con/text/image
*The gallery will be open for the national holidays on November 23 and December 23.
Introduction
We are pleased to announce Asuka Miyata solo show “con/text/image” at POETIC SCAPE from Nov 23 to Dec 24.
Asuka Miyata has been photographing the captions of artworks at exhibitions as memorandum.
In this work, she applies some adjustmets on the photographic data, such as changing its color into black and white, reducing resolution.
Then she transfers the data into a “converted home use knitting machine”. Finally the data is produced as fabric artwork.
There is a cycle : text which supplies information to artwork is changed into a photograph, transformed into fabric, then we go back to the text again to get information of the artwork.
We look at the context of things and information which is taken over and transformed within the cycle.
Event
Gallery Talk: Asuka Miyata in conversation with Mika Kobayashi (The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo Guest Curator)
Saturday, December 10, 2016 | 18:00–19:30
Venue: POETIC SCAPE
Reservation required (Capacity: 20)
Admission: ¥1,000 (Includes one drink after the talk)
RSVP: To register for the cross-talk, please send your name and the number of participants via email (front-desk@poetic-scape.com) or message us on our Facebook page.
Profile
Born in Nagoya in 1985, Miyata graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School. As a knit and textile artist, he creates works themed around the ambiguity of human memory and the nature of coincidence, utilizing materials such as thread and photography. In addition to his studio practice, he develops workshops and art projects across Japan.
Miyata is the director of “Miyata Knitter,” a knit production studio where he explores the untapped potential of domestic knitting machines—specifically by hacking and modifying discontinued electronic models to create anything imaginable. He is also a dedicated researcher of domestic knitting machine history and technology.
In a unique recognition of his local contributions, he was named an Honorary Citizen of a small village in Southern Germany.