Artist in Residency

2016

Nozomu Ogawa

Residency Duration: March 2016

Nozomu Ogawa (b. 1976, Tokyo)  He graduated from Musashino Art University in 2001, and completed an MA from the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo. From 2002 to 2006, he organized an annual juried exhibition showcasing a diverse network of artists. In 2008, based on this network, he launched Art Center Ongoing, an art complex in Kichijoji. He also serves as Chief Director of TERATOTERA, an artist project that develops programs in the area between JR Koenji station and Kokubunji station.

In 2016 Nozomu was doing a research trip  where he visited various alternative art initiatives and spaces in South East Asia. He was interested in the concept and practice of collective ways of working i.e. sharing resources and networking, as pragmatic strategies within a complex socio-political context with virtually little or no funding for the arts. 

During his residency at Lostgens’ he held an artist talk on 20 March where he introduced the journey and works of Art Centre Ongoing.

Lostgens’ Artist Residency Project 2016
Supported by Japan Foundation Asia Center, Grant & Fellowship Programs

Talk

Alice Ko

Residency Duration: Sept 2016

Alice Ko is an independent curator and researcher focusing on building the connection and platform of contemporary art in East Asia. Her curatorial practice centers around use of urban studies in East Asia, artistic action, social movement, and colonial history.In 2013, she was the curator of Reverse Niche – Dialogue and Rebuilding at the City’s Edge (Hong Kong, Osaka and Taiwan). In 2014, she participated in the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture (Hong Kong) and organized the symposium We Are Everywhere—Community Art in the mist of Proletarianized Spatial Production—A Critical Approach (Hong Kong). In 2015, she was the curator of Beyond the Borderline- Exiles from the Native Land (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Korea and Beijing).

During the residency, Alice gave a public lecture entitled The Geography of Abandoned People – Spatiality, Resistance and Art Activism in East Asia. Alice took Shuji Funamoto (1946 – 1975), a Japanese radical activist whose lifelong struggle for inequality and poverty who self-immolated in front of the gate of the US Kadena Military Base as a study point and historical perspective to look into the impact of state and social relations on urban development in contemporary society. 

Currently Alice Ko lives in Taiwan and works at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts as a curator .

Lostgens’ Artist Residency Project 2016
Supported by Ministry of Culture (Taiwan)

Liew Chee Heai

Residency Duration: 2016

Liew Chee Heai (b. 1975, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur) is a Malaysian visual artist based in Japan. He completed his diploma study at the Kuala Lumpur College of Art in 1997 with a major in Fine Arts. In 1998 he made a fateful decision to leave his hometown and set up his wandering adventure to explore the world that he had very little clue of. 

He has since travelled to many countries i.e. Bangladesh, India, Turkey, Lebanon, Thailand etc where he is deeply enticed with the notion of observing, participating and documenting in slum and red light districts. Through his camera lens, he is able to capture the performative “humanity” of the migrants, refugees and marginalized communities which created a new visual memory of their identities, narratives, realities and dreams that served as a profound healing and empowering storytelling tool.      

When not travelling, Chee Heai spends his time with his Japanese wife and daughter on the small quiet island of Tashiroshima (famously known as the Cat Island). With a population of less than 100 people, Chee Heai finds peace and refuge working as a vegetable farmer. At a young age, already inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: Life In The Woods, Chee Heai is intrigued by the idea of having a sustainable life in the forest. Farming and living off the land is also a connection bridging to his art expression.        

Chee Heai was offered a residency program with Lostgens at the end of 2013 where he engaged with the local art community. At the end of the residency, he presented his first solo exhibition Love Letters For Chee Heai – Chapter 2 accompanied with an artist talk. In the exhibition, he explored the question of his social identity and decoding of his surreal dream of photography. 

Chee Heai returns to Malaysia regularly embarking on various installation and performative projects. Most recently during the Covid-19 lockdown, he did a residency at KongsiKL where he worked on his directorial debut in Seni Tiga #03: Void in Void, a collaborative performance with other local artists. 

Lostgens’ Artist Residency Project 2016

Artwork ( Rooftop Garden )

Martin Kay

Residency Duration: Dec 2016

Martin Kay is a sound recordist and designer who primarily utilizes unmixed and unedited environmental sound recordings to create audio montages and compositions that explore the intersection of architecture, psychoacoustics, social dynamics and place. Through employing a technologically limited (recording focused) work methodology, Martin is driven to find inventive recording techniques that re-contextualise his surroundings as well as inspire fresh and idiosyncratic compositional approaches pertinent to the places, situations and events he engages with.

Lostgens’ Artist Residency Project 2016
Supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts

photo credits to Martin Kay

Artwork

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Artist in Residency

2016

Nozomu Ogawa

Residency Duration: March 2016

Nozomu Ogawa (b. 1976, Tokyo)  He graduated from Musashino Art University in 2001, and completed an MA from the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo. From 2002 to 2006, he organized an annual juried exhibition showcasing a diverse network of artists. In 2008, based on this network, he launched Art Center Ongoing, an art complex in Kichijoji. He also serves as Chief Director of TERATOTERA, an artist project that develops programs in the area between JR Koenji station and Kokubunji station.

In 2016 Nozomu was doing a research trip  where he visited various alternative art initiatives and spaces in South East Asia. He was interested in the concept and practice of collective ways of working i.e. sharing resources and networking, as pragmatic strategies within a complex socio-political context with virtually little or no funding for the arts. 

During his residency at Lostgens’ he held an artist talk on 20 March where he introduced the journey and works of Art Centre Ongoing.

Lostgens’ Artist Residency Project 2016
Supported by Japan Foundation Asia Center, Grant & Fellowship Programs

Talk

Alice Ko

Residency Duration: Sept 2016

Alice Ko is an independent curator and researcher focusing on building the connection and platform of contemporary art in East Asia. Her curatorial practice centers around use of urban studies in East Asia, artistic action, social movement, and colonial history.In 2013, she was the curator of Reverse Niche – Dialogue and Rebuilding at the City’s Edge (Hong Kong, Osaka and Taiwan). In 2014, she participated in the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture (Hong Kong) and organized the symposium We Are Everywhere—Community Art in the mist of Proletarianized Spatial Production—A Critical Approach (Hong Kong). In 2015, she was the curator of Beyond the Borderline- Exiles from the Native Land (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Korea and Beijing).

During the residency, Alice gave a public lecture entitled The Geography of Abandoned People – Spatiality, Resistance and Art Activism in East Asia. Alice took Shuji Funamoto (1946 – 1975), a Japanese radical activist whose lifelong struggle for inequality and poverty who self-immolated in front of the gate of the US Kadena Military Base as a study point and historical perspective to look into the impact of state and social relations on urban development in contemporary society. 

Currently Alice Ko lives in Taiwan and works at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts as a curator .

Lostgens’ Artist Residency Project 2016
Supported by Ministry of Culture (Taiwan)

Liew Chee Heai

Residency Duration: 2016

Liew Chee Heai (b. 1975, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur) is a Malaysian visual artist based in Japan. He completed his diploma study at the Kuala Lumpur College of Art in 1997 with a major in Fine Arts. In 1998 he made a fateful decision to leave his hometown and set up his wandering adventure to explore the world that he had very little clue of. 

He has since travelled to many countries i.e. Bangladesh, India, Turkey, Lebanon, Thailand etc where he is deeply enticed with the notion of observing, participating and documenting in slum and red light districts. Through his camera lens, he is able to capture the performative “humanity” of the migrants, refugees and marginalized communities which created a new visual memory of their identities, narratives, realities and dreams that served as a profound healing and empowering storytelling tool.      

When not travelling, Chee Heai spends his time with his Japanese wife and daughter on the small quiet island of Tashiroshima (famously known as the Cat Island). With a population of less than 100 people, Chee Heai finds peace and refuge working as a vegetable farmer. At a young age, already inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: Life In The Woods, Chee Heai is intrigued by the idea of having a sustainable life in the forest. Farming and living off the land is also a connection bridging to his art expression.        

Chee Heai was offered a residency program with Lostgens at the end of 2013 where he engaged with the local art community. At the end of the residency, he presented his first solo exhibition Love Letters For Chee Heai – Chapter 2 accompanied with an artist talk. In the exhibition, he explored the question of his social identity and decoding of his surreal dream of photography. 

Chee Heai returns to Malaysia regularly embarking on various installation and performative projects. Most recently during the Covid-19 lockdown, he did a residency at KongsiKL where he worked on his directorial debut in Seni Tiga #03: Void in Void, a collaborative performance with other local artists. 

Lostgens’ Artist Residency Project 2016

Artwork ( Rooftop Garden )

Martin Kay

Residency Duration: Dec 2016

Martin Kay is a sound recordist and designer who primarily utilizes unmixed and unedited environmental sound recordings to create audio montages and compositions that explore the intersection of architecture, psychoacoustics, social dynamics and place. Through employing a technologically limited (recording focused) work methodology, Martin is driven to find inventive recording techniques that re-contextualise his surroundings as well as inspire fresh and idiosyncratic compositional approaches pertinent to the places, situations and events he engages with.

Lostgens’ Artist Residency Project 2016
Supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts

Artwork

Performance

Related Post

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居住藝術家 2007 George Paul Wielgus 居住時間:2007年12月– 2009年9月 在2007年12月至2009年9月之間,喬治·保羅·威格斯(George Paul Wielgus,1983年生於英國薩默塞特,弗羅姆)是位於吉隆坡塔曼·塞普蒂斯(Taman Seputeh)的失落一代藝術空間的駐地藝術家。喬治是一位表演詩人,社區藝術工作者和作家。 在他的居留期間,他參加了各種各樣的活動和活動,專注於社區劇院和口語方面的專業領域。他成立了一家劇院公司 Fallen Leaves (總部設在拉旺的Ba都巴朗),他是藝術總監,負責設計和協調培訓計劃,該計劃涉及一群康復中的吸毒者和艾滋病毒攜帶者,他們從馬來西亞半島各個城市和東馬來西亞的沙巴進行全國巡迴演出。參加者在50多個單獨的表演和工作室中,向5000多人表演了有關他們真實生活經歷的精心設計的故事。他支持論壇劇院的發展,將其作為一種媒介,就毒品和性服務等社會禁忌話題展開討論。…