Ayumi Matsuzaka

née en 1978 à Nagasaki, Japon * vit et travaille à Berlin

résidence n°3 : CP neuf CP #10 CP 11°

www.ayumi-matsuzaka.com

Making invisible things visible

My art projects involve locals and non-art audiences after a thorough study of their habits and environment. The research investigates a mechanism of society. I am especially interested in constituting elements of particular networks and making them visible through experimental art projects. For each project, a unique item (teabags, beans, potatoes, bed-sheets, etc.) is chosen as a catalyst to be used in interactions.

Most of the time, the aim of this interaction is not explained to participants in the beginning. Their acceptance of conditions or their doubts often form a tension between participants and me.

Since 2001, I have involved 50 to 60 participants in each city I worked in. I became more and more interested in people's fundamental capacity to accept floating goals and projects with un-suggested endings. I often felt that some unexpected and authentic action could happen during a long period. Contrary to many people's belief, we carry abilities to build a new kind of hidden network. An invisible community surrounding us can materialize in an unexpected way.

In the Chantier public project, I would like to trust my frequency to receive people's communication behaviors and through an experimental project, people will realize "potato" becomes "gold" in the end.

contact : contact[à]ayumi-matsuzaka.com

CV

2001-2004
Bauhaus-University Weimar: Master of Fine Arts, "Public Art and new artistic strategies"
2002-2003
IUAV(Istitute Universitario Di Architettura Venezia) Venice, Italy
Faculty of Art and Design: Planning and realization of Visual Art / Master program
1997-2001
Nihon University College of Art, Department Broadcasting, Bachelor of Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Award and Scholarship
2006
Artist in residence program at "a little blah blah", Saigon, Vietnam
2005
Artist in residence program at Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2005/6
Graduate scholarship from the state of Thuringia, Germany
2002/3
DAAD-Scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service) for stay in Venice

Exhibitions (selection)
2007
Paula Modersohn-Becker Leben!, Worpswede, Germany
2006
The dream collector, Saigon, Vietnam
2005
Art's Diary Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
Export Heimat AG Tiefseh, Venice, Italy
2004
Transit unfold, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Real Presence Generation2, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Reithaus, Weimar, Germany
2003
VivereVenezia2, 50. Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Theater TV (broadcasting) Japan
2002
Orangerie Schloss Belvedere, Weimar, Germany
Video Dance Festival, Tokyo