The CR team won the Semi Grand Prix at the Tokyo Designers Week 2013 Asia Awards School Exhibition. The activities of the Aizu team
and Food Culture (Hojo) team and their proposals of lifestyles after the earthquake were highly evaluated. Two and a half years have passed since the earthquake and at the Tokyo venue where the memory is gradually fading, the presentation and winning the prize were significant in promoting our activities. (Iida)
Preview: Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art – Nov. 9, Saturday.
At the next Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art, 3 lecturers will be invited to conduct an intensive class. The names of the lecturers and their lecture themes are as follows:
Akihisa Kawada (Associate Professor at Chiba Institute of Technology), “The Pacific War & War Paintings”
Setsuko Ozawa (Lecturer at Tsuru University), “The Atomic Bomb Pictures”
Moojeong Chung (Duksung Women’s University), “The Korean War & Art”
Venue: Tsukuba University, 5C416
Date & Time: Nov. 9, Saturday. *This is an intensive class.
13:00 – 14:15: Akihisa Kawada
14:30 – 15:45: Setsuko Ozawa
16:00 – 17:30: Moojeong Chung *Consecutive interpretation provided.
17:30 – : Questions & Answers
Since everyone is invited to attend, please come and join us. (Hashimoto)
Tokyo Designers Week 2013: Upload of Team Introduction Images, Order of presentation announced.
The Aizu team
and Food Culture (Hojo) team created introduction videos for the Tokyo Designers Week 2013. The videos have been uploaded on You Tube. Please take a look.
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The Aizu team
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Food Culture (Hojo) team
On Nov. 3 (Sunday), 9:00-12:30, the presentation order of the exhibiting schools was announced, and the University of Tsukuba, Creative Reconstruction Project will go on 28th among the 30 schools. The venue is in the TDW dome. Please come to this event, too. (Hashimoto)
Autumn 2013, Encounter with Art in Minami-Soma
Students of the Carving and Modeling course and Western Style Painting course will be organizing an exhibition of stone carvings and a variety of workshops in Haramachi-ku, Minami-Soma, Fukushima.
There will be many programs that both adults and children can enjoy including an exhibition of stone sculptures using Ukigane stones from Fukushima Prefecture, demonstration of head statues, making accessories by polishing pieces of wood, making objet d’art by combining pieces of leftover stones, a chance to try carving characters on stone slabs, portrait artists, and many others. It will be held at the same time as the Minami-Soma City Art Exhibition. Please come and participate in both events. (Akagi)
”Autumn 2013, Encounter with Art in Minami-Soma”
Venue: Fukushima-ken, Minami-Soma-shi, Haramachi-ku,
Ogawa-cho 322-1, Hara-machi Lifelong Learning Center
Date & Time: Nov. 16 (Saturday), 10:00-17:00; Nov. 17 (Sunday), 10:00-15:00
For More Information:University of Tsukuba, School of Arts & Design, Shibata Laboratory, shibata@geijutsu.tsukuba.ac.jp
For details, please click on the flyer below↓.
Weekend Art School Exhibition
The exhibition of the “Weekend Art School in Tsukuba: Feel, See and Be Leonardo da Vinci!?”, which was carried out on July 27 (Saturday) and 28 (Sunday), is being held. THE PARTY’s “Da Vinci Exercise”, which was hugely popular, and drawings by the children are on display. Please come and look at the works of art.
Date & Time: Oct. 21 (Monday) – Oct. 31 (Thursday), 9:00-8:00
Venue: 6A Entrance Gallery (Hashimoto)
Tokyo Designers Week 2013, School Exhibition
The Aizu team and Food Culture (Hojo) team will show their works at the Tokyo Designers Week 2013, School Exhibition, which will begin on the 26th of this month. As an exploration to seek, through art and design, new lifestyles and values after the earthquake, a “Yagura tower” and “Kamado cooking stove” will be shown by the respective teams. Please come and visit us. (Iida)
Tokyo Designers Week 2013
Period: Oct. 26 (Saturday) – Nov. 4 (Monday, holiday), for 10 days.
Time: 11:00–21:00 (Final day till 20:00)
Venue: In front of Meiji Jingu Gaien, 2-3 Kasumigaoka-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0013
Number of visitors: 120,000 (Expected)
Ticket: 2,500 yen (On the day)
* On Nov. 3, Sunday, students from each team will give a presentation in the dome at the TDW. The presentation time is from 9:00 till 12:30, but the exact time of the Tsukuba University teams’ turn is undetermined.
東京デザイナーズウィーク2013 学校作品展 (Link to Tokyo Designers Week 2013, School Exhibition)
Preview: Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art – Oct. 25, Friday.
Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art – Oct. 25, Friday, Ryuichi Kaneko, a researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography has been invited to give a lecture on “Disasters & Photography”.
Ryuichi Kaneko is a photo historian, a collector of photography books, and a special researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography since 1990. He has not only worked on projects at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, but has served as a curator for many exhibitions at other art museums as well. He has co-edited and co-authored, “日本近代写真の成立 (The Founding of Modern Japanese Photography)”, “定本 木村伊兵衛 (Original Text: Ihei Kimura)”, “植田正治私の写真作法 (Shoji Ueda: My Codes of Photography)”, “Independent Photographers In Japan 1976-83”, “The History of Japanese Photography”, and many others. He also supervised the series of reprints of the rare photography books from the pre-war period “日本写真史の至宝 (The Greatest Treasures in the History of Japanese Photography)”.
Venue: Tsukuba University, Room 5C416
Date & Time: Oct. 25, Friday, 16:45～18:00
Everyone is invited to attend.
(Hashimoto)
Nawatobi (Jump Rope) Project in Onahama!
The other project carried out by the Taikan Taiken (Feel & Experience) Lab Team during the Onahama Hon-cho Street Art Festival (Oct. 13 & 14, 2013), the Nawatobi (Jump Rope) Project’s final video, was uploaded to You Tube. The students asked people in Onahama to jump rope. They filmed each person jumping once and connected the jumps of all the people that they had met to create a movie. Please watch the energetic rope-jumping of a total of 200 people. (Iida)
Hop Stop Animation! Go Forth, Onahama Explorers!
As part of the program for the Onahama Hon-cho Street Art Festival 2013, the workshop “Hop Stop Animation! Go forth, Onahama Explorers!” was carried out by the Taikan Taiken (Feel & Experience) Lab Team. Using the stop motion technique of animation where images shot one by one of each movement are put together to create an animation, the participants and student staff members explored the town of Onahama. Many people came to the showing and let out a cheer when they saw the curious movements of the stop motion images, but also seemed to be watching intently at the scenes of Onahama and the smiles of children that could be seen in the background.
In the “Nawatobi (Jump Rope) Project”, held at the same time, the students asked people in Onahama to jump rope. They filmed each person jumping once and connected the jumps of all the people that they had met to create a movie. The video will be uploaded to You Tube later. (Iida)
“Wall Art Festival”
The exhibition, “India x Art x School, Wall Art Festival”, has started. Everyone is invited. Please come and see the exhibition. (Akagi)
Date & Time: Oct. 7, Monday ~ Oct. 15, Tuesday, 9:00~18:00
Venue: 6A Entrance Gallery
Panel Discussion: “Art inspired by communication and its possibilities”
Date & Time: Oct. 15, Tuesday, 18:30~20:30
Venue: Tsukuba University, 6A208
Contents: A panel discussion will be held, inviting as guests the organizers and participating artists of the Wall Art Project. After the event, a social gathering will be held at another venue.
*Everyone is invited to participate.
