ACC Japan is pleased to announce our 2025 awardees, along with the members of the 2025 ACC Japan Selection Panel, as listed below.

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2025 ACC Japan Grantees

◆ New York Fellowship (6 months in the U.S.) ◆

Yuuki HORIUCHI
Visual Art

Horiuchi’s fellowship research will center on Robert Smithson and his contemporaries, who created land art and other large-scale works across the U.S. countryside that were later exhibited and documented in their archives in New York. Through archival research and interactions with local experts and artists, she will explore their approach to creating and presenting art in both urban and remote settings, investigating the significance of archives and how they can inform contemporary art today. Some of Horiuchi’s prospective site visits include the Smithson and Holt Foundation in New Mexico, Holt's Sun Tunnel in Utah, and Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, among others.
Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller (BHR) Memorial Fellow*1
Photo by Rosie Kennedy

 

Wataru MUKAI 
Music

Mukai will investigate how queerness is received and represented in New York’s contemporary music and art scenes and explore queer music practices in academic settings. They will explore themes of gender and queerness through music theater projects rooted in documentary storytelling. Through interactions with drag performers, queer artists, activists, professors, and composers in New York, Mukai aims to reflect on their own creative work while redefining the concepts and practices of queer art and building a new queer cultural archive. 
Photo by Ayane Shindo

 

tsu-tsu 
Theater

tsu-tsu will critically examine their “Documentary Acting” method, which they developed to interview real individuals and reenact their lives, as a way of proposing a new model for multicultural coexistence. By collaborating with public policy researchers and therapeutic community practitioners, the project “01-25-1997”—in which they search for and perform the lives of people born on the same date—will be used to explore how the ideal of imaginative transcendence can address real-world challenges. 
ACC / Saison Foundation Fellow *2
Photo by Kohey Kanno

 

◆ Individual Fellowship ◆

Tomomi ADACHI (Japan → Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore | 2 months) 
Music

Adachi (ACC 2009) will research local experimental music scenes and build international dialogue through exchanges with musicians and organizers in Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. Adachi developed an interest in the growth of experimental music in Southeast Asia after he established the Kanazawa International Experimental Music Festival, where he serves as director. Moving away from a Western-centric musical framework, Adachi seeks to establish international connections and gain insights that can enhance his artistic practice in Japan.
Photo by Takayuki Imai, ©Aichi Triennale 2022

 

Kenji CHIGA (Japan → India | 1 month)
Film/Video/Photography

Chiga aims to deepen his understanding of the cultural significance and spiritual role of acting in India. He will engage with a rural community in an underserved village by filming, actively participating in acting classes led by villagers, and connecting with professionals in theater and film. He hopes to explore roles that differ from those traditionally assigned in India and gain a deeper understanding of how acting can address societal issues.

 

Haruko KUMAKURA (Japan → Indonesia | 3 months)
Curation

Kumakura will study the ecology of Indonesian art community, which is enhancing its international presence through unique efforts that address local histories and issues while building international solidarity. By researching artists, universities, museums, and alternative spaces, she aims to gain a deeper understanding of this emerging center of contemporary art. At the same time, she seeks to strengthen her understanding of the roles and potential of independent curators in Asia and to build a network for ongoing solidarity and collaboration in the arts.
Photo by Mikuriya Shinichiro

 

Anna KURODA (Japan → United States | 2 months)
Dance

Kuroda will focus on the Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) and research the sustainability of dance from the perspective of postmodern dance. She will also attend rehearsals for upcoming TBDC and Merce Cunningham Dance Company projects. Through observing these rehearsals, she aims to learn the two companies’ distinct movement vocabularies and study how the dancers will continue to perform and pass on this received choreography to future generations.
ACC / Saison Foundation Fellow *2
Photo by Eri Chiba


*1 The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller (BHR) Memorial Fellow is awarded to an individual in the field of visual art.
*2 The ACC / Saison Foundation Fellow is awarded to an individual/institution supported by a designated grant from the Saison Foundation.

 

2025 ACC Japan Selection Panel

Visual Art
Azusa Hashimoto (Curator, The National Museum of Art, Osaka)
Itaru Hirano (Vice Director, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama) 
Meruro Washida (Director, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa/Associate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts) 

Performing Arts 
Minako Naito (General Producer (of Performing Arts), Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre)
Shinji Ono (Chief Producer, Yokohama Arts Foundation/Director, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1)

Music
Toshie Kakinuma (Professor Emerita, Kyoto City University of Arts)
Yuji Numano (Professor, Toho Gakuen School of Music)

Architecture
Taro Igarashi (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University)

 

Supported by: 

 

The Saison Foundation


Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Japan: Arts Fund for the Creation of Society

 

 

 


Asian Cultural Council Japan Foundation

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