New publication documenting Japan collaboration - out now!

Photo by Benjamin Beechey

We’re delighted to announce that a publication documenting Reversible Destiny NOW! Living Body Museum in Yoro, held last year in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Site of Reversible Destiny—Yoro Park, is now available to buy!

The Site of Reversible Destiny—Yoro Park designed by artist / architect duo Arakawa and Madeline Gins is a created landscape containing a series of pavilions, undulating planes, shifting colors, and disorienting spaces that the artists presented to visitors as a place of purposeful experimentation. The work is part of the larger Yoro Park, located in Yoro, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and opened to the public in 1995.

The event brought together artist Shinji Ohmaki, sound artist evala, and Neon Dance for special installations and six performances over three days. The celebration also included a Balance-Body Bicycle workshop in collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), as well as an official 30th-anniversary ceremony hosted by Gifu Prefecture.

Through photographs and essays, the publication traces the extraordinary 24 days during which the artists and everyone involved came together with the Site of Reversible Destiny—Yoro Park, an embodiment of Arakawa and Madeline Gins’s lifelong pursuit of “reversible destiny.”

“We hope that those whose bodies were there to witness it, as well as those who joined us in spirit from afar, can experience something of those remarkable moments through this publication.” - Arakawa and Gins Tokyo Office

As a special bonus, purchasers will also receive access to the full-length video documentation of the performance Living Body Museum in Yoro.