MAKI UMEHARA
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Transit für sechs Körperteilen (Ⅰ)
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)
Düsseldorf, Germany － Nagoya, Japan － Düsseldorf, Germany
Photo: installation view, Artport, Nagoya, Japan
Transit für sechs Körperteilen, in: Transit2001, exh. cat.
Transit: Exchange exhibition of contemporary art
Junuary 2000 - December 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 - June 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 #1-6, Düsseldorf, Germany ー Japan, for one month]
Field work (group):
Nagoya, Ise, Nara, Kyoto, Tokyo, Toride
Included places in the excursion were the Nagoya Noh Theater, shrines and temples in Ise, Nara and Kyoto, and so on.
Transit (Ⅰ, group exh.):
Artport, Nagoya
Lecture by Prof. Christian Megert:
Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya; Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
#2 October 2001 - November 2001
Travel together with 35 artists [18 guests, professors in Nagoya, JP, Nagoya, Japan ー Düsseldorf, Germany, for approx. two weeks]
Transit (Ⅱ, group exh.):
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 organizer:
Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design (NZU)
With the cooperation of:
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Transit:2001 Organizing Committee: NZU; 21 artists and participants (NZU: 19 Japanese; Kunstakademie Düsseldorf: 2 Japanese)
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 NZU; 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.
[Notes]
The occasion of research in art and education during her study includes the exchange exhibition between Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and NZU, in which Umehara had helped the American professors to create their art works. [The exchanges between Japan and USA where their images are depicted: Exchange exhibition of contemporary art (original: Nichibei Image no Koryuten, ref. in Japanese, translated by Umehara, group exh.), artists and participants: both Japanese and American professors, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, 1997]