Amazon Club Online：ディレクターズ・ナイト — マックス＝フィリップ・アッシェンブレンナー・ナイトAmazon Club Online: Director’s Night — Max-Philip Aschenbrenner Night

TPAM participants’ hidden gem at night, “Amazon Club” in Yokohama is happening beyond borders (the real Amazon Club was closed in December 2020, but “Amazon Club Relocation Project” has been going on). Inviting the international guest directors of TPAM Direction as hosts, we’ll present “Directors’ Nights.” Grab your favorite drinks and join us to boost yourself in your time zone.

Max-Philip Aschenbrenner Night

TPAMUTE — a silent conversation

April last year, while the world was slowly waking up from the first, what would later be called lockdown, TPAM asked me to have a conversation on a Google Document about my experience as one of the TPAM Direction guest directors over the last years of their Asian focus. A slow and meticulous process started to engage us (or better entangle, I wonder). Pages filled with words, adjustments appeared, surface gave way to depth. 

Now, most of the international crowd of artists and cultural workers who usually spend their first weeks of February in Yokohama are sitting at home again. The interviews about activities in the past, of which essential condition was international and intercontinental mobility, were suspended. Zoom has become our second life.

Then, what if we revisit the interview on Zoom? Collaborative writing on a shared document and a browser. No sound, nothing new under the screen. Probably? Maybe? Slowly, steadily and silently. The pace of writing and a beer or a glass of wine, or a bottle or two.

＝＝＝ Welcome to Amazon Club Online! ＝＝＝
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