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Inujima Videos

Inujima Landscape Project 1

This creative video uses graphics like maps, paper cut outs and models to illustrate the location, history, size and name of the island of Inujima. It recounts visually how the granite quarrying industry quite literally shaped the landscape of the island, as well as its culture and demographics, and the relationship between its industries, human residents and the natural environment.

Videography: Kazuyo Sejima & Associates

Inujima Landscape Project 2

Enjoy a virtual stroll around Inujima taking in the sounds of birds, insects and the wind in the bamboo. This videot passes through some of the wild, natural landscape of the island, the towns with their traditional houses, and stops at several of the art spaces, including installations by Kohei Nawa, Haruka Kojin and Yusuke Komuta and shows local residents and visitors interaction with these various aspects of the island's landscape.

Videography: Yoshihiro Inada and SANAA

Inujima Landscape Project 3

Learn about the small island of Inujima in Japan's Seto Inland Sea and the relationship between the rise and fall of its industries and its population. The video traces the rise of the island's industry, with granite quarrying peaking in the late 19th century and the establishment of a copper refinery in 1909, boosting its population to 5-6000 people, and its subsequent decline over the 20th century, leaving fewer than 50 residents today.

Videography: Yoshihiro Inada and SANAA

Inujima Landscape Project 4

Hear some of Inujima's residents, mostly senior citizens, share their memories of life and lore on the island. They explain how the Art Project has helped the island recover from its industrial scars and how learning about the art works and other new skills, gardening, cleaning and keeping active around the art galleries, and interacting with visitors have added meaning and purpose to their daily lives.

Videography: Yoshihiro Inada and SANAA

Inujima Workshop

Between 2016 and 2019, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates held a series of workshops on Inujima. Each workshop was led by a different expert, and students from around the world participated. The workshops included cooking and oil painting classes, as well as instruction in house and landscape maintenance.

Videography: Tetsuo Kondo Architects and Kazuyo Sejima & Associates

Assistant Curator Iku Watanabe

Presented by JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles

With support from Fukutake Foundation Obayashi Corporation Shizen Energy Group HOPPY Beverage Co., Ltd.

Curator Yuko Hasegawa

Exhibition Design Kazuyo Sejima & Associates

Graphic Design Instrument

With works by Office of Ryue Nishizawa Tetsuo Kondo Architects Ichio Matsuzawa Office Beatriz Milhazes Fiona Tan Takashi Homma, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba Haruka Kojin Yusuke Komuta Kohei Nawa

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