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8trans_2017-2018 “The Future of This Land”This year’s artist in residence program at Akiyoshidai International Art Village called for applications with theme of“The Future of This Land”, which continued from last year. The number of applications were about 450 and theywere submitted throughout the world and I once more realized that those facilities with AIR programs are takingvery important roles to bear a part of the global art scene. Artists selected among the applications were QenjiYoshida (Japan), Mina Nasr (Egypt), and Eva Weso?owska (Poland). Additionally, through the partnership withAIR facilities overseas, AIAV accepted Sujin Lee from Gyeonggi Creation Center (The Republic of Korea), Yu HsinSu from Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan), and Katri Naukkarinen from The Finnish Institute in Japan (Finland) as therecommended artists. As a result, total 6 artists participated in the AIAV’s AIR program.Here I talk about each artist.Sujin Lee studied painting and film & cinema at university in the Republic of Korea and develops visual arts inunique methods. With intention to re-contextualize status quo about stories and time in urbanization, Lee chosevarious glittering artificial objects and natural materials from surrounding environment and installed her workswhich seemingly looked like a dry garden with round stones and placed in the AIAV’s courtyard and some otherworks in her studio according to her intention. Besides as installation objects, with audio guide and a map, theaudience can tour some checkpoints starting from the third floor to the courtyard, the back garden and a passagebetween forest and the building as a pre-determined route by the artist. The contents of the audio guide wereabout story of science fiction and abstract definition. It put you in a situation where you can reexamine with a newperspective and reconsider what you are familiar with as if they were something that you had never seen before.Yu Hsin Su from Taiwan, who lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig, Germany, dedicated her time to researchYamayaki (mountain burning) and Chojyaga-mori (forest) to investigate them as ritual and an aesthetic event.Applying to her visual arts from a theory about “poetical moment” by Gaston Bachelard who intermingled “Self”,“time”, “place”, and “body” for his theory, Yu Hsin created her work dealing with relationships between tree and fireas motives based on Bachelard’s theory for this time, as well. As a part of the exhibition opening, she collaboratedwith a Japanese traditional dancer, Jukanfuku Hanayagi, for her installation and the result of the collaborativeperformance fragmentally evoked the above-mentioned “Self”, “time”, “place”, and “body”. By image projection inthe exhibition space with a mirror, you can experience expansion of fictitious space and flare-like effect on a ceilingreflected by special film set in vertical alignment.Qenji Yoshida is an only Japanese artist who participated in the program and he set keywords such as localresidents and otherness and interacted with people in Mine city, where AIAV is located and which has uniquegeology and customs, for his research. He explored “in-between” territory between languages and cultures byusing “lost in translation” as part of his theme, which is a state that important meanings get lost in the process oftranslation. His work referred to relationships between inside and outside and boundaries, which was expressedin various manners. In his work this time he composed video work out of layered images from interview videos oncitizens in Mine city and some other people who he encountered during his research, one might struggle to graspactual pictures of the local citizens. So one may feel uncomfortable. At the same time, one may find it comfortableto realize the distance or boundary between someone familiar and unfamiliar. There was also a meta-level workthat suggests a boundary by inserting someone else’s work into his work and also suggests non-conformingquality to his own work by his definition.Mina Nasr from Egypt was the first Egyptian artist participated in this program. In his past work, he mentionedreformation in his society based on current socio-political incidents. His work has observer’s perspective and hisblack and white drawings are concrete, but you can notice quite a lot of drawings in installation that instantaniousimpression of his subjects gives some effect on other directions. In this time, being in foreign environment apartfrom his home country, he created images of community life in Yamaguchi prefecture in his work and intendedto merge them in imitating layers of stone formation in Akiyoshido cave. It was an idea to intertwine life styles inYamaguchi and variety of natural transformation that one can observe in underground cave which is specific to