Following my time both living in Berlin and taking residence at IMMA my impression of western society is that its population is more comfortable with expressing its sexual identity to the public than Japanese society. My idea was, if I install special benches, which are suitable for heterosexual, gay and lesbian couples in the public spaces of IMMA, I was curious as to how people would use these benches. This project is an experimental public project, which will develop depending on people's reactions.
Shiro Masuyama's artistic process originated with his studies at architecture school. Masuyama is interested in involving the people he comes across in the city in his work. He puts his work in context by placing it in public spaces. Masuyama has developed tactics to encourage the involvement of the passerby. Through the use of motifs such as money, sex, office workers, mass media and cigarettes - these are popular and familiar to the public and act as lures to draw public attention. The constructed objects in his works are only preliminary to the completed project. The completion occurs when people interact with it. "I think my work is different from so-called "communication art" or conventional "interactive art". These projects create a reverse of the standpoint of the viewer and the artist: the artist watches the viewer and the viewer is watched. "What I am trying to do is to make the situation itself a medium".
Shiro Masuyama lives and works in Berlin and Kanagawa, Japan. Masuyama has had solo exhibitions and performances at Stadtgalerie, Kiel 2006; ADN Galeria, Barcelona 2006; MAK, Vienna 2006; Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2005; CAI Contemporary Art International, Hamburg 2005; Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo 2002. Previous residencies include Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2004-05; Hangar, Barcelona 2003 and ISCP, New York 2002-2003. Shiro Masuyama is resident in studio 14 at IMMA from September until November 2006.
こんにちは。野村の書類をやっと作り始めました。
それはそうと、おじんがーMさん、ふと思ったのですが、Irish Museum of Modern Artを「アイルランド現代美術館」と訳すのは通例なのでしょうか?「Modern」なので、実は、「アイルランド近代美術館」にしたほうがいいのかなーとか思って...。どうなんでしょう。
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During 2010 the ARP at IMMA is going to be reviewing and changing its application and programming structure, this means that the application deadlines, 31st March and 30th September yearly, are now permanently suspended.
In the near future IMMA will confirm just 1 new application deadline yearly to the ARP .
2012 will be the next scheduling year for prospective artists.
Please feel free to forward this information to anyone you know is interested in applying to the residency. If they contact me at janice.hough@imma.ie I will be sure to include them on a database to be emailed the relevant information and documents for the new application procedure once it is ready for general distribution.
If there are further updates they will be available at www.imma.ie