About the Project
Artists have expanded the discourse of space and time as they have sought to engage with environments. This move questions not only forms of art, but expands the notion of art and the art experience.
In this show, each artist focuses on site and mind specificity though locality, mapping, body, situating, and positioning. My motivation for organizing this project is to explore what defines our memory and identity as individuals when our bodies go through cultural, locational, and physical changes. The chosen artists are exploring site-specific positioning in the form of fictional journeys and/or territorial gestures. The invited artists are Rui Sasaki, Masako Onodera, Motoko Furuhashi, Michael Collins, Liliya Lifanova, and Stephen Cartwright.
The purpose of the exhibition is to bring greater awareness to people about our cultural specificity and locality, which has a unique diversity due to its position as a college town that draws international students and visitors. Another goal is to encourage people to think about what defines us as individuals using art works that focus on cultural specificity, locality, nostalgic gestures, and the body as site. Through daily-based art experiences or by creating fictional objects or situations, the artist participants articulate their different approaches to understanding their identity.
