MURAKAMI Kaoru

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MURAKAMI Kaoru

Participating Project	Exchange Residency Program (Japan-based creators sent abroad)
Activity Base	Tokyo
City / Place stayed	Basel / Atelier Mondial
Period	2025.4 - 2025.6

Purpose of the residency

In this programme, I will research and create artwork on papermaking and printing, taking advantage of Basel’s history and environment as a city of paper and printing. I plan to create an installation that reconsiders papermaking using alternative materials and printing techniques in terms of their emotional value. This work also serves as both a parallel documentation of the process and an experiment in the relationship between technology, human beings and nature in visual representation. Through this experiment, my aim is to find the right means of expression and expand the range of possibilities for future creations.

Plan during the residency

• Research the techniques and history of papermaking and printing at the Basel Paper Mill.
• Research on plants that can be made papers at the University of Basel Botanical Garden. Negotiations to obtain material from the botanical garden, such as weeds. 
• Negotiation of obtaining for herbivore faeces.
• To obtain, make or negotiate to borrow papermaking tools.

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