14.Uka Lion – Star-embroidered Boat, Galaxy Lion Dance
Nobuyuki Sugihara × Ayaka Nakamura（Japan）
A unit comprised of hat maker Ayaka Nakamura, whose work is connected to everyday life, and artist Nobuyuki Sugihara. We shape forms that embody the spirit of the land by piecing together fragments of its memory and perform improvised dance rituals inspired by this act of creation. By inheriting the culture of the land and reviving the rich spirituality and physicality that existed before the separation of life and art, we seek to evoke a culture where life and beauty exist together.
Art Details
- Art Number：14
- Year of Production：2024
- Exhibition Period：August 11 (Sun) , 2024 - November 10 (Sun) Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesday (excludes national holidays)
- Admission Fee：¥0
Venue & Access
- Location：Atsuta Shrine
- Opening Hours：August-September: 10:00-17:00,October-November: 10:00-16:00
- Closed：Same as exhibition hall
- Parking：Parking lot available
Nobuyuki Sugihara × Ayaka Nakamura
2024
2024 Taiwan East Coast Land Arts Festival (Baishoulian Sightseeing Park, Taiwan)
Pier-2 Artist in Residence (The Pier2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
2023
Akaragashira (Nara Historical, Art and Cultural Village AIR, Nara)
Path of the Ancestors（Museum of Asian Art, Kuala Lumpur）
2022
RESS Midterms（SMU Suantio Gallery, Singapore）
Enburi Festival Hat, Eburisuri (The Hachinohe Portal Museum “hacchi”, Aomori)
Weaving a Void (Subsidy Scheme for Young Creatives at Zuiun-an, Kyoto)
Shikanbou and Shikamai (Unmanned Station Art Festival / Oigawa 2022, Shizuoka)
Makiwara Ship (Fan De Nagoya Art Exhibition 2022, Nagoya Citizens' Gallery Yada )
2021
The Kotatsu of Boro – The Lion Dance Cloth (Takamatsu Artist in Residence 2021, Kagawa)
Jomon Pilgrimage 2021 (Tsuruta History & Culture Museum, Aomori)
2020
2020 Taiwan East Coast Land Arts Festival (Taitung, Taiwan)
YUI-PORT Artist in Residence Invitation Program 2020 Autumn (Niigata)
2019
Winner of the Excellence Prize at the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2019 Art Competition (Tokyo)
Cheng Long Wetland International Environmental Art Project (Yunlin, Taiwan)
Nobuyuki Sugihara
1980 Born in Nagano Prefecture and raised in Tokyo
2002 Studied as an auditor under A.R. Penck at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in Germany for one year.
2007 Completed a Master’s Program in Oil Painting at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
2010 Art director of the SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival
2016 Founder and Chairman of the NPO Primitive Sense Company
2023
Commissioned work (Suntory Tennensui Northern Alps Shinano Forest Factory, Nagano)
Research on Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Taiwan (research in Canada funded by the Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation Domestic Conference Grant)
2022
One year of research on Indigenous peoples (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia), the Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs
Commissioned work (Setsu Niseko)
2021
The Northern Alps Art Festival 2020-21 (Aokiko, Nagano)
2020
Taiwan Lantern Festival in Taichung (Taiwan)
2019-20
Six months of research on Indigenous culture in Taiwan, ACC (Asian Cultural Council) fellowship
Fresh Winds (funded by the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation, Iceland)
2019
Art Festival on the Slope 2019 (Linhousilin Forest Park, Taiwan)
Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennale (Taiwan)
Tobiu Art Festival 2019 (Hokkaido)
Art Bridge on Kasaoka Islands 2019 (Takashima, Okayama)
2018
Green Residence (Recife, Brazil)
Forest Art Path - Art Ecology (Darmstadt, Germany)
The Ship of Scales - Weaving Myth (ArtMeGo AIR, Taiwan)
Guandu International Nature Art Festival (Guandu Nature Park, Taiwan)
The Story of the Village of Tono (Tono school performance stage art, to know AIR, Iwate)
2017-18
Yangmin Mountain Bamboo Lake International Environmental Art and Pith Paper Revival Project AIR (Taipei)
2017
AIR in Tainan (Tsung-Yeh Artist Village, Taiwan)
Rokko Meets Art 2017 (Rokko Alpine Botanical Garden, Hyogo)
Northern Alps Art Festival (Omachi, Nagano)
2016
Setouchi Triennale 2016（Soko Labo, Awashima Maritime Museum, Kagawa)
The Stone Project (funded by the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation, Sweden)
2016-17 Art Bridge on Kasaoka Islands (Shiraishi Island, Okayama)
2014-17 Instructor for the Spatial Art Course at Omachi Winter University of the Arts (Nagano)
2012
Awashima AIR 2012/spring (Kagawa)
Jara Island International Baggat Art Exhibition (Korea)
2011-12 Stone Circle Festival ( Oyama Furusato Museum, Komakino Remains, Aomori)
2010-12 Aizu - Urushi Art Festival (Kaei-warehouse, Aizu, Nijukken-warehouse, Kitakata)
2010-23 Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival (Kizakiko, Nagano)
Ayaka Nakamura
1982 Born in Okinawa, lived by the sea until age three, moved to Nagano, grew up surrounded by mountains
2004 Graduated from Shinshu University, Faculty of Agriculture
2008 Started hat-making (self-taught)
2008-17 Started farming strawberries
2020
The Art of Transformation (Taiwan National Crafts Museum, Taiwan)
Taitung Craft Material Renaissance Project 2020 (Taitung Art Museum, Taiwan)
2018 Craft Fair Matsumoto (Agatanomori, Nagano)
2016-23 Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival (Lake Kizaki, Nagano)