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  Igokutamaru-Mataigoku

  The exhibition “Igoku Tamaru: lives without boundaries” will be held in Tanabe City and Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture, from 20 September to 29 September!

  Kinan Art Week will hold an exhibition from the "Igoku Tamaru: lives without boundaries" exhibition and related events at several locations in Tanabe City and Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture, for 10 days from 20 September (Fri) to 29 Se

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  Igokutamaru-Mataigoku

  The exhibition “Igoku Tamaru: lives without boundaries” Guidebook published!

  The“Igoku Tamaru: lives without boundaries” exhibition will be held for 10 days from September 20 (Fri.) through September 29 (Sun.), 2024, at several locations in Tanabe City and Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture.For more details, please

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  Igokutamaru-Mataigoku

  ‘Cross a boudary’ InformationCross a boudary

  This year's Kinan Art Week extends into the city. Mobility is a continual crossing of territory. It is a series of entering and leaving someone else's land, and most of the places you can walk through belong to an individual, a country, etc

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  Igokutamaru-Mataigoku

  ‘Slime Mold: Moving and Gathering’ Information

  Minakata Kumagusu is one of Japan's leading intellectual giants born in Wakayama.Minakata Kumagsu Archive, which permanently preserves Kumagusu's collection of books and documents and conducts research on Kumagusu, will exhibit works that r

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  Igokutamaru-Mataigoku

  ‘Resistance to stay’ Information

  SOUZOU / Former Iwabashi house will present works by artists from the Mekong area, which is currently undergoing rapid development. Taiki Sakpisit expresses the tensions of contemporary Thailand in his fantastical yet disturbing video works

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  Igokutamaru-Mataigoku

  ‘Shape Keeps Changing’ Information

  By drawing away from the human time frame and conception of most events that we assume to be unchanging, we are reminded that they are also in a state of change.The organic forms that appear in Kong Dara's work evoke images of change and gr

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  Igokutamaru-Mataigoku

  Sowing Seeds Exhibition

  From 20 September to 20 October, nongkrong on the first floor of the Shinju Building in front of JR Shirahama Station, Wakayama, will hold the exhibition Sowing Seeds, which will be mediated through art and nurtured to completion together w

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  Igokutamaru-Mataigoku

  Zomi: Trans-local Migrants on the Water

  From 6 (Fri) September to 14 (mon) October 2024, Kawakyu Museum will hold the exhibition ‘Zomi: Trans-Migrant on the Water’, which tells the story of the exchange over ‘water’ between Asia and the Japanese archipelago through the Kuroshio C

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  Igokutamaru-Mataigoku

  – No tree is solitary in Kumano –

  Artist Geert Mul wrote this essay during his stay in Kinan Art Residence Vol.2 in July and August 2024.【No tree is solitary in Kumano】In recent years, some of my artistic work has gradually gravitated towards thisfolkloric theme of the soli

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  Igokutamaru-Mataigoku

  Kinan Art Residence Vol.3 

  Kinan Art Week held Kinan Art Residence Vol.3, following Kinan Art Residence Vol.1 in 2023 and Kinan Art Residence Vol.2 in 2024.This program invites artists from Japan and abroad to stay in the Kinan region, where they will conduct researc