Masaki Miyamae is an artist who vigorously challenged a wide range of practice in the 1980s and the 1990s, but died young at the age of 43. This project brings a particular attention to his pioneering practice of workshop by inviting this deceased artist as a resident artist at the Koganecho Bazaar 2015 in collaboration with those artists and art professionals who have worked with or inspired from Miyamae's practice.
In the first half of the project period, three artists of Takayuki Yamamoto, Masanori Fujiki, and Yoshiaki Kaihatsu, will come and stay as a resident artist and produce works inspired by Miyamae's approach. A series of talks with these artists and those art professionals on Miyamae's workshop will also be conducted. In the latter half of the project, the result of three artists' projects will be presented together with those documentation and work of Miyamae. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the artist's death, this project reinvestigates and reinterprets Miyamae's artistic practice in an attempt to reconsider the meaning of increasingly popular socially engaged art and workshop practice today as well as rethinking the role of art and its relation to the Japanese society in the 1980s.
Born in 1957 in Tokyo. While Miyamae was a student at Tama Art University, he drew attention as one of the emerging Japanese painters of a new generation. His practice ranges from paintings to TV program productions and multimedia performance. His workshop of ‘Who are you?’, initially presented at ‘Art/Language’ exhibition (Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, 1992), and his succeeding workshop series, were notable at that time as a pioneering project of that kind. After appointed at the Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen University in Hokkaido in April 2000, he died in May of the same year at the age of 43 after conducting a few lectures and workshops.
*Reference image "Telling your future", 2012
Residence Period：8/20-9/6
Born in 1974 in Aichi. Trained as a primary school teacher, Yamamoto’s practice is mainly based in workshop. Through the creativities hidden in children’s conversations and play, he cynically illustrates the specific nature of social system and customs. He participated in ‘Art Tekiya!’ workshop conducted by Miyamae. He presented his works in various exhibitions including ‘Go Betweens: The World Seen through Children’ (Mori Art Museum, 2014) and ‘Omnilogue: Your voice is mine’ (NUS Museum, National University of Singapore, 2013).
*Reference image " _____ ", 2014
Residence Period：9/5-9/14
Born in 1952 in Hokkaido. Since the late 1970s, Fujiki has presented action-based project in the street. He attempts to re-question the structure of those suppressing our ordinary life by disclosing its element one by one. He began teaching at the Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen University since its opening and conducted a series of workshops with Miyamae and Masami Suzuki as part of the curriculum. He has participated in numerous projects including Sapporo International Art Festival 2014 and BCS 2013 Open Studio (Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei).
*Reference image "Mole TV", 2014
Residence Period：9/15-9/30
Born in 1966 in Yamanashi. Kaihatsu has presented works that are associated with memory, time, and experience inspired by his daily life. He organizes ‘Thank you Art Day’ on March the 9th of every year, and ‘Daylily Art Circus’ as earthquake disaster support project. He was one of the participating artists, together with Miyamae, in ‘IZUMIWAKU project’ (1994) held at the Izumi Junior High School in Tokyo. His past exhibitions include ICHIHARA ARTxMIX 2014 and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (2006 – 2015).
This introductory exhibition presents some documentation on Miyamae’s workshop.
| Dates | 8/4（Tue）-9/30（Wed） |
| Venue | Site-A Gallery Beneath the Railways |
| Hours | 11：00～19：00 |
| Entry fee | Free |
| Dates | 10/3（Sat）16：00〜 |
| Venue | Step Plaza |
| Entry fee | Free |
| Dates | 8/29（Sat）16：00〜18：00 |
| Speakers | Takayuki Yamamoto（Artist）×Tomoko Nagayama（佐倉市立美術館） |
| Venue | Site-D Community Space Beneath the Railways |
| Entry fee | Free |
| Dates | 9/13（Sat）17：00〜19：00 |
| Speakers | Masanori Fujiki（Artist）×Masami Suzuki（新潟大学）×Tatsuo Inagaki（法政大学） |
| Venue | Site-A Gallery Beneath the Railways |
| Entry fee | Free |
| Dates | 9/18（Fri）17：00〜19：00 |
| Speakers | Yoshiaki Kaihatsu（Artist）×Takashi Murakami（美術家、IZUMIWAKUプランナー） |
| Venue | Site-D Community Space Beneath the Railways |
| Entry fee | Free |
| Dates | 10/17（Sat）17：00〜19：00 |
| Speakers | Hiroshi Fuji（美術家／十和田市現代美術館館長／秋田公立美術大学教授）×Shingo Yamano（Director, Koganecho Bazaar）×Tatsuo Inagaki（法政大学） |
| Venue | Site-D Community Space Beneath the Railways |
| Entry fee | Free |