Columns
- Sensing Mandarin Oranges
- Kinan Art Residence
- Orange Mandala Exhibition
- Commons Farm
- KAW Exhibition 2021
- Dialogues with Kinan Locals
- Director's Column
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Kinan Art Residence
The first Kinan Art Residency will be held. This programme invites artists from Japan and abroad to stay in the Kinan region to conduct research on various aspects of the region's culture and history, and to create artworks inspired by this
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“Sensing Mandarin Oranges – an Entangled World” with the Theme of the Senses will be Held in the Kinan Area from October 14th to October 22nd!
The 2023 Kinan Art Week "SensingMandarinOranges- an Entangled World" will feature a variety of activities focusing on the diverse senses of human beings, especially those other than sight. Last year, similarly, "Orange Collective" has been
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Communities, Hybrid-Gatherings and Orange Collectives (Part 1)-Touring the Gwangju Biennale-
Kinan Art Week Yabumoto Yuto1 Introduction(1) Adaptable/Resilient Fruit with Fighting SpiritTrue art is a fruit that comes to fruition as a concrete reflection of a dynamic reality, a fruit that can only be harvested by a resilient responsi
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Anarcho-Animism
Curated by Production Zomia, an expert network of Asian artists and curators.This exhibition, curated by Production Zomia, an expert network of Asian artists and curators, presents five Southeast Asian artists from the collection of the AUR
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Special Talk by Taisuke Karasawa – After the Screening of Tower of the Sun [Text Archive]
Co-organised event by Futakawa Cho Gakkou x Kinan Art WeekThis is a text archive of the special talk show "After the screening of the Tower of the Sun-" held on October 14, 2022 (Friday) during the Mikan Mandala Exhibition.Date and time Fri
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Hirose Satoshi: A Journey of Citrus Sapling
(Photo:Satoshi Hirose)The Commons Farm project is part of the Kinan Art Week project 'Mikan Collective', an art project that will run throughout a long period of time, starting in 2022. The Mikan Collective focuses on citrus fruits such as
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Reflections on Kinan Art Week 2022 ‘Orange Mandala’ Exhibition
From exhibition to art project exploring the connections between plants, micro-organisms and humankind.We are running an art project called Orange Collective, which focuses on citrus, a local resource in the Kinan region of Wakayama Prefect
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Dialogue: On the Historical Context of HIROSE Satoshi’s “Common Farms”(Part 2)
Part 1 >>Sumitomo: The story of Arte Abitabile reminds me of one of Hirose’s projects, which was similar to the Common Farms idea. It was conducted in Sapporo in 1996, after the bursting of the bubble economy, and was entitled “Lived
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Dialogue: On the Historical Context of HIROSE Satoshi’s “Common Farms”(Part 1)
Dialogue: On the Historical Context of HIROSE Satoshi’s “Common Farms”Sumitomo: In this column, Kanai Tadashi and I, Sumitomo Fumihiko, will discuss what artist Hirose Satoshi attempted to exhibit during Kinan Art Week 2022. This discussion
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Special Talk Session “Memories of Soil and Roots”: From Cambodia and Kinan/Kumano
Date and Time: Friday, October 7, 2022 from 6:00 p.m.Venue: Aiwaso 28-14 Furuo, Tanabe City, Wakayama PrefectureAdmission: FreeCapacity: 20 personsGuest Speaker: Khvay Samnang, Cambodian contemporary artist, Toshiaki Ishikura, Art Anthropol
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“Orange Mandala” Exhibition as Preparation for a Post-Growth Period
Kazuhiko OtaAssociate Professor, Nanzan University(1) On How to Consider Eating “Oranges” in a Post-Growth PeriodThe United Nations reported that the world population surpassed 8 billion in mid-November 2022; it is expected to reach around
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The Brilliance of the Citrus Fruit of the Alternate Dimension
On the Idea of a Mandala that Transcends Monolinear/Single-layer Space-timeTaisuke KarasawaAssociate Professor, Akita University of Art1. 非時香菓 -Tokijiku-no-Kagunokonomi -The origin of the Japanese citrus fruits with which we Japanese are fa