クリエイティブな街づくりを推進する、世界の港町による文化交流プロジェクト BUILDING AND SUSTAINING INTER-CITY RELATIONS THROUGH CULTURAL EXCHANGE AMONG PORT CITIES OF THE WORLD
What does the world look like behind the infrastructure that makes our everyday lives possible, while at the same time having an enormous impact on people, nature, and the landscapes of the future? Sites is an international art and research project in which artists and…
ART & FIELD RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
By James Enos & Forest Kelley
COMMUNICATION UNDER TREES –
A WORLDWIDE OPEN CALL ON CRITICAL SUSTAINABILITY
How can artists formulate plans for a sustainable future?
How do we start now by planting seeds as ideas for tomorrow?
How is sustainability part of each one’s own creative practice?
ONLINE-CALL FOR ENTRIES 7 SEEDS YOKOHAMA – COMMUNICATION UNDER TREES NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 05, 2024 Japanese Version here! How can artists formulate plans for a sustainable future?How do we start now by planting seeds as ideas for tomorrow?How is sustainability part of each one…
The theme of the meeting is International Exchange in the Era of Pandemics – We will share the latest situation about the movements that are happening in each city while the limitation of mobility is spread all over the world. Through the presentations of partner cities, we will discuss the significance and means of international exchange in the future.
Now that we are not familiar with the unknown, why not keep coexisting with it and enjoy wandering and drifting with the ocean in pursuit of answers? According to the dictionary, “lang-dang (浪宕)” indicates wandering without any purposes, while “lang-lang-dang-dang (浪浪宕宕)” refers to a carefree…
Forest Kelley (Lexington, Kentucky) is an artist and experimental composer whose work explores how personal memory and psychology operate within larger social and technological systems. Working across photography, installation, sound, and code, he investigates histories and labor structures that exist beyond public view, tracing how…
The term ‘Totatoga’ is composed of ‘TO’ from ‘Tolerance’ in French. It bears the meaning of toleration, consideration of cultural diversity. The meaning of ‘TATO’ is that artists and citizens are living and sharing both respectively and together. (It is called “따로또같이 [Taro Togattchi]” in…
Annie Simpson (Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an experimental geographer, essayist, and video essayist. Her work draws from literary and media cultures to find points of contact with places consigned to the margins of geography. Through critical travelogues, she studies the ways socio-technical systems both structure these landscapes…
Born in 1972. Ota is curator for Spiral/Wacoal Art Center and program manager for several art projects happened in Zou-no-hana Terrace (Yokohama), Kashiwa-no-ha Campus (Chiba) and other areas in Japan. currently managing projects in Dogo Onsenart 2014 as associated curator and Port Journeys at Zou-no-hana…
The city is nationally known as the “Metropolis of the North” and as “Martinistad” referring to the tower of the Martinitoren, named after its patron saint Martin of Tours. Although Groningen is not a very large city, it does have an important role as the main urban centre…
Based in the all-embracing metropolis of Shanghai, Modern Art Museum (MAM) focuses on diversity, equality, exchange and education. With an open mind the museum introduces classic art in the West and the East and innovative creations in all the creative fields. The museum pays no…