Kategorie: Japanese Lesson
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Japanese Lesson.
Since 2006 Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been traveling to Japan, working on topics from subculture to surveillance. Since 2011 they are developing an extensive body of work they call the »Japanese Lesson«. At the beginning it was a single one-channel video, dealing with the visual influence, research and overwealming impressions of the Japanese…
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Activism and Anarchism.
Tokyo No Hate The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. Since then Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber met activists in Japan, joined protest demonstrations, exchanged with artists and learned a lot…
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Cry Minami.
Cry Minami is an artistic work by Katja Stuke consisting of several different parts. Stuke takes Minami‘s publicly expressed remorse as an opportunity typical of her work – to ask questions about the authenticity and staging of images. »Some years ago Minami Minegishi, a singer of Japanese Idol-Band AKB48 got a some international media attention:…