CITIES/PEOPLE

Leka Dereviankina

Leka lived in Japan and worked several times together with Zou No Hana Terrace in Yokohama. She works interdisciplinary, mainly with graphic, installation, video and sculptures. Leka makes drawings, and combines them with paintings and collages, sculptures and video installations. Leka had a long lasting…

WERC

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…

Busan

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…

JAN DERK DIEKEMA

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…

ZARA STANHOPE

As a curator practising within institutions and independently Zara Stanhope focuses on engagement with contemporary art across the south. Currently Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art at Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Stanhope is the lead curator on the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial…

Prue Crome

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,…

Risa Sato

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…

James Enos

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…

San Diego (CA)

San Diego (CA) is a sunbelt port city on the Pacific coast of the Southwestern United States located south of Los Angeles. As a region, it owes any understanding of itself to a complex account of transborder politics and cultural histories. Most notably, as an…

Haruna Nakayama

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

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.