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24/6/2002

The Art Project for FIFA World Cup

Yokohama Creation Square Bldg., Yokohama

A French artist: Eric Maillet is specially coming to Japan for making the video project relating the FIFA World Cup. During the duration of semi-final and final games in the following week, Maillet takes videos in Tokyo, Yokohama and Saitama to collect the relating images of World Cup in the towns. He works in the Square in every morning to edit the videos, and to renew the internet pages on the project website: http://synesthesie.com/cav/geomab . The up-dated works are shown in each day for a week in the Corridor (beside Portside Gallery) to see from the inside and outside window of Yokohama Creation Square Bldg. Audience can meet the artist to discuss his project in every morning from 11am-2pm at the Square.

Although these video works are using the related images of the FIFA World Cup, he considers exploring the social context rather than he accords to praise for the major sports event in the world. He intends to point out the different aspects how the event is affected by the attitudes of people or atmosphere of public places concerning this entertainment.

Especially, he intends to investigate advertising and promotion materials in the World Cup. On this project, he marks on the concerned areas in the images to be digital processed as "video mosaic" which is usually using to avoid the recognition of anonymous faces. This digital process is made to strengthen the visual effects, and also to develop aesthetics issues on his work. The artist intends to concern censorship within consumerism and capitalism in which commercialized items are occupied all over.

In the meantime, he attempts to develop the idea of "home-studio" in which he creates the digital works in the tentative studio located at the same place of the exhibition. The process of production is completely managed by the artist : shooting by a handy video camera, editing on a laptop computer, operating digital effects for the mosaics, encoding and burning of DVD, projecting the works after the completion. The full process of the work is visible and open to the public. Audiences have easy access to meet the artists while his is working. This work is initiated and presented in the public surrounding like the street, the corridor of building and the internet; it goes to give spectators in all possible ways.

Yokohama Creation Square Bldg. :
5-1 Sakaecho Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, YCS Blgs. 1F
Date: 25th June - 1at July
daily time schedule :
11am - 2pm : the artist works and meets people at the Square, if they wish.
2pm - 6pm : the new video is continuously projected in the Corridor.

Web site :
http://synesthesie.com/cav/geomab
The up-dated works are shown on the website (in the morning, French local time)

Partners / with help from :
Afaa - Ambassade de France au Japon - Arakawa Mode - Institut Franco-Japonais de Yokohama - Synesthésie - Yokohama Civic Art Gallery - Yokohama Creation Square Bldg. - Asahi Beer Co. Ltd.: the special programme of Asahi Art Festival Philippe Chatelain & Virginie Lavey - Masuo Uehata - Emiko Kato - Emmanuelle de Montgazon - Fabrice le Quintrec - Chiaki Sakaguchi - Junko Uchiyama

Contact & Information :
Phone, in Japan :
* press (Emiko Kato) Tel&Fax: 042-562-2767, Mobile: 090-6312-1412
* Portside Gallery: 045-461-3033
E-mail :
* in French and English : kizuchi@nerim.net
* in Japanese and English : uniart@attglobal.net

Some pictures :_if you enquire visual images about the project, please ask me.
Interviews : if you inquire to interview with the artist, please make an appointment in advance.

Special project : Arakawa Mode
The artist : Eric Maillet is invited to show his works on the art project that is located the both riversides of Arakawa. The project contains two main parts : ISEKIT-PARK and World Cup - Pop Up Bar, both are relating with the sport events like cycling, state board, foot ball and the FIFA World Cup.

1> ISEKIT-PARK
An Artists Group : Kosuge JCT who are collaborating with the variety art projects and living and working at the same area located the east bank of the Arakawa. They display to show the sporting items like the new deign imported sport bicycle in the first floor, and to install the skate park, and to show the Eric Maillet's work on a monitor in the second floor of the ordinary house using artist's studio.

Date : 28th, 29th, 30th June
Open Hours : 7pm~midnight (29th, 30th), 1pm~(30th)
Place : 4-22-8 Horikiri Katsushikaku, Tokyo
The Nearest Station : Horikiri Shobuen, Keisei Line
Further Information: 090-4220-5617(Iseki), kosugejct@mac.com
http://homepage.mac.com/kosugejct/kosugeJCT./_

2> World Cup - Pop Up Bar
German Artists : Nina Fisher and Maroan el Sani who have been staying in Tokyo for three months to make the art project in Japan, and an architect. Titus Spree who is now teaching at Ryukyu University of Okinawa, they are planning to have a fun event with neighbors and artists friends during the World Cup. So, they are going to play mini-football game, to drink at the original pop up bar which is designed by Spree, showing art videos including Eric Maillet, and watching the final game of World Cup at the west river bank of Arakawa.

Date : 30th June, from 4pm~
Place : outside at the west bank of Arakawa 10 mins. walk from ISEKIT-PARK. The Nearest Station : Horikiri Station, Tobu Isezaki Line towards to Kanegafuchi Station.
Please contact to make sure the event when the day is raining :
070-5013-3820 (Soga), factory@ask.ne.jp
http://members.icom.home.ne.jp/seisakujo/event/arakawamode/WCB.htm

Emiko Kato

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