wanakio
2005
is
focusing on the central urban areas of Naha, the capital
of Okinawa prefecture, which has managed to preserve
a distinct local
atmosphere, but is facing severe problems regarding its future development.
In a creative interaction process artists, architects and town planners do fieldwork
and develop projects in Okinawa’s urban space in a dialogic manner. Subsequently
the projects are presented directly in the context they deal with. As far as
possible wanakio’s activities happen openly in the public space in order
to create new models for direct democratic interaction between different social
strata and thus reinforce the more and more fading physio-spatial field the democratic
process relies on. Close
collaboration with the local authorities is sought as the project also proposes
concrete steps for improving the urban living conditions.
Beside creating and showing art works, another central
focus of wanakio are various educational activities
and workshops with children which are intergated
in the ‘trans-academy’ platform.
There
is detailed documentation on the wanakio 2005
preparation and discussion process in Japanese only
at: http://blog.goo.ne.jp/wanakio/
| project details |
|
| Project
contents: |
• Urban
Art exhibition |
|
• Trans-Academy
- wanakio’s educational platform featuring
children and inhabitants workshops, symposiums, artists talks,
lectures, seminars, town walks and other side events |
| Dates: |
Wanakio
2005 overall program: July 23 - November 27, 2005 |
|
Fieldwork:
October 29 - November 17, 2005 |
|
Urban
Exhibition: November 18 - 27, 2005 |
|
Trans-academy:
July 23 - November 27, 2005 |
| Location: |
Central
urban Neighborhoods in Naha |
| Project
Organizer: |
Wanakio
Organizing Committee |
|
Maejima Art Center (NPO) |
Directors
of the
Organization: |
Jun
Miyagi, Titus Spree |
| Curators: |
Jun
Miyagi (director Maejima Art Center) |
|
Titus
Spree (assoc. Prof. University of the Ryukyus) |
|
Emiko
Kato (independent curator, Rice+ Tokyo) |
| Sponsorship: |
Asahi Beer, Shiseido |
| Cooperation: |
Naha
Monorail Inc., Velotaxi Okinawa Partner, Plantation
Inc., Kuniyoshi Realestate Inc., Yamashiro corporation |
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