Nuit Blanche in Kyoto 2022 - Villa Kujoyama honoured for its 30th anniversary

Visitors in the entrance hall of Villa Kujoyama. 

Drum performance "KefuKefu", by Yuko Oshima (2021 resident, music). During her residency at Villa Kujoyama, Yuko Oshima pursued her study of traditional Nagauta music with Japanese masters. 

For this Nuit Blanche, Céline Wright (2021 resident, arts and crafts) designed giant cocoons made of washi paper with organic shapes that become protective shelters, installed at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art. In her studio, she offered visitors the opportunity to discover the making-of this installation. 

Ludivine Gragy's studio (2021 resident, architecture), whose research questions the place of water in the satoyama, which in Japanese designates a landscape in which man and the soil are in close correlation, a cultivated land between sea and mountain in perpetual evolution. 

Johan Després (2020 resident, arts and crafts) proposed to observe the gestures of sakan, Japanese plasterers, and to try their hand at manipulating plaster on media in order to better understand the gestures of the craftsmen. 

Ki-Time is a project to design and build wooden structures in Kyoto as part of a student mobility programme between France and Japan. The pandemic initially forced the project participants to work together online; this year finally saw the realisation of their research, presented by Yosuke Komiyama, professor at the Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University. 

Bruno Botella's "Monnaie de singe" exhibition, curated by Karin Schlageter (2021 resident, art criticism) at the Jasmin store in Gion. This exhibition is the second chapter of her research project entitled "文車妖妃 ・La sorcière des Fuguruma", focusing on the legacies of the vernacular and traditional arts in contemporary creation. 

Discussion between Karin Schlageter and Bruno Botella at Villa Kujoyama about the exhibition "Monnaie de singe". 

Installations "Abri-Cocons!" by Céline Wright at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art. The film Amamizuby Philippe Rouy (2021 resident, cinema) was shown throughout the installation. 

Performance "YÛGO" by Yuko Oshima and Chizuru Kineya at the Kyoto Art Center: a fusion between a traditional Japanese music style, the Nagauta Shamisen, and a contemporary jazz drum accompaniment.