OKA Miyuki

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OKA Miyuki

Participating Project	Local Emerging Creator Residency Program
Activity Based	Hokkaido
City / Place stayed	Tokyo
Period	2026.1- 2026.3

Purpose of the residency

In this program, I plan to use a series of bombings that occurred in Japan in the 1970s as an entry point for exploring new relations between land, individuals, time, and place through research and artistic experimentation. These incidents are often framed within political and historical narratives, but I aim to reconfigure them by intersecting them with other systems of knowledge—such as soil science, geography, and technological perspectives. This cross-reading will serve as a way to reconsider the relationship between people and land from a contemporary viewpoint. During my stay, I will focus on collecting and organizing materials related to the incidents and observing and documenting urban spaces mainly in Tokyo.

Plan during the residency

•Visit facilities that hold materials related to the incident, and search for records such as videos, photographs, audio, documents, and physical objects.
•Visit the actual site involved in the incident, observe its current condition, and record it through video, photography, audio, or sketches.
• Research the land connected to the incident from geographical or technological perspectives, and collect diagrams and numerical data.
• I hope to reach out to scholars and others who study the Sanya area, and ask them to share their insights from a historical perspective.
• Determine an organizing framework based on the materials, media and experiences obtained through the activities above, and reassemble them into a work (such as an installation, video piece, or instruction-based work).

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