Tokyo.Ten Opening Party

Posted on July 1, 2008
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Last Friday night, we all gathered at the recently reopened Claska Hotel and gallery space to celebrate the opening of the Tokyo.Ten exhibition, as well as the forthcoming release of the book+DVD. As you can see from the photos, this party was a blast, and we heard that around 700-800 people came through in the course of a few hours. DJing and live music was provided by our own Woog, Jemapur, Shingo (Merce Death), and UC / DJ Uppercut. The art exhibited is by Tokyo Lab and all our collaborators who graciously took part in this project just for the sheer love of creating something new and special together.

A big thanks to all who were involved in making this party happen (there were many volunteers from inside W+K Tokyo) and of course to all our creative collaborators who contributed their artworks. Without our collaborators and their work, there would be no book, no exhibition, and WKTLAB would not exist as it does today!

For those who didn’t make it to the party, you can still check the Tokyo.Ten exhibition which will be ongoing through 07.27 at Claska. The Process exhibition featuring personal works of +cruz, Woog, Shane Lester and Sun An will also go up at Claska starting this Saturday, 07.05–07.18.

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- WKTLAB’s 10th release, Tokyo.Ten is a compilation of DVD, Book and Blog that chronicles our entire audiovisual output since we began five years ago. We celebrate the “point” of Tokyo with our partners-in-crime, Lab Artists Takagi Masakatsu, DJ Uppecut, Hifana and Afra and all the creatives we have collaborated with. The DVD contains ten of our favorite music videos from the nine albums as well as some B-side selects. It also premieres the new video Maledict Car, introducing our latest music artist Jemapur, offering a peek into our next journey. In addition, Takagi’s Hill will be included in DVD for the first time. The book features a visual remix of our first nine releases to date, followed by original artwork from some of the visual artists involved in the creation of these albums as well as future potential partners. 42 artists from inside and outside of Japan offer their perspectives on Tokyo and Japanese culture, and place their own “dot” on these pages. This blog documents the participating artists’ thoughts and process as they concept, sketch, fabricate, illustrate, and refine their art for this book. As a dynamic extension to the book, www.wktokyolab.com/ten offers us a rare glimpse and insight into the artists’ creative process, allowing us to connect with the book on a different level.
- W+K東京LABの記念すべき10枚目のリリースとなる“Tokyo.点”は、これまでにつくられた音楽と映像を集めた、コンピレーション・ブック＋DVD＋ブログで構成されている。これは、高木正勝、DJ Uppercut、Hifana、Afra、これまでにコラボレートしたすべてのクリエイターたちと東京の「点」をセレブレイトする作品だ。DVDにはこれまでの9リリースから厳選されたミュージックビデオ10作品と「B-Side」としてセレクトされた8作品が収録されている。さらに、W+K東京LABの新しいアーティストJemapurの新作 “Maledict Car”、初のDVD化となる高木正勝の映像作品“Hill”も収録。256ページにわたるbookには、9リリースのアートワークのビジュアル・リミックスをフィーチャー。さらに、これまでにコラボレートした、そしてこれからコラボレートする可能性のある国内外のアーティスト42名によるアートワークを収録。このblogでは参加アーティストのインスピレーションや制作過程を見ることで、ブックの体験をさらに深めることができる。
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