2008-present
Location: Alios Iwaki Performing Arts Center etc.
Iwaki Performing Arts Center Alios (below “Alios”) opened in 2008 in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, as a music hall with the highest standard acoustic equipment in Japan. The hall’s zealous activities encompass a variety of outreach programs such as “Odekake Alios,” for which musicians travel to local community centers to perform for residents in remote parts of the geographically expansive Iwaki City.
Continuously since the hall’s opening in 2008, P3 has been involved in the implementation of art projects together with artists, as part of a program aimed to create occasions for rather casual visits to Alios.
2008-
Hiroshi Fuji: Alios plants!
The idea behind this project, themed around “events grown from Alios,” was to gather ideas for all kinds of exciting and important things that may be staged at Alios and locations across the city, and let them sprout through repeated dialogue with the local people.
Hiroshi Fuji: Kaekko bazaar
This market worked without money, as children could bring toys and other items they no longer needed, and swap them for other fun things.
2009
KOSUGE1-16: Dondoko! Giant Paper Sumo Wrestling Iwaki Tournament
In the second year of “Alios plants!” this program was launched with the aim to further broaden the facility’s possibilities. Making use of the characteristic geographic expansiveness of Iwaki, the program took place in the form of workshops at various locations, where participants made giant sumo wrestlers from corrugated cardboard. The program concluded with a showdown of the wrestlers at Alios.
2010
KOSUGE1-16: Korokoro meeting
The aim of this program was to encourage local citizens to travel around town. “Korokoro” (an onomatopoeic expression describing a rolling motion) reflects the event’s focus on bicycles, skateboards, wheelchairs and other wheeled, human-powered vehicles, which participants used for “rolling” around and discovering the city’s charm, before discussing the results of their expeditions in the closing “Korokoro meeting.”
KOSUGE1-16: Korokoro machi sugoroku – Jangara bicycle project
This was a collaborative project with Ryoji Hayashi and Daisuke Nohara from the Koza, Okinawa based Studio Kaihoku. As a wrap-up of the “Korokoro meeting,” the “machi sugoroku” combining photos and sketches made in Taira, a part of Iwaki City, was presented in a room in a building in Iwaki. Meanwhile, the Alios Information Counter became the “Jangara bicycle” bike rental shop offering special types of vehicles, inspired by Jangara, a traditional performing art of Iwaki.
2010-2012
Shigeaki Iwai: Iwaki Bouken Film Festival, Turning Visions etc.
Derived from “Alios plants!,” Iwaki Eikenbu is a citizen group made up of film/movie buffs who enjoy experimenting with imagery, while at once pursuing the goal to establish a distinct movie culture in Iwaki. The Eikenbu functioned as executive committee of the Iwaki Bouken Film Festival that was held in February 2011, with a program that also included a workshop in which artist Shigeaki Iwai introduced basic concepts for local filmmaking projects.
2013
Tsuyoshi Ozawa workshop: Let's go into the “Fukuro-land"
At this workshop with artist Tsuyoshi Ozawa, materials at hand such as paper bags (fukuro) were transformed into hats, clothes or shoes. Once the participants were fully dressed, they embarked on their adventure to “Fukuro-land.” The idea was to enjoy playing around with paper as a familiar, commonplace material.
2015
Tsuyoshi Ozawa: Everyone likes someone, as you like someone
Originally made by Tsuyoshi Ozawa for children, the huge “Futon mountain” consists of more than one hundred futon mats, and measures eight meters in diameter. The work was first presented in 2005 in Brisbane, Australia, from where it traveled to Bangkok, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Toyota, Fukushima and Marugame, as well as around Aichi and Kagawa Prefectures. Each exhibition enjoyed great popularity.
2015
Yoshinari Nishio workshop: Fuku no asobikata
Artist Yoshinari Nishio conceived a workshop program for attendants to participate in various types of games and art using clothes.
2017-2019
Yoshinari Nishio “Laundry of the Senses” Iwaki tour 2017-2019
https://p3.org/en/projects/nishio_los_iwaki/