The following Artists have been selected for KAIR2024 program.

Roxane Métayer (FR)
Julien Grossmann (FR/NL)
Yukari Kaihori (NZ/JP)

Each Artists will spend 9 weeks in Kamiyama and create works of art influeced by their interaction with nature and local residents. Artists also present public programs including Artist Talk, Open Studio and Final Exhibition.

 

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Roxane Métayer
 

"Roxane Métayer was born in France where she learned the violin, then continued her studies in Belgium, at the Ecole de Recherches Graphiques, where she obtained her Master’s degree, in Speculative Narration, Stories and Experiments. Now, she continues her practice as a visual artist and musician in Brussels. She exhibited at ISELP, at the CACLB, MCCSM and MV Festival. She has released several albums, notably with the label Matière Mémoire, Kraak, Morc, Primordial Void, Wabi- Sabi tapes and Marionnette Label as well as with the Vlek label with the duo Sage Alyte. She has played in venues such as Ancienne Belgique, STUK, Café Oto, Ateliers Claus, Atelier 210, Beursschouwburg, Instants Chavirés, Le Botanique… During 2023 she was able to expand his career outside the European Union by playing for the Mutant Radio Tbilisi Festival in Georgia, organized in partnership with the Shape+ platform and by touring in Japan with the support of WBI.

The living world plays a very important role in her work. Just as in her plastic work through which she explores different mediums and materials such as beeswax, clay, or soap, she also depicts fictitious fauna and flora in her music. Guided by organic imagery, she draws on different natural environments that she has experienced to create evocations of them. Her music is composed of collages of sound recordings made in nature (forests, swamps, ponds, clearings, etc.), and of sounds that she produces herself using different string and wind instruments and her own voice. The sound textures that she created refer to these ecosystems and especially celebrates the forest where she grew up."

APAREILS SPOROPHONIQUES, view installation during a performance,ceramic sculptures, 2024, ISELP      photo: Ufo photographie

 

APPAREILS SPOROPHONIQUES, sound installation, ceramic speaker, 2024, ISELP       photo: JJSEROL

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Julien Grossmann 
 

Julien Grossmann (Metz, France, lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands) explores certain paradoxes that come along with the entanglement of cultural, technological and economic movements. Often drawing on history-laden materials, sounds, and iconographies outside of the fields of art, his work poetically hints at the tacit politics and undercurrents that tie the cultural movements of individuals and communities to normative structures that circulate as part of our global economy. 
He often departs from an inquiry into, for example, a specific material such as fertilizer, or a distinct technology such as the Autotune – and the artwork emerges as the aggregate of both empirical, hands-on experimentations and research into the histories, relationships and dynamics that it conveys. 
Although each project appears as a new opportunity to engage with specific problematics, materials or processes, Julien Grossmann’s long-term interest in sound and the social aspects of music drives much of his practice. His work thus echoes a wide range of sound-related practices, media, instruments, and audio archives from early wax cylinders to today’s digital cloud, which become entries to regenerated perspectives.

 

GROWTH PRODUCTS, 2017

 

RESOURCE CURSE, 2014

 

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Yukari Kaihori
 

Yukari Kaihori based in Aotearoa, New Zealand, currently working on her Doctoral degree at Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland. Kaihori is a practicing artist known for exploring the intricate relationship between objects/things and the idea of a more-than-human world. Her research is around Japanese folk animism to consider where the essence of materiality begins and ends by imagining a life force within materials. Drawing on site-situated practice where artworks are a part of the ecology of the installation site, Kaihori often begins her projects by researching inside and outside of the exhibition space and locality of the site to find the objects/things that dwell in the given space and produce installation work with sculptures.

 

Living Things, Ma Umi Residencies, 2023

 

two sides of the moon, 2023 – 2024         photo: SamHartnett

 

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Open Studio | Sunday 29th September from 10:00 a.m. *Location to be announced

Final Exhibition |  Sunday 27th Ocober – Monday 4th November, Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th November
Open hours: Weekday from 12:00 – 16:00 p.m.  /  Weekends and Holidays from 10:00 a.m – 16:00 p.m.

Art Tour |  Saturday 26th October from 10:00 a.m.
*Meet us at Kamiyama-cho Noson Kankyo Kaizen Center at 9:45 a.m.

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All event details are subject to change.
Latest information will be updated here on this page.

 

Featured image: Masataka Namazu

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As we celebrate our 25th anniversary,  we want to say big Thank You to our community and all the wonderful people who supported the KAIR program!