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Field Trip Project is a mobile/ participatory/ interactive art exhibition installed within Japanese elementary school backpacks. Traveling to various locations, it connects people and bridges communities. Remote from the white cubes of art galleries and museums, literally everywhere is its venue; from an empty field in the disaster-affected areas to shopping streets and residential neighbourhoods. Every interaction with the project becomes a memory towards the future.
At the end of the school year in March 2012, a number of unused relief supplies gathered in gymnasium of Onagawa Daiichi Junior High School were scheduled to be either shipped to developing countries or treated as waste. Toronto based visual artist Daisuke Takeya with Chie Kajiwara, an Onagawa based art teacher, suggested an alternative use for the Japanese elementary school backpacks among the surplus. A large number of these backpacks were entrusted to them, and a set of thirty five were sent to Canada to be transformed by passionate Canadian contemporary artists into a mobile art exhibition. They were then sent back to Onagawa again and re-used to empower people through communication with art. Since August 2013, additional thirty five backpack artworks by Japanese contemporary artists have joined the project. With the total of seventy artworks, the project has traveled to a variety of cities and inspired ideas towards the recovery. It also focuses on community issues at each destination, and will investigate what makes vibrant and sustainable communities.
The project is scheduled to travel in Canada in 2014, starting at the Cambridge Galleries Design at Riverdale in late February.
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Participating artists: Canada
- Aleksandra Rdest
- Alex McLeod + Krystle Tabujara
- Annie Onyi Cheung
- Atanas Bozdarov
- Brett Despotovich
- Camilla Singh
- David Trautrimas
- Dean Baldwin
- Derek Liddington
- Diane Borsato
- Douglas Walker
- Dyan Marie
- Emelie Chhangur
- Fiona Smyth
- Geoffrey Pugen
- Hanna Hur
- Jenn E Norton
- Jérôme Havre
- John McMinn + Melana Janzen
- Jon Sasaki
- Josh Thorpe
- Juliana Pivato
- Katie Bethune-Leamen
- Marc Ngui + Magda Wojtyra, aka Happy Sleepy
- Michael Toke
- Miles Collyer
- Scott Rogers
- Selena Lee
- Shannon Cochrane
- smfoundtaion (Shinobu Akimoto & Matt Evans)
- Tanya Read
- Tibi Tibi Neuspiel
- Tom Ngo
- The The Doodlers (Students from University of Waterloo School of Architecture)
- XXXX Collective
- Project Curator: Daisuke Takeya
- Project Coordinator: Chie Kajiwara
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Participating artists: Japan
- Yusuke Asai
- Tomoko Inagaki
- Ichiro Endo
- Yoshiaki Kaihatsu
- Masamitsu Katsu
- Akitaka Kamijo
- Parco Kinoshita
- Takayoshi Kitagawa
- Chie Koda
- Tomoko Konoike
- Kotakeman
- Kiyoko Sakata
- Risa Sato
- Michiari Saito
- Izumi Sakamoto
- Yoshiko Shimada
- Tanotaiga
- Kyoco Taniyama
- Michiko Tsuda
- Noboru Tsubaki
- Kengo Nakamura
- Keijiro Niino
- Norio Nishihara
- Miwako Hashimoto
- Kae Higuchi
- Atsushi Fukunaga
- Hiroko Masuko
- Hiroyiuki Matsukage
- Junko Maruyama
- Chiharu Mizukawa
- Takahide Mizuuchi
- Kensuke Miyazaki
- Satoshi Murakami
- Takashi Murakami
- Koichi Watanabe/Fukushima University
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