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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
Saturday September 5 from 2 to 5pm
Candle Making Workshop / Cal Stalvig
Join a candle-making workshops at Asahi-so where participants encounter the magic of candlelight, apiculture, and botany while immersed in the perfume of beeswax.
This event happens at Asahi-so, NAFAS venue partner
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Sunday September 6, 2026 at 5pm
4.5 Ways of Appreciation / Yu Ohara 大原 由
4.5 Ways of Appreciation by Yu Ohara is a performance that physically explores four approaches to the reception of art through tasting: the Japanese concepts of “鑑賞 kanshō,” “観照 kanshō,” and “賞玩 shōgan,” and the Chinese concept of “品鑑 pinjian.” Three performers taste cocktails from vessels modeled after ancient Chinese vessels, exchanging through words and gestures the sensations arising from the drinks’ flavors and aromas, as well as from the texture of the vessels
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
Discover the exhibition NAFAS, and acquire a piece of art
Saturday September 5 at 3pm
Omusubi's Birth Party
Cooking Club / Karin + Miki 畝本花凛 + 畝本 果林
Omusubi can be a meal or a quick snack. A brand-new omusubi will be born, using flavors and textures connected to Japan, Brazil, and Egypt. This will be a time to make omusubi, eat together, and listen to the stories behind the rice and ingredients.
Saturday September 5 at 3pm
Slumber Material
Poetry by Haku Kato 加藤 白
Movement by Thierry Thieû Niang
Haku Kato is a poet from Kanagawa Prefecture. Kato began working as a poet in August 2025 and published a first collection of poems, Tokyo White Night Flight (fourteen poems), He will read his poems in the BUoY gallery, directed by Thierry Thieû Niang
More Performances, Workshops and Events: Discover NAFAS Program
More Performances, Workshops and Events: Discover NAFAS Program
Welcome to the new chapter for The Invisible Dog. The Invisible Dog has gone for a walk, leaving its original space on Bergen Street to roam freely, and collaborating with various venues in NYC—Atelier Jolie, Hashimoto Contemporary, La Mama Galleria, The Scion Project, Par Excellence—and also abroad—Collection Lambert and Zirlib / Mohamed El Khatib (Avignon, France), Le Moulin Jaune (Cressy la Chapelle), BUoY Arts Center (Tokyo, Japan) and may more …
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THE INVISIBLE DOG GOES FOR A WALK IN FRANCE - SUMMER 2025
The Invisible Dog with
Mohamed El Khatib - Collection Lambert
La Maison Paisible (Avignon)
July 7-13
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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. …