2022 Garden Activity Report

In 2022, Session House 2F Garden again served as a venue for activities including independently organised and joint or cooperative projects, as well as exhibitions by rental users, talk gatherings and life-drawing sessions.

 

A Record of Independently Organised and Joint or Cooperative Projects

 

February 9–13: Wawawa Haiku Exhibition (T)

 

March 30–April 10: Suse Meyer (ツーゼ・マイヤー) Exhibition, my lucent day

 

May 12–17: 39th Shurafu Exhibition (修羅譜展)

 

May 29–June 4: Yoku Uchino (内野沃) at Eighty Exhibition 2022

 

July 7–12: Art Exhibition for the Paris Festival (T)

 

July 16–17: "Kudan" (くだん), a group exhibition by the academic year 2010 graduates of Waseda University’s Calligraphy Society

 

October 4–10: Yoshito Sugahara (菅原芳人) POP ART Exhibition

 

October 30–November 3: Keiko Aota (青田恵子) Fabric Picture Exhibition

 

November 4–6: 22 Steps Exhibition (22歩展)

 

November 8–13: F Exhibition vol.6

 

November 23–28: Goninbayashi—Five Musicians in Kagurazaka (T)

 

December 1–6: Noel Exhibition (T)

 

December 14–18: Atelier Roseau (アトリエ・ロゾー) Exhibition

 

※ (T) indicates a project produced and planned by Norio Toyoda (豊田紀雄) of Engeki Bijutsusha (演劇美術社).

 

※ 23 life-drawing sessions led by Takushi Yoshida (吉田卓史) were held.

 

※ Ichie Watanabe’s talk gathering "Let’s Listen to the Voices of Fukushima!" was held three times.

 

The effects of the COVID crisis diminished at the Garden, and there were fewer cancellations of projects. Although there were not many exhibitions, some had become annual traditions, and many gave a sense of increasingly rich content.

 

In particular, Ichie Watanabe’s talk gatherings took new directions: on April 29, the venue moved to the basement studio for Miwako Inoue’s (井上美和子) solo reading play; and from October 30 to November 3, a talk gathering was accompanied by an exhibition of Keiko Aota’s (青田恵子) fabric pictures made using kimono scraps. Please listen to the voice of Ichie Watanabe, who devised these projects.