雲ノ平山荘

  • Anais-karenin and Tatsuro MurakamiAnais-karenin
    Born in 1993 in Brazil.
    MFA in Art and Contemporary Culture, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2018). Doctoral student at the Department of Visual Poetics, University of São Paulo, and concurrently a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University. She is also the director of the at “Biolilolab -,Bioart in the tropics”; an institute of biomaterials, and a member of metaPhorest.
    As an artist, she creates works that integrate installation, sound art, video art and performance. Using traditional techniques for about a decade, her themes cover medicinal herbs and herbs, ecology, interspecies relations, science, indigenous cultural studies, and mythology along with the interrelationships they bring.

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  • Anais-karenin and Tatsuro MurakamiTatsuro Murakami
    Tatsuro Murakami is a guitarist, composer, and sound artist. After graduating from high school, he moved to Brazil by himself in 2014 and spent about 7 years there. In 2020, he became the first Japanese to graduate from the department of Choro of the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de Tatuío with a degree in 7-string classical guitar. During his stay in Brazil, he started his career as an experimental musician and ambient artist, and has released albums on Rohs! Records/Lontano Series (Italy), La Petite Chambre Records (Brazil/France), and other labels. As a composer, he mainly produces music for short films and documentaries, and in recent years has also been active as a sound artist. With a sensibility that mixes Brazilian and Japanese cultures, he creates sounds of words, memories of the past, natural objects, and their landscapes.

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    → MV:Lost in Buenos Aires (YOUTUBE)
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  • Hiromasa Iwasaki
    Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1994, graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2021 with a Master's degree in Oil Painting.
    One of his main series is "Printing a landscape on what was once part of the landscape”; he photographs the scenery of the place where the insect was collected and prints the image on the insect's body.
    Recent exhibitions include “Shoten-tai (Focus Zone)” (GalleryBlue3143, 2022), “Monono-nokoshikata(How to Leave Things Behind)” (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2022), “GIFUKEI (Pseudo-landscape) Exhibition” (The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Chinretsukan, 2022), "Over the fence" (Courtyard HIROO, 2021)
  • Shigeta Kobayashi
    Born in Niigata Prefecture in 1985, graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University.
    After working at a photography studio in Tokyo, he began his career as a photographer.
    As the axis of his photography, he focuses on human physical actions and all the layers in nature. His photographic works are created by capturing them as fragments of those layers.
    His major works include "AURORA" (2019) and "cairn" (2020), which were taken during his visits to Iceland two years in a row.
    "stratum" (2022), based on the experience of his second visit to Iceland, using photographs that remain vivid as a record of these events, fixes the fluctuation of memories that fade with time.
    Another work, "yoha" (2020), is based on photographs taken in Tokushima of the indigo-dyeing process and expresses the act of "dyeing" as a print.

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  • Osamu Shikichi
    Born in 1994. Choreographer/dancer. He received his M.F.A. from Tokyo University of the Arts. As it is impossible to look at oneself objectively, he creates works on the theme of capturing our strong sense of existence through others who are physically closest to him. Major presentations include "happy ice-cream" (Yokohama Dance Collection 2020), "blooming dots" (Toyooka Theater Festival 2020 Fringe, CAF Award 2020, TPAM2021 Fringe), "dragging" (Tokyo Arts and Space), "Hyper Ambient Club" (Rohm Theater Kyoto). Major awards include the French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographers at Yokohama Dance Collection 2020.

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  • Keiko Hata
    Born in Hiroshima in 1981. After graduating from high school, worked for the Hiroshima City Network for People and Town (now the Hiroshima City Cultural Foundation).
    Since 2000, she has been creating paintings, illustrations, stuffed toys, and other works under the name " Hato," and has held exhibitions in various locations.

    In 2005, she became independent as an artist. In 2007, launched the kigurumi (costume) idol unit "Shidekasu Otomodachi(Goofed friends)“ and participated in its activities as a founding member. In 2017, she began creating stop-motion animation using 2D objects and dolls. Studied abroad in the Czech Republic in 2018. Participated in the Prague Cadre Triennial in 2019 as a kigurumi (Costume) performer. In 2022, she created a work using Ohtake Japanese paper, a llocal product.
    Her hobbies include collecting local toys and studying Czech. All Japan Daruma Research Association member.

    → ”Dopey robot"The Little School of Art and Animation: A Production for the Year 2020 (YOUTUBE)
    → "Himitsu no jyumin(Secret resident)" (The Little School of Art and Animation) 2018 Production (YOUTUBE)
  • Minami Haraguchi
    Born in 1990 in Osaka, Japan, she completed her master's course at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2016.
    She creates works that symbolize the trivial things found in the everyday. His methods of expression range from 2D paintings to installations. In recent years, she has been using a technique of digital drawing with her motifs, collaging them with paper cut-outs and clay, and then oil painting them, shifting the artistic format several times.
    Major solo exhibitions include "Symbols and Junk" at Fukuzumi Gallery / Osaka (2021), "High Noon Counter" at Gallery Fukuzumi/ Osaka (2018), "PLAY" at Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery / Osaka (2022), "About Each One" at galleryTOWED / Tokyo (2021), and "Taiwan Contemporary One Year Exhibition” at Zhengyan Pavilion, Taipei Flower Expo Park/ Taiwan (2019)
  • Tomoki Watanabe
    Born in 1980. Picture book author. No published works.
    At age 23, he has been exhibiting his paintings (mainly abstract watercolors), and began holding solo exhibitions not merely in Japan, but also abroad.
    Besides painting, he has been presenting his works in various media such as live piano performances, poetry writing, and making bird objects. "Pepepe daily calendar," now in its ninth year, is one of his best-known works, and was once the top-selling calendars in the daily calendar category at the Daikanyama Tsutaya bookstore.
    When he was in his 20s, he hitchhiked around Japan for a month or two in the summer, and has so far ridden in more than 200 cars. During his travel, he earned cash by drawing portraits wherever he went, and fallen asleep in a sleeping bag under a bridge, which is a quite a journey-like trip.
    *Participation in 2021 has been postponed due to circumstances, however it has been scheduled anew for 2022.

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