TOKYO FRANK

Five art students and a tutor from Nottingham Trent University,UK on a visit to Tokyo. Staging an exhibition in collaboration with students from Musashino Arts University and a performance event. explore what international collaboration is all about. The exhibition is called "Traversing Territories". In March 2006 students from Tokyo are coming to Nottingham to do the same. The start of a long relationship. I`ll tell you all about it and show you the pictures.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

DAY FIVE A Bit of a Lull (before the storm?)

Everybody is off all over the place picking up bits and pieces for the show and failing to meet up at appointed times. Mike sailed past his station 4 times on trains which unaccountably failed to stop. (at least that's why he said he missed my lecture). Then he caught Jemima and Rosie shopping -sorry searching for materials for the show.

Rosie is constructing Tokyo out of cardboard and needs to collect lots of it. Rosie is looking for quiet and neglected spaces to photograph.(PS Tokyo is probably the busiest and most densly packed city in the world)

Johnny, on the fourth time of trying, has at last found his record shop , only to discover the legendary bloke who runs it, his only music contact in Tokyo, is residing in hospital. Still, he is now free to create some inaudible sound through the combination of the positive and the negative.
Emma has been purchasing small motors at the remarkable electronics area of Akihabara-a city of Maplins shops.
The students are starting to look at their meagre reserves of cash. This new technology art does not come cheap.

Clark and Shimizu were looking concerned in the corridor as they tried to shoot their window piece.
Yago wanders around looking for Johnny (lost in Shinjuku station -he cannot find which entrance to leave by)
I've got photos of all this but I have lost my lead to download them onto the blog. I need to go to Akihabara.

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