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For this first Kinan Art Residency, we invited Vietnamese artist Tuan Mami to research the relationship between "immigrants" and "citrus fruits" from the perspective of contemporary art in the Kinan region. These photos are just 10 of those

Last year, Satoshi Hirose's art work "Mikan Collective'' was exhibited as a part of his long-term art project, "Commons Farm'' in Kinan. And the work is currently on display at the Nagano Prefectural Museum of Art under the title "Mikan Jou

As a related event to Art Lab 2023 Phase 3 Satoshi Hirose Orange Journey held at the Nagano Prefectural Museum of Art, they will invite guests with close connections to the artist to discuss the art projects Hirose is promoting in the Kinan

6 October 2023Kinan Art Week Yabumoto Yuto1 What is a 'Mikankaku'?The term "Mikankaku" is coined by combining Mikan (mandarin oranges（蜜柑）, unfinished（未完）…. ) + Sensation (sensation（感覚）, space（間隔） ). This time, the exhibition will not be an

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 Yuto5 Shifting 'Sovereignty'The theme of the Gwangju Biennial discussed in this paper is 'Transient Sovereignty'.As I mentioned in the first part and the second part 2, based on the ideas of 'war and revolution' in t

Kinan Art Week, Yuto Yabumoto4 Indigenous Thought and Hybrid-GatheringsFollowing the first part, focusing on one of the exhibition themes, “Who is the Other,” I would like to discuss the third theme of the main venue, “Ancestral Voices,” in

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

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