Mission Statement Re: Reactivating Practices Hiroshima has announced a message of peace and reconciliation to sound an alarm regarding disasters brought about by wars. Today wars still occur and devastate towns and cities all over the world. Hiroshima, once burnt to the ground, is one of the cities that were rapidly reconstructed after the war. We would propose that the city, which has addressed the message of peace and reconciliation to eliminate wars, could serve as a model of a city of revival to towns and cities that were devastated by wars. The aim of Hiroshima Art Project is to propose the idea of Hiroshima as a city of revival through art activities. We are not reconstructing the townscape of the previous Hiroshima in the prewar period. We believe that in Hiroshima, where most of the objects were destroyed and lost due to the atomic bomb, the approach of reactivating practices is more important than that of reconstructing objects. Our society today has lost old-fashioned, but good, practices, such as everyday culture maintaining contact with nature, taking good care of things, keeping unreserved relationships of mutual trust with neighbors, and cultivating the openness to the unknown that spurred the overseas migration in the prewar period. Reactivating these practices in our daily life could be more important and difficult than reconstructing tangible objects. Using the creative and imaginative power of art, we aim at reviving the fertile everyday culture of Hiroshima by recollecting and reactivating practices that are vanishing these days. By paying attention to the prefix “re” which is common in such words as “restore,” “recover,” “remind,” “remember,” “reuse,” and “recycle,” we would like to make “Re: Reactivating Practices” our mission for Hiroshima Art Project.