Urban Haiku / Art
Gilles Gabriel Grassioulet & Optical Sisters ,Switzerland & Tokyo

The workshop is sculpting a platform for eclectic participants to explore various fields such as walking, drawing, video shooting, editing, poetry, VJ and experiencing.

What does it means to walk in Shimokitazawa in the context of this new road planning? and to creating poetical paths? We will discover the anthropological aspect of the physical, historical, religious, political, poetical and artistical action of walking. Referring to people like “the Apes”, Basho, Jean Jacques Rousseau, the Sadhus, Werner Herzog, Jonas Mekas, Hamish Fulton, the situationists, political protestors and others, we will bring this action into consciousness and meanings by walking:

1. the government redevelopment planning which may become an archive document.

2. collected words, which will allow us to consider alternative urban poetical planning.

All the footage filmed by the participant will be edited by them later on and will be projected during the Urban Typhoon workshop party by using VJ equipment. It means that the walk will become a dance of celebration, an urban ritual for expressing all together the creative spirit of Shimokitazawa.