Evan JACOBY
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Institutional Recommendation Program
update: 2019.10.7
Evan JACOBY
| Participating Project | Institutional Recommendation Program |
|---|---|
| Activity Based | United States |
| City | Tokyo |
| Period | 2017.1 - 2017.1 |
Purpose of the residency
I intend to get a better understanding of the ways in which Japanese people process disaster and adapt to change. Japanese culture is unique to America's in many ways, such as the type of attachment people feel to each other and to landscape in Japan, and I would like to highlight some of these differences in a way the makes them understandable to non-Japanese audiences. My overall goal is to bring education of the echoing effects of 3/11 , through video art but with a psychological lens, and to humanize aspects of the disaster so that its overarching impacts are more understandable.
Plan during the residency
I intend to visit Fukushima for two days, during which time I intend to interview someone who has been living in the area. I also plan on taking video of the landscape; focussing both on that which changed most and that which changed least over the past 6 years. I also to interview someone in Tokyo who had immigrated from Fukushima or the surrounding area, perhaps also including shots of the landscape here to contrast it to that of Fukushima.
