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Transit für sechs Körperteilen

2000-2001, 240 × 240 × H. 220 cm, 50 × 30 × H. 40 cm (Bag 01, Bag 02, Bag 03, Bag 04, Bag 05, Bag 06)

Mixed media (wood, resin, silicon, fabric, metal, audio)

The project started from a slight hope to travel to Japan by a few German artists, whom I met at the benigging of my study in Germany. It seemed that it could make the sense in doing so, not only for German artists, but also for my work along with the topic 'location and dislocation'. For that purpose we planned exchange-exhibitions together with Christian Megert (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Professor), artists around Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; artists and professors in Nagoya, Japan.

Transport 1 (Bag 01-06): travel together with 18 artists (from DE, CH, JP, for one month in Japan), Düsseldorf ー Nagoya

Transport 2 (Bag 01-06): together with 35 artists (18 guests from Japan to Germany, for approx. two weeks), Nagoya ー Düsseldorf

Photo: installation view, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Maki Umehara, Transit für sechs Körperteilen, in: Transit:2001, exh. cat.

Fieldwork (group):

Nagoya, Ise, Nara, Kyoto, Tokyo

Exh. "Transit:2001"

Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf & Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Artport, Nagoya

Many thanks to / Herzlichen Dank an:

Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Tokyo University of the Arts

Thanks to / Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von:

Goethe-Institut Kansai, The Artport 2001 Organizing Committe (Japan) etc.