We admit, it has been quite a while that we delivered you some news on our project. Now it is high time to update you on everything that has happened after our return from the AIR at Shiro Oni Studio in Japan, late September 2017.
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Today marks our last day at the Shiro Oni Residence. Later this afternoon, we will do our artist talk one more time and thereafter dismantle our exhibition.
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Yesterday we had a discussion with our Japanese friends about the differences between Asia and Europe. We said that we expected a big cultural clash as all Europeans who have visited Japan said we would experience.
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Onishi, an ordinary town in the rural parts of Japan, just above Tokyo. Slowly but surely its population is decreasing as there is not a lot of future for the youngsters, leaving the old Japanese inhabitants behind.
Our trip to Japan is the second leg of our project The Art of Empathy. To understand what the human talent of empathy can do to bridge the divides in our current society.
Tranquility as social glue It has been a while since we have posted about our Japanese adventures. The only excuse we can come up with is the weather….
Or in other words; small birdshop. Yes, this is our studio for the next 6 weeks of working on our project “The art of empathy”.
This week we received the wonderful news that our project is going into stage 2 via an artist in residence in Japan.
Yesterday we said ‘till soon!‘ to our dear friends of the Kaunas Photogallery, to all other people we got to know during our stay and to those we just recently met during our Artist Talk in the Gallery.
Our last day in Kaunas. As we are preparing our presentation and film for our Artist Talk later today, we contemplate our stay as the Artists in Residence.
