The place is created by gods and artists The "Extreme Cold Art Festival" is held from February 2nd to March 3rd every year at Kawayu Onsen, Teshikaga Town, Hokkaido. The main attraction of the art festival is the ``Snow Forest Outdoor Art Museum,'' which is located in the forest behind the "ARtINn Extreme Cold Art Contagion Machine". Not only domestic contemporary artists, but also overseas artists from Australia, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, Germany etc., reside here. Over 40 works will be on display during the exhibition period, and can be viewed from dawn until 9pm. There is also a ``Showa Yukaku Museum,'' which is housed in a 70-year-old private house. The museum exhibits cutting-edge art works. The cold air of over -15 degrees Celsius and the steam rising from the hot spring river combine in the air to create a harmony between natural beauty and artwork. It has become an international art experiment site where artists ask themselves what they can create in response to the special ``cold landscape'' unique to this location. ``Natural beauty'' and ``art'' enhance each other's beauty. This is a special place created by gods and artists. (Producer Zen/ZEn)
Fortuitous Landscape presents a sculpture installation that represents Nature and climate while engaging time and temperature. This temperature influenced environmental installation of approximately 700 frozen blocks arranged in a circular installation create a protected interior space. Each cast frozen block shape contains a ball carefully arranged in the color spectrum order by levels. Fortuitous Landscape's beginning stage will present to the viewer an engaging assembled circular structure systematically balanced and planned. Conceptually and without control the work, affected by temperature and time, will melt and evolve, altering order into disorder relative to environmental awareness and climate consciousness.
My practice is a response to the interconnection between humans and the natural world, particularly in our shared need for shelter. As described by architect Juhani Pallasmaa in his book “Animal Architecture”, animal shelters mirror human structures in that they modify and stabilize their immediate surroundings. My work extends this notion, aiming to shift our sense of “dwelling” by embracing a mode of habitation rooted in mutual respect and interdependence, rather than dominance. Thus, with my shelters, I hope to alter, if only a little, our understanding of habitation. In this project, I explore the construction of shelters, taking as my main reference the building methods used by two bird species that inhabit Akan-Mashu National Park. By choosing these species, I aim to create a work that reflects the specific ecology and life patterns of the region, fostering a dialogue with the territory.
I envision an installation that reflects my people's lives, our deaths, and spiritualism. So a bit of what life was like, with the lean-to and tea, our deaths with the Spirit Houses, which illustrates our own deaths but also the death of my people's culture and also the Spirit World that we used to believe in.
My plan now is to use a wood I plan to use wood dyeing techniques to turn the branches and bark of trees I found in Kawayu into ebony, giving them a deep black color. Using fire to break the wood into small pieces and shape them into shapes similar to hydrophotographic patterns of hot spring water, he uses dye solutions of various tones and intensities to create wonderful effects on the wood.
