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An artwork “ Worldwide Tokyo-lization Project” composed of a video and an installation. We exhibited it in Venice Biennale 2016.

In “ Worldwide Tokyo-lization Project”, parts possible to exchange in 6 cities that don’t resemble to Tokyo are exchanged into parts found in Tokyo. We studied about whether those are metamorphosed into Tokyo. 6 cities are New York, Paris, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, La Paz and Venice and, after that Tokyo elements are added, a city that is Tokyo-lized appears.

Through this project, we intended to consider about what the image of a city is and to what locality it is based. The image of a city and the locality might be not so solid that we imagine and be exchanged easily into a different one.

The installation is composed of a 50 inch monitor to reflect a video of 6 cities that are metamorphosing and 6 photo panels of the Tokyo-lized cities and a large wall paper of Tokyo city scenery.

Location : Various cities in the world

Architect : Daigo Ishii + Future-scape Architects

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The video of Tokyo-lized Venezia as one of six Tokyo-lized cities.

Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2016.

On the large wall paper on which a Tokyo photograph was printed, the photos of six Tokyo-lized cities and the video monitor showing the sceneries of six Tokyo-lized cities are installed.

The scenery of Tokyo-lized Venezia as one of six Tokyo-lized cities.

The original scenery of Venezia before Tokyo-lization.

The scenery of Tokyo-lized Copenhagen as one of six Tokyo-lized cities.

The original scenery of Copenhagen before Tokyo-lization.

The scenery of Tokyo-lized La Paz as one of six Tokyo-lized cities.

The original scenery of La Paz before Tokyo-lization.

The scenery of Tokyo-lized Buenos Aires as one of six Tokyo-lized cities.

The original scenery of Buenos Aires before Tokyo-lization.

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