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This exhibition on the dream and sleeping, the collaboration between four artists from UK and Japan , will be held in MOBIUM bus.
As part of this exhibition we would like to invite you to join us for an English tea party and listen to bed time stories. |
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Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, IAMAS Ogaki
2pm until 9pm, Tue 15 and Wed 16 May 2007
Event: Bus Supper 6pm til 9pm, Tue 15 May
Nagoya University, Toyota Auditorium
2pm until 9pm, Fri 18 - Sun 20 May 2007
Event: Afternoon Tea Party 3pm til 5pm, Sun 20 May
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1pm until 7pm, Fri 25 May 2007, 1pm until 5pm, Sat 26 and Sun 27 May 2007
Event: Afternoon Tea Party 3pm til 5pm, Sun 27 May
Entrance fee : free
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The initial collaboration between Takeko Akamatsu, Karen Heald, Helen Jones and Yosuke Kawamura, started from Karen's research into time, sleep, dreams and the unconscious. Working with ideas linked to sleep, the artists explored different cultural experiences, which included sleeping in a Buddhist temple and a capsule hotel. From these experiences Karen created several short experimental films and photographic imagery. Helen looked at the connections between the traditional English bed time story and Japanese lullabies (Komori Uta.) She produced illustrations inspired by the Komori Uta lyrics and Takeko created the
soundtrack for these songs. Yosuke brought the stories to life, making animations of the work that will be shown on the bus. |
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Helen Jones Photographer and graphic designer (England UK)
Helen is a Manchester based artist, who relocated to Japan in 2006. She was a member of an artist collective twoeightone and presented works in public places such as shops, warehouses and apartments. Jones has an interest in the connections between people and their personal stories. Her works include: a flyer insert for Art Monthly, which illustrates the differences in backgrounds between intimate friends and self that can't be perceived on the surface. She also made Heroes & Heroines, a series which shows portraits and conversations with friends, revealing their personal stories and the people they look up to. |
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Karen Heald Video and performance artist (Wales UK)
Responding intuivitively to specific cultural and historical sites Karen's research uses video, performance and installation. The work analyses feminist notions of time, nature, myth and the unconscious. Conducting research into sleep through a series of site-specific performances Karen has collaborated with scientists and artists. The Pillow Series explores dreams, the unconscious and the invisibility of time (physical, spiritual and imaginary) from a feminist art perspective, questioning what sleep and the body means cross culturally and in different spaces. Exhibiting her work internationally she is a lecturer at NEWI, University of Wales, a research assistant at the University of Salford, and a PhD student at Leeds Metropolitan University. |
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Takeko Akamatsu [tn8] Sound designer (Japan)
Takeko is obsessed with the charms of an audio programming language SuperCollider. She was an assistant at Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences Department of Visual Media before beginning her current work as a freelance sound designer, using the themes of "functional sound" and "essential meaning of sound design."
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~tn800
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Yosuke Kawamura Sound and installation artist (Japan)
Yosuke programs work and uses devices to make something new. From 2005 Yosuke started "MOBIUM: mobile
museum" as an alternative method of field works. He is the organiser, director and driver of MOBIUM.
http://homepage.mac.com/lozi
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