The exhibit “In Marugame – At the Moment – Three Artist Collectives” runs from Saturday, December 18, 2021 through Monday, March 21, 2022 at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA).This is the second part of our interview with one of the featured artist groups Nadegata Instant Party, consisting of Tohru Nakazaki, Daisuke Yamashiro, and Tomoko Noda.Picking up where we left off, we asked how the group’s installation “HOME STAY HOME” came to be and the insights they gained through the project.Interviewed and written by Mio SubanaPhotos by Shintaro Miyawaki

The exhibit “In Marugame – At the Moment – Three Artist Collectives” runs from Saturday, December 18, 2021 through Monday, March 21, 2022 at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA). This is the first part of our interview with one of the featured artist groups, Nadegata Instant Party, consisting of Tohru Nakazaki, Daisuke Yamashiro, and Tomoko Noda. We asked how their installation “HOME STAY HOME”—which documents a homestay project where Marugame residents virtually hosted guests from across Japan—came to be, and how they produced the installation amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.Interviewed and written by Mio SubanaPhotos by Shintaro Miyawaki