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CHISOU

2020年から2023年にかけて奈良県立大学を拠点に展開された実践型アートマネジメント人材育成プログラム。「つなぐ」を口実にして、異なる関心や専門性をもったアーティスト、講師、受講者、スタッフが共に学び合うことを通して、分断された知や技術を生活の中に取り戻し、答えのない時代を生きるための創造性を誰もが身につけられる社会の実現を目指す。「CHISOU」には、いくつもの意味が込められている。「地層」のように堆積した地域の歴史・文化を掘り起こし、知識や知恵を育み新たな「知層」を生みだして、「地創(地域創造)」へとつなげていく。馳走、地相、血騒、地奏……、他にもいくつものCHISOUが重層的につながっていく。本プロジェクトの中心的なスタッフによって、2020年には一般社団法人CHISOUを、2023年には合同会社CHISOUを立ち上げ、プロジェクトの理念を引き継ぎながら、芸術文化活動の業務を担っている。

CHISOUの前身には、芸術系の学部・学科のない奈良県立大学を舞台に、2017年から2020年にかけて開催された現代アート展「船/橋 わたす展」がある。毎年学外からアーティストを招聘して作品を展示するほか、西尾ゼミ所属の学生が個々の問題意識を論文以外の方法で表現することを目指して、西尾の指導のもと作品展示やワークショップを行った。

From 2020 to 2023, this practice-based arts management training program was held at Nara Prefectural University. Through artists, instructors, students, and members of staff with different interests and expertise coming together to learn on the pretext of forming connections, the program restores fragmented knowledge and techniques to aspects of lifestyle, aiming to realize a society in which anyone can acquire creativity for living in an age without answers. The program’s name is loaded with multivalent implications that play on Japanese homonyms: excavating the layers of history and culture in a region, nurturing knowledge and insights to cultivate a new intelligentsia, and then linking this to the creation of a region. A feast, topography, excitement, site-specific sounds . . . CHISOU is layered with such meanings. In 2020, CHISOU was incorporated as a general incorporated association by the core members of the project team, and then as a limited liability company in 2023. Carrying on the original principles of the project, it undertakes various roles in arts and culture.

CHISOU’s predecessor was a contemporary art exhibition, FUNA HASHI WATASU (literally, “ship bridge pass over”), held at Nara Prefectural University, which has no art faculty or department, from 2017 to 2020. Along with inviting artists from outside the university to exhibit work each year, it hosted student exhibits and workshops under the guidance of Nishio, aspiring to offer ways for students in his seminar to express their understanding of issues through ways other than writing dissertations.

CHISOU, 2022 | Artist: James Muriuki | Photo by Miyo Ogawa, Courtesy of CHISOU
CHISOU, 2020 | Photo by Akio Chamoto, Courtesy of CHISOU
CHISOU, 2020-2021 | Artist: Daisuke Yamashiro | Photo by Akio Chamoto, Courtesy of CHISOU
CHISOU, 2021 | Artist: listude | Photo by Yayoi Arimoto, Courtesy of CHISOU
CHISOU, 2021 | Artist: listude | Photo by Akio Chamoto, Courtesy of CHISOU
CHISOU, 2021 | Artist: Aki Nagasaka | Photo by Natsumi Kinugasa, Courtesy of CHISOU
CHISOU, 2022 | Artist: Aki Nagasaka | Photo by Natsumi Kinugasa, Courtesy of CHISOU
CHISOU, 2022 | Student’s works | Photo by Natsumi Kinugasa, Courtesy of CHISOU

CHISOU

Director: Yoshinari Nishio

Program manager: Sakiko Nishio

Program coordinator: Yuka Iimura, Tomoko Noda (2020), Sachiko Uchiyama (2021), Asuka Nakashima (2022)

Communication designer: Atsushi Yamamoto

FUNA HASHI WATASU, 2017, Nara Prefectural University, Nara, Japan | Artist: Choi Jeong Hwa | Photo by Chihiro Matsushita
FUNA HASHI WATASU, 2017, Nara Prefectural University, Nara, Japan | Artist: Nobuaki Ito | Photo by Chihiro Matsushita
FUNA HASHI WATASU, 2017, Nara Prefectural University, Nara, Japan | Student’s work | Photo by Chihiro Matsushita
FUNA HASHI WATASU, 2017, Nara Prefectural University, Nara, Japan | Student’s work | Photo by Chihiro Matsushita
FUNA HASHI WATASU, 2018, Nara Prefectural University, Nara, Japan | Artist: Yukari Araki | Photo by Miyo Ogawa
FUNA HASHI WATASU, 2018, Nara Prefectural University, Nara, Japan | Artist: Koichi Mitsuoka | Photo by Miyo Ogawa
FUNA HASHI WATASU, 2021, Nara Prefectural University, Nara, Japan | Artist: Ai Mieda
FUNA HASHI WATASU, 2021, Nara Prefectural University, Nara, Japan | Artist: Gaku Kurokawa