25 July 2012
Operating out of Tokyo’s Kusoge suburb, KOSUGE1-16 is a husband-and-wife duo renowned for their adventurous and interactive art. A glance at their website yields works such as a larger-than-life table football assembly, manned by up to 12 competing children, as well as an equally impressive and interactive Scalextric-esque cycledrome.
Read on19 July 2012
Sumidagawa is a fifteenth century Noh play, while Curlew River, a church parable, is an adaptation of it by Benjamin Britten – both will be performed at Christ Church Spitalfields, London on 7 September at 6:30 pm and at St Bartholomew in Orford, Suffolk on 9 September at 3:00 pm. Details can be found here.
Read on27 June 2012
During June and July Tokyo-based artists, husband and wife, Chishino Kurumada and Takashi Tsuchiya, known professionally as KOSUGE1-16 will be in residence at mac birmingham accompanied by their two young children, where they will be holding their first UK solo exhibition. In fact, this is the first time the duo has shown work outside Japan.
Read on18 June 2012
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will be presenting the very first complete retrospective of the films of director Shinji Somai to be shown outside his native Japan, including a number of films never before screened in the UK. A constant source of inspiration to Japanese filmmakers, Somai’s work is still largely unseen by Western audiences.
Read on14 June 2012
Researchers from King’s Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre (PSSQ) were invited to the second Anglo-Japanese collaboration for Improving Patient Safety (AnJIPS) event, which was held between 4th and 7th June in Tokyo. The AnJIPS project is a partnership between King’s College London and the University of Tokyo (UT). Led by Dr Naonori Kodate, former Research Associate with the Risk Programme (now Lecturer, University College Dublin),
Read on1 June 2012
Who are the Japanese of today? Members of the National Student Drama Festival went on a search for a hint to answer this big question, motivated also by the tsunami and nuclear disaster of last year. Can we also approach the essence of man’s nature? Looking into the literature of the period around the Second World War, we found our play Tainai (‘In the Womb’) written in 1949 by Juro Miyoshi
Read on24 May 2012
Wide Open School is an unusual experiment in learning with courses devised and led by over 100 artists from 40 different countries. The School is open to everyone and begins on 11 June. Pianist and composer, Makoto Nomura, will be involved in three of the Wide Open School’s workshops.
Read on15 May 2012
The existence and condition of children’s outdoor environments in the post disaster Tohoku area of Japan was the focus of Helen Woolley’s recent visit to Japan in April 2012. Helen is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Reader in Landscape Architecture and Society in The Department of Landscape at The University of Sheffield.
Read on28 March 2012
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting the Ruthin Craft Centre’s Japanese Style: Sustaining Design, a season of exhibitions rooted in sustainable design, due to run from 1 April to 24 June 2012. The Ruthin Craft Centre, the Centre for the Applied Arts was originally established in 1982. Rebuilt and re-opened in 2008, it boasts
Read on26 March 2012
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting The Fitzwilliam Museum’s third Sculpture Promenade, featuring work by Kan Yasuda, 6 March 2012 until January 2013.
Read on