【Declaration】Art Bus Project has just started.

I would like to define the function of a bus as the following i.e.
1. It is a device of transfer
2. It is a container with paintable outer walls accompanied with an internal space
3. It is a venue of exchanging and sharing information

The Art Bus Project should be focusing to create a new business field combined with the potential from all kind of art forms and cooperated with the variety of media.
And this project is also aiming to make not only the ones who produce Art Bus but the ones who consume it much happier.
I have a lot of experiences that I have worked with many artists and I am quite pleasant with it because I could feel that I am really collaborating with them as well as I could be the closest viewer to the art work at the same time.
By the way, I noticed that I am seeking to experience the unknown things as my private enjoinment, when I felt uncontrollable desire to go to far and to unknown places even during the time of suffering from financial difficulties and mental stress in daily life.
I believe that the process of getting the unknown known would make my life happier.
Then I have started thinking to make my work field as an art-work-site coordinator which hardly gets myself subjective consisted with the traveling time as my pleasure which naturally makes myself subjective. And adding my own philosophy such as "accepting the change and experiencing all physically" to it, then it came out an idea to work on Art Bus Project.
It may be a very private matter that motivates me to act on this project but I have also a feeling that it will convey the enjoyable “circumstance” to me, to my friends and to the others and to the town of Fukuoka as well.
I think acting on Art Bus Project will be able to show the moment of creating art which is generally accepted as unusual to you as more usual matter.
Now, luckily, I am in charge of the program, “Ride On an Art Bus!'” that is to search for the possibility of the bus tour business accompanied with art, organized by the Fukuoka Business Creation Center where I started to work from this May.
I am thinking that the value of 'transfer' itself could be higher by adding narrative and theatrical aspects and the program of participating style to it. We may be able to find more hints to realize it by knowing and linking various art spots.
I think I know many art spots but obviously there are much more information and art places that I still don't know.
I feel comfortable when I give my friends a ride but I can not drive a bus because I still don't have a license for it.
And I can't help telling my friends around when I find the interesting spot but I know that I don't have as enough information and professional skills as I can make money with.
In other words, I can not carry out this Art Bus Project all by myself. I am hoping to realize my aim one by one with your and other people's advice and cooperation so that the project can go on effectively. Please join me and support to have an Art Bus running in town!
Now, Art Bus Project has just departed. I will try to reach a wonderful place with turning the wheel nicely even though in a narrow and rough path, or so far away.


I need a Bus which I can freely remodel and move all around!

Akio Tokunaga, October 2007

Please refer FBCC site for "Ride on an Art Bus!" program.
Sorry, No english subtitled in FBCC site.