このプロジェクトは日米の若手作家の主導により2005年頃から企画され、両国のアーティストの交換と交流を目的に進められました。2006年8月にはアメリカ人作家を東京に招待し立川の「国営昭和記念公園 みどりの文化センター」にて展覧会を行ないました。今回12月の展覧会では日本人アーティストがアメリカを訪れ、サンフランシスコ市内のギャラリー、作家自宅、公共空間をダイナミックに活用した制作及び発表を行ないます。展覧会のテーマは従来の平面絵画や彫刻の枠を越えた、“パフォーマンス”や“ヴィデオアート”などのいわば“生きた芸術”によって両国の歴史・文化・政治・生活習慣と関わりながら包括的に互いを理解しようとするものです。 Listening is a Japanese-US program of performative and live art that explores the role of art making as a form of productive and constitutive listening. The program's title, Listening, is an open-ended question that asks the artists and audience to consider the relationship between being and perceiving. The artwork selected for this program explores this theme through process-based, reactive pieces that situate the space and time of each respective city as their artistic medium.
This project consists of two parts: one half taking place in Japan and the other in San Francisco. Listening will facilitate the exchange of two groups of artists from two different countries, who will play out artistic and psychological relationships, transforming and altering their final work. This cultural exchange initially began with the group of American artists traveling to Japan to exhibit visual and performative works with a host of Japanese artists. Conversely, the same group of Japanese artists are now coming to San Francisco to exhibit their work with their American counterparts at The LAB.
This project is generously funded by the Japan Foundation Los Angeles, and part of the Intersection Incubator, a program of Intersection for the Arts providing fiscal sponsorship, incubation and consulting services to artists.
<展覧会概要> Living Art from Japan and San Francisco 参加作家:Kurt Bigenho, Charlie Callahan, Joshua Churchill, Renee Delores, Takashi Horisaki, Tomoko Iwata, Marisa Jahn, Keisuke Kondo, Takuro Kotaka, Akinori Matsuba, Yoshinori Niwa, Joslin Pollard, Asako Saito, Aki Sasamoto, Chris Sollars, and Ayako Washitake キュレーター:Joslin Pollard, Yoshinori Niwa, and Yuka Yokoyama URL : http://www.tsfaf.org/ 会期 2006年12月7日〜16日 (Gallery Hours: Wednesdays - Saturdays, 1-6 PM) 会場 The Lab ( http://www.thelab.org/) / 667Shotwell ( http://www.667shotwell.com) Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 6-9 PM; Live Performance by Aki Sasamoto at 7:30 PM Artists Talk: Saturday, December 9th, 3PM. $3-10 sliding scale admission Closing Reception: Saturday, December 16, 4-6 PM