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.
NAFAS Tokyo is coming to its final day. For four weeks, BUoY has been breathing with artists, neighbors, collectors, friends, strangers, food, sounds, smells, gestures and conversations.
On Saturday September 26, last chance to see the exhibition, attend multiple performances, and a workshop, share food and drinks, initiate conversations and simply the pleasure of being together. One more breath.
For the final day of NAFAS Tokyo, Julie Dind presents an eleven-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.
in partnership with Institut Français du Japon / Villa Kujoyama, we 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.
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.
The Invisible Dog (New York City) is thrilled to partner with Senju’s various venues to present Senju Yorimichi Kissa (Senju Detour Cafe) in conjunction with NAFAS Tokyo Festival.
NAFAS invites 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. Joining our neighbors for an evening of food, art, and chance encounters, we’ll follow the lights from a curry restaurant to a bookstore, from a photography gallery to a house that becomes a theater. Along the way, enjoy Taiwanese sweets, browse a few pages, and discover art with a drink in hand. Take your time, step inside, and stay a little longer wherever you feel at home.
In an age where words are constantly produced, consumed, and forgotten—where endless streams of information and artificial intelligence threaten to overwhelm our own voices, Café Mizuumi to Eat Words invites visitors to slow down and savor language, one word at a time.
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.
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.
Each guest arrives with two ingredients. From this unexpected collection, the group imagines a menu, cooks, and shares a meal together. Throughout the evening, participants take turns documenting what unfolds, from the first gestures in the kitchen to the conversations and encounters around the table.
《SHIT》 is a workshop in which participants experience a series of steps: excreting, carbonizing the excrement, cooking it, and transforming it into bread, then eating it.
Join California-based artist Tara de la Garza for a hands-on workshop exploring the creative potential of discarded plastic bags and packaging. Tara’s artistic practice is dedicated to reimagining single-use plastics, transforming everyday waste into objects of beauty and reflection.
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
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.”
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.
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
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.
What do we really see when we look at animals in a zoo? Are we observing another species or are we confronting reflections of ourselves? Perhaps the zoo does not simply preserve the past of humanity, but reveals its present, and even hints at its future.
During NAFAS Tokyo, we invite you to discover the neighborhood, visit cultural events around the city, enjoy restaurants and bars we love …. This page will be in constant evolution, come back often to check new tips!
NAFAS is both exhibition and gathering. Artists from Japan and elsewhere will present new and existing works, while the festival extends beyond the gallery through community-oriented events, performances, cooking classes, film screenings, musical concerts, and conversations.
Emmanuel “Gus” Reckel is a baker, educator, and culinary artist who approaches food through wild fermentation, traditional nutrition, and hospitality. For Gus, food isn't just sustenance—it's a hands-on way to bring people together, share stories, and explore plant-based eating.
Sama Beydoun’s Mother Tongue is an ongoing photo-based project exploring memory, migration, and matriarchy through food. It began as a personal reflection after leaving Lebanon, documenting the relationship between generations of women in her family, and evolved into a broader investigation of transmission within the Lebanese diaspora.
Cal Stalvig will contribute to NAFAS festival by bringing the ancient and sacred magic of candlelight. Fire has long been at the heart of human social, imaginative, and spiritual life, and candles extend the tradition of the hearth—the place where people gather, share food, tell stories, perform, and find warmth.
