Kategorie: Japan
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For a city to come.
It is the invisible structure of urban environment – hidden from view in the same manner as the blackness of film negative conceals the whiteness of positive print – that disrupts the emergence of new forms of thinking, or acting, and thus causes any form of artistic practice to be either complicit or impossible. […] corridors…
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Wasteland to dancefloor.
»Movement: From wasteland to dancefloor, 1984-1989«. Through the sublime period shots of Yoshi Omori and the words of Marc Boudet and Jay One Ramier, Mouvement is a poignant testimony of the first hours of glory of Parisian Hip-Hop and an exceptional archive of the graffiti scene of the early 80s. read more»»
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Walk in Konohana.
»A walk with Henguchi« Henguchi is a Japanese artist and poet, who introduced us to Konohana, a local district in Osaka, quite central, near the harbor, surrounded by rivers and water. Some years ago we very briefly met British sociologist Iza Kavedžija on a street in Konohana who did some research there for her paper …
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Towards the City.
Towards the City by Yutaka Takanashi published in 1974 is a book about economics, consumption and the inevitable price paid for the economic boom in polluted skies and a land strewn with waste and detritus.The striking disc on the front of the large book presumably represents the rising sun of Japan, or the rising sun of…
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Thinking without Words.
In her book »Paul Celan und der chinesische Engel« Yoko Tawada writes: Walking is Thinking without Words. more about Yoko Tawada »»
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Landscape Theory.
»Masao Adachi […] decided to film the story of a 19-year-old boy who murdered four people in four different cities for no apparent reason. To do so, in A.K.A. Serial Killer he created a new approach: fukeiron, or landscape theory. […] The film, with a voiceover by Adachi and a free jazz score, relates the life…
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BIEST — Kimono.
Not only since their intensive working stays in Japan, BIEST have been concerned with the structure, the understanding of self and world, the processing and the thinking that is condensed in and with a piece of fabric like the kimono. With the series Kimono 2.0 they have made an adaptation and an update in linking…
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Japanese Lesson.
Since 2011 Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been exploring various phenomena of the Japanese present under the title Japanese Lesson, dealing with subcultures, activism and protest or the political landscape of the major cities of Tokyo and Osaka. In 2019 they developed several walks in districts on the one hand still struggeling with stigmatization…
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Walking — Moving.
In 1977 Japanese artist Norio Imai, former member of the Gutai group, walked through his neighborhood Sumiyoshi in Osaka. (Walking Event/Scene at the Corner ウォーキング･イヴェント/曲り角の風景, 1977) Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber followed his walk in 2019.
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William Klein.
William Klein‘s »Dance Happening June 1961« in collaboration with Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio.
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Drawing Lines.
Yanase Anri, Drawing Lines (Practices for encountering complex and ambiguous worlds, 2015-16. more »»