Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Bunka-cho - Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Yamashita + Kobayashi
Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi are a Berlin-based artist duo. The simple structure and humor in their methodology turns the seemingly impossible dream into reality and their work is a condensation of everyday life. In Candy (2005), for instance, the duo licked a huge ball of candy every day over six months until it had been reduced to normal size. In Infinity (2006), Yamashita + Kobayashi jog day after day over a course in the shape of the sign for infinity (∞), slowly inscribing itself on the grass. Their sincere attitude towards these seemingly purposeless duties contains a touch of humor and at the same time makes viewers reconsider about many rituals without meaning in their daily lives.
Mai Yamashita (born in 1976) and Naoto Kobayashi (born in 1974) are a Japanese artist couple who started working together in 2000. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts with a PhD, they moved to Germany, where they have been living and working since then. They participated in Künstlerhaus Bethanien and their work has been exhibited among others at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Museo de Arte Contemporánea (MARCO), Vigo, Spain and the 2010 Aichi Triennale, Japan.
Yamashita + Kobayashi, Going Mainstream, 2010, Installation view at Aichi Triennale. Courtesy of the artist.
Yamashita + Kobayashi, Lion & Canvas, 2008, HD video, and canvas, 40.22 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Yamashita + Kobayashi, Infinity, 2006, HD video, 04.38 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Yamashita + Kobayashi, Candy, 2005, DVD candy, and glass bowl, 19.22 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Yamashita + Kobayashi, How To Make A Mountain Sculpture (Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau), 2006, C-print, 28 × 19 in. (71.12 × 48.26 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Creative Australia
Jamil Yamani
Jamil Yamani’s work integrates political and socio-cultural phenomena within a media-based discipline. His recent research combines traditional Islamic artistic practices with contemporary art aesthetics, such as integrating sacred geometric designs with Australian suburban houses.
Jamil Yamani was born in Sydney, Australia and received an MFA from the University of New South Wales, 2008. Yamani has had exhibitions at Artspace and Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney. He is also a member of the Artist Advisory Group to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Jamil Yamani, Storm, Family/Familiar, 2009, Backlit duratrans, acrylic, melamine box, and fluorescent tubes, 52 × 36 in. (132.08 × 91.44 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jamil Yamani, All Quiet On he Western Front, 2005, Video. Courtesy of the artist.
Jamil Yamani, Family/Familiar, 2009, Mixed media, including video, photography, sculpture, aluminium and fabric, Dimensions variable . Courtesy of the artist.
Jamil Yamani, Home, 2010, Backlit Billboard, 276 × 158 in. (701.04 × 401.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist, Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Jamil Yamani, Home, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2011: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Jau-Lan Guo
Jau-lan Guo is a curator and professor. Her work is based on her study of new media art and globalization in relation to contemporary art. Her recent curatorial projects are situated within cultural activism, taking the view that curating can also interfere in political reality.
Guo is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Program in Fine Arts Department of National University of Arts. Her dissertation “Robert Rauschenberg’s art in 1960s: Toward Postmodern” explored the intersections of Rauschenberg’s art and postmodern theories and criticism of the 1980s through queer studies, postmodern, and cross-disciplinary methods. While trained as an art historian in American art since 1960, her studies have been extended to contemporary art. Her curatorial projects include Polyphonic Mosaic: CO6 Avant-Grande Documenta , Exercise of 0 and 1, Anti-type: Floating over the Stereotype, Nostalgia for Future, and Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Jau-lan Guo and Kanako Sasaki
July 26, 2011
Jau-Lan Guo, DM for Nostalgia for Future, 2008, An exhibition with various medium Painting after Image, Kinetic art, Animation, and video. Courtesy of the artist.
Jau-Lan Guo, DM For Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue, 2010, An exhibition with 5 Asian Image and Video Artists' works. Courtesy of the artist.
Jau-Lan Guo, The Entrance View Of Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Jau-Lan Guo, The Installation View Of Yuan Goang-Ming’s “Disappearing Landscape--Passing” In Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Jau-Lan Guo, The Installation View Of Pak Sheung Chuen “A Travel Without Visual Experience” In Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
