AIR (Artist in Residence) - The potential to connect towns, people, and art

AIR Artist in Residence: The Potential to Connect Towns, People, and Art Compiled by Sachiko Kanno and Yoshiko Hinuma

Artist-in-residence (AIR) is a program that invites artists from Japan and overseas to stay and create in a local area and supports various cultural activities, including local production. In Japan, AIR programs were started by local governments in the 1980s, and interest in the program is said to have increased in the 1990s. They have served as bases for all kinds of artistic and cultural activities regardless of field, and as a place where international and local exchanges can take place, truly serving as a base for artists' activities.
Now widely recognized, AIR is a concept that has changed the city, art, and people. Based on their own experiences, the organizers of AIR write about their vision for the future.
There are now countless AIR programs around the world. This is an important book filled with records and experiences that allow us to view them from the present and look ahead to the future.

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Edited by: Sachiko Kanno, Yoshiko Hinuma. Written by: Mami Odai, Mami Katsuya, Junpei Mori, Tatsuhiko Murata, Taro Inamura, Michio Sugiyama, Bas Valks, Hideyuki Yanagisawa, Junichiro Ishii, Makiko Tsuji, Torao Osawa, Tomoki Sakuta, and Hisashi Shibata

Publisher: Aesthetics Publishing

Number of pages: 272p

Size: 148mm x 210mm

Publication year: 2023

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Content

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Introduction: Why did I write this book?

Chapter 1 Overview of AIR
What is an artist-in-residence program? -- A system that supports artistic and social value

Chapter 2 AIR Case Studies
1. AIR in Japan: AIR and the government, from the early days to the present
2. Community Development and AIR: Artist-in-Residence Programs and Regional Revitalization
3. Alternative AIR: Distance for the sake of closeness, closeness for the sake of distance
4. Microresidences: Their Philosophy and Network Activities
5. AIR in performing arts: AIR programs and networks that support creation
6. Traditional Crafts and AIR: Can Artist-in-Residence Programs Save Craft Production Areas from Decline?
7. International Cultural Policy and AIR: AIR at overseas cultural organizations
8. Air-in-residence at art museums: One of the measures to fulfill the diverse roles required
9. Universities and AIR ❶――AIR as a buffer zone between "industry" and "academia"
Universities and AIR ❷――Y-AIR ― Artist in Residence for Young
10 The Future of AIR: Creating a space for trial and error and experimentation for the future society

Chapter 3 Cultural Policy and AIR
1. Quantitative understanding of the past and current state of AIR
2. The role of AIR as a cultural policy

Chapter 4 AIR Interviews
1 Mirai Moriyama: Is AIR a mole?
2 Hiroyuki Hattori The Charm of Uncertainty
3 Jaime Jesús C. Pacena II My experience at AIR made me a better observer
4. Yuki Ando: Expanding the horizons of creative endeavors

Chapter 5 How to create AIR
1 Q&A for starting an AIR - from the experience of S-AIR
2 Starting, Nurturing, and Connecting AIR Programs
[COLUMN] International Woodblock Printing Lab/Kawaguchiko Artist in Residence

Conclusion

Data Collection
AIR List
AIR network/portal site
AIR research report
AIR-related chronology

Author introduction

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ISBN : 978-4902078770