Japan Unlimited: Ghost Magnet Roach Motel

Ghost Magnet Roach Motel (70 minutes / 2016), directed by Shinpei Takeda, is a punk musical documentary film which follows two American musicians, two Mexican artists and one Japanese filmmaker of the Punkformance unit “Ghost Magnet Roach Motel” as they go through their existential crisis and struggle from addiction in the border of USA and Mexico.

The director Shinpei Takeda will be present at the film screening. This event takes place within the exhibition “Japan Unlimited”, curated by Marcello Farabegoli.

Doors open at 19:00, film starts at 20:00.

Japan Unlimited:
This exhibition, curated by Marcello Farabegoli, goes in search of two concepts that denote behavioural codes in Japanese society – tatemae (“masquerade”, which relates to the expectations of the community) and honne (which refers to feelings hidden from the community) – dual principles that are enormously influential in Japanese society – and it investigates their role in contemporary Japanese art. Tatemae and honne govern the relationship between the community and the individual, defining how coexistence functions through certain behavioural rules, laws, traditions and conventions – a phenomenon we see in different permutations in every society.

The exhibition runs til 24th November 2019 at frei_raum Q21 exhibition space.
Tue to Sun 13-16h & 16:30-20h
Free Admission