Junko Wada: Chidori

Junko Wada: Chidori

Editor: Edition A·B·Fischer in cooperation with the House of World Cultures

With contributions in German and English by Bernd Schulz, Volker Straebel, Akio Suzuki and others

Illustrations by Akinbode Akonbiyi and Gerhard Kassner

Hardcover, 160 pages

Including Video-DVD and about 270 colour and Duotone illustrations

ISBN 3-937434-04-6

Available at the shop of the House of World Cultures

Chidori is a small Japanese bird whose swaying flight resembles dancing. This book was published on the occasion of a series of performances that Junko Wada - a Japanese painter, performing artist, and dancer living in Berlin - staged together with another 20 artists: it is a documentation of these same performances, but also of some earlier works. A video-DVD, which highlights last year's activities, is included in the volume.

For about ten years now, Yunko Wada's work has been recorded by African photographer Akinbode Akonbiyi, who is living in Berlin, and Berlin-born Gerhard Kassner, each of them applying his individual point of view. In his foreword Bernd Schulz explains how painting/writing and dance merge. Volker Straebel contextualizes the work of Junko Wada. A very personal text by Akio Suzuki looks back at Wada's origins, and a description of the project as well as some texts about the two photographers complete the text section. The illustrations include some facsimiles of Japanese calligraphies taken from the diaries developed in the project.

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