Author: Scilla Alecci – Expat Arts’ Contributor
This spring’s Design Festa, held in Tokyo every spring and autumn since 1994, looked more as a craftwork fair than an international artistic event.
The economic crisis that has been hitting Japan in the last semester seems to have affected the type of objects d’art exhibited as well as the number of visitors, “very few this time,” according to one of the exhibitors.
Despite the general feeling being that of a huge, glittering flea market, however, there were artists who conceptually elaborated on the crisis issue …
Author: Scilla Alecci – Expat Arts’ Contributor
The series, which the photographer has been working on since the first exhibition in 2000, features beautiful women represented as “they believe they will be in fifty years”. Each photograph, in fact, is the result of a long interview between the artist and the models that helped her to define the best background, clothing and facial expression for “the portraits of the ideal elderly woman”1
One after the other, Miwa Yanagi demolishes, by bringing them to their extreme consequences, the stereotypes related to the figure …
This entry is part 30 of 30 in the series AsiaAuthor: Stefano Tronci – Expat Arts’ Regional Editor, Beijing
Living abroad means being part of a small group of people that decides to explore the unknown, testing personal opinions and beliefs to come to terms everyday with a different, strange, alien surrounding. It also means to meet, sometimes casually, other people in the same situation, walking in search of a path to understand the world better, being influenced and influencing a society thousands of miles away from home.
Keith Yurdana was for …
This entry is part 29 of 30 in the series Asia
Author: Charlotte Bank – Expat Arts’ Contributor
In February 2007 I embarked on a project that was to become a devotion as well as a work in progress. With the support of the Danish Institute in Damascus I was going to investigate the working conditions of young experimental documentary film and video makers in Syria and how their situation is affected by the increased use of digital media. The past decade has witnessed a massive production of experimental video from …
This entry is part 2 of 30 in the series Asia
Author: Edward Pye – Expat Arts’ Events Director
As a foreigner in any country, one often faces a decision that brings into question the longevity of your stay in that country, for an artist it can be as small as buying paints – that you are in a country for long enough to pursue a hobby indicates a level of commitment that can define the boundaries between a traveler and an expatriate.
American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux once said:
“The …
