location
Transportable
city
World
country
Wide
year
1998
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type of use
cultural
authors
Penny Herscovitch
Penny.herscovitch@yale.edu
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submitted by
tashy endres
submitted on
2003-03-19
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web links
sage.soga.net/cafe/
description
http://digilander.libero.it
description
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Pop-Up Cafe
a migrating venue for street meals, music, projections and conferences that last just one night.
time frame: Date of Realization:
First pop-up café took place on May 30, 1998
Time needed for installment at a site:
Can be installed on and removed from site in one day
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Pop-Up Café is a migrating venue, a multi-functional tent structure, founded by Japanese artist Asako Iwama. Since 1998, Pop-Up Café has been invading Tokyos interstitial spaces with street meals, music, projections and conferences that last just one night.
pop-up cafe blooms like a flower, appears and disappears, never at the same place
pop-up cafe re-invades urban space, re-possesing what anyway belongs to us all
pop-up cafe is a Yatai serving urban culture and other delicacies
pop-up cafe is a toy of our imagination and it's open to who ever
pop-up cafe invites you to re-discover Tokyo
PLACE OF FIRST TIME USE
Tama river side, Tokyo, Japan
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
The pop-up tent is a light, open structure, made from bamboo, steel wire and tent textile, with a single wall that doubles as projection screen and a long narrow roof.
TYPE OF USE
Photos (projected on the tent); restaurant/bar at tables in tent; Music, Live internet broadcasting; presentations of design for Chopsticks, Tablewares, Ashtrays, Cigarette cases, aprons for staff
INITIATOR 7 DESIGNER
Asako Iwama, artist
CLIENT
none
SIZE
2.2m high X 7.2m long X 2.6m wide
CAPACITY
130 people attended first café event
CONTACT FOR INFORMATION
http://sage.soga.net/cafe/
popupcafe@usa.net
Asako Iwama, founder, artist: iaaai@hotmail.com
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