“Maebashi Dining Room” and “Wind Dining”
2013.10.26 - 2014.01.26
【Past Project】
MASUDA Hirofumi “Maebashi Dining Room”
One of the dining projects whose main theme is food, “Maebashi Dining Room” focuses on the “home cooking” that people in Maebashi eat daily. MASUDA Hirofumi, an artist who has searched for the home-cooked taste in Yokohama, Daikanyama, and Ishinomaki, will hunt for and record sentimental home cooking in Maebashi.
Project Exhibition
Date: October 26 (Sat.) to January 26 (Sun.) 11:00 to 19:00
*Closed on Wednesdays, Year-end and New-year holidays
Location: Arts Maebashi Archive
Workshop
Participants will bring their own sentimental home cooking for this dinner gathering.
Date: December 8 (Sun.) 11:00 to 13:00
Location: Arts Maebashi Studio
Limit: 20 participants *Reservation required. Please contact us if you wish to participate.
Event Celebrating Publication of the Recipe Booklet
Dishes will be reproduced based on the Maebashi recipes collected through research and participants will share them. There will also be a talk by MASUDA.
Date: January 25 (Sat.) 11:00 to 14:00
Location: To be announced *Please check our Arts Maebashi official website for details.
Limit: About 20 participants
Fernando Garcia Dory “Wind Dining”
Fernando Garcia Dory will visit farmers in Maebashi to research agricultural traditions and issues following modernization. From the result of his activities, he will exhibit his proposed research. There will be conversational talks held several times during his stay.
Date: October 26 (Sat.) to November 10 (Sun.) 13:00 to 18:00
*Only on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, and Gunma Citizens’ Day (October 28)
Location: Kokusaikoryu Hiroba Machinaka Salon (Maebashi, Chiyoda-machi 2chome 8-14)
Wind Dining Talk
An artist from Spain will hold a kitchen lecture discussing diet and agriculture in Europe and Maebashi with guests.
Kitchen Lecture 1: Fernando Garcia Dory ×Adam Sutherland(Grizedale Arts / UK)
October 31 (Thu.) 19:00-
Location: Kokusaikoryu Hiroba MAchinaka Salon (Maebashi, Chiyoda-machi 2chome 8-14)
Kitchen Lecture 2: Fernando Garcia Dory × Kazutoshi Hasegawa, Rieko Hasegawa (Hasegawa Farm)
November 1 (Fri.) 19：00-
Location: Kokusaikoryu HirobaMAchinaka Salon (Maebashi, Chiyoda-machi 2chome 8-14)
Kitchen Lecture 3: Fernando Garcia Dory × MASUDA Hirofumi
November 4 (Mon.) 14:00 to 15:30
Location: Kokusaikoryu Hiroba Machinaka Salon (Maebashi, Chiyoda-machi 2chome 8-14)
MASUDA Hirofumi
Born in 1982. Graduate of the Yokohama College of Arts and Design. After being based in Yokohama, he moved his base of activity to Ishinomaki. He researches specific communities, areas and countries to search and dig up “something” that is buried under daily life. To that end, he recently focuses on daily home cooking and fosters the dining room project which he carries out by cooperating with local people until realization regardless of the medium. His main works include the “Daikanyama Shokudo Project/Daikanyama Installation 2011” (Tokyo) in 2011, the “Kogane Shokudo Project/Koganecho Bazaar 2011” (Yokohama) in 2011, and the “Treasure Hill Artist Village Public Art Project” (寶藏巖国際芸術村/Taipei, Taiwan) in 2010-2011.
Fernando Garcia Dory
Born in Madrid in 1978, he studied plastic arts and rural sociology. He performed his activities as an artist and agro-ecologist, traveling around mountain villages in Madrid, Berlin, and northern Spain. His art questions the relationship between culture and nature and it raises questions about landscapes, farming villages, and human desire and anticipation. These themes are related to identity, danger in nature and society, and something resembling utopia, and his recent project is suggestive of neo-pastoralism (new lifestyle of livestock farming and shepherding).
