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THE INVISIBLE DOG IS IN TOKYO
Taichi Hayashi, Bread Repair. pottery shards, flour, yeast, salt, water, 300 × 300 mm, 2026
September 4-26
Festival NAFAS TOKYO
at BUoY Arts Center
Exhibition, Performances, Workshops, Events
Sunday September 20, 2026 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Mari Katayama 片山 真理 Makes Cookies
On Sundays, artist Mari Katayama likes to bake cookies at home with her daughter. On this special Sunday, Mari comes to BUoY with her daughter and her own oven, the only one she trusts. Together, they will bake cookies in the café and offer them to the public.
Sunday, September 20, 2026, 6:00 to 7:00 PM
Takenoko Lab - Eat, Listen, Feel
Chatori Shimizu 清水チャートリー./ devon osamu tipp ティップ・治
Takenoko Lab is an experimental performance designed around the concepts of bamboo as food, and bamboo woodwind instruments (shō, shakuhachi).This experimental event will allow participants to physically experience the process by which a single bamboo stalk transforms from a bamboo shoot (food) underground, to a musical instrument like the sho or shakuhachi above ground, and finally to sound produced by human breath.
Senju Yorimichi Kissa (Senju Detour Cafe)
A monthly intersection to nurture the night
5-10pm
NAFAS and Senju’s various venues to present invite you for a walk through Senju, our neighborhood in Tokyo’s Adachi City, where small shops, quiet alleys, and creative spaces invite you to slow down and explore.
Saturday September 26, 2026, 9am-7pm
Carte Blanche to Julie Dind
For the final day of NAFAS Tokyo, Julie Dind presents an 10-hour durational performance exploring food, ritual, time, and collective experience.
Alone at the heart of BUoY’s vast concrete basement—a raw, cavernous space whose material weight seems to hold both silence and memory—the artist’s solitary presence becomes at once fragile and persistent. Visitors are invited to enter, leave, and return as the work slowly unfolds and the passing hours transform both the performance and the space around it. As the festival draws to a close, the piece offers a final moment of shared presence, observation, and reflection.
Nanami Hayashi, Ramen, 2022-2026
An Essay About NAFAS TOKYO by Emil Pacha Valencia
エミル・パチャ・バレンシアによる『NAFAS TOKYO』に関するエッセイ
Misato Sano, ( ), Japan, ラーメンハウンド / Ramen Hound (32 x 48 x 21cm), Camphor wood, oil paint, 2026 - 230,000 JPY
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
Café Mizuumi みずうみ to Eat Words
In this world where words overflow and flow away, and where “I” seems to be swallowed up by “AI,” we run Cafe Mizuumi to Eat Words, offering sweets shaped like words and inviting you to savor each and every one. We write the pages of “Mizuumi” as a book that wanders, coexisting with different places, things, and people, while engaging in conversation with those who visit.
Thursday, September 24, 2026, 7:15 PM 8:45 PM
Furicha: Free Live + Experience Session / Fuku Sakuma 茶久間 ふく/ Hinanako Ichihara 市原 一七子
Furicha Free Live + Furicha Experience Session is a live performance and participatory workshop inspired by Japan’s traditional foamed-tea culture. Combining the rhythmic sounds and movements of whisking tea with electronic music, projections, and audience participation, the project reimagines the social and sensory traditions of Furicha in contemporary Tokyo.
Friday September 25, 2026
NAFAS Guests: Hélène Deléan / Clément Caignart
The Invisible Dog (New York City) and BUoY Arts Center (Tokyo), in partnership with Institut Français du Japon / Villa Kujoyama, are thrilled to invite artists Hélène Deléan and Clément Caignart for an informal presentation of their current research project, N88DL, a speculative fiction that takes shape around the invention, by Momofuku Ando in Osaka in 1958, of instant noodles.
Saturday, September 26, - 5 to 6pm
Meals In Empty (or absence of us makes us) / Wakita Kizuku 脇田樹
In this performance created for NAFAS Tokyo, Wakita Kizuku examines what becomes part of one's being—before, during, and after a meal—through the act of eating. By rendering the meal itself absent while retaining only the actions associated with it, Wakita Kizuku seeks to foreground the subject's existence.
More Performances, Workshops and Events: Discover NAFAS Program
More Performances, Workshops and Events: Discover NAFAS Program
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THE INVISIBLE DOG IN THE PRESS
Walking down Bergen Street in the spring of 2009, I looked into a huge raw space at number 51. The door was open, so I walked in, and found myself surrounded by artifacts from a half-century of industrial disarray: belt buckles, many colored ropes, and strange stiff dog leashes with a halter attached to the end. In the middle of all this there was a table, and at the table there was a man. He barely spoke English, so we spoke in French, and he told me that he was planning to open an art center in the space and was holding a flea market to get rid of some of the detritus that had piled up since its original use as a factory for a briefly trendy mid-century gag: the invisible dog. …