A program that creates multifaceted research exhibitions close-up on the island/Okinawa as a model case for research-type art practice (art) in the region. Participants go through research-type courses and conduct fieldwork/investigation from the perspectives of faith, society, history, trade, environment, immigration (migration), tourism, labor, etc. on the theme of “island/lifestyle.” The materials and materials collected through this research are compiled in the form of “message in a bottle” (message in a bottle), discussions are held on the results of each other's research, and it comes to fruition in a results exhibition.

●Orientation
8/25 (Friday) 13:00-16:00
Introduction of lecturers for each course
Explanation of the contents and schedule of courses 1 and 2
Okinawa Prefectural University of Art Tonokura Campus General Education Building Classroom 101

●Lecture 1 “From 0 to 1”
Lecturer: Asaryu Gima (representative of rubodan, cardboard artist)
I think about finding value in things that, at first glance, would be thrown away.
The number of people to be recruited is about 10

9:00 ～ 12:00
8/26 (Sat) Explanation of “rubodan”, fieldwork (cardboard collection)
8/27 (Sun) Appreciate works about the idea of making things
8/28 (Mon) Fieldwork (market tour, paper mill tour)
8/29 (Tue) Fieldwork (tour of social welfare facilities)
8/30 (Wednesday) Production and discussion
On fieldwork day, we will meet and disband at the site.

●Lecture 2 “Let's draw a storytelling story”
Lecturer: Seo Natsumi (artist, field worker)
Based on the interview, think about the form of “what you want to leave behind.”
Number of people to be recruited: about 5

14:00 ～ 17:00
8/26 (Sat) Listening and Writing Workshop to Think of a “Double Town”
8/27 (Sun) Fieldwork (tour of the Himeyuri Cenotaph (War Memorial for school girls) and the Foundation of Peace)
8/28 (Monday) Viewing and discussion of the video work “Under the Waves, Under the Ground”
8/29 (Tue) Production, individual discussion
8/30 (Wednesday) Exhibit and discussion
On fieldwork day, we will meet and disband at the site.

●About presentations and research exhibitions
Exhibition carry-in schedule (planned) 11/27 (Mon), 28 (Tue)
Research exhibition schedule (planned) 11/29 (Wed) to 12/3 (Sun)
Presentation schedule 12/2 (Sat)
Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts Library and Art Museum

Instructor: Gima Tomotatsu (Gima Tomotatsu)
Representative of rubodan, cardboard artist. The cardboard stationery brand rubodan (rubodan) started in 2011. Currently, it is manufactured in collaboration with 4 workshops in the prefecture, and is sold inside and outside the prefecture. Furthermore, POP COLLAGE is being developed based on the concepts of “distribution” and “consumption” using waste cardboard as a material. They are mainly created using American culture motifs such as sneakers and records collected by Gima. While they are energetically presenting mainly at exhibitions, there are also many collaborations with companies such as Gucci, adidas, le coq, and magazine covers.

Instructor: Seo Natsumi (Seo Natsumi) artist and field worker. Born in 1988 in Adachi-ku, Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture. I make pictures and sentences while thinking about the words of the people of the land and the records of the scenery. In 2011, after volunteering for the Great East Japan Earthquake, production began in a unit with filmmaker Haruka Komori. While living in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, for 3 years from 2012, he created a place for dialogue and created works. In 2015, the collective “NOOK (NOOK),” which conducts record activities through collaboration with land, was launched in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. Currently, in the collaborative project “Karo Recycle” with Arts Council Tokyo, I travel to various places and write stories with the theme of “not being able to talk” while researching records of past disasters and searching for expressions that utilize them.

Supervised by: Sakata Kiyoko (artist, associate professor at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts)

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