Cecilia Ramirez Corzo Robledo

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Cecilia Ramirez Corzo Robledo

Participating Project	Research Residency Program
Activity Based	Mexico
Period	2011.7 - 2011.9

Purpose of the residency

The opportunity offered by Tokyo Wonder Site Research Residency Programme reaches beyond the artistic development. By inviting international artists, the cultural exchange becomes so rich for both the foreigner and the locals. The experience becomes richer because of the contact with other disciplines like music and performing arts. During my stay at TWS, I would like to bring into the Tokyo-Japanese context my creative process. Combine and hybridise; merge together with the local context in all its forms in order to develop a local project with a foreign approach and understanding of Japanese Art and Culture, specifically with Tokyo's. The main purpose in the creative process is to try and create a different perspective of a common Tokyo space/situation making a slight change to it and recording this change with the use of photography. The overall main purpose to participate at TWS is to be part and exchange artistic experiences in this melting pot that is Tokyo Wonder Site. Be part of Tokyo's artistic, cultural connection between different disciplines and different creators.

Plan during the residency

I would like to direct my approach on some contrasting aspects of Tokyo's landscapes and how they have behaved through time: old, modern and contemporary Tokyo. How the city has adapted its growth and how citizens have adapted to it in parallel. Citizens might be so immersed in this constantly changing organism, that either they don't realise it or is something so natural that they live in it without questioning their domestic and urban landscapes. The city will become my studio. I will be choosing different locations. I will visit each location and make a temporary intervention that can change an ordinary, familiar space even just for a very short time. Record each intervention through photography or video. I would like to compile the photographic documentation into a booklet containing the reconstructed images of these multiple common sites. Eventually the compilation of these images can reach people of various distant points of the city and interconnect the distances through visual relations of spaces of the city. A sample booklet that could work as a local 'travel' guide.

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