[ambientTV.NET] A|R|C 2010-12 : NAOYA HATAKEYAMA. A|R|C 2010-12 : NAOYA HATAKEYAMA
+ ARTIST TALK + EXHIBITIONS + OPEN STUDIO For the month of October, we're welcoming one of Japan's leading photographers, NAOYA HATAKEYAMA, as inaugural artist/researcher/collaborator in residence at ambient.space studios. The A|R|C residencies will continue to 2012 (details below). - - - OPEN STUDIO 22 October 2010, 16h-20h ambient.space, 76 Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN "A photograph carries a message from nature […] If I continue to trace lines in the city in due course, considerate people should appear and begin to draw new lines, […] lines fit to become rich metaphors equal to things in nature." [N. Hatakeyama] During the A|R|C residency, Naoya Hatakeyama is exploring sites of (often failed) utopian architecture in and around London with Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel. His observations of these sites feed into Luksch & Patel's long-term artistic research project, FUNCTION CREEP, which examines and proposes experiments of sustainable living. The Open Studio is an opportunity to meet informally with the artists at ambient.space studios. All (ages) welcome. http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=arc [email protected] - - - EXHIBITION & ARTIST TALK SCALES: Photographys by Naoya Hatakeyama EXHIBITION 14 Oct - 15 Dec 2010 ARTIST TALK 15 Oct, 16h - 18h (booking essential) Daiwa Foundation Japan House, 13-14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP We strive to grasp the world as a whole, but it is too vast and our lives too short, so we invent maps, models, signs and metaphors. Hatakeyama reflects deeply on this observation through dissecting the subject of photography (meaning the object that casts the image, but also the photographer as subject) and the nature of photography itself. For him, the photograph and the photographed are ontologically distinct realms; the realm of the image illuminating the other. Together with unpublished works, the exhibition will showcase his masterwork, Scales, commissioned by Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), which explores the concepts of scale and perception of reality through architectural models. The Artist Talk on the 15th will be chaired by Prof. Chris Wainwright, Head of Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges at the University of the Arts. Naoya Hatakeyama will be in conversation with Charlotte Cotton, Creative Director of the National Media Museum. Places are limited so please call the Daiwa Foundation on 020 7486 4348 to book. -> Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation http://www.dajf.org.uk - - - EXHIBITION FUTURE BEAUTY: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion 15 Oct 2010 - 06 Feb 2011 Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS A survey of avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to now. The section 'Flatness' explores the simple geometries and interplay of flatness and volume in the work of Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo, and includes a series of specially commissioned photographs by Naoya Hatakeyama. -> Barbican Art Gallery http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=10771 - - - ABOUT Naoya Hatakeyama Since the mid-1980s, Tokyo-based Hatakeyama has created a body of work concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. His Lime Works series, a study of the landscapes and architecture of limestone quarries, received the 22nd Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award in 1997. In 2001 he was the recipient of the 42nd Mainichi Award of Art for Underground (1999), an exploration of the normally unseen tunnels, rivers, and ecosystems of Tokyo‚Äôs sewer network. During the same year he was chosen to represent Japan at the 49th Venice Biennale. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions, Hatakeyama‚Äôs photographs are found in public collections including the National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Swiss Foundation for Photography, Kunsthaus Z√ºrich; Maison Europ√©enne de la Photographie, Paris; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. -> Taka Ishii Gallery http://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/artists/naoya-hatakeyama/index.html ABOUT A|R|C RESIDENCY A|R|C invites international artists for month-long collaborative residencies at ambient.space studios, East London. This programme follows the very successful ambient.vista residencies, in which four international artists reframed the city by addressing the views over it afforded by the hosting studio. For A|R|C, invited artists are asked to consider, in collaboration with hosts Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel, the prospect from the studio in the metaphorical sense of possible futures: specifically, those arising from transformations of public space (both 'real' and online) and conceptions of citizenship. This work will feed into Luksch & Patel's long-term artistic research project, FUNCTION CREEP, which examines and proposes experiments of sustainable living. A|R|C supported by Arts Council England The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Simon Bishop Foundation http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=arc - - - _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
