Facilitated by Aya Takada - Birdo Flugas and Linda Lee
Online Event
Invite Link https://massey.zoom.us/j/875236914
Join us with a kōrero about the relationship that has been built between Shared Lines Collaborative (NZ) and Birdo Flugas Space (JP) since the 2011 earthquakes and tsunami and opportunities for artistic exchange and introducing artists Jun Matsuyama and Sakura Koretsune.
Aya Takada
Jun Matsuyama
Jun Matsuyama incorporates painting, photography, text, and other techniques in the creation of his works, as if weaving a story about the people and places he encounters. In recent years, Matsuyama has often created works based on his research of people who have experienced tragic events and areas where natural disasters have occurred. The works include the stories of construction projects and victims after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the current situation in the poor areas of urban Manila in the Philippines and of Leyte damaged by a super typhoon as well as stories he encounters by chance. He illustrates those stories into something that can be experienced visually - a platform that can be shared with others. He has also worked as a coordinator for several art projects.
松山隼は、絵画や写真、テキストなどの手法を取り入れながら、出会った人やその土地の物語を紡ぐように作品制作を行う。近年では、悲劇的な出来事を経験した人々や自然災害が起きた地域のリサーチから作品を制作する機会が多く、これまでに東日本大震災後の造成工事や被災者の物語、スーパー台風で被害を受けたフィリピンのレイテ島とマニラ都市部の貧困地域の現状などを作品にて取り上げるほか、偶然の出来事を含めて松山が出会い、見聞きした物語を視覚的に体験可能なものに置き換え、他者と共有できる方法を実践している。またこれまでに複数のアートプロジェクトのコーディネーターとして活動した経験も持つ。
作品写真のキャプション
（もし下記スペースをみて入れることできれば、入れられる範囲で入れてください）
Sakura Koretsune
As an artist, I seek to reweave stories between humans and cetaceans through embroidered images on textiles in combination with stories of cetaceans I hear from others. The activities have evolved into my publication project, "Ordinary Whales," a series of small booklets introducing stories between humans and cetaceans. Having started this project in 2016, I have visited various places where human relations with whales and dolphins are found.
The places I visited are both inside and outside Japan: Ishinomaki and Kesennuma (Miyagi, Japan), Taiji (Wakayama, Japan), Abashiri and Tomakomai (Hokkaido, Japan), Point Hope (Alaska, USA), Shinnecock Nation (New York, USA), and various parts of Norway. I published up to Vol.6 of the booklet series as of 2023.