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Events held during the exhibition in the Rest Building, the hut in its courtyard, the History and Folklore Museum and the library, following the catalogue. Related events, in date order; events held during the exhibition; lectures held after the exhibition.
- 11.12025 sat 14:00–15:30
Workshop “MITATE”
Creation begins with imagination. Participants created works on the theme of mitate, giving something the appearance of something else.
- Instructor
- Eiji Watanabe (artist)
- Venue
- Obu City History and Folklore Museum, 2F exhibition room
- Admission
- 200 yen
- Participants
- 11
Workshop “MITATE,” Obu City History and Folklore Museum, 2025.11.1Photo courtesy of Art Obulist Executive Committee - 11.152025 sat 14:00–15:30
Performance “Mondori-an – WANA-Show”
Eiji Watanabe revived the “Mondori-an” hut once built by Akio Suzuki, as an homage. Suzuki and the dancer Hiromi Miyakita, both invited artists in 2021, returned to Obu for a performance that set out from the hut.
- Performers
- Akio Suzuki (sound artist), Hiromi Miyakita (dancer)
- Venue
- Courtyard of the Rest Building, Okura Park, at “mo n do ri – an transformed”
- Admission
- Free
- Participants
- Approximately 50
Akio Suzuki, Performance “Mondori-an – WANA-Show,” 2025.11.15Photo: Kenji Aoki 
Hiromi Miyakita, Performance “Mondori-an – WANA-Show,” 2025.11.15Photo: Kenji Aoki - 11.222025 sat 14:00–15:30
Artist talk “We Two are Tacticians”
The artist and the scientist talked about their respective work, and about the intrigue that ensues from the encounter between two disparate genres.
- Performers
- Eiji Watanabe (artist), Eiji Watanabe (scientist)
- Moderator
- Satsuki Yamamoto (curator)
- Venue
- Rest Building, Okura Park
- Admission
- Free
- Participants
- Approximately 50
Artist talk “We Two are Tacticians,” Rest Building, Okura Park, 2025.11.22Photo: Kenji Aoki - 11.24·252025 mon·tue 10:00–15:00drop in any time
Prefectural Residents’ Day school holiday: participatory event “Fragment Badge”
Participants found their favorite “fragments” in works by the two Eijis, drew them, and turned them into original button badges.
- Venue
- Courtyard of the Rest Building, Okura Park
- Admission
- 200 yen
- Participants
- 21
Badges made at “Fragment Badge,” 2025.11.24–25Photo courtesy of Art Obulist Executive Committee - 12.72025 sun 14:00–15:30
Discussion: Eiji Watanabe vs Masahiko Haito, “Skim off the scum”
The conversation ranged from the first meeting of artist and curator to anecdotes from the Triennale.
- Performers
- Eiji Watanabe (artist), Masahiko Haito (curator, former director of the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art)
- Venue
- Rest Building, Okura Park
- Admission
- Free
- Participants
- 50
Events held during the exhibition会期中の催し
- throughout2025.11–12 pop-up
Pop-up at the allobu library, Obu Cultural Exchange Center
The artist’s “Butterfly’s-Eye View” was shown in a glass case in the library.
- Venue
- allobu library, Obu Cultural Exchange Center
- Work
- Eiji Watanabe (artist), “Butterfly’s-Eye View”
- 5days2025.11–12 13:00–16:00
Pop-up café: mamedoi “Shuchō Kissa in obu”
A pop-up café opened in the hut “mo n do ri – an transformed” in the courtyard of the Rest Building, serving freshly brewed coffee to many visitors.
- Dates
- Saturday, November 1, 8, 15 and 22, and Sunday, December 7, 13:00–16:00
- Venue
- “mo n do ri – an transformed”
Pop-up café mamedoi, “mo n do ri – an transformed”Photo: Kenji Aoki - throughout2025.11.1–12.7 open days
Tiny shop the W Eiji
A shop in the hut “mo n do ri – an transformed” where visitors could make and buy Art Obulist-exclusive items: handmade T-shirts and button badges based on drawings by the two Eijis, and a capsule-toy machine with ceramic airplanes, optical illusions as solid objects, and other items related to the pair’s work and research.
- Venue
- “mo n do ri – an transformed”
㉔ “mo n do ri – an transformed” and Tiny shop the W EijiPhoto: Kenji Aoki
After the exhibition会期後
- 3.282026 sat 16:30–18:00
counter lecture vol.02 “Analyze W Eiji”
A lecture by the physicist Masaki Watabe analyzing the activities of the two Eiji Watanabes. Its content is collected on the website of the same name.
- Instructor
- Masaki Watabe (physicist, National Institute for Basic Biology)
- Venue
- Jingu339 (3-3-9 Jingu, Atsuta-ku, Nagoya)
Analyze W Eiji (Masaki Watabe)
Flyer for counter lecture vol.02 “Analyze W Eiji”, 2026.3.28 Jingu339Flyer: Eiji Watanabe (artist) / courtesy office SONO - 8.202026
The two Eijis lecture together at Aichi University of Education
A record of the summer intensive course at Aichi University of Education, where Eiji Watanabe and Eiji Watanabe took the stage side by side.