Sugihara Nobuyuki×Nakamura Ayaka

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.