MAP	OF MEANINGS
Exhibition venues PLATTFORM - Raum für Kunst A-1010 Wien, Fleischmarkt 11 Griechenbeisl-Haus, 2. Stock www.plattform-kunst.com Opening hours: daily 4 pm to 7 pm Cuisine Digitale/MQ quartier 21 MuseumsQuartier A-1070 Wien, Museumsplatz http://quartier21.mqw.at Opening hours: daily 10 am to 8 pm Takahiko Iimura * 1937 in Tokyo, lives and works in Tokyo. Takahiko Iimura has been a pioneer artist of Japanese experimental film and video, working in film since l960 as a member of the New York Underground scene and with video since 1970. He is also a widely established international artist, receiving early acknowledgement in Europe for his films "AI" (Love) (1962, with music by Yoko Ono), which was highly praised by Jonas Mekas in the Village Voice at the time and "Onan", which was awarded Special Prize at the legendary Brussels International Experimental Festival, l964. IIMURA has had numerous exhibitions in Japan, the USA, and in Europe. Recently he has been involved in using the computer, publishing multimedia CD-ROMs/DVDs combining film, video, graphics, text, and animation. Mitsuhiro Yamagiwa * 1969 in Nagano, Japan, graduated From Tokyo Zokei University 1992.Lives and works in Tokyo. Solo Exhibitions 2004 "commonplace" Gallery Kaku, Tokyo 2003 "Tirol" art&river bank, Tokyo 2002 "Just like" Makii Masaru Finearts, Tokyo 2001 "instant installation" Moris Gallery, Tokyo 1999 "balance" O Gallery Up-s,Tokyo 1998 "blank" Gallery Gen, Tokyo Group Exhibitions 2004 "take art collection 2004" Spiral, Tokyo "missing" art-life vol.2 Spiral, Tokyo 2003 "take art collection 2003" Spiral, Tokyo "thinking about dog's death" art&river bank, Tokyo 2000 "day off '84" Futaba Gallery, Tokyo Award and Scholarship 1999 The 13th Holbein Scholarship The 3rd Contest for the Best Contemporary Art Work 1999 Award Duration 31 October to 9 November, 2005 Opening/press conference PLATTFORM - Raum für Kunst 31 October, 2005, 7 pm artist talk                             Cuisine Digitale/MQ quartier 21 6 November, 2005, 6 pm Moderation: Dieter Buchhart Curator Toni Kleinlercher kuspace association www.kuspace.org	Japanese art in Vienna The project MAP OF MEANINGS provides six Japanese artists from various artistic genres including film, photography, video, fine arts, music and performance art with an opportunity to conduct intercultural studies in Vienna as part of an artist-in-residence project. The artistic results presented reflect the project participants confrontation with the `meanings and practices of everyday life in Vienna as well as their experience with the local art scene interpreted against their individual backgrounds. This exhibition is produced by kuspace association as a contribution to the Japan-Year held across the European Union in 2005. About the project Map of Meanings deals with the meanings and practices of everyday life, in other words with the way daily activities and rituals, for example TV watching, cooking and eating, greeting or celebrating are dealt with in different cultures. Within the context of cultural studies, described by the English cultural historian and sociologist Raymond Williams (1921–1988) as `a particular life style of individuals or during a particular period or of a group of people` (Culture and Society), not only the written word but also film, video, fine arts, music, dance and performance art have proved to be suitable means of presentation. Three artist-in-residence projects provide two Japanese artists respectively with the opportunity to spend one month together in Vienna. The close contact with local citizens creates the possibility to integrate their individual experiences with the meaning and practice of daily life in Central Europe. Map of Meanings III The artist-in-residence project MAP OF MEANINGS continues with Takahiko IIMURA and Mitsuhiro YAMAGIWA. At Plattform - Raum für Kunst Takahiko IIMURA will present his video installation: "As I See You You See Me". A pair of a video camera on tripod and a monitor on pedestal is facing apart left and right side. On the frontal wall, a sentence in big letters: AS I SEE YOU YOU SEE ME are pasted, and on the monitors, left and right, the word "I" and "YOU" are pasted respectively. The audience/participant intervene between the cameras, and see him/herself on the monitor with the word "I" and "YOU" identifying the selves. You may be "YOU" as well as "I" at the same time. At CuisineDigitale in MQ21 IIMURA's DVD, "AIUEONN Six Features"(1993,8min.)will be shown on two monitors in a loop. Combining the comical and the absurd, IIMURA created six funny faces to animate the visual images of Japanese vowels in Japanese and Romanalphabet. The six images of "AIUEONN" function as differing and delaying counterparts to the accompanying letters and voices, creating an example of multiculturalism. Mitsuhiro YAMAGIWA will show the mixed media installation "To look up, look down, pause and get lost" at Plattform - Raum für Kunst , with paintings, photographs, sculptures, etc. The artist describes his approach towards installative works as follows: ”I often meet things and situations that gives me a feeling of "..not" which I always think about. In my mind, the phases of things change, going to and for every moment, which sometimes makes me very confused; however, I also know that everything in this world keeps changing after all and that is why anything can not be settled- nothing is settled. I somehow find potentials in what is supposed to have negative meanings, such as things and situations half way, vague, or empty. Maybe because there is still some space there... A catalogue about the project `Map of Meanings` will be published by the end of 2005, documenting all three exhibitions and providing a transcription of the artist talks scheduled to be held during the exhibitions. Kind support for MAP OF MEANINGS by the following institutions is thankfully acknowledged: Pola Art Foundation, The Kao Foundation for Arts And Sciences, The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Shiseido, Mécénat, Wien Kultur, MQ quartier 21, PLATTFORM – Raum für Kunst