Showcase
SIDE CORE: Shin Road
Overview
CCBT marks its relocation and reopening in Harajuku with a special exhibition by the artist collective SIDE CORE. SIDE CORE has partnered with CCBT in a range of ways since CCBT’s first opening in Shibuya, including as one of the 2022 artist fellows. Through these creative activities, the collective has pioneered a new model of collaboration at CCBT. Drawing on the ideas and history of street culture, SIDE CORE’s practice uses forms of movement to constantly crisscross and connect various boundaries between different values, cultures, and even social institutions. Roads are the physical links with such boundaries. They create intersections between Tokyo and other regions, and also form the foundation for different cultures to circulate. With a focus on new works produced by SIDE CORE in collaboration with CCBT, this exhibition shares SIDE CORE’s daily activities and practices, and also includes a related event. In this way, it opens up new roads that connect CCBT’s Harajuku location with other cities. Further information about the exhibition will be released at a later date.
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SIDE CORE
Featuring Takasu Sakie, Matsushita Tohru, and Nishihiro Taishi, SIDE CORE launched in 2012. Harimoto Kazunori also participates in the collective as a video director. SIDE CORE create works based on the question of how an individual can go about sending messages in the city and public space, by referencing the ideas and history behind street culture. They sometimes collaborate with artists working in other genres to create a variety of works in the blind spots and interstices of the city. Recent major exhibitions include “Living road, Living space” (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, 2025), “SIDE CORE｜Concrete Planet” (WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art and outdoor, Tokyo, 2024), “Hyakunengo Art Festival” (Chiba, 2024), “8th Yokohama Triennale “Wild Grass: Our Lives”” (Kanagawa, 2024).
