Three days ago, I stopped my story about Teshima’s Matsuri with a short video showing participants “fighting” a duel, Taikodai vs Mikoshi (the shrine being dedicated to Hachiman, god of war and strength among many other things, this showing of strength was more or less part of the ritual, but […]
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Remember last November, when I told you about my first trip to Teshima? I alluded to an event that was too fresh to be told yet. Don’t you think that it’s finally time for me to do it? (no, I didn’t need all this time to finally be ready to […]
Swaying with Laver (ノリとたゆたう) from Art Project Laboratory, Osaka University of Arts (大阪芸術大学豊島アートラボ) directed by Daisuke Kaji (加治大輔) is a pretty unique piece of the Setouchi International Art Festival, as it is not as much art that you watch (or listen to) than it is art that you enter. It […]
Our Setouchi International Art Festival report brings us today to the shores of Teshima to talk about the least unknown artwork on the French side of the world. I’m talking about Christian Boltanski’s Les Archives du Cœur (心臓音のアーカイブ – The Heart Archives). I don’t know how famous he is outside […]
On our first trip to Teshima, we didn’t see all of the works of art (and only one of the three villages) so we had to go back. Going to Teshima on a Saturday was a risky idea. See, the festival organizers had seriously underestimated the number of people it […]
The next day we went to Teshima. Strange how I never really paid attention to this island before. I mean, it has a quite noticeable size, the only bigger island in the area is Shōdoshima. I guess the fact that it’s surrounded by Naoshima, Ogijima, Sōdoshima and Honshū, as well as […]