Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group
SIDE TRIP: THE MOVIE
- Gatherings
- world premiere
- CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
- Biblioteca de Marvila
- No ticket required
A year after their intervention in Lisbon’s Marvila neighbourhood, the Japanese collective Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group returns to share, on screen, the memories and emotions of the days they spent engaging with local communities.
Side Trip was presented by Engawa – Season of Japanese Contemporary Art at CAM and the 2023 Alkantara Festival. It included a programme of parties, performances, and workshops that reclaimed the street as a space for socialising. In addition to a screening at CAM, the film will also be shown at the Marvila Library, bringing together some of the people who participated in the making of the project.
Known as 'the subversive face of the Japanese contemporary art scene,' the Chim↑Pom collective was created in Tokyo in 2005 by Ryuta Ushiro, Yasutaka Hayashi, Ellie, Masataka Okada, Motomu Inaoka, and Toshinori Mizuno. In 2016, the collective created the international long-term exhibition Don't follow the wind in the restricted Fukushima Exclusion Zone and opened Garter gallery in Tokyo, a space run by artists to select and present works by their contemporaries. In 2022, the artists presented they presented their first retrospective at the Mori Art...