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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

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

This is the part 2 of the text archive for the talk session “Mikan Dialogue vol.5 ” held on Oct. 22, 2022.Part 1 >>Table of Contents2.[Panel Discussion] Discovering the Gods of Kinan(1) Introduction of Mr Hara and Ms Sakamoto(2) Mika

This is the part 1 of the text archive for the talk session “Mikan Dialogue vol.5 ” held on Oct. 22, 2022.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlpU10rDfIDate and time: 9 October 2022 (Sun), 15:00-17:00.Venue: Seminar room, 2nd floor, Tanabe En+

-After the “Mikan Mandala” Exhibition-Part 2 >>(3) Symbiosis with Fungi / Mycorrhizal NetworkLocated near the Minakata Kumagusu Archives, the old folk house atelier called “Mojike House” is operated by artists Naoko Kimura and Shiro K