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DAIS Ishinomaki is a place where we “continue to question circulative diversities.”
What kind of new learning platform will lead to the achievement of SDGs in contemporary society and the development of the next generation?
“DAIS” is an abbreviation for Diversity Art Interactive Studio. Perhaps it is a place where variety of people with diverse backgrounds intermingle and create something new?
The ones “continuing to question the circulative diversities” are everyone who wish to participate; from children to seniors, an inclusive community as a whole consisting of diverse local settlers and mobile populations; immigrants from abroad, technical trainees, ones with disabilities, local residents, artists, and so on. Alternatively, wild animals and agricultural products in the fields may also be considered participants.
Together with them, we are currently doing DIY renovation work on the site of an abandoned farmhouse at entrance area to the mountains of Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, where artists from Japan and abroad can stay and create artworks =”DAIS Air”, and an outdoor theater where local citizens can participate, traditional performing arts and performance art = “CHODO-Festival”, and we are preparing to launch a complex facility that will include the “Museum of Living Memories”; a data library of The Great East Japan Earthquake Memorial Hall through citizens’ perspectives (a venue for workshops, storytelling, and permanent displaying of “Filed Trip Project & Field Trip Project Asia”), and “DAIS Farm” a communal farm field and a kitchen.
Rather than setting the goal of achieving a specific goal, we continue to ask questions, and while maintaining the awareness that we are always in the process, we move forward in a gradual cycle as it is and organically.
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Diverse and Experimental Activities
We will explore the meaning of art as a means of living and coexistence in Mano, Ishinomaki City, a city rich in nature, through a heterogeneous performance woven by diverse actors, regardless of the presence or absence of disabilities, differences in nationality, or genre of art. I would like to reconsider my philosophy.
DAIS Farm is an experimental farm cultivated in a corner of wasteland within the premises of DAIS Ishinomaki.
Thanks to the efforts of the local mayor of the Mano area and everyone in the area, several people (beginners in the field) who had connections with Mr. Takeya and Mr. Kajiwara (of the excursion project) were able to learn from the mayor and make mistakes. It all started when I just started doing it.
Responding Performance Initiative (Respo) uses performance art based on field research to address the current social and environmental issues surrounding us, and creates spaces and circuits for dialogue with diverse communities in local and global contexts. and respond through the practice of performative bodily expression.
The Field Trip Project started in March 2012 by Daisuke Takeya, an artist living in Toronto, Canada, and Chie Kajiwara, an art teacher living in Onagawa Town at the time. Due to difficulties in matching relief supplies, we received Japanese Randoseru backpacks from Onagawa Daiichi Junior High School, which were surplus relief supplies, and were scheduled to be disposed.
What kind of act does it take to convey the memory of the earthquake? Under what conditions can we say that memories have been transmitted?
DAIS_AIR is an Artist In Residence (AIR) program that emphasizes the production process rather than the result.
DAIS ISHINOMAKI
DAIS Ishinomaki is located in Mano area of Ishinomaki City, where is a borderland between the plain fields of rice and other agriculture where humans live, and the mountainous region where a variety of wild animals and plants live.