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Memory in Progress (book / DVD)

Tadashi Kawamata - Memory in Progress (book / DVD)
Book / DVD documenting an artistic project by Kawamata: the rehabilitation of three ancient weavers' houses in Brittany.
Published for the Interlocal Workshop for Art and Architecture, Saint-Thélo (France), August 2004 - September 2006.
Tadashi Kawamata (born 1953 in Japan, lives and works in Tokyo and Paris) has made in situ art throughout the world and was artistic director of the Yokohama Triennale in 2005. His work concerns itself with architectural space as an urban or designed social context or product. A careful study of the human relations that define it and the way of life which results from it allows him each time to determine progressively the nature of his project. His pieces, for the most part temporary, are generally made from timber sometimes from salvage material from the immediate vicinity. Tadashi Kawamata's pieces recreate connections between the past and the present, between outside and inside, between the actual and the potential: they reveal another identity to the spaces, highlighting the invisible but quite real aspect of their cultural and social dimension. The creation of a community with which he shares the research and physical work is the drive and basis for each of his projects, as we can see with the experience of Saint-Thélo.
Edited by par Gilles Coudert.
Texts by Tadashi Kawamata, Daniel Le Goff, Anastasia Makridou.
Film directed by Gilles Coudert and Damien Faure.

Published with Eternal Network.
 
published in 2007
bilingual edition (English / French) / English and French subtitles
15 x 21 cm (hardcover)
80 pages, 60 minutes video DVD
 
25.00 18.00
(special offer)
 
ISBN : 978-2-95288-971-1
EAN : 9782952889711
 
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