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List of Best Things to do in Kumamoto, Japan
Kumamoto Castle
Suizenji Jojuen Garden
Kumamoto Shiden (Kumamoto City Transportation)
Kato Shrine
Explore Kumamoto
Shimotori Shotengai
Suizenji Ezuko Park
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
Former Hosokawa Mansion
Kato Kiyomasa Statue
JAPAN KUMAMOTO TRAVEL DIARY
Next stop, Kumamoto. The home of Kumamon, stuffed lotus root and the great Kumamoto castle. Memories from my travel diary exploring Kawabata Dori, the Contemporary Art Museum, Handicraft Museum and local specialities like Tsukemono.
MIKE WEISS GALLERY - KAORUKO HD
Mike Weiss Gallery is pleased to present its first solo exhibition by
Japanese artist KAORUKO. Aromako, a play on words combining the artist's
name and visual theme of the work, explores the complexity of the modern
Japanese woman in terms of her relationship with herself and tradition.
Using acrylic paint, traditional sumi calligraphy techniques and
silkscreened kimono patterns, KAORUKO creates large-scale paintings
which depict women in their private domestic spaces.
Drawing upon both the rich cultural history of her homeland as well as her
experiences as a former Japanese pop star, KAORUKO's female figures are
set against highly codified motifs sourced from traditional woodblock
prints and Japanese textiles. The luscious hues, and flattened planes of
KAORUKO's paintings are frequently inspired by the Ukiyo-e 'floating
world' prints of the Edo period, and her inclusion of wave and ocean
designs, which denote 'happiness' and 'mystery', speak to her overarching
themes of transcendence, self-acceptance and universal love.
While KAORUKO's women are presented in various stages of undress, the
artist insists this is not an eroticized state but rather a , intimate
glimpse into their private lives and the friendship between them. In this
series, the women inhale one another's bodily odors, a gesture of
familiarity that is a decidedly feminist stance against the significance placed
by Japanese culture on pristine modesty. The very acknowledgment of
these odors goes against the idealized fantasy of the yamato nadeshiko (a
literal translation of this is 'Japanese dianthus ' meaning 'women
with traditional Japanese beauty') and the social construct of kawaii, which
values the feminine in terms of 'adorability' and 'cuteness.' In revealing
their skin, as well as the truth about their bodies that lie concealed behind
a mask of yamato nadeshiko perfection, KAORUKO illustrates the
dichotomy of the contemporary Japanese women. This woman has cleverly
learned to balance traditional expectations— signified by the inclusion of
time-honored motifs—with her modern lifestyle.
Born in Nagoya, Japan, KAORUKO is a self-taught artist who is now living
and working in New York City.
For additional information please contact Anna Ortt, Director at
anna@mikeweissgallery.com.
TEXT / PHOTOS COURTESY OF:
Mike Weiss Gallery
VIDEO BY:
O'Delle Abney, Artist / Agent
NYC GALLERY OPENINGS.COM
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Kumamoto: Earthquakes and Art
In April 2016, Kumamoto Prefecture was hit by two massive earthquakes in two successive nights. The Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, was damaged, but most of the artworks were saved, and it was able to reopen within a month as a cultural hub. Director of the Museum Takeshi Sakurai talked about his work there both before and after the earthquake, as well as the progress of reconstruction in Kumamoto more broadly.
Music: ものしりのそらへ by mekoisu (
La Mano Fria Art Exhibition | June 2008 | Shibuya Tokyo
5th in a series of art exhibition by La Mano Fria at Uplink factory in Shibuya (Tokyo) Japan.... Jibaro Times: La Mano Fria Report 5 (AIO Culture Cafe). This exhibit besides the usual canvas pieces, contains 40 bottles and a series of 3-d AIO logos and melted 12 vinyl pieces.
past exhibits can be seen here:
check out:
Special thanks to RL66 and Iris...
Music...
first song by:
Boom & BIrds aka Epstein y el Conjunto: One Visit
you can get it on vinyl here:
Germany:
UK:
Tokyo:
etc....
second song by:
JayTram: Jetgover2
unreleased (2008)
La Mano Fria | DJ | Live Typographic Performance
[Miami: Arepaz, Beta Bodega Coalition]
Label owner and founder of the Beta Bodega Coalition in 1998 (Beta Bodega label (RIP), Rice and Beans label (RIP) and Botanica del Jibaro and Arepaz record labels), La Mano Fria has always fused his ideas and work with those of artists to form a creative relationship and record label which is not only unique but with reason and meaning. La Mano Fria has been invited throughout the world, most noted was at Sonic Acts 2001 (Amsterdam), Transmediale.02 (Berlin), Sonar 2004 (Barcelona), Fusionix 2005 (Sapparo), Medelink 2008 (Medellin) and many more. Most recently, La Mano Fria's performance has gone into a live graphic typographic performance that mixes analog and digital. Blending and reconstructing text from the audience with a projector, computer, duct tape and markers to convey a series of messages and letter styles. Now touring under the banner of AIO (Arepaz Immigrante Orchestra) which brings the positive image and message of immigrants.
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La Mano Fria | Bio
La Mano Fria is a graphic artist, audio hacker, vj, record selector, a label owner, a visual soldier against the global and fake democratic system which engulfs the world today but most important a simple worker. Before the record labels and Beta Bodega Coalition was founded his involvement in the Miami scene ranged from organizing events to involvement with pirate radio stations. As a visual artist, La Mano Fria influences are life, culture and music: all types of tastes, sights and ofcourse sounds (latin, hip hop, electronic, techno, house, electro, roots reggae, experimental, etc.). And visual: old punk rock record covers, Cuban OSPAAAL posters, and NYC graffiti movement as well as his own experiences of being a immigrants struggling and being on the go in the US. HIs work includes graphics for labels such as: Counterflow, Merck, Project Mooncircle/HHV.de, Underground Gallery (JP), RL66 (JP), Mass Transit, Motech, Metatronix as well as all Beta Bodega Coalition record labels. Also creator of the clothing brand, Rice and Beans, which started in 1996 on the shelves of Bobbito Garcia's Footwork shop (RIP) in NYC, was brought back in 2006. Rice and Beans can now be found thourghout Japan at the popular shop, Beams T. La Mano Fria has also done a variety of art exhibitions from galleries in Tokyo, Porto, Niigata, Den Hague, Kyoto, Dresden, etc. The point is to use skills not violence as true weapons, media as a tool which can give a voice and shine a light on issues and concerning the Third World and it's immigrants worldwide.
© JÅRG GEISMAR - i love you as I am Kumamoto - 2007
film about the installation i love you as I am by Jårg Geismar as part of the exhibition attitude 2007 at CAMK contemporary art museum kumamoto/japan curated by hiroshi minamishima
2007
KUMAMOTO DECORATED TUMULUS MUSEUM. TADAO ANDO ARCHITECT
Japanese Gardens
Welcome to the Shinzen Japanese Gardens at Woodward Park in Fresno, California. For the next few minutes this is your chance to escape to the most soothing world of earth and water that mother nature can offer as you walk among the water falls, water ponds, wandering paths, flowers and trees and magnificent Bonzais. We invite you to take a 'walk in the park'. Thank you, Lare Austin. Oh, and please check out my channel
Music:
Esashi oiwake by The Matsu Take Ensemble
Sakura sakura by Emiko Toguchi and Yumiko Kanao, on koto
Daha by Michel Dubeau
Kazoe uta by Emiko Toguchi and Yumiko Kanao, on koto
Permission granted courtesy of Bruno Deschênes, The Matsu Take Ensemble
mouse on the keys - “The Flowers of Romance” release tour @ SECOND SIGHT 5F (Kumamoto)_20151011
Opening of the Natsume Soseki Memorial Museum in Shinjuku
shinjuku
Cable TV Kumamoto exhibition and interview geismar
TV film about the group exhibition Attitude 2007, the work I love you as I am and interview with the german artist Jårg Geismar at CAMK, contemporary art museum kumamoto, japan
2016June Japan (Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Kanazawa, Tokyo) 2016日本福岡關西關東
Japan has always been one of our getaway picks and there's not a single doubt that it has been our all-time favorite.:P This time, I have decided to do something different by taking vlogs to record every bit here and there along the trip. We stayed for 8 days and covered mainly the south and east of Japan (details below). Enjoyyy
この夏、家族とまた日本へ旅行しました。今回の金沢、黒部と立山は初めてに行きました。８日間で色々な景色を見って、エリアのわずかな違いを体験して、それとも美味しい地方名物たくさんあったのはこのビデオ映像で表れています。ぜひお楽しみご覧でください〜
Places we went 場所の表示:
Fukuoka Downtown Hakata 福岡博多
Hiroshima Downtown 広島
Hiroshima Peace Memorial 原爆ドーム
Miyajima Island 宮島
Mount. Misen 弥山
Rabbit's Island 大久野島
Kyoto 京都
Fushimi Inari Temple 伏見稲荷大社
Golden Pavilion Temple 金閣寺
Kiyomitsu Temple 清水寺
Arashiyama Bamboo Grove 嵯峨嵐山
Kanazawa Downtown 金沢
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art 金沢21世紀美術館
Tateyama Kurobe Alphine Route 立山黒部
Karuizawa 軽井沢
Tokyo Downtown 東京
Harajyuku 原宿
Shinbuya 渋谷
Ame street in Ueno 上野アメ横丁
Enoshima 江ノ島
*We utilised the JR railway pass to go through all the above places.
BGM: Stay Tune by Suchmos
Camera Used: Canon Powershot G7x
[ Magical Art Museum / Kateigaho ] Light-play as art
If you enjoyed this video, read the Museums on the Move feature in Kateigaho International Japan Edition Spring/Summer 2016 (vol. 37) to find out more about the latest on the Magical Art Museum. Look for the issue in fine bookstores, or visit our website to order a digital copy.
Courtesy of Magical Art Museum
Edited by Masaharu Hatta
[Magical Art Museum]
Through March 27, 2016 Sakura City Museum of Art
March 4 to April 10, 2016 Okayama City Museum
March 26 to May 22, 2016 Tomioka City Museum / Fukuzawa Ichiro Gallery
April 23 to May 15, 2016 Marinart (Shizuoka City, Shimizu Cultural Hall)
June 25 to September 19, 2016 Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
July 2 to September 4, 2016 Kushiro City Museum of Art
July 12 to August 28, 2016 Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa
Museum of Art
July 16 to August 21, 2016 Reimeikan (Kagoshima Prefectural Historical Museum)
Jazz Katsu Evening for Kumamoto: Japan Earthquake Relief Benefit
The Jazz Katsu Fundraising Committee and the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, in cooperation with Wesley United Methodist Church, hosted Ayako Hosokawa with Akira Tana and Otonowa in a evening of food and jazz at the JAMsj. An update to the Kumamoto earthquake situation was given by the Kumamoto Kenmin in Silicon Valley.
Once again I shot this event on my iPhone. If you'd like to help me by shooting community happenings on your phone, send me an email.
samurai fight and dance performance @ kumamoto castle Japan
Kumamoto city has one of the nicest castle in japan and everyday some samurai performances are presented with a nice combination of martial arts and modern dance
Kamen Rider 40th Anniversary Art Exhibition - I Live in Japan 85
I live in Japan
Talking about my life in Japan
Cultural (and not so) and everyday experiences.
Eighty-fifth Episode: Kamen Rider 40th Anniversary Art Exhibition
Duncan and Kumiko LOVE Kamen Rider Wizard, so when we heard there was an exhibition at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, we HAD to go check it out! I didn't grow up watching Kamen Rider but I found it a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. We went on the last day, so if you want to see it, you're unfortunately out of luck!
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (English page):
Also available in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese
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Music: Eastern Thought by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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Tetsuya Umeda - DoubleVision Exhibition Opening at Tikotin Museum, Haifa
Artist Tetsuya Umeda from Kumamoto, Japan. Art installation at the opening ceremony of the exhibition DoubleVision - Contemporary Art from Japan, Tikotin Museum, Haifa Israel
documentary of marugame shi kagawa ken japan
Marina Abramovic | How I See the World
I think we are in most dangerous moment of human civilization right now. The only way to survive is to change our consciousness. Marina Abramovic reflects on how she sees the World.
Marina Abramovic (b November 30, 1946) is a Yugoslavia-born performance artist. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Active for over five decades, Abramovic has been described as the grandmother of performance art.
Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Ex-Yugoslavia, to partisan parents, who met during WWII and were national heroes under Marshal Tito's regime. Raised in her childhood primarily by her orthodox grandmother, religion and revolution impacted profoundly on her early life and continue to permeate her artistic practice. In Rhythm 5 (1974/2011) she sets fire to a communist star that can also be read as a pentagram when inverted. The video installation The Hero (2001) is a ritualistic elegy for her father.
Abramovic’s works seek the core of concepts such as loss, memory, being, pain, endurance and trust. Her work is a matter of life and death – questions about existence and art are brought to a head in ways that may both provoke and move us. Rarely has anyone explored the physical and mental pain thresholds as she does.
Marina Abramovic has presented her work with performances, sound, photography, video and sculpture in solo exhibitions at major institutions in the U.S. and Europe. Her work has also been included in many large-scale international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (1976 and 1997) and Documenta VI, VII and IX, Kassel, Germany (1977, 1982 and 1992). In 1998, the exhibition Artist Body - Public Body toured extensively, including stops at Kunstmuseum and Grosse Halle, Bern, Switzerland and La Gallera, Valencia, Spain. In 2004, Abramovic exhibited at the Whitney Biennial in New York and had a significant solo show, The Star, at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan and the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan.
Abramovic has taught and lectured extensively in Europe and America. In 1994, she became Professor for Performance Art at the Hochschule für Bildende Künst in Braunschweig, where she taught for seven years. In 2004, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Art Institute in Chicago, The University of Plymouth and Willams College.
She was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale for her extraordinary video installation/performance piece Balkan Baroque and, in 2003, received the New Media Bessie award for The House with the Ocean View‚ a 12-day performance at Sean Kelly Gallery.
In 2005, Abramovic presented Balkan Erotic Epic at the Pirelli Foundation in Milan, Italy and at Sean Kelly in New York. That same year, she held a series of performances entitled Seven Easy Pieces at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She was honored for Seven Easy Pieces by the Guggenheim at their International Gala in 2006 and by the AICA-USA, which awarded her the Best Exhibition of Time Based Art designation in 2007. She was the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Artist is Present, in 2010; the following year, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, Russia also presented a major retrospective of Abramovic's oeuvre. Abramovic's work is included in numerous major public and private collections worldwide.
In 2011, Abramovic participated in visionary director Robert Wilson's, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, the critically acclaimed re-imagination of Abramovic's biography, which continues to tour internationally. The feature-length documentary, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, premiered in January 2012 at the Sundance Film Festival and has since received widespread critical acclaim. In 2015, Abramovic was the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, entitled Private Archaeology. In conjunction with her solo exhibition at MONA, Abramovic conducted a 12-day residency program, through Kaldor Public Art Projects in Sydney, Australia.
Abramovic is currently developing the Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI) in Hudson, New York, an interdisciplinary performance and education center dedicated to the presentation and preservation of long durational work and the fostering of collaborations between art, science, technology and spirituality.
Marina Abramovic lives and works in New York.
CREDITS
Marina Abramovic | filmed by Out of Sync | Stockholm Feb 2017
Interview | Jesper Bundgaard
Camera and edit | Per Henriksen
Producer | Out of Sync
© Out of Sync 2017
New Year Samurai Performance at Kumamoto Castle (2014)
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