Transit Republic

TRANSIT REPUBLIC project is a cross-cultural interaction taking place primarily at Arena 1 Gallery (Santa Monica) from JAN 11 to FEB 4, 2017.

Members: Kio Griffith

Website:https://www.facebook.com/Transit-Republic-140178056478571/

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FAR Bazaar Project

COLLECTIVES INTERVIEWS / ALTERNATIVE REALITIES

Description: Transit Republic will conduct interviews with participating collectives in the journalism office space at the FAR BAZAAR for publishing either in print or online for the Tokyo arts research publication, Art Bridge. Each participant will be part of a dialogue and discussion of how collectives interact with communities, their social practice and activism and methods of building projects.

Location: FA42B

Participating Artists: Kio Griffith, Chihiro Minato and Ayumi Sekikawa

Kio Griffith is an interdisciplinary visual/sound artist, curator and editor producing diverse trajectory projects between the U.S. and Japan. His work includes drawing, painting, sound, video, performance, electronics, language, sculpture and installation. He has exhibited in Europe, Asia and the U.S.A. and has performed, collaborated or curated various musicians and contemporary artists, dancers and designers in galleries, museums, clubs and alternative spaces, locally and internationally. His current projects include project director at TYPE (Tokyo+Yokohama Projects Exchange), curator and development director at ARTRA, associate editor at Fabrik and Art Bridge (Tokyo), art director at Angel City Jazz Festival and has designed over 300 album jackets. Griffith has recently exhibited at the 2016 Aichi Trienniale in Nagoya, Japan.
www.kiogriffith.com

Chihiro Minato is a photographer, filmmaker and art theorist. He is also Professor at the Tama Art University since 1995. Among his major curatorial works is the Japanese Pavilion at the Venezia Biennale in 2007 and Aichi Triennale in 2016. He has graduated from the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. After a stay in South America, Minato was active as a photographer based in Paris. At the same time, He developed a highly original approach to critical writing. Minato’s themes included the emergence of art, memory and omen, image and politics, and demonstrated knowledge and creative style. He began teaching in 1995 in the Faculty of Art and Design at Tama Art University and is now professor of Information Design. Minato received the Ina Nobuo Award for Citizen’s Colour in 2006. Selected books include: Kioku-Sozo to soki no chikara (Of memory: the strength of creation and remembrance) (Kodansha, Ltd.; Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities), Dai san no me (The Third Eye) (Kosaido Publishing, Co., Ltd.), Enshin-ryoku (Centrifugal Force) (Hakusuisha Publishing Co.,Ltd.), Shizen mada mi nu kioku e (Nature, Towards Memory Not Seen) (NTT Publishing Co., Ltd.), Dokutsu e-Shin to imeji　no arukeoroji (To the Cave: Archaelogy of the Mind and Image) (Serica Shobo, Inc.), Kage-e no tatakai (Battle of Shadow　Pictures) (Iwanami Shoten, Publishers), Photograph collections: Shunkan no yama (A Mountain of Instances), Moji no haha-tachi Le Voyage Typographique (Mothers of Letters: Le Voyage Typographique) (Inscript and Obara, Sawako), and In-between 2 furansu, girisha (In between 2: France and Greece) (EU-Japan Fest Committee).

Ayumi Sekikawa is chief editor and photographer at arts research publication, Art Bridge. She holds a graduate degree in information design at Tama Art University and is a independent curator and art writer.