Shinobu Shishikura
ATAMI ART VILLAGE 
Garden for children
“Onbutsu,” a toy created by Fröbel, the founder of “kindergarten,” and the Japanese folklore of Sai-no-Kawara (children’s limbo).
Both based on “playing with building blocks,” they perhaps represent one of the origins of “educational toy,” a device for humans to input stories and values while transforming them into “beliefs.”
This work is a multiplayer game that extracts and crystallizes the elements that are common to both.
We invite you and your friends to play it in person at the ATAMI ART VILLAGE.
Shishikura isn’t bound by conventional forms. As an artist he explores recent forms of ritualistic experiences through constructing altars, computer games, lecture-like videos, health devices and even slot machines.
Shishikura is particularly interested in how stories and ideas are not just fiction but a ceremony that allow functional beliefs to be injested into humans.
