PORT JOURNEY YOKOHAMA⇄HAMBURG LECTURE AND WORKSHOP
“How to rock a family and a city”
The Yokohama – Hamburg conversation project

PORT JOURNEYS: a cultural exchange project promoted by ZOU-NO-HANA Terrace, Yokohama. We are commencing our program with Hamburg, Yokohama’s sister port city and the third city to join in our cultural exchange, following Melbourne and San Diego. 

In advance of the exhibit to be held at AOU-NO-HANA Terrace this coming spring, director and video artist Michael Kress will visit us to give a lecture and hold a workshp on conversation and dialogue.

 

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WORKSHOP

Inspired by „GRAPEFRUIT“ (YOKO ONO) and „7000 OAKS“ (JOSEPH BEUYS)!

We will question how it would be if residents and artists together create and use urban space. How would it be if beauty and usability were the focus of urban development?

We will work with the dialogue drawing method and cluster presentations.

LECTURE
About lecture held on same day is here

 

Artists organize exhibitions, manage publishing companies, broadcast tv formats, intervene online, found kindergartens, organize actions in public space, buy houses and change in a sense of sustainability the image of our city. 

In other words: how would it be if artists run our cities in the future and in turn, how would it be if "everybody were an artist".

 

 

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■Artist Profile

Michael Kress, is a conceptual artist / curator / director, born in 1964, in Munich, Germany, living in Hamburg.

He studied visual communication and fine arts at the University of fine arts Hamburg.

The focus of his work is semiotics and language as a normative moment in the construction of a media-identity. Since 2004 Kress has been examining spatial imagination in varies movies of the 1960’s.

Coming from a background of conceptual art, he uses different media, like video, drawing, writing, sound and photography in his examinations. In 2012 he has been invited to the nishinomiya-funasaka biennale where he produced a video performance.

He is member of the executive committee of FRISE/Hamburg, one of the most long existing artist-studio-houses in Germany. He is part of the executive committee the Deutscher Künstlerbund Berlin. 1996-2003 Kress had been member of the board of the international association of fine arts (IAA/UNESCO).

 

 

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■ABOUT PORT JOURNEYS

PORT JOURNEYS is an international project initiated by ZOU-NO-HANA Terrace for cultural exchange among port cities of the world that have rich creative environments, beginning with ports affiliated with Yokohama.

Through dialogue with experts well versed in cultural activities, the project developed as a means to provide opportunities to create encounters with the city’s culture, regardless of artistic genre.

Artists visited our city from Melbourne in July 2012 and from San Diego in November the same year, with an artist from Yokohama visiting Melbourne in May this year. Hamburg becomes the third city to participate, with scheduled participation from Basel, and Incheon.