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La Ville Lumière.
»From the Cité des arts to the Champs-Elysées, where yellow vests demonstrated, »La Ville Lumière« states a photographic testimony. Posted in chronological order in which they were taken, their images show empty streets, closed store windows and diverse groups of people. They bear witness to the influence of the social context on the urban landscape.«…
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Japanese Lesson: Midosuji.
Midosuji Boulevard – the primary main street in central Osaka – is an ultra high-class shopping street, housing luxury clothing flagship stores, several department stores and major hotels. In 2019 on »Midosuji« several racists ralleys took place, opposed by counter racists – and the police inbetween. Katja Stuke, Midosuji, Osaka 2019one-channel video, sound, 6:47 min exhibited at:Sequence…
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Japanese Lesson: Tokyo No Hate.
The Fukushima nuclear disaster was an energy accident at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. Since then we met activists in Japan, joined protest demonstrations, exchanged with artists and learned a lot abour places, spaces and history in Japan. exhibited at:Filmwerkstatt…
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Japanese Lesson: Nishinari / Ikuno.
One part of Nishinari ward is Kamagasaki, located near the south of the Osaka loop line; it’s a so called »Yoseba,« an area where unskilled workers live and work day in and day out. Ikuno-ku is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. The Tsuruhashi area of Ikuno-ku is well known for the large number…
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Japanese Lesson: Ichinomiya.
The Tsurigasaki Beach in the town of »Ichinomiya«, Chiba Prefecture, has been selected as a site for the surfing event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Surfing made its debut at the 2021 Games as an official sport in the Summer Olympics. Ichinomiya is located 233 miles south of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. »Ichinomiya« 2018May 5, 2017,…
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Japanese Lesson: San’ya.
San’ya is an area in the Taitō district of Tokyo. San’ya dates to theEdo period. Lower caste workers, butchers, tanners, leatherworkers, and the like, were forced to live in this undesirable region by the predominantly Buddhist authorities. It has retained its association with both lower class workers and with craftsmen. »Sanya« 2018April 10, 2017, 3 – 6 :30 pm36 pigment prints,…
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Japanese Lesson.
The »Japanese Lesson« artist book consists of 13 chapters. Each chapter shows a ‚walk‘ either on a border of a district in Tokyo or Osaka which inhabitants experience discrimination and stigmatisation often due to the geographic history; or the walk could lead around or towards a (construction) site related to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.On…
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A future book.
»Since 2005 Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been traveling to Japan, working on topics from subculture to surveillance. Since 2011 their perspective became more elaborated and several new works have been created, dealing with topics like protest, activism or political landscape. »A Future Book« is a work from 2017, dealing with editing and book-making.«…
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Mash Up.
This »Japanese Lesson« is an associative mash-up, developing since 2005. Resulted from a long-lasting research the »Mash-up« contains images and drawings from mangas and animes, still images from japanese movies, historical and current press-photographs; photos, drawings and paintings by japanese artists, some of their own works and material we found in the web, magazines, LP-record-sleeves,…
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Walking as artistic practice.
»First New York Walks«10 drawings, digitized 1996/2002 Original Diaries1996-2006 (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo) The first so-called ‚walks’ were already created in 1996 during our first trip to New York. The structure of the city map was an invitation to do so. The encounters and experiences of these daily walks where documented in a…