2003
- Master degree program of the Tokyo Gakugei University in Japanese Traditional Calligraphy, under the guidance of Prof. Hideaki Nagano :
Accepted as an MA researcher in Tokyo Gakugei University, studying Japanese calligraphy pedagogy and classics, as well as the continuing practice of writing (Shosha).
Began research for a Master thesis: comparative essay on Western modern art and Japanese traditional calligraphy and aesthetics (until the contemporary era).
Principal academic advisor: G (Professor Hideaki Nagano)
Other academic advisors : Si (Professor/ Mr. Yuji Kato) - O ut (Lecturer/ Mr. Yasuhiro Kato) - {h ut (Lecturer/ Mr. Eiichi Hashimoto) - Έ䌒 (Assistant/ Mr. Takeshi Ishi).
- Calligraphy exhibition in collaboration with Butoh dancer Emi Ishikawa, and American musician David G. Hebert, Shinjuku, Tokyo :
Exhibition of a 6x4 meter calligraphy work, in a long and dark venue at the highest floor (12F) of the Yotsuya-Kumin-Center building in Shinjuku.
Realised in collaboration with butoh dancer Emi Ishikawa and American trumpet David G. Hebert, it was a multi-media trio performance.
At the top floor of the building with large windows displaying a beautiful overview of the nocturnal city: the calligraphy from this dark room, illuminated by Masato Ohno's video work, enlighted smoothly.
The performance lasted for an hour.
- Co-produced and co-directed an inovative opera named "Correspondence", Musashi-Koganei, Tokyo :
This opera seeks to join the silence of writings and the sound of music together, and its theme is illustrated by the following points:
- Does the sound of a foreign language not become musical before its words overcome their misunderstood meaning?
- Is music not a form of metalanguage that overcomes language itself: If it is not translated, it must be universal.
- Does translation not find it's echo in the artist's work : to translate its inspiration.
- Before an audience of diverse languages and cultures, how may an artist use writings without negotiating the divisions that -- unlike music -- they will generate?
- Is Chinese and Japanese script not at the same time both drawings and words: he who cannot read them, may still contemplate them.
- ...
The homepage of this project can be found by clicking here.
Images of the Premiere Performance in Tokyo:
- Projection of earlier Yotsuya-Kumin-Center performance in "Dance and Media" event in the Goethe Institute, Akasaka, Tokyo :
Projection of the video recording of earlier Yotsuya-Kumin-Center performance with Emi Ishikawa and David G. Hebert in the "dance and Media" event, "screenings of video dance from Europe, Israel and Japan - screen choreography and dance for the camera" in the Goethe Institute.
- Publication of texts on Japan in french art magazine Hermaphrodite' "Chronicles" :
- Selection of a binary poem to appear in the "Nettime unstable digest" vol 50, Sunday June 8 2003 17:51:39 (GMT+2) :
Selection by Florian Cramer, Beatrice Beaubien et Alan Sondheim (editors/7-11 _arc.hive_ eu-gene o-o rhizome rohrpost webartery wryting) of a binary poem for the "Nettime unstable digest" vol 50, Sunday June 8 2003 17:51:39 (GMT+2).
Nettime is a group of mailing lists for networked cultures, politics, and tactics. Related to net criticism, it is accessible in six languages. Here's the text :
Psycho Pompus Print : ether - nudeFoot
and I whisper:
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- Four seasons of poetry on mount Takao, Japan :
In Japanese poetry, the first part of a "tanka" (Z), the "hokku" () evokes nature and the seasons; whereas the second part describes emotions and feelings.
The "hokku" will slowly become a poem on his own, the "haïku", that is still evoking nature and seasons, but avoid speaking of feelings.
The "haïku" is composed of three verses for 17 syllabes, and must include only one "word of season".
It's very short form is supposed to catch a moment from a point of view.
All "word of season" (kigo - G) are archived in special dictionaries called "Saijiki" (ΎL).
It is a much a work of situation and installation than it is a poetic essay. It can be located in between the touristic picture and the artistic archive of a silent happening or momentum.
- Contribution with an HTML net-art work to Tamara Lai's "T-deus" project :
Answering Belgian media artist Tamara Lai's call for contribution to her project "T-deus" : an HTML net-art work entitled Open Sesame.
This digital-html poem has been published in web art literary journal _sidereality.com_ : a journal of speculative and experimental poetry.
Volume 2, Issue 4 (October-December 2003) (ISSN 1543-0316).
Click to visit Open Sesame.
- Installation towards the St-Victoire Mountain, Provence, France :
On the early morning, I started a walk towards the St-Victoire Mountain, without reaching it, while thinking on Jeff Wall's book "Into the forest, Two sketches for Studies of Rodney Graham's Work". (Yves Gevaert Editor, Brussels - 1996 / Émile Van Balberghe Bookshop)
On the track, I displaced rocks I found on my way, and placed them in the same position but beside the hole that had been formed by their dislodgement.
- Convivio - Artist in residence of two weeks for an Interaction Design workshop, Rome, Italy :
Convivio is a network for People-Centered Design of Interactive Systems.
Workshop made in collaboration with KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) - Stockholm, Sweden, University of Milano - Bicocca, Consorzio Roma Ricerche, Telecomitalia Learning Services, and the Istituto Europeo di Design - Roma, Italy.
Concept : "The Convivio network builds on earlier actions within the EU FET Program to provide an infrastructure to the fledgling i3 community -namely, i3net. This European Network for intelligent information interfaces was launched in 1996 with the goal of advancing the development of novel human-centered systems and interfaces for interacting with information, aimed at people in their everyday activities. The community culture, on which the vision of Convivio is rooted, is founded on radical innovation based on the union of design, technology and people".
Lecturers included :
- Riccardo Antonini, Consorzio Roma Ricerche, Roma
- John Bowers, Centre for user-oriented IT Design, KTH, Stockholm
- Gillian Crampton Smith, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
- Pelle Ehn, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University
- Wendy Mackay, Inria and Univ. Paris Sud
- Giorgio de Michelis, University of Milano, Bicocca
- Yngve Sundblad, Centre for user-oriented IT Design, KTH, Stockholm
- John Thackara, DoorsOfPerception, Amsterdam
- Contribution to Belgian artist Olivier Foulon's book produced by the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Holland :
Contribution with a one page letter to :
"En coulisses, parfois, les artistes changent de costumes" Actualités.
A book by Olivier Foulon (composed from his black ink drawings), with the participation of John Murphy, Eran Schaerf and Eric Van Hove.
500 paperback copies, "a book of drawings print with black ink", and "a book of texts print with black ink" : made possible with the support of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Holland.
Texts : Michel Assenmaker.
Translation : Gila Walker.
Concept and structure : Olivier Foulon et Manuel Räder.
Graphics : Manuel Reader
Printer : Bern Claessens, Sittard
Bookbinder : M. Van den Berg BV, Landgraaf
ISBN : 90-72076-19-2
- Guest Solenoïdes(6) : Collaboration with Belgian artist Tamara Laï, (net-art), internet :
GUEST SOLENOÏDES cyber poemes / shocked movies
série / serial in progress :: milliers de. thousand colors / screen 800x600 / sound on
Texts, images, videos : Eric Van Hove (Tokyo JP)
Animations, sons, codes : Tamara Laï (Liege B)
Solenoïdes : small cylinders traversed by electric wires and which create magnetic fields.
This word which comes from Latin solen, alive shell in the sea half inserted in sand (knife), evokes loneliness;
it is employed here like metaphor of incommunicability but also of the potential possibility to create a connection.
This work has been published in the Net Gallery of _hz-journal.org_ : forum for experimental music and intermedia art in Sweden.
Click here to visit Guest Solenoïdes(6).
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- Contribution to {self}_representation 2003, on going New Media project "My mission" commissioned by le Musee di-visioniste, Cologne, Germany :
{self}_representation 2003, launched on September 30th : le Musee di-visioniste gives a deep inside view on how 250 artists reflect themselves by using New Media.
NewMediaArtProjectNetwork is an experimental platform project for netbased art created and founded by Agricola de Cologne.
- Performance with Kinya Tsuruyama, initiating "Cercle Carré", at French art dealer Mathieu Ticolat's private suite, Tokyo, Japan :
Performance with Butoh dancer Kinya Tsuruyama and two musicians at French art dealer Mathieu Ticolat's private apartment in Jingumae, Tokyo.
This performance initiate a series of installations and performances using Mr. Ticolat's balcony as an exhibit space, under the name of "Cercle Carré".
The word "Cercle" refers to the French 19th century "salon" tradition, while "Carré" describes more specifically the shape of the venue.
Cercle Carré, as Cabaret Voltaire by Hugo Ball in Zurich in 1916 or San Francisco's Six Gallery in 1955, where Allen Ginsberg first read "Howl", attempt to create a new type of exchange in Tokyo art scene.
Pictures are from Italian photographer Roberto Giostra.
- Collaboration to "Eating Pixels": curated by Regina Célia Pinto for The Museum of The Essential and Beyond That, (net-art), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil :
- Biennale of Okinawa: architectural piece in the old Noren market for Wanakio community development project, Okinawa, Japan :
"Cubicle" - Urban Intervention in the Noren vegetable market in central Naha, ancient capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
The work consisted in rebuilding to the identical the most dilapidated and deserted room of the market with aluminum and plastic. The reason for using these materials is that they have to be inedible to termites, resistant to rot and waterproof.
The attempt is to revive the interest of the community for a place it deserted, while proposing an alcove favorable for spiritual rumination in this community of ascetic workers.
The status of the former space, it's eviction from the public space is therefore remodeled instead of being denied, from a nook that the community wanted to avoid building a cloister where one can retreat.
The Japanese name for this piece is "iori", kanji which means a place or a zen shrine where one can meditate, study or devote itself to spiritual dedications such as the tea ceremony.
The key of the place has been entrusted to Miss Kin-cho, head of the group of grand-mothers that run this part of the market, and will therefore be open from two o'clock in the morning, accordingly to the market daily timetable.
Collaboration with the ikebana (floral art) Japanese master Keiko Ishibashi during the biennale' opening; On that occasion, she proposed a tea ceremony to locals as well.
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