2004
DECEMBER 14 - DECEMBER 24, 2004, kuspace wien, Vienna
*Flying* Sachigusa Yasuda
© Sachigusa Yasuda
Die Ausstellung *Flying* präsentierte neue Arbeiten der japanischen Künstlerin Sachigusa Yasuda, eine Video- und Fotoinstallation, die unser Verhältnis zu gewohnten Perspektiven hinterfragt. Der Selbstmord als „Flug” aus dem Fenster und das Verfassen von Selbstmörderbriefen junger japanischer Mädchen wurde dabei thematisiert.
JULY 10 - JULY 17, 2004, kuspace wien, Vienna
On The Edge Of Nowhere Naoki Ishikawa und Yusuke Iseya
© Iseya Yusuke
Der Hype der Großstadt und das Sublime der Polar- und Bergregionen. On The Edge Of Nowhere zeigt zwei absolut gegensätzliche künstlerische Positionen, von Naoki Ishikawa und Yusuke Iseya, beide aufgewachsen in Tokio, 27 und 28 Jahre alt, geprägt vom Großstadtlifestyle, und einer im besonderen für die japanische Gesellschaft zutreffenden Widersprüchlichkeit in der Spanne zwischen Fortschritt und Bewahrung. Kollidieren doch in Japan archaische, von buddhistischen oder konfuzianischen Regeln bestimmte Lebensweisen mit einem extrem amerikanisierten, hypermodernen Lebensstil, der von der digitalen Revolution geprägt wird, wie in kaum einer anderen Region der Welt.
APRIL 9 and 10, 2004, kuspace wien, VIENNA
Live The „JYOUBUTU“
The performance “Live The JYOUBUTU” exceeded the borders of the categories music, dance and art just as light-hearted, as it smeared the borders between tradition and contemporary. Kakushin Nisihara, Makiko Otogino, mju:o, Kenichi Iijima, 4 young artists from Tokyo, who founded the performance troop JYOUBUTU 2001, brought up for discussion the extremely contradictory elements of the Japanese culture, of the traditional Samurai- up to the contemporary “Otaku”- culture. The medias, which they used for their performance, were on the one hand the BIWA, a traditional stringed instrument, and on the other hand computer and Sampler. This sound-mix was linked by a dance performance, which unites again as contradictory genre as Butoh, Pantomime and ballet, and forms the troop from a pure sound performance to a multimedia crossover experience.
© Regina Rauter
MARCH 24 - APRIL 2, 2004, Gallery of the Austrian Embassy, TOKYO
BEING MOGURA TATAKI
architectural intervention/ a kuspace production by Toni Kleinlercher & Chikako Urata“Being Mogura Tataki” confronts the visitors of the gallery of the Austrian Embassy Tokyo with an architectural intervention into the exhibition premises.
By installing a second ceiling, parts of the exhibition space thus just can be entered with drawn in head. The additionally installed ceiling is however arranged with head holes, by which one can put through its head.
It provides the chance either to communicate with other people, which likewise put their head into one of the head holes, or the possibility just to let their mind wander on the tendency of uniformity in the Japanese society.
Especially for the Japanese social structure it is to be noted anyhow that sensitized individuality and standardized subjectivity are poles apart.Between the longing for collectivity, being trendy, and the production of differences, a big correlative relationship exists. Which is to be particularly recognized in Japan in the potentialization of the individual one becoming uniformed.
These roughly speaking "contra historizing leveling of the social structures" - a process, which Yuko Hasegawa calls "Japanese amnesia", is the inspirational source of “being mogura tataki”.
© Toni Kleinlercher
FEBRUARY, 19, 2004, A.I.T., TOKYO
VIENNA ALTERNATIVES: RECENT SECESSIONS IN AUSTRIA.
At AIT there has been presented various events and talks about what ideas of the alternative can mean today in the context of contemporary art. In this talk by artist and organiser of kuspace, Toni Kleinlercher will introduce several independent and alternative art spaces which operate in Vienna. Accessing their websites during the talk, the activities of a contemporary Viennese alternative art scene will be discussed within some historical contexts.
A TALK BY TONI KLEINLERCHER, DIRECTOR KUSPACE ASSOCIATION.
AIT Curators Talk series.The talk will be in English with consecutive translation by AIT member Roger McDonald.
www.a-i-t.net
FEBRUARY, 14, 2004, ARTizan, AOMORI
kuspace presentation + forum about art management
panelist:
Tachiki Shoichiro (Aomori Prefectural Museum), Hasegawa Koji (Hirosaki Theater company), Toshima Shigeyuki (Molecular Theater/ICANOF), Osanai Makoto (NPO), Ishioka Hirofumi (Aomori Prefecture), Shimanaka Katuyuki (ARTizan), Hinuma Teiko (Aomori Contemporary Art Centre)
JANUARY, 11, 2004, RICE+, TOKYO
kuspace presentation + open discussion
participants:
Emiko Kato (Rice+), Takaaki Soga (Contemporary Art Factory), Keiko Kadota (Centre for the Science of Human Endeavor), Aki Hoashi (Arcus Studio), Nao Shibata (Sapporo Artist-in-Residence), et al.
2003
DECEMBER, 21, 2003, SUNTORY CONCERT HALL, ARK MORI BUILDING, TOKYO
under construction reflected
kuspace collaboration project:
Music by On Mitani, Hirohumi Kanno, Zoran Jakovcic
Concept and installation by Toni Keinlercher & Chikako Urata
“under construction reflected” is a minimal intervention in a concert hall, situational in consequence of the artists conditions, constantly being under construction owing to a permanent development of observational arrangements in order to start operations of 'reflexive communication'.
© Toni Kleinlercher
