Preliminary warning: The coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic has thrown a wrench into all of our plans, and Art Setouchi’s plans too.Art Setouchi 2021 is not happening for the time being. Most artworks are closed and will remain closed in the foreseeable future. Only some Benesse art sites are currently open.And honestly, […]
Travel
One of the most common questions I get from people asking me for information about the Setouchi Triennale is where they should stay during their time visiting the art festival, what place is best to use as a ‘base’? Usually, there are three possible answers coming to mind at first: […]
So, as you may or may not know, Monday is part of my week-end (Saturday is not) and this afternoon I was downtown with 康代. It actually was her first time downtown since 華’s birth. Just as we were getting out of Marugamemachi Green, the newest shopping mall that […]
I’m finished packing (ok, I’ll be in an hour or two). We’ll be leaving Agen tomorrow at dawn, heading to Toulouse. There we’ll take a plane from Frankfurt and from there to Osaka, where we’ll take a bus to Takamatsu.
The events depicted on this post took place on May 18th, 2009. (Previously on Ogijima: I took a plane from Paris to Japan, via Hong Kong) The plane landed in the morning (well, I think it was the morning, I was completely jet lagged and it was only the […]
On May 17th 2011, two years ago today, I left France to travel to Japan for the first time, a trip that would have a great influence on me as you already know (if it hadn’t this blog wouldn’t exist in the first place). Let’s start with the beginning, […]
For a couple of days, on Reddit, on French blogs, I started to see that question popping up more and more. Here is my take on it. (Disclaimer: since I started this blog I decided to make it as consensual as possible for a bunch of reasons – the main […]