Kamiyama Artist In Residence (KAIR) Program

Offers visual artists a residency in Kamiyama for a period of about 40 days in early autumn (September?)

Kamiyama? So I did a bit of research on it and found out its exact location: 日本国-四国島-徳島県-名西郡-神山町.. though still pretty confused... My geography is hopeless, all I see is this sushi party platter... Hmmm...

"art-i-japan.com" Survey for International Artists
http://art-i-japan.com/Questions.htm
... The "i" in "art-i-japan.com" stands for information, and eyes (eyes for the arts and the world). The sound "i" also means "love" in Japanese. We hope that "art-i-japan.com" can be a site to send our love to you, all the artists, and the world...

(got this link from Madame Seiko. Danke Seiko)

So when I was tryinf to fill in this questionnaire online the other day I got a bit stuck on the loving-Japan part... I mean.. even spending almost all of my life in the pacific rim, I know virtually nothing about this country... Or simply I am not an international artist!

I've actually never been interested in Japan, though supposedly every Taiwanese is to some degree Japanised -- the overwhelming influence before 1949 and media boom after 1987. Grandpa received Japanese education and witnessed the political turnover -- must had been a bit difficult I guess since I often heard his small complaints on the KMT party from time to time.

In any case I think I really should get to know Asian Art (things happening in Asia, artists from Asia, etc.) more, since in New Zealand, though geographically close, chances of seeing good Asian art are nearly impossible...