“Japanese Art Experience” in Italy
イタリア北部キャンプシラーゴ村にある芸術文化拠点「キャンプシラーゴ・レジデンザ」にて「日本芸術体験」と題するフェスティバルに出演しました。
Collaboration with Campsirago Residenza
In 2020, amidst travel restrictions under the pandemic, I was introduced online by my long-standing friend Sjoerd Wagenaar (NL) to his artistic ally Michele Losi…
The Wall Street Journal
“A Japanese Island Where Making Things Better Means Keeping Things Small” by Tom Downey
Research of Resonance in Mt. Hiko
英彦山に住むアメリカ人写真家 Everettに率いられて音の響きのリサーチをしました。
お堂でお参りをしてから、11秒ほど続く山彦と、半円形のパラボラ型になっている岩の反響を実験。
List of Visitors and New Contacts for Collaboration - Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Since October 2022, when Japan’s border restrictions were lifted, artists from in and out of Japan visited us in Ukiha. Some were long-lasting counterparts, some were newly introduced by our trusted friends.
Studio Nienke Hoogvliet
オランダからデザイナーのニーンケとパートナーのティムが滞在しました。Omnicentではうきはと近郊の生産者やギャラリー、クラフトの工房などを案内。
23年以降改めて独自プロジェクトをうきはで実施するために共同での企画が始まっています。
Campsirago Residenza in Ukiha
Campsirago Residenza is one of our permanent AIR collaborators located in the northern village of Italy. We started exchanging ideas and making plans for a project together in 2020, when every international traffic was restricted. Michele and Alvise’s visit was a long-waited one, for b
Otani-Nieuwenhuize, “Holland Loci”
Johan Nieuwenhuize and Shinji Otani stayed together in Ukiha for their third duo project in Japan, following Nagasaki Prefecture (with Rijks Museum) and Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine (Fukuoka Pref.).
The project was based on an anthropological research on the connection between Japan and the Netherlands, which started in 17 C when the Japanese Shogunate was only allowing Dutch merchants access to the country via an island port called Dejima in Nagasaki, Kyushu.
TOGETHER: Koen Tossijn, Studio the Future x Sugikoujou
The ideas for the project first sprouted when the duo Studio the Future (Vincent Schipper and Klara Van Duijkeren) visited Ryoko Baba (Omnicent) in Ukiha in 2016 through the connection built by Ukiha’s artists in residence programs.