Ryoji Ikeda
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GIRLS ON THE RUN
‹Josi› or ‹onnanoko›, ‹girls› in Japanese, have been common elements of Japanese animation since its very beginning. These characters with their innocent faces and oversized round eyes have deeply shaped the perception of anime and manga in the West.
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Taku Sugimoto
In cooperation with the Berne zoom-in Festival, the guitarist Taku Sugimoto (*1965) is about to embark on a concert tour.
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Japan: Works by Hosokawa, Mochizuki, Takemitsu and Yuasa
In cooperation with CULTURESCAPES, Ensemble Boswil led by guest conductor Seitaro Ishikawa will this year present contemporary Japanese music in its various stylistic forms.
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Rie Nakajima
The approach of the sound artist Rie Nakajima (*1976) is anything but ordinary. Plastic cups, ping-pong balls, old toys, cables, unknown electronic devices and batteries: what looks like the contents of a jumble sale box, is actually the artist’s instrument or, more aptly, the musical and tonal components used for her PERFORMANCE.
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Opening Culturescapes in Uster
This year, CULTURESCAPES takes also place in Uster. The city's representative, Peter Pfeifer, welcomes the guests in German and Japanese and presents the upcoming programme.
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Kamishibai
Stories such as as of the man who is on his way, of the red dog who is lucky and of the girl who takes home the sea with her and many more… For children, but also for their parents and other grown-ups. Anita Schorno takes her audience on a journey into to the world of the Japanese Kamishibai, a form of theatre that requires just a suitcase as a stage.
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Taiichi Kamimura – Chris Wiesendanger Quartet
Christoph Wiesendanger (piano, composition)
Taiichi Kamimura (saxophon, composition)
Hiroshi Yoshino (bass)
Manabu Hashimoto (drums)
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Mon Père, Giacometti
Father and son: an old and a young man who no longer share the same world, as the father is starting to show signs of dementia. When the son decides to look after his father he also becomes part of his fictitious reality.
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Box In The Big Trunk
An eternal student in his mid-forties, overwhelmed by his own life and the world in general, flees from his scolding father into a cupboard that serves as his door into a mysterious parallel universe and an extraordinary journey.
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Drinking Tea In Japan, Great Britain And East Friesland
CANCELED because of unsufficient registration
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Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich
Consumer products promise a lot. Sometimes so much that you may feel positively ill.
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Itoh & Yamashita
Kim Itoh and Zan Yamashita are pioneers of the contemporary dance scene in Japan.
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New Short Films From Japan
Three years ago, Tamaki Okamoto founded her own film production company ‹CARTE BLANCHE› in Paris.
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Logical Emotion: Gutai, Mono-Ha Und Die Metabolisten – Japanese Contemporary Art
Sabine Schaschl (director museum Haus Konstruktiv)
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‹Toky(o)bsessions›
For more than twenty years the Tokyo-born photographer and reporter Kyoichi Tsuzuki (*1956) has been travelling the length and breadth of Japan, capturing the country’s hidden treasures.
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‹I never read›
Art books and art editions by Japanese artists as well as works on Japanese art are exhibited for one week in the hall of Kunsthalle Basel.
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‹Logical emotion – contemporary art from Japan›
‹Logical Emotion› at Museum Haus Konstruktiv shows a large group exhibition of contemporary Japanese artists for the very first time.
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‹Kan-butsu›
Markthalle Basel offers gustatory access to Japan's capital city: the Japanese artist Haruna Nakayama and three events by Kulinarium Basel present culinary aspects of Japan.
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‹Les affichages Tokio› (‹the Tokio billposting›)
Formerly trading silk, Peter Schulthess has been influenced in his artistic creation by the far east.
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‹Life stripe: life patterns from Japan›
At first glance, the multicoloured striped rectangles could be taken for concrete works of art.
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‹Inspirational Japan›
European Modern painting would have had a quite other face without Japanese influences - this is art historian Kristina Piwecki's thesis that serves as a starting point to discuss East and West in art.
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‹The shôsôin› The treasure house of the emperor
The Shôsôin, the Japanese imperial treasure house from the 8th century, holds a large collection of art objects from Japan's Nara and Heian time as well as Tang-China.
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‹La forma del vuoto›
The sculptor and artist Kenjirô Azuma (*1926) has produced a book with the title ‹La Forma del Vuoto›, translated to English ‹The Form of the Void›.
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‹Miniascape window›
The concept of the small format photograph series refers to a Japanese tradition.
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‹Anime and manga›. Cyberpunk, natural catastrophes and other worlds
Cancelled due to insufficient registration.
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‹Fantastic Japan›. Ôe, Murakami, Ikezawa
Literature expert Eduard Klopfenstein will provide an insight into more recent literature with the help of three central authors: ...
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Ryoji ikeda
On 21 to 23 November, HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) will celebrate its reopening at new premises at Freilagerplatz on the Dreispitz area in Basel.
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‹Japanese art: past and present›
Art Historian Hans Bjarne Thomsen will illustrate the impact of Japanese art on European artists during the event ‹Japanese arts: Past and Present›.
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‹Samurai and cheese›. Swiss emigrants in 19th century Japan
In 19th century, Japan saw fundamental reforms and opened its borders.
