YAMBARU ART FESTIVAL
2023-2024

ART PROGRAM

TEFCO vol.3 - Toward Redevelopment of Seawater Pumped-Storage Power Plant

TEFCO (Tokyo Electricity Farming Community) is a project that aims to rethink electricity as an infrastructure indispensable to our lives and to foster and cultivate electrical literacy among all through the creation of power generation/storage devices and the sharing of electricity generated in the exhibition space.
Launched in the summer of 2023, this project has twice produced gravity-powered devices, which are currently attracting attention as a method of generating and preserving renewable energy and have been exhibited at galleries and museums.
This time, TEFCO will work on the creation of a pumped storage power generation device, thinking about the world's first seawater pumped-storage power plant, the Okinawa Yanbaru Seawater Pumped-Storage Power Plant, which is already out of operation. Now that the accident situation at the Shiga Nuclear Power Plant caused by the Noto Peninsula earthquake on January 1, 2024, is becoming clear, inefficient in-house power generation will provoke a rethinking of energy issues.

PROFILE

yang02

PROFILE

Born in 1984 in Kanagawa, Japan. Artist. He creates installation works that combine and construct existing dynamic products that incorporate today's technology or existing information systems by intervening, appropriating, and misappropriating them, such as a space where a Segway is used to view artworks and a drawing machine that uses a machine learning system. Recent major exhibitions include "MOT Annual 2023: Synergy, Between Creation and Generation" (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2023) and "Roppongi Crossing 2022: Come and Go! (Mori Art Museum, 2022). (Mori Art Museum, 2022). He has also collaborated with different fields in a number of performance works with contact Gonzo and stage design productions.