WELCOME HOME
country
Japan
Year
2004, 2014-2016
2004, Group exhibition, KYOTO ART ANNUAL 2004. "WELCOME HOME", Kyoto.
2014-2016, Fieldwork art, "WELCOME HOME 2", YADOYA(KADOYA studio), Kyoto.
WELCOME HOME
2004 / KYOTO ART ANNUAL /Japan
material : Mixed media
cooperation : Sewing by Chisato Ishikawa
WELCOME HOME2
2014-16 / KADOYA studio(YADOYA) /Japan Fieldwork art
After opening the KADOYA studio in a corner of the house in 2009, the living space was opened as a guesthouse in 2014. During about two years, around 500 travelers stayed my house.
After that, my life of wandering began, and from 2019 I became a traveller myself. I have met people in the towns of various countries and rented rooms.
YADOYA (the old home guest house)
I welcomed travellers every day, talked about all sorts of things over a cup of tea and repeating 'Okaeri (Welcome home)' and 'Itterasshai (Have a good trip)'*. One day I realised that what I was doing at the guesthouse was a continuation of "Welcome home(2004)" works, an installation that never ends.
I shared my daily life with the travelers. I hoped to travelers to enjoy their trip, and also to immerse themselves in local life if they wished. And fortunately, my neighbours were people who enjoyed new encounters and cultural exchanges from abroad. There was a daily 'welcome home' and 'itterasshai', even from the neighbourhood.
*In Japanese families, it is customary to say “Okaeri” when someone returns home and “Itterasshai” when someone leaves.
If KADOYA studio succeeded in being an open place for people to gather, I think it was accelerated in the guesthouse. Neighbours came to meet travellers coming to KADOYA, and travellers enjoyed meeting Kyoto locals, and they were pleased to the opportunity to get a glimpse into our daily lives. From KADOYA the arrow of the traveller's action extended to local businesses in the area, such as a bakery, coffee shop, restaurants, hairdressing salons, and so on. KADOYA had become YADOYA. KADO= corner, YA= shop YADO= inn, YA= shop The approach of practicing art in everyday life from a fieldwork perspective seems to have been more complete in YADOYA. The installation KADOYA studio and YADOYA ended in 2016, after I had the opportunity to go to Switzerland to create a bench version of "ieji -the way home-". Since then, I have been exploring while moving around without a base, and for convenience I decided to name it Fieldwork Art or Itinerant Art.