Participation in FAST FORWARD FESTIVAL (Athens)
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Hikaru Fujii
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
FY29 Creation Grant [Single-Year Grant Program] 1st term
Business Overview
“FAST FORWARD FESTIVAL, ” which began in 2014 and will be held for the fourth time this year, will highlight contemporary art in public spaces. The festival explores a new connection between citizens and urban space through art and has attracted more than 20,000 spectators in the past 3 editions. The theme of this festival is the instability of people and societies who have lost their land and homeland in the social and political spheres. Based in the port town of Piraeus, about 20 minutes from the center of Athens, he will produce a new video work "Heterochronos" in response to "Piraeus/Heterotopia" by Port B, which is also participating in the festival. In order to create a work in line with the theme of the festival upon receiving a request from the local people, after going through research, I interviewed local people (refugees, historians, captains and laborers,), photographed them and exhibited the work in a cafe in Athens city and a ship museum (SS Hellas Liberty) in the port.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Tuesday, May 2, 2017 -14 (Sun)
- Venues
- Janeiro Cafe (Omonia Square, Athens) Heras Liberty Ship Museum (Piraeus)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
[Hikaru Fujii]
Based on the idea that art is produced in close connection with society and history, he empirically verifies questions about existing systems and frameworks through meticulous research and fieldwork, and produces works that respond to existing spaces and contemporary social issues as video installations. He also directed documentary films "Project FUKUSHIMA!" (2011) and "ASAHIZA Where are humans going?" (2013), both of which have been screened at numerous film festivals in Japan and abroad.