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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

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

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

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

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

（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

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

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

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

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

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

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