Biography

アーティスト / 香港城市大学クリエイティブ・メディア学科博士課程研究員

長坂有希は個人的な出会いや協働を通して、人間と人間以上の生き物やコミュニティーが内包している技術や知恵、世界観を学ぶことに関心があり、私たちが生きている世界が全ての生き物や物のあいだにある動的な縁起によって、どのように存在しているのか語りやさまざまな美術的手法を用いて表現しようとしている。

長坂はテキサス州立大学オースチン校で学士(美術)、国立造形美術大学シュテデルシューレ・フランクフルトでマイスターシューラー(美術)を取得し、文化庁新進芸術家海外研修制度を受けてロンドンで一年間の研修を行った。

現在は博士課程研究員として、香港政府からの特別奨学金や北海道大学北方生物圏フィールド科学センターからの協力を受け、北海道の生態系について美術的手法を用いながら研究を進めている。アイヌ文化を背景に持つ人々、在野の実践者、科学分野や人文学分野の研究者など、さまざまな知恵や知識の保持者との協働を通して、北海道という島に存在している独自の生態系の様相を理解しようと試みている。

 

Artist / Doctoral Researcher at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

Aki Nagasaka is interested in learning skills, wisdoms, and worldviews held by human and more-than-human beings and communities through her personal encounters and collaborations. Using storytelling and other artistic media, she tries to represent how our living world exists, by dynamics of dependent origination and arising among all beings and entities.

Nagasaka received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and her Meisterschüler in Fine Arts from the Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, in Frankfurt, and conducted one-year research in London, supported by the Cultural Agency of the Japanese government.

As a doctoral researcher, supported by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme and partially by the Hokkaido University Cross Institutional Joint Research Program, Nagasaka is conducting her art-practice-led research on the situated ecology in Hokkaido. She tries to understand the unique ecological situation of the island by collaborating with different wisdom and knowledge holders including people of Ainu heritage, independent practitioners, and researchers in science and humanities.

Currently
Based between Japan and Hong Kong
1980
Born in Osaka, Japan
2005
University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Fine Art
2006
Center for Contemporary Art CCA Kitakyushu, Research Program
2012
Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Staedelschule Frankfurt, Meisterschueler
2012-13
Japanese Cultural Ministry, Abroad Research Fellowship in London, UK
2020-
City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media, PhD Candidate, funded by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme

Exhibition

2005
Lounge! - Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, U.S.A
2005
Sprouts - Austin Museum of Art, Austin. U.S.A
2005
Senior Studio Show - Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, U.S.A
2005
once more with feeling - CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
2006
Unseen Scene - Art Space Tetra, Hakata, Japan
2006
Open Studio - CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
2007
Yellow Labyrinth - Women & their Work, Austin, U.S.A
2008
This is a circle...or? - Clockwork Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2008
Dark Show - Wallis Gallery & Formcontent, London, UK
2008
*project, potentially no one sees it, Part 1 - Bad Honnef, Germany
2008
Sink the boat before it sails - BASIS, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2009
Stupid Generation - Kunst Project, Berlin, Germany
2009
…and the Dark Show returns as a ghost. - Paradise Raw, London, UK
2009
*project, potentially no one sees it, Part 2 - Schloss Zinzow, Zinzow, Germany
2009
MENU - Savoy Cafe, London, UK
2010
*project, potentially no one sees it, Part3 - Bad Homburg, Germany
2010
Deconstruct + Reconstruction - Visual Art Center, Austin, U.S.A
2011
Baby, I lost my handshoes… - Kurant Gallery, Tromso, Norway
2011
When in Rome - Malta Contemporary Art, Valletta, Malta
2011
KINEMASTIK International Short Film Festival - Valletta, Malta
2011
*project, potentially no one sees it, Part 4 - IMMEDIATE TERRITORY, Oxford, UK
2011
Übermorgenkünstler II - Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
2012
Baby, I lost my handshoes… - Forum da Maia, Maia, Portugal
2012
Zauderberg - MMK Museums für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2012
Baby, I lost my handshoes… - Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
2013
Signs Taken in Wonder - MAK Austrian Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
2013
Signs Taken in Wonder - Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2014
Attention Economy - Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2014
Between Art and Science - Naples, Italy and Burkina Faso
2014
Poltroneria: A Exhibition toward a Film - Museo Apparente, Naples, Italy
2014
Material and Mechanism - ACAC Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
2015
Poltroneria: Eating Out - Roberta, Frankfurt, Germany
2016
Domani Plus : Worm Hole Travel - Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
2017
Enokojima Art Days 2017 : Other Ways - Flag Studio, Mark Studio and Enoco, Osaka, Japan
2017
Quatro Elementos, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
2018
INSIDE TÖPFERN, Ratskeller - Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2018
To the Kamuy-Wakka, To the Spring of Eukaryotes, CAI02 Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Japan
2019
大地の物語 (Land Story), 500m Museum, Sapporo, Japan
2019
Foreshdows, Tokyo Arts and Space TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Ibasho - The place where I / we can be, Frappant Gallerie, Hamburg, Germany
2019
JINSEN CONTEMPORARY SHORT FILM & VIDEO, Jinsen Hall, Osaka, Japan
2019
Trees: Audition for a Drama still to Happen, Gallery BIYONG POINT, Akita, Japan
2020
HER/HISTORY, Jinsen Hall, Osaka, Japan
2020
Sapporo Art: Goodbye Showa Building, CAI02 Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Japan
2020
Capital Fever, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2020
ARTS & ROUTES - あわいをたどる旅 - , Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan
2021
And the Ship Sails On: art. practice. research, JCCAC Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
2021
藻類の時間軸ー私たちの始まりへー / To Our Beginnings: Time Traveling through Algae, Hokkaido University Museum, Sapporo, Japan
2021
Times of Crisis, Villa delle Rose - MAMbo Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2021
Ethno-Remedies: Bedtime Stories ⇄ A Life's Manual In-progress Exhibition, Fusenkazua, Nara, Japan
2022
新しいエコロジーとアート / Art and New Ecology, Tokyo University of Arts Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2023
Ethno-Remedies: Bedtime Stories ⇄ A Life's Manual, CAFE & BAR MIROKU TERRACE, Nara, Japan

Residency

2005-06
CCA Kitakyushu - Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Research Program Residency
2009
SIM - Icelandic Visual Art Association, Residency
2014
ACAC Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Artist in Residence
2016
Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Residency
2018
Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Residency
2018
Tokyo Arts and Space Residency, International Creator Residency Program
2019
Akita University of Art, as a part of the project / exhibition "Arts & Routes -あわいをたどる旅- "
2021
MAMbo - Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, ROSE Residency Programme
2023
Tomakomai Experimental Forest, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University

Grant

2005
University of Texas at Austin, Undergraduate Research Scholarship
2009
Asahi-Newspaper Cultural Foundation, Art Grant
2009
Japan Foundation, Cultural Exchange Grant
2010-2011
Nomura Foundation, Art Grant
2011
DAAD, Prize for The Outstanding Achievement for A Foreign Student
2012
Japanese Cultural Ministry, Abroad Research Fellowship
2015
Contemporary Art Foundation, Production Grant
2017
Chishima Foundation for Creative Osaka, Creative Work Grant
2020 - 2024
The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), Research Studentship
2021
Nomura Foundation, Art Grant
2023
The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship / City University of Hong Kong, Research Activities Fund

Publication

2006
CCA Research Program, Catalogue
2007
Yellow Labyrinth, Exhibition Booklet
2008-10
*project, potentially no one sees it Part 1, 2, 3, Project Booklets
2011
IMMEDIATE TERRITORY, Exhibition Catalogue
2011
Übermorgenkünstler II, Exhibition Booklet
2012
Zauderberg, Art Book accompanying the exhibition
2012
Monaco Magazine Issue 5&6, Art Magazine by Katie Guggenheim
2013
Signs Taken in Wonder, Exhibition Catalogue
2014
If on a winter's night a traveler, Self-punlished Project Booklet
2014
Project T, T for Taut., Self-punlished Project Booklet
2015
Rivista Apparente 8: POLTRONERIA (Fragments towards a film script), Art Book by Bianca Baldi and Ani Schulze
2015
Material and Mechanism, Exhibition Catalogue
2017
Other Ways, Exhibition Catalogue
2017
Quatro Elementos, Exhibition Catalogue
2019
Tokyo Arts and Space Annual Report 2018
2020
Tanemaki @KCUA 07, Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA Zine
2020
Tokyo Arts and Space Annual Report 2019
2020
Arts & Routes -あわいをたどる旅- Exhibition Travel Guide
2021
奈良県立大学CHIOSOU・2020年度記録集 / Nara Prefectural University CHISOU Program Archive 2020, Project Documentation
2021
Wanwu Practice Group Zine "Multi/Species Encounters / 多物/種相遇"
2021
長坂有希:カムイワッカへ、そして私たちの始まりへ / Aki Nagasaka: To the Kamuy-Wakka, To the Spring of Eukaryotes, Project Documentation and Exhibition Catalogue
2021
藻類の時間軸ー私たちの始まりへー / To Our Beginnings: Time Traveling through Algae, Exhibition Catalogue (テキスト翻訳 / text translation )
2021
Elisa Caldana and Aki Nagasaka: Times of Crisis, Art Book published for the Exhibition at MAMbo
2022
奈良県立大学「実践型アートマネジメント人材育成プログラム CHISOU」2021年度 記録集『超教育学としてのアートプロジェクト』/ Nara Prefectural University CHISOU Program Archive 2021 "Art Projects as Trans-pedagogy"

Workshop / Lecture

2014
Artist Talk, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Workshop for students in the art class , Aomori Chuo High School, Aomori, Japan
2016
Storytelling Performance, 01_Angus, Flag Studio, Osaka, Japan
2016
Artist Talk, To Listen to the Travel, Mark Studio, Osaka, Japan
2017
Workshop for young artists, Feldstärke International 2017 as a part of Culture City of East Asia 2017, Changsha, China
2018
Artist Talk, Art & Breakfast, Tenjinyama Art Studio, Sapporo, Japan
2018
Artist Talk with Elisa Caldana, Artto World Vol.1: To Unknown Land, Artto, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Artist Talk with Elisa Caldana, Henrik Naumann and Yoshitaka Mouri (Professor at Tokyo University of Arts), Heisei Era Crisis: Aesthetics before and after 1989, Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Artist Talk with Junji Yamamoto (Associate Professor at the Hokkaido University Museum) and Satoshi Hata (Director at CAI Contemporary Art Institute), CAI Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Japan
2018
Artist Talk, The journey started from a lion and continued towards a lighthouse, The Northern Alp Museum, Shiretoko-Shari, Japan
2019
Artist Talk, Okago Junior Highschool, Hachijojima, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Artist Talk with Hiroyuki Hattori (Independent Curator / Associate Professor at Akita University of Art), Gallery BIYONG POINT, Akita, Japan
2020
Artist Talk with Shigeaki Iwai (artist), Eriko Mukai (artist), and Toshiaki Ishikura (anthropologist), Transboundary and Discovery: Tangent points where Masumi Sugae and contemporary art meet, Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan
2020
Artist Talk, Research Material Talk, CHISOU Lab, Nara Prefectural University
2021
「描かれた動物」の人類学研究会での発表、「制作を通して動物たちとつながりを持つことー彼らが同志、師、守護者になるときー」、オンライン / 国立民族学博物館
2021
Visiting Artist Lecture in Contemporary Art Theory Course, Nara Prefectural University
2021
Multi/Species Encounters 多物/種相遇 Round table discussion with Olga Timurgalieva, Chen Huang, Feixuan Xu, Ji Yun Park, Michael Leung, Mankun Liu, JCCAC Hong Kong and Online
2021
Presentation at Conference "Critical Ecologies: Multiscalar Engagements", "Practice of Imagining Future Forests and Vegetation through an Ancient Buried Forest and Knowing the World by Committing to a Fixed Geographical Locality", Taipei/Online, Shared Campus and the Taipei National University of the Arts
2021
Round Talk with Koji Yoshioka, Shinji Yoshioka (beekeepers), and Mikako Yamaguchi (anthropologist / associate professor at Hokkaido University) as a part of the work-in-progress exhibition "Ethno-Remedies: Bedtime Stories ⇄ A Life's Manual", CHISOU Program 2021, Fusenkazura, Nara, Japan
2021
Artist Talk with Ryoko Nagaoka as a part of the work-in-progress exhibition "Ethno-Remedies: Bedtime Stories ⇄ A Life's Manual", CHISOU Program 2021, Fusenkazura, Nara, Japan
2022
Ethnobotany Workshop with Chisato Maeda (ethnobotany researcher / Satoyama Library director), CHISOU Program 2022, Satoyama Library, Nara, Japan
2022
Presentation by Atsushi Nishiyama (Buddhist art historian) and Group Discussion, CHISOU Program 2022, Nara Prefectural University
2022
Brainstorming Session with Toshiaki Ishikura (anthropologist / associate professor at Akita University of Art), CHISOU Program 2022, Nara Prefectural University
2022
Conversation with Chisato Maeda (ethnobotany researcher / Satoyama Library director), CHISOU Program 2022, Satoyama Library, Nara, Japan
2022
Artist Talk and Conversation with Keijiro Suga (poet / professor at Meiji University) and Emi Nakamura (artist), Places, Arts, and Consciousness, Meiji University
2023
Artist Talk with Ryoko Nagaoka (designer) and Toshiaki Ishikura (anthropologist / associate professor at Akita University of Art), CHISOU Program 2023, Nara Prefectural University
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