in Kamiyama

【KAIR 2010 participating artists】
Ilgvars zalans（Latvia）
Yukie Hori（Brazil）
Midori Hirota（Japan）
Poh Wang (Japan)
Adam Avikainen（USA) “AwaNatural Indigo × Future Style”Project

[NEW]
【KAIR 2010 Schedule】  ※date may change
■８/19-11/７：KAIR2010
■８/20-８/25：Guidance
■９/5：Welcome Party
■９/11：Food Exchange Party
■９/23：Open Studio
■October：Workshop（will be held at local schools）
■10/24-11/３：Exhibition
■11/３：Sayonara Party

Ilgvars Zalans (Latvia)
Born in 1962 in the Republic of Latvia. He graduated from the Riga Applied Art College in 1987 and the Latvian Academy of Arts in 1992. He has had a number of solo exhibitions in Europe and China, and he is a member of the Artists Union of Latvia since 2001. His works are held in several collections including the Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko collection and The Artists Union of Latvia and Ukraine. He has won a multitude of awards and has undertaken many public commissions across Europe, the Middle and Far East.
His works are both innovative and progressive; he is a showman and a live performance artist whose methodology gives a nod to artists like Pollock. However, he has developed a style that is very much his own. He travels the world and performs action art in public places. He documents cultural facts by trailing and dripping paint, using his body as an artist’s brush; his feet, hands and toes poetically squelch a vibrant and colourful elegant dance across the virgin canvas. Constantly changing and evolving his methods, Zalans is an exciting and charismatic artist. He is a narrator who skilfully performs his artworks across the world with spontaneity and a zest for life.

Yukie Hori (Brazil)
Yukie Hori is a Japanese descendent visual artist born in Brazil, 1979. In her work, she tries to understand how to construct a visual and psychological perception of reality. Her artistic practice examines the relationship between people and a place, offering viewers a new way to perceive space, stimulating them into changing the manner of their actions and to observe the transformed places. Through photography and mix of site-specific installations, drawing and digital technology, she creates a continuous displacement between reality and the photographic image finally producing a new view of the space, landscape and its social situation. She has participated in exhibitions and residencies in Brazil and other countries. From August to December 2009, she took part in an art residency in Mexico for Latin America and Haiti Creators and in July 2010 as an artist in residence at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland. She is currently based in São Paulo where she also works as a graphic designer.

Hirota Midori (Japan)
After graduating from the Aichi Prefectural University of Arts and Music in 1989 with a major in design, Midori Hirota moved to Indonesia where she studied painting at the Indonesian Institute of Arts Denpasar and sculpture at the Indonesian Institute of Arts Yogyakarta, remaining active in Indonesia for 18 years before returning to Japan in spring of this year. In addition to working on her own art, she is also active in planning art exhibitions to introduce Indonesian artists to Japan. She started “the Memory of Asia project” in 2005, where she visited people in the Philippines and Indonesia who experienced World war ll. She created works by interacting with people, and had exchanged her artworks with their belongings. Last year, she had a month-long exhibition at Tokyo’s HIGURE 17-15 CAS Contemporary Art space where she held an exchange project with 100 Japanese people who had experienced the war. From this summer, she plans to conduct a similar project during her Kamiyama residency.

Poh Wang (Japan)
Poh Wang creates installations and videos filled with humor and sadness, based on the theme of examining the hidden aspects of society that are taken for granted. The team has been active since 2000 in Tokyo and places around the world such as Holland and Scotland, creating and displaying their works.

Adam Avikainen (U.S.A)
Born in the U.S.A. As a child, he wanted to be a train engineer or a gorilla when he grew up. Now, that he is a grown-up, he cannot afford to buy train tickets, so he bikes to work…fuelled by bananas.

【Contact】
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