In 2018, an intensive teaching and learning project has been initiated through an ongoing partnership between Central Saint Martins and the Tokyo University of the Arts. The project took place across three cities - London, Tokyo and Hong Kong - and centred research on the complexity of cultural practices and identities emerging from contemporary city life. Through active and speculative research methods, participants were encouraged to create points of enquiry within the histories and identities of the people they met and the places they were occupying. The experience aimed at contributing to fresh observations and propositions and the possibility to produce different kinds of data, and means of representation and dialogue. 

A series of exhibition, talks, events made the project visible in London, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Embracing Borders

group exhibition at Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo - featuring the work of Nanaka Adachi, Abraham Benjumea Ariza, Lee Jeunne, Koji Kato, Hikari Katsumata, Nami Kuroiwa, Yingqian Zhuang, Vanessa Tong

RE: mind the GAP

participatory event at HART Haus, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong - live artworks run by each artist in response to our experiences in the UK, Japan, Hong Kong. The event included a collaborative exercise in mapping through collage, a mock visa application performance/procedure which was completed by each attendee upon entering the event, a series of guest talks by three Hong Kong artists, an interactive sound work exploring 'emotional borders', and various sculptures, installations, videos, paintings and murals throughout the space.