Depends on the proposals from artists.

One person or organization

●Age limit: No
●Specification of Countries: No

●Traveling expense: Available
* The amount depends on the proposals from artists.
●Production fee: Available
* The amount depends on the proposals from artists.
●Living expense: Available
* The amount depends on the proposals from artists.
●Professional and staff support: Available
* Accepting applications for staff whenever necessary
●Opportunities to present artworks: Available
●Publication and distribution of a program report: TBD

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Selection by remo

remo [record, expression and medium - organization]

Osaka City

Suminoe Ward Office, Osaka Chiiki Shinko Kai (Community Development Association), land owners, Creative Center Osaka (former Namura Shipyard), gallery, etc.

Coop Kitakagaya
Website: http://coop-kitakagaya.blogspot.com/

Please see the "Inquiry".

●Exhibit space: Available
○1st Floor: 158.96 square metres
○2nd Floor: 158.95 square metres
●Studio: Available
○1st Floor: 158.96 square metres
○2nd Floor: 158.95 square metres
●Accommodation: Not Available
●Others: Coop Kitakagaya is a collaborative studio to “realize another society” that attracts people and organizations from a variety of fields, such as art, alternative media, archives, architecture, community studies, circles, and non-profit organizations. It started in April 2009 by renovating a former furniture factory. Approximately 300 square meters of space contains shared facilities including offices, a kitchen, a salon, a library, and a gallery. People at Coop Kitakagaya are autonomously working in their own fields of interest.

Kitakagaya area in Osaka city thrived on heavy industry, shipbuilding in particular, in the 1920s. As time went by, however, the shift in focused industries and transfer of production centers to outside the area resulted in decline of the area.
In last several years, young people and organizations involved in cultural and art activities placed their bases in this area, and they are establishing their own network.

○5-minute walk from No. 4 exit of Kitakagaya station on Yotsubashi subway line

In May 2009, Osaka City started “Contemporary Art Creation Support Program” and invited the public to submit proposals to discover, nurture, and support artists and to encourage propagation of contemporary art to Osaka citizens. The selection committee for the Program chose four proposals including the one submitted by remo.

2009

○To create the place for artists to produce their art works.
○To hand down the sophisticated skills and sincere attitudes of artists to the next generation and nurture such skills and attitudes in young artists
○Publish the production process and the results to raise awareness about contemporary art

Invite media artists engaging in digital media such as video and computers to stay and work as residential artists. The artists collaborate with young artists and students who applied to the program and produce art works. The produced works are exhibited at our venue or other sites that are open to the public.

●Records
○FY 2009: One residence
Phill Niblock (born in 1933, Indiana, US)
In addition to as a multi-media artist covering a wide range of fields including music, video, film, photography, and computer, Phill Niblock is has been a maverick presence among New York-based minimalist musicians since 1960s. His thorough style that has never changed through 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s has had impact on many artists such as Sonic Youth and Jim O’Rourke. Since 1968 he has been a member of Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York and director since 1985.
○FY 2010: One residence
Yukihiro Taguchi (Born in 1980, Osaka)
Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Painting Department in 2004, Yukihiro Taguchi moved to Berlin, Germany in 2005. Since then, he held many solo and group exhibitions not only in Berlin but also in Rotterdam and Tokyo. He received the Excellence Prize in 2008 Japan Media Art Festival.
●Achievements
○Promotion of the community development of Kitakagaya as the art center (Community Development)
* Contribution to the promotion of clustering in collaboration with the former Namura Shipyard (designated by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as the Heritage of Industrial Modernization), NAMURA ART MEETING '04-'34m and AIR Osaka (residential facility).
○Contribution to revitalization of Kitakagaya area (Community Development)
* Exchange with the community and citizens through outdoor art activity
* Exhibitions drawing people from within and outside the community
○Human development through production activities by international artists (Human Development)
* Young artists and students learned from production activities.
* Long-term (two weeks or longer) exchange
○Revitalization of media art activities that are expected to grow in the future (Contemporary Art Promotion)
* Build the network of people involving in media art
* Contribution to the promotion and propagation of media art activities that can win people’s sympathy
○Operation with excellent facilities (Continuity)
* Operation at our own venue will increase recognition of the place and accumulation of know-how, resulting in the increased possibility of lasting operation.

Phill Niblock, Yukihiro Taguchi

remo [record, expression and medium - organization]
Address: Coop Kitakagaya, 5-4-12 Kitakagaya, Suminoe-ku, Osaka 559-0011 Japan
TEL+FAX: 06-6686-5757
Email: info(at)remo.or.jp
Contact: Matsumoto

December 28, 2011