Geidai Project presents six Japanese artists whose practices engage concepts of rupture and repair. In dialogue with the New Museum’s exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future, Geidai’s From Fragment to Form considers how alternative futures are reimagined through fracture, memory, and transformation.

In the showcase, these artists present works shaped by Japan’s long history of resilience. For centuries, Japan has rebuilt itself after earthquakes, tsunamis, famines, and war—transforming destruction into creative practice and developing techniques that honor what has been broken rather than erasing it. This cultural approach understands destruction as rebirth rather than an endpoint.

Inverting the logic of humans “using” technology as inanimate, Shin Hanagata creates the conditions in which the self is made visible within technological objects and systems. Inventor and sculptor Goki Muramoto explores perception and mediation, by treating the viewer's closed eyes as a window. Rediscover Project uses kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery using lacquer mixed with powdered gold, to conserve fragments damaged in the Noto earthquake as agents of time and memory. The kaleidoscopic works of Gak Yamada transforms fragments of light into cosmic imagery, proposing a worldview in which remnants function as portals rather than mementos of loss. Taro Yasuno’s Zombie Music constructs automated musical systems in which sound persists independently of human intention, drawing performers into processes they cannot fully control. Yoshida Yamar plays in aesthetics of amateurism to build new relationships between art and broader social systems.

Together, these works present a vision in which fragments become seeds of future creation—an expression of Japan’s enduring culture of renewal.

The Geidai Project brings together a consortium of five Japanese organizations across arts, education, and practice. Tokyo University of the Arts, Kyoto University Graduate School of Management, Aichi University of the Arts, AS (an architectural firm led by Jun Aoki), and Melco Group Inc. Together, they join NEW INC as anchor members, creating a shared platform for artists to develop work, exchange ideas, and build new forms of practice.

Supported by Melco Group Inc., the program covers participation costs while providing dedicated workspace and access to NEW INC’s facilities. The result is an active model of industry and academic collaboration, where infrastructure and resources directly support artistic production, experimentation, and presentation.