Exhibiting in the PICA Bar using four external spaces.
A collective of three young performance and new media artists.
Nakazaki Toru lives in Ibaraki, and Yamashiro Daisuke and Noda Tomoko live in Tokyo.
Presenting Yellow Cake Street, the Nadegata Instant Party (NIP) will be transforming the PICA Bar into an communal and open public space where by the artists and a group of trained PICA staff and volunteers will be selling yellowcake. The space will essentially be operated as a café, opening during the hours of 11am until 6pm from Tuesday through to Sunday, where by patrons visiting the gallery and also the general public passing through the Cultural Centre will be able to come into Yellow Cake Street and purchase a coffee and a piece of yellow cake. The founding premise for the show however does not lie within the buying and selling of coffee and cake. Rather, the cafe serves as a means for the public to interact with and engage with PICA and the artistic practices of the NIP. The very process of engagement and communal interaction with the public is a fundamental component for the NIP's practice.
Yelllowcake itself however has many varied interpretations and understandings. As a cake, it does not actually exist within a structured historical framework of recipes within Australia. And as a highly pollutant and dangerous bi-product of uranium mining, often being exported out from Australia to be used in the making of atomic weapons, Yellowcake is also a highly sensitive and contentious environmental matter. In creating a recipe for yellowcake, The NIP will be conducting investigative research in Perth, visiting local pastry chefs, home cooks, and the general public, interrogating them and asking for their recipes. In this sense, the cake itself becomes a mythical, mysterious concoction, created from various interpretations and understandings about yellow cake. All of which will be filmed and used in the exhibition. The environmental issue and the link to mining is not a prominent issue for the NIP, rather this contextual information will exist as background information from the creation of a yellowcake recipe.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Reversiblen Collection, "Contemporary art is just as easy as pie", Contemporary Art Centre, Art Tower Mito.
2010 24 Our Television, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori.
Image: Nadegata Instant Party, 2011.
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