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 ADACHI Tomomi, born in 1972, is a performer/composer, sound poet and video artist. He studied philosophy and aesthetics at Waseda University, Tokyo. Known for his versatile style, he has performed improvised music (solo as with numerous musicians) and contemporary music (works by John Cage, Dieter Schnebel, etc.) with voice, computer and self-made instruments in Japan, United State and Europe. As the only Japanese performer of sound poetry, he performed Kurt Schwitters's "Ursonate" as a Japan premiere. He also composed works for his punkish choir group "Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus” and has collaborated with many dancers and dance companies. His video work has been screened at some European film & video festivals. From 2004-2005 he stayed in Künstlerhaus Dortmund, and organized an art festival in Dortmund. CDs include the solo album, "sparkling materialism" (naya records), Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus "nu" (naya records) and Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus "yo"(Tzadik). ISHIDA Takashi, born in 1972, is a painter, filmmaker and video artist. Also working as a stage designer for the dancer Nohmi Kenshi, and collaborating with the poet Gozo Yoshimasu. His film and video work has been screened at several European and North American film & video festivals. Some of his films has been awarded like: “GESTALT” at the Image Forum Film Festival 1999 in Japan, Award for Excellence; The 4th contest for the best contemporary art works 2000 in Japan, Jury Prize; RETINA 2000 in Hungary, Second prize. ”THE ART OF FUGUE”, subsidized by Aichi Arts Center Japan. ”CHAIR/SCREEN”, best international film award in 2003 IAMGES film festival in Canada. 2003 he had a solo exhibition at the SETAGAYA Art MUSEUM JAPAN. Duration 25 Aug to 3 Sept, 2005 Opening/press conference PLATTFORM - Raum für Kunst 25 Aug, 2005, 7 pm artist talk                             Cuisine Digitale/MQ quartier 21 28th Aug, 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 II The artist-in-residence project MAP OF MEANINGS continues with Tomomi ADACHI and Takashi ISHIDA. Tomomi ADACHI will present his new work Three Duster Dancers, a kinetic video installation at Plattform - Raum für Kunst, which was produced in Künstlerhaus Dortmund in Germany in 2005. Three dusters equiped with video cameras are hanging from the ceiling. Powered by electric motors and propellers they spin and fly in an unpredictable way. The audience can follow their dance through three video monitors on the floor. The conceptual idea of Three Duster Dancers is to make the audience to be conscious of the space. The generated video image is a modulated environment, in which the audience can find themselves watching the objects in the video monitors. The relationship between the object and the subject is reversed. This work is not only conceptual but also very humorous with playfully interactive aspects.            Takashi ISHIDA is going to show an installation entitled ECRAN at Plattform – Raum für Kunst. It is an animation work, which is made in a kind of diary, not using any drafts. Ishida keeps drawing little by little and will shoot the progress of each line continousley. In this way the animation, in which lines keep growing, can also be seen as a documentary. Ishida recently is making experiments in using Japanese picture scrolls, which are old Japanese picture forms, called Emaki. One of ISHIDAs Emaki interpretations will be part of his installation at Plattform – Raum für Kunst. A new collaborative work by both artists will be produced at the Cuisine Digitale in MQ21. Basic idea is to make 2 animations simultaneously in 1 exhibition space. ISHIDA draws lines on the wall of the room and ADACHI will perform a physical performance at the same time in the same room. All these actions will get recorded using animation movie techniques with 1 video camera.  As a result, this single channel video has 3 layers of time, “real recorded time”, the “timeline of the video” itself and the “artists time”. The relationship between the recorded space and the  real space gives the work a rather strong artistic tension. 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