OPEN ambient STUDIO
A|R|C 2010-12 : NAOYA HATAKEYAMA
Friday, 22 October 2010, 16h-20h
ambient.space, 76 Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN

"A photograph carries a message from nature […] If I continue to trace lines in the city in due course, considerate people should appear and begin to draw new lines, […] lines fit to become rich metaphors equal to things in nature." [N. Hatakeyama]

For the month of October, we're welcoming one of Japan's leading photographers, NAOYA HATAKEYAMA, as inaugural artist/researcher/collaborator in residence at ambient.space studios.

During the A|R|C residency, Naoya Hatakeyama is exploring sites of (often failed) utopian architecture in and around London with Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel. His observations of these sites feed into Luksch & Patel's long-term artistic research project, FUNCTION CREEP, which examines and proposes experiments of sustainable living. The Open Studio is an opportunity to meet informally with the artists at ambient.space studios. All (ages) welcome.

http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=arc
http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=functioncreep

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In London, Naoya's photographic work is currently on show at
Daiwa Foundation Japan House: SCALES,
until 15 Dec 2010, http://www.dajf.org.uk
Barbican Art Gallery: FUTURE BEAUTY: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion,
until 06 Feb 2011, http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=10771

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ABOUT Naoya Hatakeyama

Since the mid-1980s, Tokyo-based Hatakeyama has created a body of work concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. His Lime Works series, a study of the landscapes and architecture of limestone quarries, received the 22nd Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award in 1997. In 2001 he was the recipient of the 42nd Mainichi Award of Art for Underground (1999), an exploration of the normally unseen tunnels, rivers, and ecosystems of Tokyo‚Äôs sewer network. During the same year he was chosen to represent Japan at the 49th Venice Biennale. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions, Hatakeyama‚Äôs photographs are found in public collections including the National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Swiss Foundation for Photography, Kunsthaus Zürich; Maison Europienne de la Photographie, Paris; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

-> Taka Ishii Gallery
http://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/artists/naoya-hatakeyama/index.html

ABOUT Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel

Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel are intermedia artists whose practice interrogates conceptions of progress through the devising of tools and frameworks and the instigation of processes, with a strong emphasis on research and dissemination. Recent works have addressed surveillance, corporate data harvesting, and the regulation of public space, and have been shown at ARoS Art Museum (Århus), Centre Pompidou (Paris), NTT-ICC (Tokyo), and Eyebeam (New York).
 
-> http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=about

ABOUT A|R|C RESIDENCY

A|R|C invites international artists for month-long collaborative residencies at ambient.space studios, East London. For A|R|C, invited artists are asked to consider, in collaboration with hosts Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel, the prospect from the studio in the metaphorical sense of possible futures: specifically, those arising from transformations of public space (both 'real' and online) and conceptions of citizenship. This work will feed into Luksch & Patel's long-term artistic research project, FUNCTION CREEP, which examines and proposes experiments of sustainable living.

A|R|C supported by
Arts Council England
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Simon Bishop Foundation

http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=arc
http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=functioncreep

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