Kategorie: Walking as artistic practice
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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: 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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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…