Games Day Programme: Games Day Free Play

About Games Day Free Play:

Celebrate the opening of ART BIT MATRIX – TOKUSATSU to VIDEOGAME– with an afternoon of interactive fun! Visitors are invited to try:

• A kinetic game by contact Gonzo
• Video games by Daisuke Nishijima and Takakurakazuki
• A sculptural multiplayer board game by Takumi Hirayama

👉 No registration is required to drop by and play the kinetic and video games.

At 3:00–3:30 PM, join a short introduction by the exhibition curators and participating game creators.

📅 Date: Saturday, 30 August 2025🕒 Time: 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM📍 Venue: Mizuma Gallery, 22 Lock Rd, #01-34, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108939💰 Fees: Free!

"Mount: This is the Place" is presented at the exhibition ART BIT MATRIX -TOKUSATSU to VIDEOGAME- at Mizuma Gallery from 29 August to 19 October 2025. For more information, visit: https://tinyurl.com/artbitmatrixsg

*Header images courtesy of Mizuma Gallery and Culture Convenience Club Co.,Ltd

About Mount: This is the Place (Registration Required)

By Takumi Hirayama

The highlight of Games Day, Mount: This is the Place is a sculptural multiplayer board game inspired by traditional Japanese e-sugoroku (similar to Snakes and Ladders). Players choose subterranean characters and climb through an underground mountain made of clay, aiming for the summit.

By touching clay, imagining life deep underground, and playing together, this artwork invites participants to reflect on communication, imagination, and finding “the right place to be.”

Board Game Sessions (Registration Required)

Each session lasts 20–30 minutes and accommodates 2–5 players. If your group is fewer than 5, other players may join you.

⏰ Session Times:

• 3:30 PM
• 4:30 PM
• 5:30 PM
• 6:30 PM

👉 Register here to book your session: tinyurl.com/artbitmatrixboardgame

*Image courtesy of Takumi Hirayama and Mizuma Gallery

About the artists:

Takumi Hirayama is a sculptural artist who works with clay as a medium of communication and self-reflection. His works explore the question of what kind of art is truly necessary for life, blending material, play, and imagination into meaningful encounters. He graduated from Tokyo Zokei University with a BFA in Sculpture and from Tokyo University of the Arts with a Masters in Fine Arts, Art Education. He creates sculptures and installations with clay, with a focus on the communication that emerges through creation and interaction with others. He also manages a studio and artist-run space, Coshin Coku in Shinagawa, Tokyo.

Takakurakazuki is a contemporary artist and holds a Master’s degree from Tokyo Zokei University. His work challenges the boundaries of contemporary art through Eastern philosophy, especially Buddhism, by reimagining the value of digital data and examining the aesthetics of character design. As an artist, he uses digital mediums including video games, pixel art, VR, NFTs, and AI in his practice. He has participated in major exhibitions, including Hyperman Ban-Go-O at the entrance of GINZA SIX in 2025, Character Matrix at BUG, Tokyo in 2024. He has also staged solo exhibitions, including Mecarial at the Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art in 2023. He has also exhibited at Ashikaga Museum of Art, SusHi Tech Square, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], and in Taipei, New York, and Mexico.

Daisuke Nishijima is a mangaka and a contemporary artist who made his mangaka debut in 2004 with sci-fi manga O-sou Sensou (The Universal), and has since published several mangas, including Điện Biên Phủ (Dien Bien Phu) and Sekai-No-Owari-No-Mahoutsukai (The Witch at the End of the World). In 2024, he began to develop indie games and released Mudai-san Adventure and SPACE INVADIANS. In the same year, his works were exhibited in The Development of Characters at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, promoting the theory of “The emergence of Art”. In August 2025, he released the indie game CYBERPUNK:CCMA at Chiba City Museum of Art. His indie game SUSHI-NATOR is currently shown at the Expo 2025 Osaka, featuring creatures inspired by sushi ingredients.

contact Gonzo is a performance art group formed in 2006. The group is named after the methodology that they have developed, which focuses on interpersonal contact and collision between bodies. Based on this methodology, the group has created several improvisational performances as their main body of work, and created photographs, video works, installations, games and publications derived from the ideas and materials used in those performances. Their works have been exhibited in Contact Gonzo: Physicatopia at Watari-Um Museum in Tokyo, 2017 and in a joint exhibition with YCAM Bio Research, wow, see you in the next life at Yamaguchi Centre for Arts and Media at Yamaguchi in 2019.

About the exhibition:

ART BIT MATRIX -TOKUSATSU to VIDEOGAME- at Mizuma Gallery brings together 12 Japanese artists to explore the intersections of contemporary art, indie games, and tokusatsu. Merging two past exhibitions—art bit and Character Matrix—the show examines character design, pop culture, and the fusion of Western art history with Asian traditions. Through paintings, animation, and interactive games, the exhibition also reflects on 80 years of post-war Japanese culture and questions artistic responses to today’s global tensions.

The exhibition ART BIT MATRIX -TOKUSATSU to VIDEOGAME- will be showing at Mizuma Gallery from 29 August to 19 October 2025. For more information, visit: https://tinyurl.com/artbitmatrixsg

Curators:

Daichi Nakagawa, Takakurakazuki, and Yasutaka Toyokawa

Artists:

contact Gonzo, Daisuke Nishijima, Hayaki Nishigaki, Kenji Yanobe+BAN8KU+YANOKEN PROJECT, Romana Machin Tanimura, Sawako Kageyama, Shun Okada, Takakurakazuki, Takumi Hirayama, Tomoya Kuki, Yoshihiro Takeuchi, and Yume Aoyama

*Image courtesy of Mizuma Gallery

About Mizuma Gallery:

Executive Director Sueo Mizuma established Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo in 1994. Since its opening in Gillman Barracks, Singapore in 2012, the gallery aims for the promotion of East Asian artists in the region as well as the introduction of Southeast Asian artists to the international art scene. From 2014 to 2019, the artist residency space “Rumah Kijang Mizuma” opened in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to create a new platform for dialogue by supporting exchanges between East Asia and Southeast Asia. From 2018 to 2023, “Mizuma & Kips” opened in New York, USA, as a shared collaboration between Mizuma Gallery from Tokyo and Singapore and Kips Gallery from New York.

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