critique, aiming to provoke laughter, reflection and even confusion on complex issues.

Tomotosi

Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, 1983. After studying architecture in university, he was involved in architectural work and city planning for several years. Since 2014, he has been primarily presenting video works on the theme of “actions which transform human movement.” Moreover, from 2020 he has been managing the TOMO City Museums while proposing new ways to use cities.

Rui Yamagata　　　

Her works include a series called “Scratches on the Earth’s Surface,” in which he collects patterns on a specific surface of the earth as seen in satellite images, as well as works that extend current landscape expression and subject matter to the level of the skin.She received his BFA in painting from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2022. Major exhibitions include “Measure your pixel” (TAV GALLERY 2023) and “Ground Zero” (Kyoto Art Center, 2023).　

Ryosuke Higo

Born in 1995 in Hokkaido, Japan. Artist. He considers blind spots in circulating information, such as “phantom islands mislabeled on Google Maps” and “nonexistent English words,” as relics, and attempts to inherit them in new forms by examining events and situations created by society and individuals either unknowingly or intentionally. In recent years, he has been creating works focusing on the structures that support “standards” and “storage.

Vikram Divecha

Vikram Divecha is a Beirut-born artist who grew up in Mumbai and is based in the UAE. He holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and was a participant of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study program. Divecha’s practice focuses on ‘found processes’ – a term he uses to describe the urban operations he investigates. Exhibitions include the 2024 Diriyah Art Biennial, 57th Venice Biennale, 13th Sharjah Biennial, and the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

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Exhibition web site : https://parallelcircuit2025.com/