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YUDA ART PROJECT unfolds in the town of Yuda Onsen in Yamaguchi.

Three groups of up-coming artists who are actively working at home and abroad use media technologies (image, sound, network, etc.) to produce new works on the theme of light and interaction, and each of the three artist groups shows their work at a different place.

exonemo [JP]
renewal version, commissioned by YCAM
The Terminal for Pilgrimage
Venue: Yuda hot spring area

A stroll around Yuda Onsen looking for art works

While making their original portraits by using the special photographing and printing terminals (photo booths) installed at four places in Yuda Onsen, participants can enjoy this work strolling around the town of Yuda. Citizens as well as tourists of Yuda Onsen can make their unique souvenir photos by using this work. At each terminal, participants can photograph only photos of faces and fragments of the background scenery. When they go through all terminals taking a photo on the same paper each time, all fragments are connected so as to complete their original portraits. In addition, those portraits are transmitted to the Internet server, and consequently they become "new faces of the town," going beyond each participant's specific character, to be shown on a huge screen set in downtown Yuda Onsen during the exhibition period every night. Participants can experience via this work the encounters between people and the town as well as people and people at crossovers of space and time.
The Terminal for Pilgrimage web site






SHINCHIKA [JP]
new work, commissioned by YCAM
Tour of ☆ FOOT-SPA Timer
Venue: Yuda foot-bathes hot springs

By up-and-coming artist units, Footbath Project

The Yuda footbath hot springs where many tourists and local residents come and relax are used. What is proposed in this work is a new space for communication through image expressions by using monitors and projections. In this animation film appears an animation character original to "YUDA ART PROJECT" produced by SHINCHIKA. The theme is the relation between "town" and "individual," and the character develops a fictional story navigating the original promotional movie. This animation of a new style blending different types of expression from two-dimensional illustrations to three-dimensional computer graphics will renovate the footbath hot springs.




United Visual Artists [UK]
new work, commissioned by YCAM
Array
Venue: Chuya Nakahara Memorial Museum

The latest work of British artists using the whole outer garden of Chuya Nakahara Memorial Museum.

London-based United Visual Artists (UVA) work primarily with light as their medium. UVA, who are actively working worldwide, have produced a new installation for this exhibition. The whole outer garden of Chuya Nakahara Memorial Museum located in the central part of Yuda hot springs is the setting for the exhibition. The installation is a responsive work utilising elegant pillars of LED light and sound that rely on ultra sonic sensors to detect human presence. A forest like sculptural grid will echo the form of the garden, drawing the audience into the space. Inhabiting the work is an ephemeral spirit that reveals itself unexpectedly and then, like many of its kind disappears as you try to approach it. UVA have attracted attention by their unique image expression and formative design for public installation works such as 'Volume' at the V&A Museum in London and also for their live show design for musicians such as Massive Attack & &U2. This year in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo UVA were commissioned to create the installation 'Contact' for the opening of the UKJP08 programme by The British Council. Their works reflect changes in the audience and the surrounding environment. They show such a high degree of perfection that they are talked about a lot all over the world. UVA have always created innovative trials to challenge the established concepts. This time, there is every reason to expect that they will successfully meet our expectations with their installation in a public space of Chuya Nakahara Memorial Museum.


Installation from Battles Tonto by UVA Photo: John Adrian


Organizer: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
Support: Yamaguchi City Board of Education, UK-JAPAN2008
Co-sponcer: Agency for Cultural Affairs
Special Support: British Council
Sponsorship: SHIMADA CORPORATION
Cooperation: Yuda support committee
Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]