Made in Japan. Extra

Program day: come to design, listen and discuss

Sun, April 28, 2024, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau and Hauptbau

Program

Colored Woodcut Workshop (FULLY BOOKED!)
Mit Baren und Blockpinsel drucken: Du bist die Presse!

Let yourself be introduced to the technique of Japanese colored woodcut printing (jap. Mokuhanga) by the artist Ayako Kyodo. With a lot of sensitivity and color, we print from prepared print blocks with various motifs onto special Japanese paper. You are invited to learn about the Japanese techniques and the differences to European printing methods and to create your individual colored woodcuts.

Times: 11 a.m.–1 p.m. and 2 p.m.–4 p.m.
In collaboration with Ayako Kyodo
Location: Hauptbau, Atelier Education & Mediation
Max. 25 participants
Cost: CHF 10

Special Tour: From Comme des Garçons to Cosplay
Guided tour in German on Fashion and the transformation of the body

This guided tour focuses on fashionable influences from Japan. What silhouette does a kimono form? What attracts us to Japanese minimalism and what about fantastic Manga aesthetics?
With Nils Amadeus Lange and Eva Bühler from the Academy of Art and Design Basel FHNW.

Time: 1 p.m.–2 p.m.
Meeting point: Neubau UG
Cost: Admission + CHF 5

This tour will be offered again on Wednesday, May 15th at 6.30 p.m.

Abundantly alive: Collecting East Asian Art
Guided tour with the curators Hans Bjarne Thomsen and Judith Rauser.

Time: 11a.m.–12 p.m.
Meeting point: Neubau UG
Language: English
Cost: Admission + CHF 5

This tour will be offered again on Wednesday, May 8 at 6.30 p.m.

Presentation: Making the Resistant bigger
In German. The author Friederike Kretzen on her project of a literary approach to Japan.

"Distance, writes Walter Benjamin, is the land of fulfilled wishes. We all know that wishes live from remaining unfulfilled. The situation is similar with distance.
Basho, the famous Japanese haiku poet, writes:
In Kyoto,
hearing the cuckoo,
I long for Kyoto.
Which immediately leads us into the spaces and voids that Japanese art and culture thrive on. For if there is no Kyoto even in Kyoto - which is also Kyoto - then the journey there is one between gaps, all of which are called Kyoto.
His haiku consists of the postponements and multiplications required for the search for distance. A distance that we can only approach to the extent that we are prepared to become distant ourselves.
In my literary approach to Japan, I try to expose myself to precisely this: To get lost from myself and thus perhaps invent another version of myself." (Friederike Kretzen)

Time: 4 p.m.–5 p.m.
Meeting point: Neubau
Cost: Admission + CHF 5