"What's really going on, what we're experiencing, the rest, all the rest, where is it? How should we take account of question, describe what happens every day and recurs every day: the banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the habitual?"

- Georges Perec, Approaches to What? (1973)

For this event "Approaches to What?", we will produce a collectively built library in the art institution, Asahi Art Square and transform the institution into temporary emancipated space that aims to be something in-between school, kitchen and library. While reading a book from the collective library, you will sit around a table and talk together with guests and other participants. This dialogical practice is an exercise to alter the relationship between artist/spectator, teacher/student, author/reader, seller/buyer and host/guest.

Date: 3 September 2011 (Saturday)

Place: Asashi Art Square, at Asakusa, Tokyo

Access: http://asahiartsquare.org/?page_id=14

Opening Time: 13:00-21:00

Entrance fee: Free

Guests:

Kensaku Kato (Designer), Ayumu Saito (Editor), Daijiro Ohara (Designer), Hiroshi Eguchi (Utrecht), Satoru Ito (Architect), Ayako Osanai (Designer / Curator), Mitsuru Koga (Artist), Yasuhiro Fukubayashi (Librarian), Koichi Yanagimoto (Community Director), Yoshiyuki Morioka (Morioka Shoten), Akihiro Nishizawa (Branding desinger), Akihiro Kumagaya (Designer), Kunio Nakamura (6 Jigen), Tomoki Imai (Photographer), Takeshi Yamagishi (Photographer), affice (Curator), assistant (Architect), Shigeyuki Ujihara (Kawaguchi Media Seven), Futoshi Miyagi (Artist), Katsutoshi Yuasa (Artist), Masato Takahashi (Architect), Kazuto Kobayashi (Roundabout/Outbound), Makoto Tanijiri (Architect), BOOKLET (Press & Library), ET AL., ETC. (Strategies)

Contributors:

Kiyonori Muroga (IDEA), Motoyuki Shitamichi (Artist), Yo Ooe（Bioclothical Labo）Daijiro Mizuno (Fashion researcher), Kozo Kadowaki (Architect), Hiroko Myokan (Curator), Yasuo Totsuka (Designer), Lucas B.B. (Editor), Erika Kobayashi (Illustrator, Manga artist, Novelist), Nakako Hayashi (Editor), Jitsuko Takei (PAPIER LABO.), Yuu Takehisa (Curator), Hiroyuki Hattori (Curator), Fumio Inoue (CAMP), Daishiro Mori (Designer) / Takahiro Shibata (Editor)

Twitter：http://twitter.com/app_de_quoi

Organised by: So Hashizume, Toshimasa Kimura, Takashi Kato & Toshiaki Koga.

Host: Asahi Art Square

Cooperation: Asahi Breweries, Ltd.

Image: Sampled from "Design as Art" by Bruno Munari (Pelican)