Urban Haiku, Switzerland&Tokyo
Gilles Gabriel Grassioulet with Optical Sisters
Gilles Gabriel Grassioulet
Gilles Gabriel Grassioulet is an artist from Geneva, Switzerland. He
studied art at the School of Fine Art in Glasgow and then as artist in
residence at the Kitakyushu Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Japan. He
exhibited his art work in Switzerland, England, Japan and India, and
traveled extensively around the world. For some time, he worked as an
art therapist in a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland, sometimes
loosing sense of who was the madman and who was the artist. Gilles
Gabriel combines a contemplative approach to the world with an
extraordinary capacity to project himself into reality through
travelings, encounters, and art. To him, art is not exterior to the mind
and body of the artist. For instance, before an exhibition in Japan a
couple of years ago, he fasted for two weeks, engaging his whole being
into the work he was presenting. It is not usual for Gilles Gabriel to
hike alone throughout the forest and mountains of Europe or Japan. He is
currently traveling around the world spending time in more than 20
cities to realize a video and art project called the 8th Continent. The
intensity of his engagement with the world will no doubt lead to
interesting outcomes as he immerses himself together with the
participants of his unit into the urban depths of Shimokitazawa.
http://www.le8emecontinent.blogspot.com
June Ofusa (Optical sisters)
Jun has been teaching art at university for 15 years and has been a VJ
(Video Jockey) playing in clubs in Japan and around the world since the
late 1980s. He has also created video work with many artists including
Num June Paik (who was his master in New York) and Marina Avlamovic. He
is currently working at NHK as the producer of a educational show on new
technologies and working at the University of Tokyo on various
educational technology projects.
http://www.opticalsisters.com
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Naoko Aramaki |
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Born in Japan 6/1/1983
Now, majoring architecture at Meiji University.
I love my country and culture.
And so I'm learning Japanese tea ceremony.
I want to talk and know about many other different minds and thought from this workshop.
Let's have fun together!!
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