An interval exhibition between the Vision Formulation exercises and off-campus Challenge assignments has begun.
With the beginning of summer, the 7 teams have started to work on their projects in the various locations. The exhibition will show students interviews, and diaries of workshops and events, and visitors will be able to see the work in process of the various teams.
We will be waiting for your attendance.
“ CR in action ! ”
From June 25th
Location: Bldg 6A, Entrance Gallery
FUKUSHIMA VOICE in progress!
With the outline of the documentary FUKUSHIMA VOICE decided upon, the students have divided into 4 teams in order to start actually tackling the project. On the 1st of September, we will organise in the city of Iwaki a Iwaki future meeting ×FUKUSHIMA VOICE that will be aimed at providing footage for the documentary, and the accumulation of the voices that will raise during the meeting will be aprehended undertaken as a whole. Then by also observing the individual participants, we will try to depict through this film both the “individual voice” of each person, and the “big voice” created by the gathering of each individual voice. Participants to the Iwaki future meeting can be coming from Iwaki city as well as outside the city. Please come and tell us your stories.
(Hashimoto)
Iwaki future meeting ×FUKUSHIMA VOICE
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Iwaki future meeting. Details here.
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A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 10th (and last) session
For the 10th (and last) session of Vision Formulation 2, we were honored to welcome the artist Mr. Yoshiaki Kaihatsu who gave a lecture about “How to approach the disaster of March 11th through art”. Mr. Kaihatsu who saw the huge amount of wreckage caused by the disaster, understood that many cultural assets were also being lost, and decided to organise various projects in order to bring back culture to places that lost it. Mr. Kaihatsu, through his projects that are aiming at providing emotional support, helping with the handling of wreckage, and keeping alive existing intangible cultural assets, offers a long-sighted approach of the issues and tackles the problems from varied points of view. He said : “Actions will definitively trigger something,” and his words were a source of encouragement for the students. (Hashimoto)
FUKUSHIMA VOICE Iwaki Research
On July 22nd and 23rd , we, members of FUKUSHIMA VOICE went for an inspection to Iwaki. On the first day, we gave assistance at the Iwaki future meeting, and by listening to the points of view of people from various backgrounds such as Iwaki citizens, people who sought refuge in Iwaki, farming families or high school students, we had a real insight of the troubles they are facing.
The second day, we visited the temporary housing areas, and the Shioyasaki coastal area and the district of Onahama where the damages from the tsunami were very serious. Also, we were invited to the house of a farming family we had met during the Iwaki future meeting who grows Nameko mushrooms, and learnt about the Nameko mushrooms culture and heard about the terrible impact of the harmful rumors.
After the onsite research, we discussed about concrete issues for the production of the documentary such as which location and persons we should target for our research, and which angle to give when approaching the theme. (Hashimoto)
A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 10th session announcement and information about related exhibitions
For the 10th (and last) session of Vision Formulation 2, we will welcome the artist Mr. Yoshiaki Kaihatsu. Since the disaster of 2011 and the nuclear accident, Mr Kaihatsu has been putting a lot of energy in implementing a large variety of projects : “Dailily Art Circus” for which he has piled up artworks in a truck and driven across Japan to hold charity exhibitions; “Politicians’ House” involving opening every 15th of the month a free of charge rest area reserved to the politicians in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture; “The Words Library” for which he has interviewed people from the coastal areas from Aomori to Fukushima; “Kita-Yakata Kagura(japanese divine dance) : the Beginning of the End”, a DVD in which he directed the recording the Shishi-Kagura(Lions Dance) of Kita-Yakata in the Kashima district of the City of Minami-Soma, etc.
“A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 10th session. Guest: Yoshiaki Kaihatsu”
Location : University of Tsukuba [Bldg 6A, Room 208]
Friday, June 28th @ 4:45pm〜6:00pm
During the Vision Formulation 2 session, we will screen “Kita-Yakata Dance : the Beginning of the End”, a movie made in order to re-introduce the dances of Kita-Yakata, traditional performances which have been alive in the district of Kashima, city of Minami-Soma in Fukushima prefecture.
“Kita-Yakata Kagura : the Beginning of the End ”
Location: University of Tsukuba [Bldg 6A, Entrance Gallery]
Tuesday, June 25th to Friday, June 28th, 10:00Am〜5:00pm
(Kataoka)
Aizu-Wakamatsu resarch
The day after the event held in the temporary housing of Johoku, we went to Aizu-Wakamatsu where there is more temporary housing in order to accomplish some researches.
We divided into two groups : the group that went to make a presentation at the town hall of Okuma, and the group that researched in Aizu-Wakamatsu city. The two groups joined in the afternoon to make a presentation of the POP CORN team project of this year in front of the curators of the Fukushima Museum. We received advice from them to help us order this project, and the students probably now have a better idea of what should be done in order to implement the summer event.
Temaki-zushi Festival of Okuma Tsukuba
The POP CORN team has organized a Temaki-Zushi Festival in the temporary housings located in the North of the Johoku elementary School, in the city of Aizu-Wakamatsu. Although it was the second time an event was organised in the temporary housings, many people living locally came to participate.
Under the direction of the lady living in one of the temporay houses, we managed to make a 4m-long Temaki-zushi!
This event was combined with some research works, and we took advantage of the meal to listen to the stories of the people living there. We will take this information back and it will help with the next event planned to be in summer. (Akagi)
A Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, 9th session
For the 9th session of Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 2, we were honored to welcome Mr. Jun Kitazawa, contemporary artist and director of Jun Kitazawa Office Yakumo, who told us about “Creating communities”. Mr. Kitazawa has been acting to create communities all over the country. “My Town Market” was a festival made by and for the people of the area which took place in the city of Shinchi. Mr. Kitazawa told us about his own experience in organising and operating this festival that may rank among the other cultural events of the region.
In a society that is losing its creativity, this reminds us that art projects are created within society. Communities that rediscover the creativity and keep it alive, and really “Creating communities”.
We thought that these words by Mr. Kitazawa and his activities will remain as a reference for the students participating in the CR project. (Akagi)
Call for participants !! Weekend Art School in Tsukuba
Weekend Art School in Tsukuba. Feel, see and become Leonardo da Vinci !?! is calling for participants. We are looking for junior high school students living in Fukushima prefecture to participate.
About 500 years ago, there was an artist called Leonardo da Vinci. He is famous for the wonderful paintings and drawings he made, but at times, he was also mathematician, mechanic, and scientist. While getting to know more about the contemporary art and the space science art taught at the University of Tsukuba, let’s imitate Leonardo and become a genius in science!! It is an art school over two days aimed at junior high school students living in Fukushima prefecture. Please come to Tsukuba and have fun.
For more details, please refer to the brochure. (Ono)
FUKUSHIMA VOICE Kick Off Meeting
After a long interval, the FUKUSHIMA VOICE members gathered and opened a Kick Off Meeting. After watching “Japan in a Day” as a related movie, we welcomed Hikari Fujishiro who is gathering and archiving the voices of the people in Iwaki, and she told us about the stance she takes when she does interviews herself. She explained that movie making gave the students the motivation to know more about March 11th, and she was eager to give them chances to make coverages. (Hahsimoto)
