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
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The artist collective WERC consists of Joachim Rümke, Olav Huizer, and Jelle Valk and is based in Groningen. They work collectively in varying formations with diverse disciplines on innovative and interdisciplinary installations and performances. Typical of their work are the experiments with new media and…
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 amount of daylight in Finland varies greatly according to the season. From the white nights of the arctic summer to the darkness of the polar nights, Finland is home to natural phenomena which do not occur in Japan. In his installation at Gallery Forum…
Due to growing awareness of the need to prevent marine pollution, there is now an international movement to reduce single-use plastic products such as straws. Living a more eco- friendly lifestyle is now a global trend. Zou-no-hana Terrace, too, is taking efforts to reduce plastic…
KAN-BUTSU BASEL This was a performance conducted by overlapping the layers of culture in producing dried goods by traditional Japanese methods in Switzerland’s climate, similar to Japan. Processing more typically Swiss foods such as dairy products and meats, I entertained and served soup to visitors…
DIRECTORS NOTE–suddenly appeared in our life– Risa Sato: Spaceship ‘Kari-nui’In partnership with ZOU-NO-HANA Terrace, Japanese artist Risa Sato presented ‘Kari-nui’ at West Space in Melbourne in May-June 2013. The back gallery of West Space was used as a working studio space for Risa, and displayed…
Maritime Craft is a project/installation that explores the port landscapes of San Diego and Yokohama. The project documents a singular object and the world it sees. Floating on the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan and California, the object absorbs visual data with multiple…
Diekema’s work is a mix of art, activism, ‘bottom up’ urban planning and creating communities. Introduced as Artist and City Maker, half of his work exists as projects in the field of art and urban research. These are primarily explorations in aesthetically grounded research that…
Torsten Bruch (b. 1973) is a visual and acting artist born in Hannover, Germany. He is now living in Hamburg. The starting point of Bruch is the search for the other within the self by different strategies of role play. Meeting the self by addition…
ChihHung Liu, born in Hsinchu (Taiwan) in 1985. He graduated from M.F.A Program, Department of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. He is a freelancer/artist who lives and works in Taipei currently. Recent art projects embody his understanding of life and his…
She was born in Kanagawa in 1992. Her work deals with the concept of how to visualize invisible things which exist between herself and others. While she works with a range of media to create 3D objects and video installations, recent work uses sugar crystallization…
Artist. Born in Yokohama in 1973. He mainly creates kinetic installations with the keyword of “conversion.” His recent exhibitions were shown in “Synthesis” at the Reykjavík Art Museum in Iceland in 2014, “The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial” in Niigata in 2015, “Railway Museum Exhibition” at Taro…
Rahel Bruns was born in 1979 in Filderstadt Germany. She is an artist based in Hamburg and creates sculptor which were shown in many countries. She got various scholarships and was awarded many prizes. She did her Master in Fine Arts in 2009 at the…
Studied at the University of Industrial design, philosophy at the University of Helsinki and in the sculpture department of the Academy of fine art Helsinki. He usually makes installations in space in which he plays with our perceptions and senses of reality. He has been…
Graduated as a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Minerva Academie (The Netherlands) in 2007 and currently works as an artist and performer in Groningen. His work can be described as experiments in storytelling, showing the different layers of a story, the emotions of characters, objects,…
Born in Japan in 1985, Miku Sato studied at Musashino Art University in Tokyo.Her practice focuses on relationships of intervals and spaces that exist between the public and the private, individual and social or between passivity and proactivity in art. She explores new perspectives on…
Lu Yang was born in 1984 in China. She graduated from the China Academy of Art in 2010 and is now based in Shanghai. Her practice combines video, installation, and digital painting in her explorations of such themes as science, biology, religion, mass culture, subculture,…
Crome’s art focuses on the phenomenological interrelationship of the viewer to the objects and space around them. Her immersive installations use light and colour as transformative tools to emphasize specific universal events that exist in the everyday such as the phenomena of reflections, light rays,…
Born in Tokyo 1972. Risa Sato carries the ‘Risa Campaign’ project both nationally and internationally, where she wanders around in towns together with her own artwork. The way she communicates with people is so unique that her works also appears as large-scale sculptural/public artworks. Her…
susanna baer and alex sonderegger were born in switzerland. they started their design studio «so+ba», in tokyo in 2001. with their experiences in graphic design and advertising in switzerland and japan, as well as a good understanding of the two very different cultures, cross-cultural communication…
Tim Schwartz (b. 1981 Boston, Massachusetts) is a Los Angeles-based artist, technologist, and activist who makes works of art focused on technology, information, privacy, and how our culture absorbs changes in these areas. He received a BA in Physics from Wesleyan University and an MFA…
James Enos (b. 1975 Lafayette, Indiana) is an Assistant Professor of Art and Chair of Studio Core at the University of Georgia, where his research engages issues of architecture, activism and social practice in an effort to understand how public culture responds to social and…
Haruna Nakayama was born in Chiba, Japan, and completed studies at Toyko University of Fine Arts. She conducts community design projects and food×art workshops in Japan and abroad. Establishing the non-profit organization Food Designers Network in 2012, she also runs the food-and-products workshop Studio Ferment.
Michael Kress, is a conceptual artist, born in 1964, in Munich, Germany, living in Hamburg. The focus of his work is semiotics and language as a normative moment in the construction of a media-identity.
Yui Inoue was born in Aichi, Japan, in 1983. Making use of familiar techniques of weaving and knitting developed in the context of daily life, Ms. Inoue’s work specializes in site-specific installations.