Next, I visited to the biggest base of the art festival, Matsudai-Nobutai.
You can get the best information and festival items here and there are many permanent collections that can be viewed throughout the year. Local residents again here for you to offer a kind treat at the resting place. The warm communication is one of the attractive points of this art festival.

Moved to Fukutake House 2009. As one of the closed school project, 7 leading galleries in Japan gathered to this place to hold solo exhibitions using the former Myokayama Elementary School. The overall design for this building was stylish and each former classroom is designed in a unique way.

You can hear voices from the radio in the classroom, which is a work by Hiroharu Mori “Workshop for Questions / Triple Acts”, asking visitors as “Are you afraid of dying?”, “What’s your favorite food?”. The local residents cooperated for its recording as the question voices.

The “Pool of Tears” by Hellen van Meene is girls’ portraits installed in the former music room. The sophisticated photography best matches to the room once filled with music.

Next, I headed to the 3rd closed project “Hachi & Tashima Seizo Ehontokinomino Museum” (Ehontokinomino = Picture Book and Nuts), where Tajima recreated a dynamic world of a picture book in the former Sanada Elementary School. The driftwood-made characters were displayed with the bright colors as you can feel the atmosphere that has once been full of life of kids. What made me smile was an installation of 3 characters from his picture book installed on the exterior wall of the building.

Yuko Matsuzawa made a breathtaking big spider web “enishi” in the gymnasium of the former school. It is a spider web which has observed the closed school and used marking pins were tied to the spider webs. The work was made in collaboration with the local residents. I met one of those local old women who was at the entrance gate. I can experience that art is a source of power given to the region.