英語の投稿
Miles Collyer
Message to Japan
Like the thought of ripe, delicious tomatoes at the end of summer in mind as I water my plants this morning, my contribution to this project is a small way of saying that Japan and the glorious times ahead of it are in my thoughts today.
Artist information
Miles Collyer (born, 1983 in Toronto) is a visual artist whose practice is motivated by photo-based sources and issues relating to cultural identity. He studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design where he was the recipient of several academic scholarships and awards before graduating with a BFA in photography in 2006. After completing his undergraduate studies Collyer has gone on to receive further grants and awards for his work, most notably a Gold medal in 2008 from the Canadian National Magazine Awards in the category of Best Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article. His work has been published and exhibited across Canada, the United States, Australia, Switzerland, Germany and several curated exhibits online. In 2012 he was accepted into a program of Fine Art Graduate study at Toronto’s York University, leaving the artist-run centre Art Metropole and the position of Shop Manager, which he had held since 2005.
Official Website: Miles Collyer
Michael Toke
Message to Japan
All of our best love and support from Canada.
You are strongest and most beautiful in renewal and growth.
I wish all shining suns and moons to you beautiful Japan.
Artist information
Michael Toke is a Toronto based visual / installation artist, born Hamilton 1964. Attending Sheridan College and OCA in the 1980s, moved to NYC and worked as head assistant to J.S.G. Boggs a commerce based performance artist. Exhibiting internationally in art and film venues. His installations combine painting, photography, video and sculpture hung on a conceptual armature of documentary film practice. “I believe to approach hard strange and elusive ideas you must use peripheral vision and Newtonian half measures; random cultivation is the path to expression and enlightenment.”
Official Website: michael TOKE
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/michaeltoke
Official Website: www.youtube.com/profile?user=michaeltoke
Marc Ngui + Magda Wojtyra, aka Happy Sleepy
Message to Japan
As we made this artwork we let our hearts break with grief and swell with promise, observing that sadness is a big step beyond anger towards a peaceful place. It takes real courage to be cheerful sometimes, to imagine a future and do all the work to build it, again and again, every day. When we make art it feels therapeutic, because, similar to meditation, it requires lots of attention, lots of skillful practice, and, ultimately, letting go and getting lost in making results in the best effect. Making an idea into an object or experience in the real world requires bravery and creates confidence, so we made the Yuuki Flower so that other people can also have the experience of making, the satisfaction of building, and the fun of playing. The centre of the flower and the sprouting bud show the Happy Sleepy character we invented to help us remember our freedom to choose at least an attitude to a life situation, ranging from happily proactive to sleepily accepting. Even that choice can be scary, and sometimes large, explosive amounts of bravery are needed just to get through the day!
Artist information
Marc Ngui (born Guyana, 1972) and Magda Wojtyra (born 1973, Poland) are a Canadian artist couple who both studied architecture at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Marc is a cartoonist and painter who also makes animations and videos. Magda does photography, digital and textile art, and she really likes to build things. We make art individually, as well as together in a collaboration called Happy Sleepy. When we combine our ideas and various digital and craft skills we can really create anything we imagine. Our pictures, installations, and movies have been shown in galleries and at very fun parties, published as graphic novels and in art magazines, and we also do design projects like websites for scientists and art workshops for children. We are dedicated to do-it-yourself and lifelong learning, and in 2006 we took up a nomadic lifestyle called Internet on the Beach. We worked from laptops while travelling around the world to see if the future had yet arrived. Inspired by devotional Buddhist thanka art in Kathmandu, we now similarly dedicate our art practice to building a world we want to live in. After 6 years of travel and research, we now live and work in Toronto.
Official Website: Land of Happy Sleepy – ART PROJECTS BY MAGDA WOJTYRA AND MARC NGUI
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