EmptyClassroom–"blanClass+room"


　　　A small space "blanClass" is located in a residential block in Yokohama.
We start activity in this space as a base for people to attend art sessions to create art
and to evolve the activity in multiple directions.
This space has long served as a classroom for leaning contemporary art. For several years,
however, the classroom has been closed,and thus we namedthis space "blanClass" to mean
an empty classroom.
　　　This project starts with the empty classroom as a clue, not to say from zero.
A building changes with time during which people do something in the spaceof the building
and spend time there. The space itself, however, actually has a character, and its function
and role expand and transform every timeeach person doing something in the space interprets
the space carefully.We first try to carry out "the practice of space" through finding and developing
the character of the space.
　　　Naturally, we place importance, not on a visible result, but rather on dialogues that will
occur in the space. A wide variety of artists and experts interact witheach other in blanClass
and work in parallel. We catch and present the dialogues
that occur here in blanClass.
　　　Once the door opens, you can think anything as much as you like in this space.We will
sincerely seek a strong message beyond genres and functions of art by crossing over the borders
between them and will explore more unlimited and serious issues, without pandering so easily to
trends of the time and society.

September 14, 2009