Introduction to the project

The starting point of this project was when Youkobo Art Space asked me to think about a concept I would be interested in developing during my internship with them, with the goal of organising an exhibition or art event as its conclusion.
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This is a laboratory of intensive exchange of experience and knowledge involving the participation of seven people: Annegien van Doorn (artist, Holland/Spain ), Verónica Luyo (artist, Peru/Spain) Yasuto Masumoto (artist, Japan), Kazuhiro Masuda (artist, Japan) Kanako Hayashi (artist, Japan), Jaime Humphreys (artist/curator, UK/Japan) and Marta Gracia (curator, Spain/ Japan).

Over the course of four meetings, the participants are exploring how they relate their own work and practises to the wider art world, while also exchanging different approaches and ways of working with the concept of everyday experience. The objective is to exchange ideas and experiences and work together using different approaches to produce a concrete art presentation.

Allan Kaprow

"When you do life consciously, however, life becomes pretty strange"

research areas

How do translate an everyday experience into an artwork?

Laboratory Framework

The framework of this workshop is based on:

1.Discussion

An exchange of art approaches, methods and creative processes among the participants.

2.Interaction

How the various art approaches of the participants in the laboratory can work together

3.Communication
How it is possible to transmit the interaction of those approaches in a meaningful form to an audience

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Day 4

·Discussion about how the participants work with the concept of everyday experience:how do translate an everyday experience into an artwork?

·Discussion about how the participants relate their own work and practises to the wider art world

·Preparation of the Open Lab/Artist talk

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Friday, June 12, 2009

Day 2

·Discussion about how the participants relate their own work and practises to the wider art world.

·The participants present the ideas they wish to develop and discuss how they can work within the framework of the laboratory. It is agreed to organise a one day tour of Tokyo. the places visited will be meaningful locations chosen by the participants for the in-situ development of their projects.

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About curating: the role of the curator in this laboratory

For this laboratory, the curator is a collaborator, opposing any hierarchy in relation to the artists with whom she is working. The curator is not someone who merely selects, but contributes, taking part in the creative process, questioning and reflecting on the decisions made throughout the workshop.



The problem with curation is not that it mediates the reception of art (how could the reception of art not to be mediated?) but that it so often adopts a position of expertise in a way that implicitly asserts an authority over art. This is the assigned position of curation within the dominant modes of distribution for art: a practice that deals with cultural capital. But it is not the only possibility for curation. (...) A critically self-aware curation would have to entern into a mutual and dialogical relationship with artists. It might not even be clear that such practice was curation at all. Such practice would have to live with doubt and conflict.

From:
D. Beech, M.Hutchinson, "Inconsequential Bayonets?A correspondence on Curation, Independence and Collaboration", in O'Neill, P. ed. Curating Subjects, London, Open Editions, 2007, p.57

Day 1

·Presentation and discussion about the work of each participant.



EXHIBITION Flat Inventory Banys Nous Street 15 3º2ª, Barcelona & Other Works

Artists Annegien van Doorn and Verónica Luyo Torres met when they both moved to Barcelona in 2006. From then, their daily experiences became starting points for their work - the process of dealing with a different culture, a different city and particularly the difficulties of adapting to their new environs.

Using art works based on their daily experiences in Spain, Flat Inventory Banys Nous Street 15 3 2 Barcelona & Other Works is conceived as an interaction between their works and the everyday spaces of Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, where the exhibition is being presented. Each work is individually related with a specific space within the Youkobo building, while simultaneously retaining connection with the other pieces in the exhibition.






FLAT INVENTORY BANYS NOUS STREET 15 3º2ª, BARCELONA
Annegien van Doorn / Verónica Luyo Torres


A MOMENT FOR YOURSELF / Annegien van Doorn


ACROSS / Verónica Luyo Torres



VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES OF MY ROOM / Annegien van Doorn


IN BETWEEN / Verónica Luyo Torres

Thursday, May 28, 2009

First approach


JINA FROM BARCELONA


This is Jina. She came from Tokyo to Spain 40 years ago, first to study and then to work. When I met her I got along with her very easy, she reminds me in a way of my mother, my aunt, my grandmother, etc. I always enjoy listening to her. Jina has a lot of stories and in each one you can see her personal view; that's why I didn't want to do a formal interview, because I really wasn't sure how she was going to react in front of a camara. Actually when she realized I was filming her she got a little upset, so I focused in the audio and sorry about the painful camera ;)




MARIA FROM AMSTERDAM

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Hello from Tokyo

Hi all,
hows goin???

Thanks alot Verónica and Annegien for inviting me to this blog..

im yasuto.. just wanna say hi to all before our project and informing you my art project in Beppu, Japan where is well know place as an old style hot-spring resort. Now contemporary art festival is going..

im in that (kanako also participated...) and gonna have a performance on this coming happy sunday 24th which is kind of "public filming" about cooking and cleaning public bathroom up by some performer who doesn't know how to do those things..

maybe you all don't know what im saying but if you come.. you will see!!!!! Anyway, im looking forward to seeing you all in our project in June!!!

many thanks
Yasuto

P.S.
My website was moved to here

Friday, May 1, 2009

Hello from Spain

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Hi Kanako, Kazuhiro and Yasuto,

Thank you very much for your interest. We are really looking forward to meet you. At the moment we are constructing this new blog in which we hope to exchange material, opinions, or anything which can be useful!
We already sent you a invitation, so you'll be able to upload. We also made a link to the website of Yasuto. If anybody else has a website, blog or whatever please let us know.

Enjoy dinner with Marta and Jaime !!


Best,

Verónica / Annegien