From September 27, 2025, to January 4, 2026, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents “Koki Tanaka: Provisional Community,” a solo exhibition by the Japanese contemporary artist Koki Tanaka (b. 1975, Tochigi, Japan). The exhibition focuses on how Tanaka explores the complex relationships between people through temporary gatherings and open-ended collaboration. While encounters initiated by chance, crisis, or workshops are often brief, the flow and tension of human emotion still emerge in flux.

On December 6, 2025, UCCA will host a special guided tour “Aging in Togetherness” led by Dr. Chang Yuanqing, Boya Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Peking University. Approaching the exhibition through the perspectives of aging, care, and interdependence, the tour will reflect on the individual, the group, and the community, and focus on personal narratives of coping with and adapting to aging, explores the provisional dialogues and collaborative practices generated through intergenerational cooperation. The tour also extend to practical actions within broader social contexts, and consider how a shared future of aging can be constructed in the public sphere.

Dr. Chang’s research has long focused on age-related attitudes, intergenerational relationships, and social adaptation in later life within the context of population aging, namely, how people perceive aging, actively adapt to life in old age, and foster more harmonious intergenerational coexistence. Through the micro-social experiments constructed in “Provisional Community”, artist Koki Tanaka vividly simulates the challenges faced in care provision and intergenerational interactions in real life—whether negotiating limited resources or engaging in mutual support to bridge cognitive and physical differences. During this special guided tour, Dr. Chang will draw on these research to engage with the audience in exploring how the psychological and social factors revealed by the artist’s work operate within intergenerational collective collaborations, thereby inspiring reflection on how, in an irreversibly aging society, we can move toward “Aging in Togetherness” more harmoniously through practice and active engagement.