Curate Award 2014 The competition recognises that we are all curators. Everything we choose and collect to surround us has meaning. Great curatorial expressions and ideas on how to exhibit can be communicated in all artistic forms and media, by anyone, whether in the art world or not. Participation in the competition is not limited to aspiring or established curators; anyone with a great concept is encouraged to enter.

A world-renowned jury will judge ideas on their creativity and social importance, rewarding those with a contemporary and culturally relevant point of view. They will be looking for an exemplary exhibition that is both far-sighted and critical of the future. The jury will select 20 finalists from which the overall winner will be decided.

• A Fuego, Rodrigo Orrantia Gómez, Colombia
• An Informal Settlement, Claire Breukel, USA
• Camping Park, Rodrigo Vilhena, Portugal
• Collapsed City, Nacho Ruiz, Spain
• Continuity – Syrian City Paintings, Róza El-Hassan, Syria
• Copyleft, Liping Xiang, China
• Directly Mild, Maria Loizidou, Cyprus
• Eating Habits, Alice Liechtenstein, Austria
• Epigenetic Space, John-Paul Pryor and Alessandra Cianchetta, UK
• Erase, Federico Pepe, Italy
• Extinct in the Wild, Michael Wang, USA
• metaPhorest, Habu Kazuhito and Yuki Yoshioka, Japan
• Mutterzunge, Misal Adnan Yıldız, Turkey
• Outlives, José Arispe, Bolivia
• Picasso in my casa, Svenja Wichmann and Anna Bründl, Germany
• Ready Meals, Cedar Lewisohn and Mike Knowlden, UK
• S.F.C. – The Short Future City, A12, Italy
• The Border, Evelyn Simons, Belgium
• The Power of Words Exhibition, Omneya Kilany and Nabil Al Nashar, Qatar
• The Reader Digested, Matthew Claudel, Carlo Ratti and Gianluigi Ricuperati, USA

Project “Revital HgS” and “Time Poiesis” and “3rd Nature – Post-nuclear Landscape #01 Moss Matrix Printer”

installed @ Open Space 2013 : BioAesthetics Open Lab,  NTT ICC (Inter Communication Center)

metaPhorest (Waseda University BioAesthetics Platform)

metaPhorest, a platform for experimentation, research and production in the realm of “life” themed art/aesthetics (bio art, bio media art, biological art, bioaesthetics) in reference to developments in bioscience and the theory of life，was installed in 2007 in a biological laboratory at the Center for Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Waseda University.

It provides opportunities for artists and designers with an interest in artistic expression focusing on aspects of life, to stay and work for relatively long periods of time at the scene of bioscientific research, while sharing experimental facilities and seminars with scientists. The main emphasis of their endeavors is on multilateral research and expression of the connection between arts and sciences revolving around life, along with the respective social, intellectual and cultural foundations, carried out through active exchange with artists and researchers in Japan and abroad．

This exhibition introduces in four consecutive parts the achievements of two artists each that currently or recently stayed and worked at metaPhorest. An open laboratory is planned to be set up during the exhibition period for visitors to observe the artists’ production and experimentation.

*The title “metaPhorest” carries multiple connotations, such as “metaphor + forest,” “meta-forest,” and “super-metaphor.”

#01
Date: May 25 – August 3, 2013 [Finished]
IWASAKI Hideo “Culturing <Paper>cut” 2013
IWASAKI Hideo + SAITO Hanna “CyanoBonsai Project” 2007–, reproduced in 2013
SAITO Hanna “ManMade Cocoons” 2012–

#02
Date: August 6 – October 14, 2013 [Finished]
ISHIBASHI Tomoya “Goldfish Liberation Movement” 2012–
ISHIBASHI Tomoya + YOSHIOKA Yuki “Revital HgS” 2013
Juan M. CASTRO “HELIOTROPIKA” 2011

#03
Date: October 16 – December 23, 2013 [Finished]
HORIE Toshiyuki “ZURE-MOKUGYO” 2010
HORIE Toshiyuki “Standing while being interposed” 2013
NAKAMURA Kyoko ‘Development of multinaturalistic idea by Japanese painting – Its practice, transition and detour’
NAKAMURA Kyoko “Ring the Bear” 2012

#04
Date: December 25, 2013 – March 2, 2014 [Finished]
IWASAKI Hideo + Oron CATTS + Juan M. CASTRO “Biogenic Timestamp” project 2010-
BCL (TREMMEL Georg + FUKUHARA Shiho) + AKABANE Kyo (Generative Idea Flow) + KIMURA (TASKO inc.) + SATO Masaki (TASKO inc.) + YOSHIOKA Yuki “3rd Nature – Post-nuclear Landscape #01 Moss Matrix Printer [Work in Progress]” 2013
YOSHIOKA Yuki + SAITO Hanna “Time-poiesis | N1 Cyanobacteria” 2013
SAITO Hanna “Blue-blue green is green” 2013
BCL | Georg Tremmel, Shiho Fukuhara “Common Flowers / White Out [In Progress]”