Applications for this course are now closed. Thank you very much for the many applications. We will inform all applicants of the selection results by email at a later date.
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NEW SCHOOL is a series of ongoing courses held at Art Center NEW.
By inviting experts from a wide range of fields as lecturers, we create a space and opportunities where each participant can discover something new about themselves through timely and essential themes.
This new place of learning is waiting for you to join.
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「For gazing your thought or imagination that arise in any various different time and place throughout the city. 」
In the city, there are countless places where people pass by, pause, and spend their time throughout the day. The images that cross your mind while taking a break at a café, the sense of strangeness or playfulness in a street corner sign, or the sudden impulses to try something when you are at work or at home—these moments of thought and sensation are what this course seeks to connect to the act of creation. By engaging with them through hands-on activities—either individually or collectively—you can carry these experiences with you, revisit them later, and transform them into new works and encounters. Five “Slices” of the City aims to cultivate this cycle of experience.
Over the course of five sessions, five instructors from diverse backgrounds—dancers, book artists, researchers, musicians, and visual artists—will each explore and “slice” the city through workshops and lectures in their own unique ways. Each practice reflects a different facet of the city, and when these perspectives overlap in this space, a singular image of the city emerges.
For the final project, all participants will present their work together at Art Center NEW through an exhibition, performance, or other forms of presentation. The level of difficulty is not high—whether you regularly create works, or simply have an interest in making things or in the city itself, we welcome you to join us.
Dates：2026. January〜2026.March 6 lectures (5 Workshops ＋1 recital / presentation）
Lecturer：Aokid、Kai Sato、zzzpeaker、Tomotoshi、Tomohiro Hikoe
Curation・Support：Fu Sakai
Venue：Art Center NEW Shin-Takashima Station 1-2-1 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 220-0012 ＆ around the city
Fee：¥20,000（Student：¥15,000）
Capacity：15
Please note that registration for this course will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Applications will be closed once the capacity is reached.
How to apply: Please fill out the required information in the application form at the bottom of this page and submit it with any attachments.
Application deadline: Saturday, December 20, 2025, 11:59 PM
1/16（Fri）19:00-22:00
Kai Sato First Icebreaking time ＋ Workshop “Documenting/Binding Urban Experiences”：Participants will turn personal experiences into a ZINE and bind it. The group will view each other’s work, highlighting the differences and unique perspectives.
1/30 （Fri）19:00-22:00
Tomohiro Hikoe Lecture+Workshop「Writting Poetry of the City」：Reinterpret the words found throughout the city poetically, and reconstruct the urban environment through language.
2/13 （Fri）19:00-22:00
Aokid Workshop ”Walking, Running, Dancing in the City”：Create a performance based on experiences of walking or running through the city, moving between the urban space and the stage.
2/27（Fri）19:00-22:00
zzzpeaker intensive lecture “Approaching Perspectives / Sharpening Your Senses”
Work with musician zzzpeaker, who performs street live shows daily, to explore and practice ways to create or act somewhere, somehow.
“The streets are always open and ventilated. What does it mean to die—here, simply put, how to “kick the bucket”? Walking raises your body temperature. Returning home is only possible for those with a house and a city. Things you can write, things you shouldn’t write, cardboard is fine.” — zzzpeaker
3/13（Sat）19:00-22:00
Workshop by Tomotoshi: “Evacuation Drill in the City”：Using random signals, participants will “rediscover” urban functions as forms of evacuation.
3/20（Fri）19:00-22:00
Final Project: “New Slices of the City”：Participants will present their work through exhibitions, performances, and lectures at Art Center NEW. (Preparation period beforehand included)
※Schedule is tentative and subject may be changed
Please complete and submit the required information below via the application form.
(Application deadline: December 20, 23:59)
Please note that applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration will close once the capacity is reached.
1 Name
2 Name (Furigana)
3 Phone number
4 Email address
5 General participant or student
6 Affiliation
7 Reason for participation
(+ If available, please attach materials that show your activities—such as a website, portfolio, or social media. If you don’t have any it is totally fine. Up to 10MB.)
He began breakdancing at the age of 14. Influenced by films such as WATER BOYS, he explored how to bring energy to school life through everyday activities and school festivals. After entering Tokyo Zokei University to study film, he became interested in art, culture, and eventually urban theory, and began creating work with friends through “parties” as a shared platform. Alongside his personal practice, he also connects with gatherings of diverse people—parties, performance art, and beyond.
Through work that weaves together experiences in public spaces in Tokyo, backpacking abroad, and activities within theatrical and exhibition spaces, he reflects on and compares Tokyo with other cities. He feels that, in this age of social media and tourism, cities are rapidly becoming more alike while simultaneously developing aspects that resist this sameness. He senses himself entering this tension and doing something within it.
Believing that some form of creation is a way to shape an unknown future, he hopes to continue exploring what can be made and what can emerge.
Born in 2000. Working across bookmaking and documentation, she engages in design, photography, editing, writing, and more. For her, bookmaking is a creative act, a means of collaborating with others, a way to remember what she feels and thinks each day, and sometimes simply something casual and self-indulgent. By making as many books as possible, she explores the many possible forms this practice can take. Since 2020, she has been involved in running the creative school “GAKU.”
Born on February 5, 1989, in Akaiwa City, Okayama Prefecture.
In 2010, he began performing solo with guitar and vocals (and still continues).
In 2011, he formed the band Teko no Genri (still ongoing).
In 2015, he appeared in the stage production Korubatontri directed by Nohzu Ameya (based on Sumito Yamashita’s Korubatontri) (he still occasionally performs in theater).
In 2018, he held a solo exhibition titled Performance at Iijima Shoten in Yokosuka-Chuo, organized by Kentaro Suzuki (Yamafutatsu) (he still sometimes does exhibitions).
In 2019, he released the album GLASS, METAL, PLASTICS from HEADZ (it was a tense experience).
In 2020, he composed the music for the drama Yureru Seikatsu (directed by Yoshikazu Nunomura) for LINE VISION (he still occasionally composes music for film and drama).
In 2023, he held a “living funeral” at Art Center Ongoing, solemn yet gentle (he’d like to do another one—after all, as long as you’re alive, you can have as many living funerals as you want).
In 2026, he will give his first-ever “intensive lecture” at Art Center NEW in Shin-Takashima—though the lectern, it seems, won’t be in the classroom but out on the street. It will likely be both the first and last “intensive lecture” of his life.
He completed his doctoral program in the Faculty of Literature at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and is currently a Professor at the Institute of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University. His specialty is early 20th-century French literature. In recent years, his research has focused on the relationship between Le Corbusier and literary figures, exploring the intersection of the city and literature. His publications include “Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Engineering Écriture: Céline and Le Corbusier in America” in Limitrof (No. 7, 2025), among others.
Born in 1983 in Yamaguchi Prefecture. After graduating from the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology, he worked for several years in architectural design and urban planning. Since 2014, he has been presenting his work in exhibitions, creating mainly video pieces that explore the theme of “actions that transform human movement.” Since 2020, he has also operated the Tomo Urban Museum, proposing new ways of engaging with the city.
Major exhibitions include tttv (Chuo-Line Gallery, 2018), Aerobic Pick-up (The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 2019), Missing Sun (Art Competition 2021) (Yoyogi TOH, 2021), and The Desperate Delay Project (TAV GALLERY, 2023).
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