Maker of Experimental Actions
‘The arts have the potential to show that the everyday can be reinvented and that the ordinary is usually extraordinary and that the extraordinary, can become part of or intervene and wonderfully interrupt everyday life.’
Naomi Kashiwagi
(Arts Council England: Achieving great art for everyone: A strategic framework for the art: What can art do?)
Reinventing the everyday and the functions of obsolete technologies has the potential to catalyse liminal experience in everyday life and contribute to the practice of reclaiming the everyday. My practice considers and exploits the fringes of disciplines and genres; the intersections and impacts of visual art, music and language upon one another; and the cyclical nature of obsolescence and technological innovation.
I create verbal/visual puns and tautologies out of existing materials, systems and objects to reveal the ordinary as being inherently extraordinary. I look for unintended conceptual or visual connections between objects, ideas and functions, ritualise repetition and explore the potential of things beyond their prescribed uses. The way I work is also a reflection of my identity, an intrinsic fusion of two cultures, English and Japanese.
I work through reinvention – recycling the redundant, the everyday and that of the established order: reusing obsolete technologies and everyday objects to reveal the curiosities and enchantments of the everyday that are inherently strange. The habitualised nature of everyday life has the potential to be transformed and illuminated by eradicating its everydayness.
Naomi Kashiwagi studied MA Fine Art at Manchester School of Art and MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the University of Manchester. She also studied at the Academy of Art in Venice and Tokyo University of Art and Music. Group exhibitions include The Intertwining Line: Drawing as Subversive Art, Cornerhouse, Manchester; Wind-up, Barbican, London; Unplugged, Herald St Gallery, London; Paperworks: Paper Art in the 21st Century, Bury Art Gallery, and Meeting Point, Axel Lapp Project, Berlin, Progress Reports: art in an era of diversity, Iniva, London. Kashiwagi’s work is published in the book, Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art.
Naomi Kashiwagi
(Arts Council England: Achieving great art for everyone: A strategic framework for the art: What can art do?)
Reinventing the everyday and the functions of obsolete technologies has the potential to catalyse liminal experience in everyday life and contribute to the practice of reclaiming the everyday. My practice considers and exploits the fringes of disciplines and genres; the intersections and impacts of visual art, music and language upon one another; and the cyclical nature of obsolescence and technological innovation.
I create verbal/visual puns and tautologies out of existing materials, systems and objects to reveal the ordinary as being inherently extraordinary. I look for unintended conceptual or visual connections between objects, ideas and functions, ritualise repetition and explore the potential of things beyond their prescribed uses. The way I work is also a reflection of my identity, an intrinsic fusion of two cultures, English and Japanese.
I work through reinvention – recycling the redundant, the everyday and that of the established order: reusing obsolete technologies and everyday objects to reveal the curiosities and enchantments of the everyday that are inherently strange. The habitualised nature of everyday life has the potential to be transformed and illuminated by eradicating its everydayness.
Naomi Kashiwagi studied MA Fine Art at Manchester School of Art and MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the University of Manchester. She also studied at the Academy of Art in Venice and Tokyo University of Art and Music. Group exhibitions include The Intertwining Line: Drawing as Subversive Art, Cornerhouse, Manchester; Wind-up, Barbican, London; Unplugged, Herald St Gallery, London; Paperworks: Paper Art in the 21st Century, Bury Art Gallery, and Meeting Point, Axel Lapp Project, Berlin, Progress Reports: art in an era of diversity, Iniva, London. Kashiwagi’s work is published in the book, Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art.