Conference Presentation: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference

Paper: “Performing Temporal Irresolution: Art, Temporality and the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant”
Panel: “Grounding nuclear imaginaries: Placing geographies of nuclear ‘progress’, protest, and care (2)”
Conference: 1–4 Sep 2026, Royal Geographical Society, London, United Kingdom, and online
Session: 2 Sep 2026, Skempton Building, Lecture Theatre 201, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Film Screening: “1103 Sunsets”

By the artist collective Fukushima Mon Amour (Yoi Kawakubo, member)
Note: Screening only — the artist will not be in attendance
Part of: “A Constitution for the Twenty-First Century” Project Launch, McQuillan Institute for Science, Technology and the Human Future
Date: 13:00–14:15, 12 Sep 2026
Venue: Norton’s Woods Conference Center, 136 Irving Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Group Exhibition: “Fukuoka Art Next” FaN Week 2026 — Collectors V

Date: 19 Sep – 5 Oct 2026
Venue: Fukuoka Art Museum, 2F Special Exhibition Room, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Screening and Panel: A Constitution for the 21st Century

Short film screening and panellist
Organiser: American Philosophical Society, with the McQuillan Institute for Science, Technology and the Human Future
Date: 29 Oct 2026
Venue: Philosophical Hall, 104 South 5th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Festival: OFF Bratislava — International Festival of Contemporary Photography

Date: 6–20 Nov 2026
Venue: Various venues, Bratislava, Slovakia

Group Exhibition: Understructure

Date: 19 June (Fri) – 11 July (Sat) 2026

Venue: Sono Aida #Akasaka
Address Building, 2-2-19 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
(1-minute walk from Tameike-Sannō Station, Exit 8)

Open Studio: 19 June – 23 June
Exhibition: 24 June – 11 July

Opening Hours: 12:00–20:00
Closed: Mondays
Admission: Free

Participating artists: Yasushi Aizawa, Ryosuke Imazato, Joy Kawakubo, Yuta Tokunaga, Tomokazu Fujita, Akira Fujimoto, Rina Machida, Takamitsu Miyagawa, Wataru Yamagami, and Cannon Hersey.

Publication: Book Chapter in "Art Encounters in the Nuclear Age -Radiant Objects-"

Chapter 2 "Photography and Materiality: Accounts from the No-return Zone of Fukushima" in "Art Encounters in the Nuclear Age -Radiant Objects-", 2026, Ed. Jessica Holtaway, Routledge, London.

Exhibition: Invisible Fire — The Age of Epimetheus

 22 May – 10 June 2026, at the Daiichi Life Gallery, Tokyo

Art Fair Exhibition: Made in Aomori – Intersection of Nature and History (Art Düsseldorf ver.)

17 April (Fri) – 19 April (Sun) 2026

Venue: AREAL BÖHLER, Booth E01 (anonymous art project)

Hansaallee 321, 40549 Düsseldorf, Germany

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Curator: Eriko Kimura (Director, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art)

Participating Artists: Yoshitomo Nara, Makiko Kudo, Mako Oodaira, Saeko Mimura, Yoi Kawakubo, Erika Kobayashi, Ai Iwane, Yuki Okumura, Yoriko Mizushiri, Ishu Han

Project Coordination (Düsseldorf): Mariko Mikami

Book Launch & One-Day Exhibition: Picturing the Invisible – Earthquake, Meltdown, Memory

15 March (Sun) 2026, 11:00

Venue: Messums West

Place Farm, Court St, Tisbury, SP3 6LW

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Exhibition: Collection 2024 III Hiroshima MOCA

21 December (Sat) 2024 - 4 April (Sun) 2025  

Venue: The Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary art 

1-1 Hijiyama Park, Minami Ward, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture,  Japan

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Exhibition: Left is Right
- The Garden of 4.5 Billion Years and Boiled Frogs -

30 October (Wed) 2024 - 23 March (Sun) 2025  

Venue: The Maruki Museum for the Hiroshima Panels  

1401 Shimogarako, Higashimatsuyama-shi, Saitama 355-0076 Japan

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