IEPE Newsletter Japan Message

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Mina san,

First Chess Boxing demonstration fight in JAPAN.
17April 2004 19:00 start, 20:00 fight
21:00 opening + party with DJ 987

CHESSBOXING
THE TOKYO FIGHT
IEPE VS SHOICHIRO

IEPE & Kitchen Team Berlin, : Documentation Exhibition & Performance

"Fighting is done in the ring and wars are waged on the board. "

We are pleased to announce that T&S Gallery will present the 1st Chessboxing
World Championship documentation exhibition & performance by IEPE & Kitchen
Team Berlin.

The 1st Chess-boxing World Championship took place in Amsterdam,
Netherlands, in November 2003. It was a match, Iepe (the joker) vs. Luis
(the lawyer).

The first-ever event attracted a wide public attention, attended by an
audience of 800 that included not only people from the sport world but also
those from the art, the science and the medicine worlds and young
club-goers, as well as lots of press people.

IEPE, the artist who conceived the project, has been undergoing boxing
training for three years to participate in the game as one of the
competitors himself. The competitors fight by alternating rounds of chess
and boxing on the ring. When the winner is decided in either chess or boxing
part of the match, the contest will end. (For more detailed information,
please refer to the "Rule.")



Creation of the Berlin-based artist, chessboxing combines the game of chess
that requires high mental power and the combat sport of boxing that demands
great physical strength. Perhaps only an artist could have thought of
bringing together such extremely different kinds of sports.


1st Chessboxing World Championship is an inter-disciplinary project that has
a number of interesting aspects worthy of close examination. It involves
art, sports and science and welcomes interaction among different communities
and cultural styles. It is an encounter of people from different fields that
usually have no chance of contacts with each other.

The project aims at bringing forth an event of communication out of
encounter of various things. One can feel great energy in this. There is
also a sense of provocation by the artist who seems to be putting a question
whether this can be art. The audience are left to make their own judgments.
The artist is also presenting a new challenge to himself.

How could we interpret chessboxing as art? It may no longer function as art.
Or we may have to expand the definition of art.

In any case, chessboxing is worth seeing with your own eyes. We look forward
to your visit.


Exhibition Title
1st Chessboxing World Championship: Documentation Exhibition & Performance

Showcase

Screening of the audio-visual recording of the chessboxing match in the
Netherlands (about 20 minutes).
Photographic documentations. Actual boxing gloves and mantles worn by the
competitors. The champion belt. Texts explaining the game rule and concepts.

Artist
IEPE & Kitchen Team Berlin

Date & Time
April 17, 2024 (Sat.) - May 16 (Sun.)
11:00 - 19:00 (Weekdays)
11:00 - 20:00 (Sat., Sun. and holidays)

On the opening day, April 17, there will be a chessboxing performance match by
the artist and his opponent.


Place

T&S Gallery
3-23-20 Yakumo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
(in TIME & STYLE HOME)
Tel. 03-5731-7023
Fax 03-5731-7024
http://www.timeandstyle.com

Presented by WCBO Team Japan
Sponsored by The Royal Netherlands Embassy
Cooperated by: TIME&STYLE / DGT PROJECTS / JAPANESE CHESS ASSOCIATION /
KASHIMA INC. / ecocraft Inc. / Dragon Art / PORTER’S PAINTS
Courtesy MAMA SHOWROOM / BOOIJ EN VAN BRUGGEN

You can get information also from the Web sites of the chessboxing
organization and the artist.
World Chess Boxing Organization   http://www.wcbo.org
IEPE    https://www.iepe.net

During the exhibition, the artist IEPE and members of his Kitchen Team
Berlin will be in Japan and present lectures about the project.

25 Apri SCRATCH TILE in YOKOHAMA

With the artist in Japan, we welcome press interviews and coverages. We also
have press release, photographic documentations and other materials. Please
feel free to contact us for information.

Contact:
T&S Gallery
Tel. 03-5731-7023
Fax 03-5731-7024
http://www.timeandstyle.com
Michiko Ogura mogura@timeandstyle.com

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