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Transit für sechs Körperteilen Ⅱ
2000-01, 240 × 240 × H. 220 cm, approx. 50 × 30 × H. 40 cm each (Bag #1-#6)
Mixed media (wood, resin, silicon, fabric, metal, audio)
Photo:installation view, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Maki Umehara, Transit für sechs Körperteilen, in: Transit2001, exh. cat.
[Exchange-exhibitions which took place in Japan and Germany]
Jun., 2000 - Dec., 2001 (from planning up to the exh.)
The project started from a slight hope to travel to Japan by a few German artists, whom Maki Umehara met at the benigging of her study in Germany. Shortly afterward, she planned for exchange-exhibitions together with a professor, artists around Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; artists and professors in Nagoya, Japan.
#1 May, 2001 - Jun., 2001
Travel together with 18 artists (six artists from Germany, five artists from Switzerland/Germany, five artists from Japan/Germany, an artist from Chile, an artist from Colombia / Bag #01-06, from Germany to Japan, for one month): Düsseldorf ー Nagoya
Field work (group):
Nagoya, Ise, Nara, Kyoto, Tokyo, Toride
Exh. Transit (Ⅰ):
Artport, Nagoya
Lecture by Prof. Christian Megert:
Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya; Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
#2 Oct., 2001-Nov., 2001
Travel together with 35 artists (18 guests, professors in Nagoya, JP, from Japan to Germany, for approx. two weeks): Nagoya ー Düsseldorf
Exh. Transit (Ⅱ):
Atelier am Eck; Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Lectures by Prof. Hideki Nakamura:
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf / Theme: On contemporary art in Japan
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / Theme: Concerning the possibilities of 'hybrid art' in a different cultural background (trans. from Japanese, in: Transit2001, exh. cat.)
The travel of the guests from overseas were supported by the organizations. In Nagoya, artists were able to stay at the guest house of the Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design; and in Tokyo, at the guest house of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Many thanks to Yoshiaki Watanabe who made both Prof. Christian Megert’s special lecture and this activity along with international exchange at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music possible: in former times, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Assistant Professor of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, studied under Professor Megert of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Thanks to many people who made this exchange-exhibition project possible.
The organizer:
Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design (NZU)
With the cooperation of:
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Communication:
NZU, Maki Umehara
[Notes]
After the project, there was a diversity of opinions by some artists from the German side on the framework of the project 'Transit' ー exchange-exhibitions in Japan and Germany; besides, on the topics of exchange-exhibition as advertisements on the Web page (for the art academy / the university, etc.); the idea of the exchange-exhibition; and the originality. The occasion of research in art and education during her study includes professors' exchange-exhibition between Carnegie Mellon University, the Department of Fine Arts, and Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design, where Umehara had helped one of the American professors to create his artwork. (exhi. in Nagoya, around 1997)