黄金町バザール2015

Yokohama-Chengdu Artist-in-Residence Exchange Program

Yokohama City is currently developing a variety of cultural projects to advance and realization of "cultural and artistic creative city (Creative City) and Yokohama" initiative, the Asian cultural exchange with each city. This project, in view of the spirit, it is possible to provide an opportunity of production and published in up-and-coming artist, director, etc. to be based in Asia, aims to support their activities. In addition, by artists such as it makes a stay produced in a certain period of time Yokohama, and at the same time contribute to the formation of Yokohama aims "creative neighborhood", and through exchanges with stay artists and citizens, with the culture and art is taking advantage of the "creativity" It is intended that the it will help regional development.

Artists

"The Isometric", 2014 / X-ray film, glass, wood
Zhang Jin (China / Chengdu)

[Yokohama-Chengdu Artist-in-Residence Exchange Program]
After received his Chemistry PH.D from Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2008, Jin Zhang retuned to Chengdu and investigate the history of Ancient Silk Road, finally he made tens of photo works. He's more interested in the iconography of interdisciplinary of art and other subjects. In recent works he made several image installations that mixed ready-mades and chemistry. He explores new possibilities of images, where truth is suspended.

"popup town. Miniature Koganecho", 2015 / Polystyrene board, projection mapping
Naoki Yoshimoto (Japan / Yokohama)

[Yokohama-Chengdu Artist-in-Residence Exchange Program]
After 10 years living in the the U.S., Naoki Yoshimoto has started filmmaking. In order to further its potentiality, he has explored many aspects of Cinema in multiple genres, such as experimental, drama, documentary, multi-performance and play. He moved to Koganecho in 2013, and participated in Koganecho Bazaar 2014. He created his first video installations "Koganecho popup town" and "yes/no project" there. Recently, he was chosen as Chengdu residence artist for two months, from July 2015.