工芸プレス Prior to the event, we are looking for creators who are motivated to be bound by existing values.
Application Guidelines and Outline of The Event
EXHIBITION
Photo TADA（YUKAI）
The EXHIBITION division has introduced a total of 2,226 up-and-coming creators so far. Paintings, illustrations, three-dimensional installations, graphic design, photography, film and video, media art, engineering, performance and other works that are not bound by existing genres will be exhibited for three days in a booth × 1,650 mm wide × 1,650 mm × 2,400 mm high.
Application
period
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 – Thursday, February 17, 2022
【Web Application】Please accept by the application form until 20:00 (Japan time) on Thursday, February 17, 2022
【Application by mail】After registering the application form, examination materials must be received by Thursday, February 17, 2022
Eligibility
・ Regardless of nationality, age, or work genre.
・ Be able to be stationed at the venue during the exhibition.
Individuals or groups.
How to apply
Please register the necessary information such as artists and works on the application form, upload the exhibition plan and past work images on the SICF web, or mail them to the SICF Secretariat.
Examination results
The results of the screening will be notified by e-mail in early March 2022. Exhibitors will also announce on the SICF web in mid-March.
Those who pass the screening will berequired to exhibit atSICF 23.
session
Schedule A : May 3 -5, 2022[50 groups] 11:00-20:00
Schedule B : Friday, May 6 – Sunday, May 8, 2022 [50 pairs] 11:00-20:00
* The first day of each schedule, May 3 (Tuesday, national holiday) and 6 (Friday) start at 12:00. The last day of each schedule, Thursday, 5th (holiday) and 8th (Sunday) close at 18:00.
The date and time of installation/removal are as follows.
Schedule A: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 7:00-11:30 / Removal: Thursday, May 5, 2022 18:00 – 20:00
Schedule B: Setting: Friday, May 6, 2022 7:00-11:30 / Removal: Sunday, May 8 18:00 – 20:00
meeting place
Spiral Hall (Spiral 3F)
5-6-23 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Chiyoda Line, Hanzomon Line “Omotesando” Station B1, B3 exits
Announcement of winners
Sunday, May 8, 2022, 8:00 p.m. (tentative)
Exhibition fee
/
3
days
¥47,000 (tax included) [Power usage fee] ¥11,000 (tax included) ※Up to 1500W
* The exhibition fee will be transferred after passing the screening and when you decide to participate. Applications are free of charge.
* If a power supply is required for the work itself, including electrical equipment such as PCs, the above power supply fee will be charged.
Booth size
50 exhibition booths will be set up in Spiral Hall.
Width 1,650 mm × Depth 1,650 mm × Height 2,400 mm Exhibition wall color: White
Exhibition Conditions
Spiral Hall (Spiral 3F) is an admission fee area.
・ If you sell a work, you will be charged a fee of 15% of the price. You will be asked to ship your work by yourself.
Award
Grand Prix
Held a solo exhibition at the atrium, a space that symbolizes spirals (production subsidy fee: 500,000 yen)
Introduction on spiral web
Semi-Grand Prix / Judge’s Award / Audience Award / Daily Art Award
Exhibiting at SICF23 Winners Exhibition
* The Daily Art Award is selected by Spiral, which is awarded to art works that are easy to incorporate into everyday life.
judge
Natsumi Araki/Curator, Associate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts
Shinji Ohmaki/ Artist
Ikuko Kato/Spiral Curator
In addition, the judges will notify you on the SICF web as soon as it is decided.
MARKET
Photo TADA（YUKAI）
Spiral proposes to create a more artistic way of living, eating, and pretending to live, eat, and dress under the theme of “fusion of life and art.” In the MARKET section, creators who produce works that enrich people’s lives, such as crafts/crafts, products, and hoods, will exhibit and sell for three days by combining a designated exhibition stand with a wall with a width of 1,500 mm and a height of 2,400 mm.
Application
period
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 – Thursday, February 17, 2022
【Web Application】Please accept by the application form until 20:00 (Japan time) on Thursday, February 17, 2022
【Application by mail】By Thursday, February 17, 2022, by the application form, examination materials must be received.
Eligibility
・ Regardless of nationality, age, or work genre.
・ Be able to reside at the venue for 3 days during the exhibition.
Individuals or groups. You can also exhibit with the name of the plan or shop.
・ Sell your work.
How to apply
Please register the necessary items such as artist and work information on the application form, upload the exhibition plan, exhibition work images, past works images on the web, or mail them to the SICF Secretariat.
Examination results
The results of the screening will be notified by e-mail in early March 2022. Exhibitors will also announce on the SICF web in mid-March.
Those who pass the screeningwill be required to exhibit at SICF2 3.
session
Schedule A: Tuesday, May 3 – Thursday, May 5, 2022 11:00-20:00
Schedule B: Friday, May 6 – Sunday, May 8, 2022 11:00-20:00
* 35 groups for each schedule are scheduled. However, it is subject to change.
* The first day of each schedule, May 3 (Tuesday, national holiday) and 6 (Friday) start at 12:00.
The date and time of installation/removal are as follows.
Schedule A: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 7:30-11:00 / Removal: Thursday, May 5, 20:00 – 22:00
Schedule B: Setting: Thursday, May 6, 2022 7:30-11:00 / Removal: Sunday, May 8 20:00 – 22:00
meeting place
Spiral Garden (Spiral 1F)
5-6-23 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Chiyoda Line, Hanzomon Line “Omotesando” Station B1, B3 exits
Exhibition fee
/
3
days
¥ 55,000 (tax included) [Power usage fee] ¥5,000 (tax included) ※Up to 500W
* The exhibition fee will be transferred after passing the screening and when you decide to participate. Applications are free of charge.
* If a power supply is required for the work itself, including electrical equipment such as PCs, the above power supply fee will be charged.
Booth size
Exhibition stand (counter):
[A] Width 1,500 mm × Depth 600 mm × Height 900 mm
[B] Width 1,500 mm × Depth 600 mm × Height 700 mm
* You can choose between A and B.
Exhibition wall: Width 1,500 mm × Height 2,400 mm
The color of the exhibition stand and the exhibition wall: White
Exhibition Conditions
Spiral Garden (Spiral 1F) is a free admission area.
・ Works will be sold at the collective cash register in the venue. A sales fee of 20% of the price will be charged.
Award
Grand Prix
Held a solo exhibition at Spiral Entrance (production subsidy fee 300,000 yen)
Selling works on spiral online store
Introduction on spiral web
・ Judge’s Award / Best Sales Award / Audience Award
Exhibition and sale of works at Spiral
judge
Eriko Kawabuchi/ Representative of Bunka Hoshijin, LLC
Masaru Suzuki/ Textile Designer
Sunari Hayashiguchi / Producer, Toyama Prefecture Seibu Kankosha
Naoko Nishimura/ Spiral, Product Manager, Merchandise Division, Sales Department
Contact SICF Secretariat 03-3498-1171 (Spiral Representative)
Application Form https://www.sicf.jp/entry/
Organizer : Wacoal Art Center Co., Ltd.
Planning and production : Spiral
Cooperation : CLIP, Stage Four Co., Ltd.
Art Direction : WALTZ. LLC
Jury Comments
EXHIBITION
Natsumi Araki Curator, Associate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts
All expression activities are not made up of the expression person alone. See, listen, buy, fund, mentor, criticize, spread… We need the attention and support of all people around expression. I want the expressionr to always be open to others to the outside world. SICF, where people across genres and attributes gather, will be a unique opportunity to connect expressors and society. I’m hoping for a fresh encounter.
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Associate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts. Curator and art critic. Graduated from Keio University Faculty of Letters and University of Leicester Museum Studies. After working as a curator at the Mitaka Arts Foundation (1994-2002) and the Mori Art Museum (2003-2018), he has been in his current position since 2018. Exhibitions “They Sing” (2020) and “Where Is It?” (2021) were held at the Tokyo University of the Arts Museum Chen Exhibition Hall. While focusing on the activities of young artists, including university students, he is developing activities to explore the relationship between contemporary art and society.
Photo paul barbera ／where they create
Shinji Ohmaki, Artist
Following on from last year, we decided to do the second screening. I feel that spiral competitions are competitions that allow you to present and exhibit freely in a wide range of competitions. The exhibition space is limited, but I expect works that have the potential to develop one after another from there, rather than works that end in that space. Regardless of age, I hope that you will be able to meet works that make you feel more freedom of expression. I look forward to the opportunity to talk to you.
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Born in Gifu City in 1971. He attempts to create a physical space-time to approach the ambiguous and elusive “existence” and develops production activities. The main works are “Liminal Air space-time” (2011-), which visualizes the disappearance of materiality and the irrationality of self-originality by floating soft cloth, “Echoes Infinity” (2002 ~), a work that composes patterns and letters with various backgrounds to create a vivid color space as a memory of the place, Memorial, a work that attempts to regenerate the place and memory by a large amount of soap bubbles
Rebirth” (2008〜) and the like. His main exhibitions include “Simple Form: Where Does Beauty Come from” Mori Art Museum (2016), “Liminal Air Fluctuation – existence” Hermes Sable Store (Paris) (2015), “Louis Vuitton 2016-17 FW PARIS MEN’S COLLECTION” André Citroën Park, Paris, “Proof of Existence” Hakone Open Air Museum (2012), “Asia Pacific Triennale 2009” Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane), “Aichi Triennale 2016: Rainbow Caravan Sarai”, “Yokohama Triennale 2008”, etc. He has received the 8th Enku Prize (2015), the 27th Takashimaya Art Award (2016), etc.
Ikuko Kato Spiral Curator
From this year, the Exhibition Division Grand Prix was honored as a solo exhibition at the atrium, a space that symbolizes spirals. SICF23 is an exhibition for each booth, but there will be a need for the necessity to present “this work here and now”. On the other hand, SICF is not only a competition, but also a place to meet many customers. I hope that SICF will open up to society and constantly evolve, creating rich activities that are not bound by existing methods of expression and genre.
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After completing his master’s degree at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo, he joined Spiral/ Wacoal Art Center Co., Ltd. After working as a gallery director, chief, manager, etc., he assumed his current position. Based on the planning and production of exhibitions centered on contemporary art, he is also in charge of developing new programs in the museum. His major exhibitions are Kento Ko kanazawa exhibition “Smoke’s Future” (2016), “Rhizomatiks 10” (2017), ascending Art Annual series “Supakata-tai – ‘Uniqueness and My Imagination’ ( 2017), “Festival, Matsuru” (2018), “Uta No Uta Life, Unshin” (2019).
MARKET
Photo Masayuki Hayashi
Eriko Kawabuchi, Representative, Cultural Alien, LLC
Living with attractive things enriches your life. It is time with the thing which touches the heartstrings which exceeds such a standard such as high quality or convenience.
As lifestyles are changing dramatically with changes in the social environment, there is a growing need to enhance daily life. We look forward to creations that will bring you a new life in the future, with ideas, aesthetics, poems and humor unique to everyone.
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He is involved in planning and creating places on the theme of design and manufacturing, such as “Tokyo Designer’s Block” and “Setagaya Monozukuri School” at lifestyle brand IDIE. He became director in 2006. Promote the “Life in Art” project, which proposes to enjoy art in everyday life. Established Bunka Hoshi in 2018. With the theme of making cultural stars (earth) rich with the power of creativity, he is active in the fields of lifestyle, art, and social.
Photo Akihide Mishima
Masaru Suzuki Textile Designer
I think that it is this market division that the expression of the author is linked to commercial value in some form and established as a thing. However, the product power and quality of the thing are of course very important, but I was keenly aware in the last examination that the person who sees that it is made to present a new way of thinking and the ideal form in the present world cannot resist the charm. I think that the current market requires proposals that have commercial value but incorporate the author’s unique perspectives and thoughts. I am looking forward to meeting such things from now on.
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He has hosted fabric brand OTTAIPNU since 2004. Focusing on colorful printed fabrics, we have developed a collection full of charm that the fabric originally has. In addition to his own brand, he also released textile products from various brands in Japan and overseas, such as Marimekko, Camper and UNIQLO. In addition to textiles, we are developing designs centered on pattern design for various scenes such as furniture and architectural spaces.
Sandori Hayashiguchi Water and Takumi Producer, Toyama Prefecture Western Tourism Company
In order to cope with the rapid population growth of humankind, the machinery industry capable of mass production was indispensable, but I think that the creators of today’s overflowing world are in a different situation where they have to seriously think about “what we will make in the future”. That’s why it’s shallow to say that you don’t make things, and I think that the joy of living with “beautiful things” will feed your heart. I would like to think together with the creators through SICF what is “beautiful things” that move people’s hearts.
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After working at Tokyo Design Center and P3 art and environment, he became independent. He is involved in the planning and production of projects that connect a wide range of fields with contemporary art, music, design, Buddhism, and science. Since 2012, he has also been based in takaoka city, Toyama Prefecture, and has been working on the promotion of local manufacturing and community development, such as producing “craft hackathons” where traditional crafts and cutting-edge technologies meet.
Naoko Nishimura Spiral, Product Manager, Sales Department
This is the 23rd SICF. The market division newly established in 2021, thanks to the first time, various encounters were born thanks to you, and many works left the nest. The work that I worked on creates and colors someone’s daily life. I feel that the number of opportunities to experience pure pleasure proportional to the weight of responsibility directly has decreased recently. What kind of light does your work emit in a different environment than usual, and who will receive that thought? Please use SICF as a place to answer each other about future work creation.
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After working for an apparel manufacturer and interior shop, he joined Wacoal Art Center Co., Ltd. in 2004. After serving as a tableware buyer at Spiral Market and chief buyer of all stores, he has been in his current position since 2021. In addition to overseas buying mainly in Europe, he is involved in major MD operations in spiral market, such as planning and developing original products in collaboration with Japanese production areas. He is also engaged in creator support activities such as giving lectures on manufacturing for young artists. In 2012, he was an exhibition focusing on manufacturing, “× To Make = How to Be Born of Products” (2012).
Related Events
SICF23 Online Briefing Session
Sicf established a new division “MARKET” from the previous time, and ended with great success. At the briefing session, in addition to the outline of SICF23, we will hold a briefing session that will give you an explanation that understands the charm of SICF, such as the activities of creators that have expanded from “encounters” at SICF. Guests will be Ms. Yurina Shiomi, who won the Grand Prix at SICF14, and Ai Tsukazaki, who has been exhibiting at SICF 14 and 15 for two consecutive years, to talk about their collaboration with Spiral and their subsequent activities. We also conducted Q&A time including SICF23 judges Ikuko Kato (Spiral Curator) and Naoko Nishimura (Chief of Sales Division, Spiral Sales Department). If you want to know the charm of SICF or are hesitant to apply, please join us.
Re:
Thursday, January 6, 2022, 7:00pm- (about 60min)
Thursday, January 20, 2022, 7:00pm- (approximately 60min)
Participation is free. Held in Zoom webinar format. Advance application required.
URL : https://www.sicf.jp/information/sicf23-online
*On Thursday, January 6, Ai Tsukazaki (exhibited at SICF14 and 15) and Yurina Shiomi (SICF14 Grand Prix) will be guests on Thursday, January 20. Others will have the same content.
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