We will keep update on the progress of production of artworks, visits by artists to Echigo-Tsumari, schedule of exciting events and tour courses on this website. Advance tickets are already available for purchase - so please start making plan your visit to the Triennale this summer!

Friday 16 March 2012: 11:30 - 14:30

Saturday 17 March 2012: closed to the public

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and please contact the House of Light (TEL:025-761-1090) for further enquires.

Echigo-Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo is ready for heling make your Christmas day special. Your choice of cake, hors d'oeuvre, and fried chicken for a special holiday occasion with family and friends. Even if you are unable to come to Nohbutai, we will take delivery order (first come first served)! Click here for further details.

As you may have checked the list of participating artists and projects highlight and started planning a visit to the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012 next summer (51 days from Sun 29 July to Mon 17 Sept 2012), we are pleased to announce that the advance passport is available for sale now. 246 artworks and projects from 40 countries and regions will be ready to welcome you all - so why not buy a passport to get around these must-see artworks?

From 5 November 2011

CN PlayGuide　／　Seven Eleven in Japan（Seven Ticket Seven Code：013‐831）

From 10 November 2011～

ｅ＋　／　Family Mart in Japan（at Famiport terminal）

From 12 November 2011～

Lawson Ticket（L Code：36421）／ Lawson in Japan（at Loppi terminal）／Ticket Pia（P Code：764909）

【Duration】Tue 1 November 2011～Sat 31 Mar 2012

【Opening hours】11:30～15:00

Please stop by at House of Light when you visit Echigo-Tsumari from autumn to winter.

(1) Events・Performances

“Snow Workers’ Ballet by Mierle Laderman Ukeles in 2003 as well as theater, dance, and Cambodian traditional performing art by NGO Phare Ponleu Selpak in 2009 will be restaged mainly in weekends during the Triennale.

［Participating artists and groups］Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Cambodian circus/Phare Ponleu Selpak, Bird Theatre Company TOTTORI, nibroll, ONDEKOZA, Shigeya Mori Minamiyama-za and more

(2) Festivals in villages

“Omatsuri (festival) project (tbc)” where traditional local festivals in villages meet contemporary art performances, Kurumaza Onigiri where locals welcome visitors, “performance at the door” by Shigaya Mori, and ONDEKOZA is going to be based in Kawaji – all of these projects aims to revitalize villages while appreciating local traditions in Satoyama.

(3) "Participate" in the Triennale

Started by Yoshiaki Ito in 2006, Tour de Tsumari has run every year in co-operation with locals and it attracted 500 participants in 2010 with supporting staff of 150. Cyclists will run through Satoyama in 2012.

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107 out of the total of 214 villages have participated in previous triennales by offering places for artworks and events. The next Triennale will continue to highlight histories and backgrounds of participating villages.

"Daichi no Ichiba" (the market of the earth) in collaboration with locals

Space design: Sotaro Yamamoto /Plan・Operation：Tsunan Art Moriagetai

Tsunan Art Moriagetai, Tsunan-based group of supporters will present a market which introduces charms of Tsunan. In addition to sales of local specialities, traditional plays as well as events will welcome visitors every weekend. The market space itself will be an interesting artwork to visit, designed by Sotaro Yamamoto using furniture fittings.

Defining Satoyama scenery by outdoor artworks

Artist：Jun Honma

Sculptures which capture everyday life of Echigo-Tsumari will be dotted around amongst Satoyama. They will remind us of shadows and traces of the places and create new places of memories.

Unoccupied House Project

Artist：Maaria Wirkkala

Although a house in Kiriyama Village in Matsudai has become empty after three sisters and their children had left, it has been looked after well. Maaria Wrikkala will use swings which resonates memories of the house when three sisters lived and grew up.

Nihon University, Tokyo College of Photography, Kyoto Seika University have been engaged with activities in Echigo-Tsumari and deepen the relationship with locals. Many companies and groups have provided financial support in the form of sponsorship or in exchange for naming rights and work with local people. The following new collaborative projects will be launched in addition to existing ones.

KEEN HOUSE

KEEN, an American-born outdoor trainers brand, has been supporting Echigo-Tsumari, first as an owner of the Matsudai Tanada Bank, and then as a sponsor of Echigo-Tsumari Forest School. During the next Triennale, KEEN will establish a platform utilizing an unoccupied house in Tsunan area where rural revitalization, environmental protection, outdoor activities and art meet satoyama.

The Society for Clinical Art

The Society for Clinical Art aims to build a society where from young to the old can live healthly through creative activities. During the next Triennale, they will organize an international conference, present artworks and run workshops.

Approximately 800 artists and groups have been participated in the previous Triennale and more than 50 of them have revisited villages and deepen the relationship with local people. Community Design Project will be launched in order to take these initiative forward.

Supported by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication. Midori no bunken 2011

Nihon University College of Art Sculpture course : Hoshitoge Village, Matsudai

Nihon University College of Art Sculpture course will engage with challenges that the Hoshitoge Villages faces by building a stage around Shedding House and Croquette House for local festivals. The project will bring avant-garde performances in collaboration with Theater Department of Nihon University as well as help maintain rice production on the terraced rice field.

Satoshi Iwama : Tsubono Village Matsunoyama

Regard the whole village as field park, Satoshi Iwama will refurbish old minka houses, support rice production in the terraced rice field, re-use storage (kura), and maintain beechwood.

Katsuhiko Hibino : Azamihira Village Matsudai

Since the establishment of "Day After Tomorrow Newspaper Cultural Department", Katsuhiko Hibino has run football match every year. He will set up a residency space to showcase the whole village as a field where visitors can easily spend half-a-day having fun.