We have released an interview video with artists HIWA Kazuhiko and TIMINAGA Atsuya, who are exhibiting at Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival / EXPO PUBLIC ART (located at the Osaka Kansai Expo site), on our YouTube channel.

Please take a look at the thoughts and concepts that went into the work.

■Artist Interview with HIWA Kazuhiko

HIWA Kazuhiko

Born in Osaka. He creates video works and performances exploring themes of physicality. His HIWADROME series, which uses wheelchairs—both as a material and for his own mobility—serves as a foundational line of his practice.
Through travel, workshops, and architectural interventions, he examines and proposes new perspectives on mobility and accessibility in his project walkingpractice™. He also develops TRAIL by walkingpractice™, a road-surface recording project using a wheelchair weaving machine, and experimental noise sound gigs featuring the Electric Wheelchair Sound Generator.

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■Artist Interview with TIMINAGA Atsuya 

TIMINAGA Atsuya

Born 1961 in Osaka City, Osaka, Japan. 1986 graduated from Kanazawa College of Art, and began working at Nose Black Granite Quarry (Toyono-gun, Osaka). In 1997, he received a grant from the Pola Art Foundation to stay and work in Italy (~1998). 2013: Started Love Stone Project in various places in the world. He won the Grand Prize at the 25th UBE Biennale (Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Exhibition) and has held solo exhibitions in Japan and abroad. From 2021, Love Stone Project-Nagano will be held at Nagano Prefectural Museum of Art.

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