Born in 1971 in Tokyo, Shiro Masuyama practices socially engaged art as the only Japanese artist living in the conflict zone of Northern Ireland. Ottawa-based Inuit artist Julie Fiala, who was born in 1979 in Ottawa, was scheduled to visit her mother's family in the Canadian Arctic for the first time with Masuyama under the project planned for this exhibition.
Artists
Artists
Shiro Masuyama Portrait / Julie Fiala Portrait
Interview
Video interviews with SIAF2020 participating artists are uploaded consecutively.
The summarized interviews are also available as text in PDF files along with the video interviews.
These PDF files are to be compiled into “SIAF 2020 Index”, a documentation book to share the full spectrum of SIAF2020 which will be published after February, 2021.
[About PDF file]
It is the edited text of the comments from the artist in the video interview to convey the projects within SIAF2020.
The QR code on the PDF file is linked to the video interview of the artist.
Please note that the linked URL is subject to change without prior notice.
Works (works that were to be exhibited, reference works, etc.)
Drawing for 'Kitting horn cover for a muskox', 2020
'Knitting the woolen jumper for the sheep I sheared' 2012
'Weaving a scarf for the alpaca I sheared using its own wool’ 2014
'Weaving a scarf for the alpaca I sheared using its own wool’ 2014
'Making a saddle for the Bactrian camel Isheared using its own wool' 2015