Hiraki Sawa
Hiraki Sawa was born in Ishikawa, Japan. He currently lives and works in London. His work focuses on the use of video projections and installations. Recent exhibitions include Experimenta Playground, International Biennal of Media Arts, Melbourne, Australia and 12e Biennale de l’ Image en Mouvement, Centre Pour l’Image Contemporaine, Saint Gervais, Geneve. Sawa has exhibited [...]
Artist blog Bologna ’09 – 2tall day 2
Ok, so take one dangerously introspective bedroom based music producer who debates walking 5 minutes to sainsburys instead of taking the bus for 2 stops and drop him in Bologne and let him loose with other artists to create a selection of live material to be performed 5 days later. We’ve been using our machines [...]
Artist blog Bologna ’09 – Tatsuki Day 2
Day by day account of the Original Cultures pilot by Tatsuki. Un racconto di cos’e successo durante il Original Cultures pilot da Tatsuki. たつきの毎日ブログ。
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Trailer 2
The second trailer video for the Original Cultures pilot is now live. This time we’re shining a bit more of a light on the 3 musicians who will take part in the pilot: 2tall aka Om Unit, Tatsuski and Tayone who represent the UK, Japan and Italy respectively. The Original Cultures pilot will culminate on [...]
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Original Cultures x Museo Musica Bologna
We are very pleased to announce that Original Cultures has teamed up with Bologna’s International Museum and Library of Music. As part of this the Museum will be an official supporting partner of our pilot event and Original Cultures will organise a month-long installation and showcase in the Museum during the month of July. The [...]
Original Cultures 2009-2010 – Visual Artists
Original Cultures focuses on two specific strands of modern performing arts: music and visual arts. Within these two strands Original Cultures works with both established and upcoming artists from the UK, Italy and Japan. The 4 artists chosen to represent the visual arts strand for the first year of Original Cultures activities (2009) are: Will [...]
Original Cultures 2009-2010 – Musicians
Original Cultures focuses on two specific strands of modern performing arts: music and visual arts. Within these two strands Original Cultures works with both established and upcoming artists from the UK, Italy and Japan. The 3 artists chosen to represent the music strand for the first year of Original Cultures activities (2009) are: 2tall / [...]
Original Cultures – Pilot
Everything has to start somewhere, and Original Cultures will make its official debut in June 2009 with a pilot event spread over 4 days and held in Bologna, Italy. The pilot will feature artists from the UK, Italy and Japan and a number of select activities from Original Cultures’ own Cultural Exchange Program (CEP). Pilot [...]
DEM
Like a modern alchemist, DEM creates his surreal creatures, weird characters that live in between the most imperceptibles layers of human reality. Protean and ironic, his works range from wall painting to illustration to art installations. The symbolism that enriches DEM’s artwork invites the public to elaborate a personal access code to decipher this world, [...]
Will Barras
Will Barras is an illustrator and artist living and working in London. Born in Birmingham in 1973 he spent his formative years in Bristol. His invention of composition and fluid lines provide poignant detail in liquid abstraction. The subject matter is readily familiar, but captured in a manner that seems to jar time and space [...]
Ericailcane
Ericailcane is a visual artist based in Bologna who has produced art, exhibited and collaborated with artists worldwide. Ericailcane represents Italy and the visual arts as part of the Original Cultures roster of artists for 2009/2010. Ericailcane online Ericailcane’s website DEM, Ericailcane and Will Barras – Stay Away from Light (edit2) Ericailcane at FAME festival
Tayone
Tayone’s musical career started in 1997 when he won the first edition of the Italian ITF DJ battle chapter at a young age. In the same year, riding on the wave of his win, he becomes of Alien Army, the first Italian turntablist crew. In 1998 he wins the second edition of ITF’s Italy chapter [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – CEP activities
Original Cultures Bologna 09 will test all the main activities from the project’s Cultural Exchange Program (CEP). These activities will be spread across 4 days and involve all of the pilot’s artists as well as the general public and students from local art universities/institutions in Bologna. Below is a list of the activities that will [...]
2tall / Om Unit
Jim Coles aka 2tall/Om Unit has been active since the late nineties as a DJ and producing music since his early teens. He has several releases out under the 2tall moniker, which came after a brief stint in the world of DJ battles where he represented the UK at the DMC world DJ championships. More [...]
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Tatsuki
Tatsuki was born in Osaka, Japan in 1973 and raised in Suffolk, UK. He settled in London in 1991. For the last ten years Tatsuki has been a member of the international, Danish-based band Blue Foundation. Alongside his work with Blue Foundation, Tatsuki has also collaborated with Japanese artists such as DJ Krush, Boom Boom [...]
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