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* This article has been edited and reconstructed based on the report submitted to the Kawamura Foundation for the Promotion of Culture and Arts.

• High Heel Project

  Project Name: High Heel Project

  Applicant: Mari Katayama

  

  — We hope high heels will no longer be something extraordinary,
  but simply one important choice available to you.
  The “High Heel Project” was launched in 2011 by artist Mari Katayama with the goal of ...

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• Circulation Community Launching Project

  Project Name: Circulation Community Launching Project

  Applicant: Field Trip Project & Field Trip Project Asia

  

  The “Field Trip Project” has continued as a project in which randoseru school backpacks, distributed as relief supplies following the Great East Japan Earthquake, are transformed into artworks by arti...

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• “Encore” Project

  Project Name: “Encore” Project

  Applicant: Yuni Hong Charpe

  

  The “ENCORE” project involves workshops with people of overseas backgrounds living in and around Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture; the development of a lecture performance in collaboration with a Korean...

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• Outdoor Screening of Shadowing

  Project Name: Outdoor Screening of Shadowing

  Applicant: Yuki Harada

  

  The work Shadowing examines the trajectories of people who migrated from Hiroshima and Yamaguchi, Japan, to Hawaii. The project was inspired by Harada’s encounter with a gravestone in an immigrant cem...

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• The city for invisible people

  Project Name: The city for invisible people

  Applicant: Non-Profit Organization Maebashi Art Practice & Yusuke Shibata

  

  Gunma Prefecture has experienced a rapid increase in its immigrant population, ranking third nationwide in a 2019 survey. Despite not containing a major metropolitan area, the prefecture hosts a remar...

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• Conducting a Quantitative Survey on Harassment Issues

  Project Name: Conducting a Quantitative Survey on Harassment Issues

  Applicant: Investigating Discrimination, Harassment, and Inequality in the Arts (IDHIA)

  

  A Quantitative survey on harassment issues targeting individuals with experience working in creative and expressive fields was launched in July 2022. The project aimed to clarify the realities of hara...

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• Hilos que Luchan, Manos que Sanan: NUESTRA JUSTICIA

  Project Name: Hilos que Luchan, Manos que Sanan: NUESTRA JUSTICIA

  Applicant: Hilos que Luchan, Manos que Sanan

  

  The Hilos que Luchan, Manos que Sanan workshop began together with participants of the online course “South American Feminist Art Activism,” organized by Kasumi Iwama. Iwama first gave a short talk on...

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• The Island Atlas: Our Words for the Future of Our Homeland

  Project Name: The Island Atlas: Our Words for the Future of Our Homeland

  Applicant: ELGUEDA WARD STUDIO (Ximena Elgueda & Stephen Ward)

  

  Island residents’ spiritual connection to their “hometown” is deeply tied to the foundation of their sense of self and existence. In this project, participants who all originated from Himeshima Island...

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