[TALK] Mafune Gonjo, Tad Sare

We have held a talking event inviting two residents Mafune Gonjo and Tad Sare.
Mafune makes glass works based in Sweden. She moved to learn in Stockholm from Japan 8 years ago, and made her masterpiece “Contradiction in daily life” in a difficult situation about languages and economics. In her talk, it was positively supposed that she has tried to change troublesome situations by moving and creation whenever she had difficulties. And now she works and travels around various Artist In Residences in the world from experience she noticed AIR can make artists to concentrate completely on creations far from their daily life. Audience seemed to be able feel her toughness as an artist behind her beautiful, fragile glass woks.
On the other hand, Tad creating animation movies in United States talked his experiments while staying in Matsudo. It was about how he got interests in Japanese GIFT culture like wrapping skills, Furoshiki(cloth for wrapping), souvenirs after travel and behaviors to pass gifts each other. In his previous movies, he preferred to show a briefcase as a motif describing mystery so that wrapped gifts are related to this theme in a sense.  After his staying in Matsudo, we have got a new gift he expected to return.
The movie is coming soon on this website.

DATE : Sunday, 12th June, 2016