TURN 20→21

Imagining imagination
Thinking thoughts
Contemplating contemplating
Forgetting to forget
A story creating stories
A fairy tale making fairy tales

I am me
You are you

Thinking about imagination
Creating thoughts and feelings
Forgetting contemplating
Contemplating forgetting
A fairy tale creating stories
A story making fairy tales

I am you
You are me

Katsuhiko Hibino, TURN Supervisor

About TURN

TURN is the umbrella term for an art project that intends to bring creative interaction through encounters among people, transcending differences in customs and background, such as disabled / non disabled, generation, gender, nationality and living environment. Over 80 artists, and 60 facilities and communities have participated until now.

Supervisor: Katsuhiko Hibino (Artist / Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and professor in the Department of Inter-media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts)
Project Director: Tsukasa Mori (Project Coordination Division Program Director, Arts Council Tokyo)

The programs that make up TURN

In the TURN Interactive Program, artists make repeated visits to social welfare facilities and communities of people requiring social support, interacting with members and participating in cooperative activities. In TURN LAND, settings for the day-to-day implementation of TURN's activities are created in local communities. With these two programs as a foundation, the significance of TURN is widely disseminated through the programs TURN Meeting and TURN FES. In addition, we publish TURN JOURNAL as a media to deliver various information about TURN activities and its philosophies.

TURN program figure

TURN FES 6

Tuesday, August 17 – Thursday, August 19, 2021 (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
Monday, July 19 – Sunday, September 5, 2021 (Online)
Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Government / Arts Council Tokyo & Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) / the nonprofit organization Art's Embrace / Tokyo University of the Arts
Co-organized by The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games

TURN chakai

Friday (National Holiday), July 23 – Monday (Holiday), August 9, 2021 (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
Organized by Tokyo University of the Arts / The National Art Center, Tokyo / Tokyo Metropolitan Government / Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) / the nonprofit organization Art's Embrace
Co-organized by The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
With cooperation of: International Partners of Tokyo University of the Arts and others
  • 東京都
  • アーツカウンシル東京
  • 東京都美術館
  • アーツエンブレイス
  • 東京藝術大学
  • 国立新美術館
Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL
*TURN FES 2021 is being implemented as a co-hosted program for the Tokyo 2020 NIPPON Festival. In addition it is being implemented as a Leading Project for Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL - an initiative organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) and designed to create a sense of excitement from a cultural perspective in the Olympic and Paralympic host city Tokyo through a variety of cultural programs promoting Tokyo's appeal as a city of art and culture.