Orange Collective

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

Theme: future vision for the Commons Farm and creating an image of physical sensory enrichment and the farm.To get closer to the concept of the farm through direct communication with the future participants of the commons farm and the foste

Let's make chai with Indian spices, Vietnamese herbs, and Wakayama mandarin oranges!Through direct contact, experimentation, and observation of Indian spices, Vietnamese herbs, and Wakayama citrus fruits, we will sharpen our senses of touch

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

So many varieties of mandarin oranges are grown in Kinan that they are said to be harvested almost all year round. In connection with the ongoing project "Mikan Collective" to delve deeper into citrus from the perspective of contemporary ar

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