Nishiko

Minor Advanced Prototyping Final Exhibition Thursday 30 January 10:30–17:00 (the students, coaches and clients will be present between 15:00–17:00) Central Hall of Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering Landbergstraat 15, Delft Team members: Meike Combé, David Julian Hasler, Juan Manuel Rivera, Fenna de Vliegh, Virlyn Walker Coach: Freerk Wilbers Coordinator: Willemijn Elkhuizen Special thanks: Liselore Tissen, Minna Valjakka and Billytown

A plastic bottle of Japanese ‘Iyemon’ green tea was found on the Canadian beach in Tofino, B.C. in October 2015, during a research trip to find tsunami debris washed ashore on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. The bottle travelled a distance of about 7,000 km in four and a half years. This means that it travelled at approximately 0.18 km/h continuously. After contemplation on how to ‘repair’ the almost intact plastic bottle, it was brought back to where it was supposed be (in a garbage bin in a Tsunami-hit area in Japan). Price € 5,-

The calendar consists of 113 images from 'Well Done' series by Nicola Kirkaldy photo: Katherina Heil

Publisher Jap Sam Books ISBN 978-94-92852-12-0 Graphic designer Janneke Hendriks, Sepus Noordmans Text Philip Peters, Yuu Takehisa Date of Release: Spring 2021 English, Japanese This publication was made possible by the Mondriaan Fund, Stroom Den Haag, Jaap Harten Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds / Tijlfonds. More information: https://japsambooks.nl/

There is a tradition when a ship sails at a port, colorful paper ribbons are used as a ceremony. One side of a ribbon is hold by a passenger on board, and the other end by a person seeing him/her off. The ribbons symbolize unity and separation at the same time. During the quiet time of covid-19, I developed this installation for the façade of exhibition space The Branch, comparing it to a ferry that is about to sail, suggesting arrival of a new time. The exhibition Ways of Thinking at The Branch in Osaka has been organized by Lateral Lab in Scotland. https://youtu.be/x3AtUc9kS04

A musical theater piece which has been developed by artists Maria Kley, Nishiko and Japanese drum group Dadadadan Tenko. It was performed during the Oerol Festival 2017 at a beach of Terschelling island in the Netherlands. The drum players represent the objects which have been washed away by the tsunami, telling a story about the catastrophic disaster, the resilience of people and the purification of sorrow. Some of the objects collected for the 'Repairing Earthquake Project' appeared in the performance, and some other objects were shown in a form of outdoor exhibition. They were to be found in the wooden cases spread out in an area next to the stage and the bleachers directly on the sandy beach. The audience was invited to walk around the area to 'meet' the objects personally. A kite which was flown during the performance, suggesting the unimaginable scale of natural disasters. Tsukumogami (49:59) https://youtu.be/S65-4667S00 More info: https://www.tentekomai.eu/oerol2017/

The original artwork consisted of distilled seawater and extracted sea salt, which the artists collected at four points on the beach in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, during the residency program at Badgast. In the presentation, the salt was displayed in four specimen dishes and behind that was water stored in four bottles. The accident took place during the opening as someone placed a wine glass on the shelf on which the work was displayed. It fell to the ground, and the work was completely destroyed. When I witnessed the incident, I was occupied with repairing broken objects. So I kept the shards and promised the artists to repair their work. It is also an homage to the numerous coincidences I have had through the Repairing Earthquake Project, which I have been working on since 2011, soon after I encountered the fallen artwork.

I have a dream to make a park based on the form of filling which came out of my mouth one day. In order to promote the idea, I have made a model of the park, placed it next to it. (photo: jhoeko)

Left over from the installation To knock the corners off are on sale according to their weights. All corners with weights and prices are here (http://nishiko55.com/corner).

An attempt of finding a universe inside the buidlign of Billytown. Black spots or stains with white background were captured on the b/w film,developed and projected on the ceiling. The scratches on the film were made to hilight the contrast in the devloping process. This work was made for the exhibition 'another metric' held in Billytown April 2013.

An ongoing project as a reaction to the biggest disaster in Japan's modern history. My intention is to face the dreadful tragedy throughout the whole course of going there, searching for destroyed objects by tsunami and repairing them. (image: exhibition view at Stroom Den Haag, 2018 Photo: Ayako Nishibori, courtesy: Stroom Den Haag)

I find it interesting that the word 'corner' has negative connotations in many sayings in various languages. By grinding or filling, I have erased all of the universal negative connotation in my studio.

22 florescent lights on the ceiling flicker randomly and cast shadow. Documentation video: http://youtu.be/vMdZwHvKOCw & http://youtu.be/FAXyW0cTQRM

The space where this installation is shown is a former residence, currently an exhibition space Walden Affairs in Den Haag. The work is revealed only in the combination of the publication and the emptied presentation room, in where it was filled once with the world’s-best-person’s possession-like furniture then photographed and placed in the publication. When an audience realizes the synchronicity of the empty space and the publication, it draws the person into hypothetical reality where ethical judgment can be distinctly stated. (photo: Myung Feyen)

All names from my memory were assembled