The workshop entitled Making (un)making – A General Introduction to (un)made objects by Japanese artist Yoshinari Nishiki a.k.a. Inari is set to take place on Tuesday, 5th September, 6pm in Radiona. The working language is English.
In this workshop, you can learn what (un)making means, where it stands as opposed to the current dominant mode of production, and how you can make your own (un)made object.
The 2 hour-workshop consists of the following parts:
- What (un)making means (including the highlight of 9th International Degrowth Conference) – 30 mins
- Collecting examples of the opposite of (un)making – 20 mins
- Break – 10 mins
- Conceptualizing individual (un)made objects – 60 mins
Apply for the workshop here: https://forms.gle/mBG1w3nQjNoSRF9z6
Free of charge!
About the workshop leader:
Yoshinari Nishiki a.k.a. Inari has always explored unconventional ways of resource circulation. Projects pursued include the infinite multiplication of bananas (Banana Multiplier 2013), a legal train ticket recycling scheme using pigeons (Homing Pigeon Unused Train Ticket Delivery System 2014), a courier-free free transport system (Contingent Cycle Courier 2019), and an energy drink made from waste materials (EROI Drink 2020).
In 2023, Inari developed his art practice into a culminating concept called “(un)making” – an ultimate mode of production where technically no production takes place. He is currently seeking to establish an environmental certificate based on this concept and start his PhD (engineering) on the same subject.
Official bio taken from Monoskop:
Yoshinari Nishiki (JP) is an artist based in Rotterdam. His work explores the entanglement of economics and ecology. He has also been working under the name Inari Wishiki.
Yoshinari is the founder of Technology Of Future Utopia (TOFU). TOFU currently focuses on artistic intervention into logistics and economic systems. In 2018, they moved a potato mountain by cycle food courier service Deliveroo (Overture: Carrying Power – TodaysArt).
Between 2011-2012 Yoshinari was an intern artist/researcher at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool where he developed various projects including Inari Card. In 2014, Yoshinari completed his MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice under Graham Harwood and Matthew Fuller at Goldsmiths, University of London. There he developed projects such as Banana Multiplier and Homing Pigeon Unused Train Ticket Delivery System.
Yoshinari was part of FACT’s 2013 exhibition Time and Motion: Redefining Working Life and presented at its symposium at The Royal College of Art. The subsequent project Ma-po Man was selected to be presented at V&A Digital Futures: Disobedient Objects at The White Building, London in 2014.
Yoshinari also has a background in Augmented Reality, serving as a Web Chair at SUI 2016 – the 4th ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction in Tokyo, and presenting Augmented Tree Climbing at ACE 2016 – the 13th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology in Osaka.
Since 2013 Yoshinari is part of the Bristol-based collective Irational.org.
Publications
- Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, Liverpool University Press, March 2014
- Review of MONEYLAB READER 2: OVERCOMING THE HYPE, Furtherfield, January 2019