Sugihara Nobuyuki×Nakamura Ayaka
Sugihara Nobuyuki Born in 1980, in Nagano, Japan.
Nakamura Ayaka Born in 1982, in Okinawa.
2024 Taiwan East Coast Land Arts Festival (Baishoulian Riverside Park, Taitung, Taiwan)
2023 “Akaragashira” Nara Prefecture Historical and Artistic Culture Complex AIR Exhibition (Nara, Japan)
2023 “The Ancestral Path” (Museum of Asian Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
2022 “Weaving a Void” Subsidy Scheme for Young Creatives as Zuiun-an, funded by the Nishieda Foundation (Zuiun-an, Kyoto, Japan)
※Portrait photo by Luke Liu.
［Residence Program］ Oct 8, 2024〜Dec 25, 2024
Sugihara Nobuyuki Official website
Nakamura Ayaka Official website
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hinano Primitive Sense Art Festival
Profile
Sugihara Nobuyuki has been organizing the SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival every summer since 2010. He conducted research on the life of indigenous people in Taiwan as a recipient of ACC fellowship in 2019, and also in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore as a recipient of fellowship supported by the Agency of Cultural Affairs in 2022. Nakamura Ayaka makes her original hat as an artist after having worked as a strawberry farmer. They live in Azumino (Nagano) where traditions of Ohune matsuri (festival) are inherited, known as the residence of Azumino-zoku, the people of the sea.
During their Fukuoka residency, as if to trace our ancestral sea route, they plan to visit the Shikaumi shrine, where Azuminoisora, an ancestor of the Azumino family, is enshrined. The duo will collect the shells on the beach of Uminonakamichi that bridges Shikaumi island and mainland Kyushu. They wish to present a performance in front of a shell boat they crafted with their handmade mask of Azuminoisora, to recall memories of the boat that once carried Azumino-zoku.
Akaragashira, 2023.
The Dugout Canoe of Shells - Ambulation of Waves, 2022
The Ark of the Crystal in Alps , 2021 ©Sugihara Nobuyuki
The Ship of Salmon Skins – Shinano, marapto-ne , 2020
The Ship of Shells – Cip Ayoro, 2019
Interaction Diary
November 7 Art-Making
The artists worked on gluing the shells they found with nikawa (animal glue).
October 25 Art Tour
On this day, Sugihara and Nakamura visited the Faculty of Art and Design, Kyushu Sangyo University, and also Kyushu Sangyo University Zokei Junior College. There they learned about some available facilities and studios inside the university. The two also saw the solo exhibition of Ushijima Tomoko at the Museum of Kyushu Sangyo University. Later, they went to see exhibitions in nearby contemporary art galleries, including the “philosophie” at the art space tetra, where they met a few artists, “Sakai Tadaomi” show at the art space baku, and “Wada Chiaki” exhibition in the gallery EUREKA.
October 22 Research Trip to Chikugo Region
On this day, the two visited Aizome-kasuri Kobo (an indigo dye studio) Yamamura Takeshi. They learned about the process of making Kurume-kasuri (indigo dye), from dying the fabric to weaving, lectured by the master of the fifth generation Yamamura Kensuke. Later, they visited another studio, Kobo-Ohki, which specializes in “Hanagoza,” a colorful mat woven in a traditional style called Kakegawa-ori, crafted from homegrown soft rush called igusa. They also had the chance to hear stories from a couple whose names are Hiromatsu, the only producer and artisan in Fukuoka who makes hana-goza, about their love and passion embedded in their craft of hanagoza, as well as see their precious weaving machine.
October 19 Hakata Toumyou Lantern Arts Festival
Lantern art designed and installed by Sugihara and Nakamura were displayed at the Festa Square (an aisle between Hotel Okura and Riverain Center Building) as part of the toumyou (lantern) arts festival.
October 14 Kick-off Talk: Bruno Ruiz/Sugihara Nobuyuki×Nakamura Ayaka/Urakawa Taishi/Kamimura Takahiro (Community Space, ACF)
Sugihara and Nakamura introduced their previous works created in Taiwan and Japan. The two described that they value encounters with different cultures in various places where they work, hearing stories from people as they collaborate to make new art, and participating in local festivals that inspire them. They also shared their research plan in Shikaumi Island, where Azuminoisora - an ancestor of the Azumino family - is enshrined, which would enable them to make a boat made from shells and a handmade mask symbolizing Azuminoisora to be included in their performance piece at the end of their residency.
October 8 First day in Artist Cafe Fukuoka
After the guidance meeting with FAAM curators and AIR program coordinators, Sugihara and Nakamura looked at other spaces and facilities in Artist Cafe Fukuoka.
