A 2-day workshop by three Scottish artists: Mary Redmond, Katy West, and Nick Evans
Date and Time: Workshop February 25 and 26, 2012 13:00-17:00 *Consecutive translation from English to Japanese
Exhibition Opening February 26 17:00-18:00
Venue: Hillside Annex B (30-2 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku)

左）Mary Redmond / Hutong noons / 2010
中央）Katy West / SHELF BRACKET CORNER SHELF & 45 SHELF BRACKET CORNER LIGHT 45 / 20cm x 17cm x 17cm / slip cast vitrified china, white glaze / 2007
右）Nick Evans / Installation view from Flesh and Bones, Liste 16, Basel / 2011

AIT is happy to host three artists who live and work in Glasgow, Scotland, for a residency in Tokyo. They will lead a 2-day workshop where materials from everyday life and the streets will be used to make quick sculptures. These quick sculptures will then be shown together for a final installation and opening reception on the second day. The workshop is open to anyone from children to adults. No prior experience with making art is necessary.

2012-2- 9

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'Space, Image and the Image of Space'

Jakob Simonson was the IASPIS supported artist in resident for three months in 2010. Simonson lives and works in Malmo, Sweden.

Simonson's work extends the tradition and heritage of monochrome painting. Normally working in very specific situations, Simonson creates installation-like spaces with paintings which also act as walls or space dividers. Most of his paintings are composed of up to one hundred layers of transparent paint, taking many months to complete.

Simonson showed a large installation at The Moderna Museet Stockholm in 2010.

b. 1974, lives and works in Malmo, Sweden.

For more information please visit his website.

2010-12- 2

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'Tracing Wind and Waves - the Pencil of Natural Phenomenon'

Tuula Narhinen was artist in resident at AIT for two months with the support of FRAME and The Finnish INstitute in Japan. She was the fourth artist from Finland to be hosted by AIT.

Tuula's works cross the boundaries of installation, photography, biological research and tool-making. In several works she uses fundamental photographic techniques of tracing images onto photo-sensitive surfaces. In other works she has intervened into the wilderness in order to create 'drawings' with animals or with wave patterns. The resulting works are often shown together with their processual materials and instruments.

Tuula has exhibited her works in museums and galleries, including Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland and Gallery Sculptor, Finland.

Tuula worked on a new project in Japan called 'Bokeh', using kanji script and camera lenses.

For more information see her website.

2010-10-15

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'Space, Image and the Image of Space'

Artist Sonia Khurana gave a talk at AIT.

She was in Japan participating in the 2010 Aichi Triennale, Nagoya.

For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Khurana

2010-8-26

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 AIT ARTIST TALK #46: " Using things the wrong way makes me feel better"

by Israeli Artist Ariel Schlesinger

Ariel Schlesinger is currently artist in resident with AIT in Tokyo,
supported by The Ishibashi Foundation. Born in Israel in 1980, Ariel lives
and works in Berlin.
 
Ariel makes works of exquisite detail and subtlety as sculptures and
installations. Ordinary objects or situations are altered by the addition of
an unexpected material or circumstance, creating small ruptures in the
fabric of our everyday reality. Alternating between the objects functions
such as in the bicycle work where the wheels of a bicycle are filled with
butane gas, which is slowly released as a flame from the wheel’s air intake.
Two pieces of white paper rotate against each other on a table without ever
collapsing in an eternal mechanical dance. Huge Oriental carpets are rolled
up and burnt over a fire for many hours, and then unfurled in the gallery as
an eerily mesmerizing ‘painting’ or process work. Ariel’s works suggest many
contexts and situations including the tensions of his native region, but
never dwell on this alone.
 
Ariel has shown in museums including De Appel Holland and The Museum of
Modern Art Warsaw as well as in several galleries in the U.S., Europe and
Israel.

Ariel will introduce his works using slides. The talk will be in English
with consecutive translation into Japanese.

[Biography]　
Ariel Schlesinger, born in Jerusalem, 1980 and lives and works in Berlin.
He has received awards from Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Germany 2009, Cité
Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2007 and America Israel Cultural Foundation,
New York 2003-4, amongst others.

Selected solo exhibitions
2010: Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin(Germany)
2009: Dvir GALLERY, Tel-Aviv(Israel)
2008: Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin(Germany), “Togetherness” (with Jonathan Monk),
 Dvir GALLERY, Tel-Aviv(Israel)
Selected Group exhibitions
2010: “Christmas in July”, Gallery Yvon Lambert, New York(U.S.), “I'm Not Here.
An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs”, De Appel Art Center, Amsterdam(Holland)
2009: “Magic Show”, Hayward Gallery, London(U.K.), touring exhibition, various venues
across U.K.,
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw(Poland)
2008: “Can art do more?”, 5th Jerusalem Biennial and “Signs of Life”, Israel Museum,
Jerusalem(Israel)

[Weblinks]
・Galerija Gregor Podnar(Berlin)　
www.gregorpodnar.com/_index.php?p=p_78&sName=ariel-schlesinger
・Dvir GALLERY(Israel)　
www.dvirgallery.com/artists/artist_multimedia.asp?contentCatID=7&contentPageID=8&artistID=27

[Outline]
Date and Time: SAT, July 17 2010, 14:00 - 16:00
Organized by: Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]/ Supported by: Ishibashi Foundation
Venue: AIT Room Daikanyama

2010-7-17

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AIT ARTIST TALK #45: "Journeys to the Memory of Place"
by British Artist Simon Starling

AIT will host a talk by the British artist Simon Starling on March 31st, starting 19:00.
This talk is supported by The Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, where Simon
Starling will hold a one person exhibition in 2011.

Simon Starling (b.1967) was the winner of The Turner Prize in 2005, and is currently in Japan
visiting Hiroshima, Kyoto and Tokyo researching towards his exhibition next year.
 
Starling uses various research methods to draw out episodes and histories, exposing
the changing relationships, conflicts and mobility of culture.
His works manifest the passage of time and processes. This research based attitude
is perhaps similar to the anthropologist or explorer who journeys towards some truth.
In this talk Starling will introduce his works, which extend the horizons of the imagination
and contemporary art now.

【Outline】
Date and Time: Wed., March 31 2010, 19:00 - 21:00
Organized by: Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]/ Supported by: The Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art
Venue: AIT Room Daikanyama 

2010-3-31

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 "Exploring Passages and Creating Spaces, The Allers/Retours Experiment"
A Talk and Live Discussion with Morrocan Curator Abdellah Karroum

AIT is pleased to host a unique curators talk and radio presentation with
Moroccan curator Abdellah Karroum. Abdellah is curator in residence at AIT
for one month with the support of the Backers Foundation.
Radio has been a key medium of research and curatorial practice for Karroum,
whose `R22(RADIOapartment22)` radio project has been initiated in many cities around the world.
AIT hope to host `R22` in Tokyo as on ongoing project.

Abdellah Karroum (b.1970) is one of the most active young independent
curators working in the African continent today. He is the founder and
artistic director of several art projects, including “L’appartement 22”, an
experimental space for encounters, exhibitions and artists’ residencies
founded in 2002(Rabat, Morocco), and the art expeditions project ‘Le Bout Du
Monde’, and a series of art publications, ‘éditions hors’champs’.

Karroum has curated numerous exhibitions for “Le CAPC Musée d’art
contemporain de Bordeaux”, and was one of the curators for the 2006 DAK’ART
Biennial for African Contemporary Art. He was one of the curators of the
'Position Papers' at the Gwangju Biennale 2008 directed by Okwui Enwezor. He
initiated the laboratory "Art, Technology and Ecology" at ESAV-Marrakech
(Film School) since 2009.

【Outline】
Date and Time: Tuesday, March 29 2010, 19:00 - 21:00
Organized by: Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]
Co-Organized by: The Backers Foundation
Venue: AIT Room Daikanyama

2010-3-29

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2010-3- 8

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Artist Talk #43: “Hungry Tunes” by William Engelen

For the first artist talk of 2010 we are happy to present the current Artist in Resident
supported by the FONDS BKVB of Holland, William Engelen. William will stay in
Japan between January and April.
 
William Engelen works in various media including drawing, sound pieces and large-scale
outdoor installations. He is well known for sound-based works and his use of graphical
scores which often develop through close collaborations with classical musicians. He has
also developed complex and humorous sound installations using the weather or bird song
as the triggers for the work, and made a series of sound pieces which are composed from
the diaries of the artist or musicians. William Engelen works mostly in-situ.
 
In this talk William will introduce his work over the last twenty years using slides and sound.
The talk will be in English with consecutive translation into Japanese by AIT staff Roger McDonald.
 
William would like to enlist the assistance of attendees for a new sound piece he is preparing
while in Tokyo – details will be explained at the talk!

【Biography】　
William Engelen (b. 1964, Holland). Lives and works in Berlin and Rotterdam.
He has participated in the 2005 Documenta, and has had a solo exhibition “Verstrijken voor ensemble”,
at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam in 2008.

【Outline】
Title: AIT ARTIST TALK #43：“Hungry Tunes”　by William Engelen
Date and Time: Monday, February 15 2010, 19:00 - 21:00
Organized by :  Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]
Venue: AIT Room Daikanyama

2010-2-15

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AIT is pleased to host an artist talk by the current artist in resident Bianca Maria Barmen, supported by IASPIS, Sweden.
 
Bianca works as a sculptor using clay as her primary material out of which the basis
of her forms and little installations emerge. The sculptures are later cast in un-painted
plaster or bronze and the original clay sculptures are lost.
 
Her forms exude a sense of intense quiet, often presented together as small families of
related objects like compact theatre sets. An image seen in a newspaper or a passage
remembered from a book may be the starting point for her works.
 
Bianca has written about the importance of clay in her practice, and its ancient links to
the birth of sculpture at the dawn of human history where clay was often placed on the skulls
of the deceased at funeral rites. For her this material is a fundamental, organic compound
temporarily used by the artist before being returned to the earth.
 
Bianca will introduce her works in this talk using slides.
The talk will be held in English with consecutive translation into Japanese by Roger McDonald (AIT).
 

【Biography】　
Bianca Maria Barmen (b. 1960) lives and works in Lund, Sweden and in Cambodia.
Her works were presented at the Frieze Art Fair in London in 2007 and have been collected by many
institutions including the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

【Outline】
Title: AIT ARTIST TALK #42：“The Sculpture of Bianca Maria Barmen”　by Bianca Maria Barmen
Date and Time: Friday, October 23 2009, 19:00 - 21:00
Organized by :  Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]
Venue: AIT Room Daikanyama

2009-10-23

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