「Living road, Living space（生きている道、生きるための場所）」というタイトルは、「異なる目的や背景を持つ人びとが、一つの力や目的に縛られず、それぞれの考えや価値観を交換する営為そのもの」というSIDE COREによるストリートカルチャーの捉え方が反映されたもの。金沢21世紀美術館での今回の展覧会は、そうした多様な場面で「生きるための場所」を発見/ 再発見するための契機となることを目指し、「道路」や「移動」という視点から、「異なる場所をつなぐ表現」をテーマとして「道や移動」をテーマにした作品展示に加え、展覧会ゾーンに期間限定で開設される無料のスペースなどを通して、美術館という空間に「別の道」を開いていきます。さらにゲストアーティストを招聘して、スケートボードやグラフィティ、音楽イベントといったストリートカルチャーの表現を通して、制度に拠らない生きる術を日常のなかに編み出し、それをグローバルなコミュニティで共有していく表現運動にフォーカスを当てます。
本展にあわせ、約10年ぶりとなるSIDE COREの書籍『SIDE CORE Living road, Living space 生きている道、生きるための場所』を刊行します。前作『ATYPICAL FOOTPRINT』（2012–2014）から大きく展開した活動を総覧し、展覧会の記録だけでなく、論考・作品・年表を収録します。展覧会デザインと連動し、加瀬透・小池アイ子・牧寿次郎・岡崎真理子の4名がアートディレクション、デザインを田岡美紗子が担当。これまでのSIDE COREの軌跡を横断できる一冊として、作品とその背景を充実した内容で紹介します。また能登半島を舞台にしたプロジェクトを記録した「Road to Noto」のZINEが付録として挟み込まれます。
The art team SIDE CORE has been developing projects across Japan while maintaining its base in Tokyo. Underlying this practice is the realization from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake that “a city depends on other regions in every aspect of life.” SIDE CORE redefines street culture not as “artistic expression in urban public space,” but as “the street” that mediates between different places and values. They attempt to reconceive street culture not as artistic expression confined to city streets, but as an artistic movement based on chains of movement and culture that connect local areas and regions. This exhibition focuses on modes of artistic expression that connect different places, viewed through the lens of roads and movement. By featuring works on this theme and creating free spaces that pop up temporarily in the exhibition zones, the museum becomes a place where diverse values and ways of life intersect—proposing new possibilities for artistic expression in a museum context. Guest artists will share artistic movements that weave everyday life and street culture—through skateboarding, graffiti, and music events—with the global community.
The title “Living road, Living space” reflects SIDE CORE’s vision of street culture as a practice in which people with different objectives and backgrounds exchange their ideas and values without being bound by a single force or purpose. This exhibition at the 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa seeks to provide an opportunity to discover and rediscover “places for living” in diverse settings. Focusing on modes of artistic expression that connect different places through the lens of roads and movement, the exhibition features works on these themes alongside free spaces that temporarily open “another road” within the museum. Furthermore, by inviting guest artists to focus on artistic movements that weave ways of living outside institutions into everyday life—through expressions of street culture such as skateboarding, graffiti, and music events—and sharing these with the global community, the museum becomes a place where diverse values and ways of life intersect, proposing new possibilities for artistic expression.
To accompany this exhibition, SIDE CORE Living road, Living space will be released as the first publication by SIDE CORE in ten years. As a comprehensive survey of the practices that have significantly developed since the previous work ATYPICAL FOOTPRINT (2012-2014), it comprises a documentation of the exhibitions along with essays, bodies of work, and chronology. In collaboration with the exhibition design, Toru Kase, Aiko Koike, Jujiro Maki, and Mariko Okazaki handled the art direction, with Misako Taoka as the designer. As a book that traverses the trajectory followed by SIDE CORE, it showcases the artist’s works and background with rich content. A ZINE documenting a project based in the Noto Peninsula, Road to Noto, will accompany this book as an appendix.
