BOOGIE-WOOGIE WONDERLAND
01/10/2003 - 23/10/2003
AKIYOSHIDAI INTERNATIONAL ART VILLAGE PRESENTS
*CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS
BOOGIE-WOOGIE WONDERLAND
1-23 November 2003 9:00 a.m.-16:30 p.m.
closed on Monday [except on 3 November 2003]
Opening: Saturday, 1 November 5:00 p.m.
Akiyoshidai International Art Village
AKIYOSHIDAI INTERNATIONAL ART VILLAGE PRESENTS
*CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS
BOOGIE-WOOGIE WONDERLAND
1-23 November 2003 9:00 a.m.-16:30 p.m.
closed on Monday [except on 3 November 2003]
Opening: Saturday, 1 November 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition venue:
ex-office of Yamaguchi prefectural authorities
1-1 Takimachi, Yamaguchi-shi, Yamaguchi
Japan 753-0071
WEB PROJECT: www.trans.artnet.or.jp/candy/
top page design by Young hae Chang Heavy Industries
BOOK PROJECT:
BOOGIE-WOOGIE WONDERLAND
ISBN:4-902141-02-7¡¡C0071
The Akiyoshidai International Art Village pleased to announce an exhibition ¡°BOOGIE-WOOGIE WONDERLAND¡±. The Exhibition has been realized based on the curatorial work made by *CANDY FACTORY, Japanese artist unit, and producing by Akiyoshidai International Art Village. 8 participating artists either have stayed in AIAV as a resident artist or made some collaborations with *CANDY FACTORY. Consequently, the BOOGIE-WOOGIE WONDERLAND is a fruitful result of the continuous collaborations between them. This Exhibition will be developed in different forms such as WEB project and the book project.
CONCEPT NOTE:
Gulliver’s Kingdom is a theme park that failed. It opened in 1997 but was shut down in October 2001, after Niigata Chuo Bank (which had backed the project) collapsed under the weight of non-performing loans. Now the theme park has been auctioned off to a resort company, but there are still no concrete plans. The theme park is located in Kamikuishiki village Yamanashi Prefecture situated at the foot of Mount Fuji Aokigahara area- the nation’s most popular suicide spot. The village also gained notoriety in the mid-1990s as the cult terrorist group Aum’s main base, where they produced the poisoned chemical Sarin. The village will soon disappear due to the prefectural government rezoning the area so that it can be combined with other administrative municipalities.
¡ªexcerpt from the artist book ¡°BOOGIE-WOOGIE WNDERLAND¡±
ARTISTS:
MIKE BODE & STAFFAN SCHMIDT
JOHN MILLER
AKIRA MORI
OLA PEHRSON
SEAN SNYDER
YOUNG HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
*CANDY FACTORY
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE for the artist book
THOMAS BAYRLE
Guest Curator:
TAKUJI KOGO, *candy factory
ORGANIZED AND PRODUCED BY THE AKIYOSHIDAI INTERNATIONAL ART VILLAGE
SPONSORED BY THE JAPAN FOUNDATION FOR REGIONAL ACTIVITIES.
SUPPORTED BY YAMAGUCHI PREFECTURE, THE YAMAGUCHI BOARD OF EDUCATION, SHUHO-TOWN, THE SHUHO BOARD OF EDUCATION, MITO-TOWN, THE MITO BOARD OF EDUCATION, MINE-CITY, THE MINE BOARD OF EDUCATION, COOPERATED BY NIFCA, IASPIS, YCAM, AIT, TYS, SOAP
Project Coordinator:
NORIYUKI TSUJI, AIAV
Assistant:
MACHIKO HARADA, AIAV
YU ISEKI, AIAV
YUMI MIYAHARA, AIAV
Contact:
50 AKIYOSHI, SHUHO-CHO, MINE-GUN, 754-0511 JAPAN
TEL +81-(0)837-63-0020 FAX +81-(0)837-63-0021
e-mail info@artnet.or.jp
The Akiyoshidai International Art Village, built at the foot of a quasi-national park Akiyoshi-dai plateau, located in the Yamaguchi Prefecture, west end of main island of Japan, has opened in August 1998. The Village has established as a supporting institution for wide range of the artistic activities, such as fine art, contemporary music, dance, theatre etc. Our goal is to activate and to maintain the dialogues and collaborations not only between each resident artists, artists and curators, but also artists and people living in the local area.
