Event | Daisy Balloon

DAIKANYAMA T-SITE
“Green Christmas”

Daikanyama Tsutaya Books (T-SITE) is celebrating their fifth anniversary with their largest Christmas light-up event ever. The world created by plant-hunter, Seijun Nishihata, is infused with balloon art by Daisy Balloon and the works of sculptor Kohei Nawa’s SANDWICH, to create a dreamlike scenery.
The snow-cell illustrates the relationship between plants and life. The white cells cling to the stems and foliage and also resemble snow fallen upon a forest. Walk through the forest and see the snow-cells come together, writhing about and growing like a huge living creature.

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ROPPONGI ART NIGHT
2016

Sculptor Kohei Nawa was the main program artist for Roppongi Art Night 2016, and his installations were displayed at three locations—Roppongi Hills Arena, the National Art Center, Tokyo and Tokyo Midtown. Daisy Balloon and plant hunter, Seijin Nishihata, who travels the world in search of rare plants species, collaborated to create a forest in representation of the dawn of culture.

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TOKYO CARAVAN
Roppongi Art Night 2016

Date | 10.21 (Fri) – 10.22 (Sat) . 2016
Time | 19:00 – 20:00 (10.21) / 16:00 – 17:00, 19:00 – 20:00 (10.22)
Venue | Roppongi Hills Arena
Address | 6-9-1, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032

Participating Artists | Tokyo ska paradise orchestra, Rie Miyazawa, Tsumura Reijiro, Tokyo Caravan Ensemble, Marihiko Hara, Hideki Noda / Otto Nascarella、Cridemar Aquino、Suellen Tavares Onixegum、Mestre Garrincha / TAKESHI SATO、Takahashigumi / Kanatsuryu Shishiodori、Madam Regine、Rachel D’Amour、Ushiko Matsuzaka、Jasmine、Daisy Balloon　http://tokyocaravan.jp/artists

A new cultural movement is brought to life in this concept devised by Hideki Noda in which a diverse group of artists come together to create new forms of expression through cultural exchange. This is the leading project of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics & Paralympics culture program. It all started with Tokyo Caravan in RIO held during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, which then took form on the other side of the world, namely Miyagi and Fukushima, as Tokyo Caravan in TOKYO, which then fused with the performances from the local workshops to become Tokyo Caravan Prologue 2015 and further evolved into Tokyo Caravan 2016, which was unveiled at Roppongi Art Night.

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edenworks bedroom
"Astral"

Astral—Dreams in Shape is a collaboration between flower artist, Megumi Shinozaki, of edenworks bedroom and balloon artist, Daisy Balloon. It was displayed over three days from March 19-21, 2016 (Monday/holiday).

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TOKYO CARAVAN
Komazawa Olympic Park

The Tokyo Caravan public workshop was held for three days from Oct. 8-10 at the Komazawa Olympic Park special venue (nanshiki baseball ground). A total of 32 artists gathered in response to invitations from Hideki Noda (playwright, director and actor), Katsuhiko Hibino (contemporary artist) and Kohei Nawa (sculptor). Under the concept of culture is traffic, six workshops were held which explored the possibilities of Tokyo Caravan, which would officially kick off in summer 2016.
Daisy Balloon was in the fourth program, Vehicles Crossing Vehicles, in which vehicles pass each other to represent culture in the making. Vehicles would come and go to the music and video, and amongst the vehicles were balloon cars created by Daisy Balloon, appearing from stage right and left. Then, at the junction of the two cars crossing, out came people wearing balloon dresses. Like the transformation and adaptation that follows birth from a cocoon, culture is created through a repetition of crossings. This concept was key to the production.

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SHARED TERRACE
Gaien Icho Namiki

We created the visuals and graphics and produced the workshops for SHARED TERRACE’s fourth anniversary.
Though the use of six types of balloons, we depict the SHARED typeface beingーshared.

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NIPPONISTA
Newyork

Date | 2.6 (Thu) – 2.13 (Thu) . 2014
Reception party | 2.5 (Wed)
Venue | 47 Greene St
Address | 47 Greene St, SOHO, NY

The Nipponista project held in New York was selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as part of their Cool Japan campaign.
Centered around the themes of Japan luxury and Japan style, the aim was to spread Japanese fashion, art, food, lifestyle and craft to the world.
Daisy Balloon created the window displays and four balloon dresses.

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Idea parade 2013
Nürnberg

Date | 6.28 (Fri) – 6.29 (Sat) . 2013
Time | 12:00 – 19:00
Venue | Auf AEG
Address | Halle 20 Muggenhofer Straße 132/135 90429 Nürnberg
Motion | https://vimeo.com/81492380

Art direction | Verena Hennig, Motion | Es ist Winter, Sound | Georg Stanka

Speakers': Wolff Olins (UK), Form Us With Love (SE), Sigurdur Gudmundsson (IS), June 14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff (DE/USA), Pernilla Ohrstedt (UK) Rolf Sachs (DE), Rejane Dal Bello (BR), Daisy Balloon (JP), Lotta Nieminen (FI), Thomas Mayfried (DE) und Slanted (DE).

Idea Parade is a platform to bond curiosity and inspiration.
The two-day festival is featuring outstanding artists and designers from all over the world, who are sharing their knowledge, expertise, passion – their IDEAS.

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TAMAGAWA TAKASHIMAYA S･C
Futakotamagawa Biennale 2012

Exuviation | In our eyes, there are no two moments that are identical. We are forced to grow without being able to reflect back in satisfaction. However, there is a beauty in that very moment. When our soul can no longer be contained within our body, it goes on a quest in search of a new vessel. The empty shell left behind is proof that we lived. We struggle in this brief moment we call life, but there is something to be treasured in that.

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Omotesando GYRE
“3rd Anniversary”

GYRE (Omotesando Shibuya Tokyo) celebrated its 3rd anniversary by decking its interior with a massive fusion of balloon art and music called Sound Generate Installation: Voice of Universe. 3 sound stations were installed, uniquely designed to stimulate the visitors’ audio and visual senses.