"To get the community onboard with the show, we made some flyers with photos of us on that make us look like cult leaders," she says. "We were trying to look as wholesome as possible, which didn't really work too well."

For curator Ella Krivanek, the way an art event interacts with its surroundings is crucial, even if the results can't always be predicted.

For her upcoming art and music event "The Bathhouse Show," everything from the individual rooms and the building to the surrounding neighborhood and the city of Tokyo itself forms part of the conceptual space within which the event's various parts interact.