Artists Statement
Media Select Programme / General Event
October 28-31, Shumokukan
[e] is a place for you and us to meet and communicate to each other. This time, we held our event at Shumoku-kan, which is an old, western style house and is going to be broken down next year. We want to have a good time together at [e] with various guests through our exhibition, workshops and cafe.
Tomoko Hashimoto — Elefuntone Workshop
Hiromitsu Murakami — Opening Movie
Mari Fukunaga — Maccha cafe in Shumoku-kan
Arisa Wakami — Installation “one”
Tomoko Ueyama — Live Performance “PUKUON series vol.3”
[e] movie works:
Arisa Wakami — nice to meet you
Adoka Niitsu — Barbaric Song
Ken Morita — A portrait
Naoko Ishizaki — And a Rower blooms
Members of electropti:
Naoko Ishizaki, Tomoko Ueyama, Keiko Kobayashi, Tomoko Hashimoto, Adoka Niitsu, Taisuke Murakami, Ken Morita, Arisa Wakami
Guest: Mari Fukunaga (Cafe)
Support: Kazuo Soma (Design), Hiromitsu Murakami (Opening Movie), Yuki Minamikata, Jun Sasaki
- Naoko Ishizaki, I was born in Hiroshima, I studied arts in SHIGA, I studied the installation in GIFU, I worry about life in Tokyo
- Keiko Kobayashi, IAMAS graduate. I am enjoying being involved in varies media, such as exhibitions, website and books. I think that I am “Jack of all trades, master of none”
- Tomoko Hashimoto. Born in Kyoto, Japan. Artist of experimental film and video
- Adoka Niitsu Graduated from Woman’s college of Fine Arts, and International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS). My installation and animation will makes you feel a real stream of information, obsession of communication and desire in communication through media technology. I want people all over the world to be zingy.
- Ken Morita. 3DCG Designer. Lecturer, TRIDENT College of Information Technology
- Arisa Wakami. “It makes through the dream in which scribble and itself saw”.
- Mari Fukunaga. Born in Tokyo, Japan. Entered to Soshun-kai association to study the tea ceremony under Mrs. Soshun lgarashi after graduated from women’s collage of art and design. Concerned in a repair work for a garden of the tea ceremony in Soshun-an, suginami, Tokyo. Working for an organic restaurant to investigate a new style of “entertainment” assimilated to a traditional idea of “entertainment” at the tea ceremony and reach after an “entertainment” at a food service.
- Michiro Tokushige & Daisuke Furuike, artists, Japan