Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT) provides opportunities for creative talent to undertake new projects and makes those processes accessible to the public, facilitating forms of artistic expression, exploration and action that can change Tokyo for the better. ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! creates a whirlwind of co-creation on a special stage powered by renewable energy!
A platform for “civic creativity” from Tokyo
CCBT is a platform for “civic creativity” from Tokyo where citizens identify various social issues and engage in co-creation/development projects to overcome such challenges. Emphasis is placed on civic creativity, aiming to co-create a better society along with residents in Tokyo by combining creativity and technology.
CCBT will hold the Electromagnetic Street Bon Dance Festival, featuring ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS!, a collaboration of artists, which was selected for the 2023 CCBT artist fellowship initiative Art Incubation Program for its theme of “Platforms that are socially engaging or participatory for members of the public, such as hackathons and workshops”.
With labs in five cities in Japan and an online presence, ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! is known for its participatory art projects, and created and presented a new performance, the Electromagnetic Matsuri Parade, featuring a newly made Generator Festival Float powered by renewable energy, and the Electromagnetic Festival Music Troupe playing musical instruments modified from old household appliances. At CCBT, open studios and workshops were held so various people can collaborate in order to build new kinds of festival floats, instruments and music. The result is a contemporary, collaborative space where many different fields merge, from music to art, engineering, science and design. Electromagnetic Street Bon Dance Festival is the special version of this project!
Please note: Due to the circumstances of the festival, it is not possible to use the power supply from the solar-powered storage batteries on the stage.
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Electromagnetic Street Bon Dance Festival
ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! (JP)
Led by artist Ei Wada, this project brings together various collaborators to reinvent unused electrical appliances into new electromagnetic musical instruments. Through the ingenuity of the participants, the original functions of electrical appliances are reconfigured for musical purposes, creating new fantasies day by day.
Civic Creative Base Tokyo (JP)
Under the vision “co-creative transformation of Tokyo”, Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT) operates as a base of activity for creative social experimentation in the city. Through art and technology, CCBT aims to transform the city by inspiring people’s creativity and accumulating new values born from the intersections of different people.
Credit
Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Supported by: EcoFlow Europe s.r.o.
