It's going to be an exciting week. I came home from Japan a few days ago and on the one hand, I am editing the video documentation of my project realized there. On the other hand, my class and I are preparing for an exhibition presenting the works of the semester at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. I was invited to Japan for an artist-in-residence program, where I was interested, among other things, in the traumatic memories of school life that connect generations. In the first step, I organized a workshop mainly for the representatives of the older and middle generations, during which I collected the different memories of the participants. Then, I asked young people from the Anime and Manga Faculty of one of the local universities to collaborate in the project, to stage the memories they chose as short scenes based on their dramaturgy. For the public event, I rented complete photo studio equipment in my studio as a set. A professional photographer captured every moment of the indoor events, and drone footage was also taken outdoors. The audience that dropped into the event from time to time, found themselves among the sets of a photo shoot in progress; the entire several-hour process from ideation to acting out the scenes was part of the performance.
Location: YUI-PORT (Niigata City Center for Creative Arts and International Youth Exchange)
Photos: Roland Farkas (1), Osamu Nakamura (2-5)
