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「Don’t Follow the Wind」は、長期にわたる国際展だ。この展覧会は、2011年の福島第一原子力発電所の事故後、放射能に汚染された帰還困難区域内で行われており、住民が、住居、土地、コミュニティーから引き離された場所といえる。そして、12組の参加アーティストによる新作が、元住民から貸し出された4カ所の建物に設置された。そこは、すべて原発事故の災害の直後に避難をさせられた場所。したがって展覧会は、一般の立ち入りができない地域のため、開催中だが見に行くことができない。封鎖が解除される「未来」が来たとき、初めて鑑賞が可能となる。
2011-
“Don’t Follow the Wind” is a long-term international exhibition. It takes place inside the restricted Fukushima Exclusion Zone - the area that was evacuated in the wake of the 2011 disaster due to radiation contamination near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, separating residents from their homes, land, and community. New works developed by participating 12 artists have been installed in the zone at four sites that were lent by former residents, all of which are contaminated and were evacuated immediately after the disaster. As the zone remains inaccessible to the public, the exhibition will be ongoing but largely invisible, only to be viewed in the future, if and when the ban on entering the area is being lifted.

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Don’t Follow The Wind: A Walk in Fukushima 2016
Don't Follow The Wind: Non-Vistor Center 2015
Don't Follow the Wind: オフィシャルカタログ 2015
Don’t Follow The Wind: A Walk in Fukushima 2016
Don't Follow The Wind: Non-Vistor Center 2015
Don't Follow the Wind: Official catalog 2015

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Don’t Follow The Wind: A Walk in FukushimaDon’t Follow The Wind: A Walk in Fukushima
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Don't Follow the Wind: A Walk in Fukushima
20th Biennale of Sydney, Carriageworks
18 March 2016 – 5 June 2016

The curatorial collective of Don't Follow the Wind developed a 360 degree video, A Walk in Fukushima, to make visible some of the inaccessible, irradiated sites of the exhibition inside the Fukushima exclusion zone, however the artworks in the project remain unseen, obscured by bodies of the artists and curators. The video includes the account of a displaced resident whose home is heavily contaminated and his ambivalence about having worked for TEPCO the power company which own the nuclear plant that had a meltdown. The video was displayed inside headsets made by the mother, father and grandmother of artist Bontaro Dokuyama who all live in Fukushima near the exclusion zone in an area deemed 'safe' for inhabitation but the low level contamination has radically changed their everyday way of life. They constructed the headset with objects based on their present needs and desire to find a more ordinary life in the future. As part of the installation decontaminated furniture from an unopened cafe on one of the sites of Don't Follow the Wind in the zone, which was planning to hold its grand opening on 8 April 2011 but has been postponed indefinitely due to the disaster.
  • A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360度ビデオ、ヘッドセット、福島の家具、オーストラリアのウラニウム、地図
    ヘッドセットの制作協力:毒山凡太朗
    「第20回シドニー・ビエンナーレ」の委託で制作したインスタレーション(キャリッジワークス、シドニー)
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360 degree video, headsets, cafe furniture from Fukushima, Australian uranium, maps
    Support: Bontaro Dokuyama.
    installation commissioned by the 20th Biennale of Sydney view at Carriageworks
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee

  • A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360度ビデオ、ヘッドセット、福島の家具、オーストラリアのウラニウム、地図
    ヘッドセットの制作協力:毒山凡太朗
    「第20回シドニー・ビエンナーレ」の委託で制作したインスタレーション(キャリッジワークス、シドニー)
    撮影:Zan Wimberley
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360 degree video, headsets, cafe furniture from Fukushima, Australian uranium, maps
    Support: Bontaro Dokuyama.
    installation commissioned by the 20th Biennale of Sydney view at Carriageworks
    Photo: Zan Wimberley
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee

  • A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360度ビデオ、ヘッドセット、福島の家具、オーストラリアのウラニウム、地図
    ヘッドセットの制作協力:毒山凡太朗
    「第20回シドニー・ビエンナーレ」の委託で制作したインスタレーション(キャリッジワークス、シドニー)
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360 degree video, headsets, cafe furniture from Fukushima, Australian uranium, maps
    Support: Bontaro Dokuyama.
    installation commissioned by the 20th Biennale of Sydney view at Carriageworks
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee

  • A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360度ビデオ、ヘッドセット、福島の家具、オーストラリアのウラニウム、地図
    ヘッドセットの制作協力:毒山凡太朗
    「第20回シドニー・ビエンナーレ」の委託で制作したインスタレーション(キャリッジワークス、シドニー)
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360 degree video, headsets, cafe furniture from Fukushima, Australian uranium, maps
    Support: Bontaro Dokuyama.
    installation commissioned by the 20th Biennale of Sydney view at Carriageworks
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee

  • A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360度ビデオ、ヘッドセット、福島の家具、オーストラリアのウラニウム、地図
    ヘッドセットの制作協力:毒山凡太朗
    「第20回シドニー・ビエンナーレ」の委託で制作したインスタレーション(キャリッジワークス、シドニー)
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360 degree video, headsets, cafe furniture from Fukushima, Australian uranium, maps
    Support: Bontaro Dokuyama.
    installation commissioned by the 20th Biennale of Sydney view at Carriageworks
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee

  • A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360度ビデオ、ヘッドセット、福島の家具、オーストラリアのウラニウム、地図
    ヘッドセットの制作協力:毒山凡太朗
    「第20回シドニー・ビエンナーレ」の委託で制作したインスタレーション(キャリッジワークス、シドニー)
    撮影:Leïla Joy
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    A Walk in Fukushima
    2016
    360 degree video, headsets, cafe furniture from Fukushima, Australian uranium, maps
    Support: Bontaro Dokuyama.
    installation commissioned by the 20th Biennale of Sydney view at Carriageworks
    Photo: Leïla Joy
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee


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Don't Follow The Wind: Non-Vistor CenterDon't Follow The Wind: Non-Vistor Center
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Don't Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center
Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
19 September 2015 – 3 November 2015

A traveling exhibition related the ongoing inaccessible exhibition Don't Follow the Wind, taking place inside the restricted Fukushima exclusion zone. As there is no clear timeline for public access to the sites in Fukushima, perhaps 5 years, 10 years, or decades - a period of time that could stretch beyond our lifetime, the Non-Visitor Center is a migrating outpost curated by Chim↑Pom, Kenji Kubota, Eva and Franco Mattes and Jason Waite. The Non-Visitor Center included an Information Counter designed by Tsubasa Kato staffed by former residents from Fukushima. The main section was the Interpretation Station which an inaccessible exhibition inside of Watari that could only be seen by climbing scaffolding and looking through a window into the gallery which contained new related works to the projects in Fukushima developed by the 12 participating artists. Filmmaker Sion Sono created an installation around a discussion between the participating artists, also included in the show live streaming camera feeds from Fukushima and archival material from the project.



Non-Visitor Centers List (as of 31 December 2021)

2021
16 September 2021 - 17 December 2021: “Mutable Ecologies: Tracing Changing Environments”, curated by Kristen Sharp, Philip Samartzis, Andrew Tetzlaff, at RMIT University, Melbourne

20 February 2021 - 9 May 2021: “Artists and the Disaster: Imagining in the 10th Year”, curated by Takehisa You, at Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito

2020
17 July 2020 - 8 November 2020: “Disruptive Matter”, curated by Anouchka van Driel, K11 Art Foundation, K11 Art Space, Shenyang

30 October 2020 - 8 November 2020: “Microwave International New Media Arts Festival”, curated by Kwong Kai-Ling, at Hong Kong City Hall

17 January 2020 - 16 February 2020: “Disruptive Matter”, curated by Anouchka van Driel, K11 Art Foundation, HK HACC, Hong Kong

2019
19 April 2019 - 13 July 2019: “Non-Visitor Center”, curated by Jason Waite, at Art in General, New York

23 March 2019 - 30 June 2019: “Deadly Affairs”, curated by Antonia Alampi, at Kunstahal Extra City, Antwerpt

2018
6 September 2018 - 8 December 2018: “Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape”, curated by Jannie Lamensdorf and Joan Liner, University of Buffalo Art Gallery

31 August - 29 September 2018: “Climates of Change”, curated by Pippa Koszerek, MKH-Biennale, Halberstand, Germany

12 July 2018 - 4 November 2018: “I Say Yesterday, You Hear Tomorrow. Visions from Japan”, curated by Suzanna Petot, Fondazione Benetton, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy

24 February 2018 - 26 August 2018: “Perpetual Uncertainty”, curated by Ele Carpenter, Malmo Konstmuseum

3 February 2018 - 18 March 2018: “The Dictionary of Evil”, Gangwon International Biennale 2018, curated by Hong Kyoung-han, Yoo Lee, Cho Sook-hyun, Lee Soon-suk, at Gangneung Green City Experience Center, Gangneung, South Korea

2017
27 October - 12 November 2017: “A Walk in Fukushima”, curated by Don’t Follow the Wind, CCCB - Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona

4 August 2017 - 5 November 2017: “Islands, Constellations & Galapagos”, Yokohama Triennale 2017, curated by Eriko Osaka, Akiko Miki, Tomoh Kashiwagi, at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1

21 September 2017 - 24 September 2017: Abandon Normal Devices Festival, curated by Gaby Jenks, at Castleton, Peak District National Park, UK

26 May 2017 - 2 July 2017: “If only radiation had color. The Era of Fukushima” curated by Jacob Lillemose, Kenji Kubota, Jason Waite, at X and Beyond, Copenhagen

19 May 2017 - 15 July 2017: “Don’t Follow the Wind”, curated by Don’t Follow the Wind, Arts Catalyst, London

2 May 2017 - 14 May 2017: Fast Forward Festival 4, Onassis Cultural Centre, curated by Katia Arfara at Acropol Hotel, Athens

16 April 2017: Art in General: “A Walk in Fukushima”, curated by Laurel Ptak, at Art in General, New York

12-16 April 2017: “Don’t Follow the Wind Camp”, curated by Ian Alden Russel, at David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence

2 October 2016 - 16 April 2017: “Perpetual Uncertainty”, curated by Ele Carpenter, at Bildmuseet, Umea

2016
24 September 2016 - 30 October 2016: Beijing Media Art Biennale, curated by Fan Di’an, Wang Jianqi, Bernd Kracke, Su Xinpin, Song Xiewei at The China Millennium Monument, Beijing

4 May 2016 - 21 August 2016: “Matter Fictions”, curated by Margarida Mendes, at Berardo Collection, Lisbon

18 March 2016 - 5 June 2016: “The Future is Already Here – It's Just Not Evenly Distributed”, 20th Biennale of Sydney, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, Carriageworks, Sydney

2015
18 December 2015 - 28 December 2015: “The Medium of the Spirit”, Takamatsu Media Art Festival, curated by Naohiro Ukawa, Takamatsu

19 September 2015 - 3 November 2015: “Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center” curated by Chim Pom, Kenji Kubota, Eva and Franco Mattes, Jason Waite, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

28 February 2015 - 29 March 2015: “The Radiants”, curated by Ei Arakawa, Bortolami X Green Tea Gallery, New York City.


  • 展示風景:「Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center」(2022年)
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    Installation view: “Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center” (2022)
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee

  • 展示風景:「Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center」(ワタリウム美術館、東京、2015年)
    撮影:森田兼次
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    Installation view: “Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center” (Watari-Um Museum, Tokyo, 2015)
    Photo: Kenji Morita
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee

  • 展示風景:「Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center」(ワタリウム美術館、東京、2015年)
    撮影:森田兼次
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    Installation view: “Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center” (Watari-Um Museum, Tokyo, 2015)
    Photo: Kenji Morita
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee

  • 展示風景:「Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center」(ワタリウム美術館、東京、2015年)
    撮影:森田兼次
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    Installation view: “Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center” (Watari-Um Museum, Tokyo, 2015)
    Photo: Kenji Morita
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee

  • 展示風景:「Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center」(ワタリウム美術館、東京、2015年)
    撮影:森田兼次
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    Installation view: “Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center” (Watari-Um Museum, Tokyo, 2015)
    Photo: Kenji Morita
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee

  • 展示風景:「Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center」(ワタリウム美術館、東京、2015年)
    撮影:森田兼次
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    Installation view: “Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center” (Watari-Um Museum, Tokyo, 2015)
    Photo: Kenji Morita
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee

  • 展示風景:「Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center」(ワタリウム美術館、東京、2015年)
    撮影:森田兼次
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee
    Installation view: “Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center” (Watari-Um Museum, Tokyo, 2015)
    Photo: Kenji Morita
    Courtesy of the artist and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee


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Don't Follow the Wind: オフィシャルカタログDon't Follow the Wind: Official catalog
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  • Don't Follow the Wind: オフィシャルカタログ Don't Follow the Wind: Official catalog
    椹木野衣・Chim↑Pom・Don’t Follow the Wind実行委員会 編、河出書房新社co-edited by Noi Sawaragi and Chim↑Pom and Don’t Follow the Wind Committee, Kawade Shobo Shinsha

  • Don’t Follow the Wind, edited by Nikolaus Hirsch and Jason WaiteDon’t Follow the Wind, edited by Nikolaus Hirsch and Jason Waite
    Publisher: Sternberg PressPublisher: Sternberg Press