For the Kyoto Machiya AiR exhibition 2014 I’ve made a short video about the destruction of a kyo-machiya.
For the Kyoto Machiya AiR exhibition 2014 I’ve made a short video about the destruction of a kyo-machiya.
From October 11th untill 18th Cesi Nolten and I will present the results of our Kyomachiya Artist-in-Residence 2014 in ‘t Japans Cultureel Centrum in Amsterdam. The same exhibition was on show in Kyoto in July.
After staying in the Nishijin area in Kyoto between May-July we would like to share our experiences with you! Please find the details on the website of Japans Cultureel Centrum.
On August 5th I received an e-mail from one of the workshops’ participants, Dairik Amae. He’s an architect but also offers tea ceremonies in his traditional machiya in the north of Kyoto. One day he decided to dedicate the tea ceremony to a different cause:
Fascinatingly, the Gion festival hides both centuries old mysteries and technical innovations. A month ago, one of these mysteries brought the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) to the Dutch town of Rijswijk.
Most of the torn down machiya’s are turned into car parks. A lot of of these parking lots are empty though.
What i like about living in another country is that it makes me question my own culture and way of thinking. Why do we do the things we do?
During the last year I collected some of the articles I read on Japanese art and culture in a online magazine “Meanwhile in Japan”.
At ATR I also talked with Hiroshi Ishiguro from HIL. He’s well-known, inside and outside of Japan for making humanoid robots, especially because of the robot he made as a copy of himself. I met with him, his Geminoid and also a Telenoid in his lab.
On Designboom I read about Hiroshi Sugimoto, Japanese photographer and artist, who has created an unique temporary glass pavillion at Le Stanze del Vetro in Venice.
The streets of Kyoto are surprisingly clean. Scanning the streets for tags and other marks, the cleanliness hit me in another way: street art is hard to find here.
