SOH Kay Min

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SOH Kay Min

Participating Project	Research Residency Program
Activity Based	London
City / Place stayed	Tokyo
Period	2025.9 - 2025.11

Purpose of the residency

The purpose of participating in the TOKAS residency is to research the lifeworks, legacies, and art historical contexts of the father-daughter artist-scientist duo Nakaya Ukichiro (1900–62) and Nakaya Fujiko (b. 1933). Together their works represent an early link between the mediatisation of the elemental, and the elemental as media. Being in Tokyo as part of the TOKAS program allows me to purposefully research specific aspects of their lifework that took place in the city, such as Ukichiro-san’s founding role in the film production company Iwanami Productions, and Fujiko-san’s founding of Japan’s first video art space Video SCAN in Harajuku.

Plan during the residency

　During the residency, I plan to undertake archival research in the following:
　・Nakaya Ukichiro Archive Foundation and Kagaku Ukan
　・Iwanami Productions Archive – Documentary Film Preservation Centre, University of Tokyo
　・National Film Archive, Japan
　・Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, National Archives of Japan
　・NTT Intercommunication Centre (ICC) Video Archive and Library

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