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mulhee

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Made in 1983 Born in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Currently resides in Nagoya. Creates illustrations, music, and animation. On the edge of nursing.
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中島良平

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Yume Nomura

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Born in 1986, he launched She is with Takenaka in 2017 while at CINRA, where he served as editor-in-chief, before going independent together as me and you in 2021. He mainly edits and writes. Co-edited “Me and You: A Collection of Dialogues for a Little Light” and “Diary Correspondence of me and you,” and writes a web series of YUKI FUJISAWA's production diary. She loves her grandmother and knitting. She explores poetic moments in daily life.

Takuya Nagamine

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Born in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. Likes fishing and photography. Lately also likes mountains.
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Mami Hidaka

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Graduated in 2018 from Tama Art University, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Major, and received the prize for excellence in graduation work. Based on his interest in social issues, he conducts research and creates sound and two-dimensional works and installations combining words, etc. In April 2006, as part of his research, he began working with words across domains, including advertising, magazines, books, and television. He plans and writes mainly for cultural media such as the web version of Bijutsu Techo, ARTnewsJAPAN, tattva, and BRUTUS. Major exhibitions include “Tranquil Light, Form of Swimming” (Sta.) in 2020.

OGRE YOU ASSHOLE

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OGRE YOU ASSHOLE is one of the leading live bands of the modern era, attracting many followers with their mellow psychedelia. After a guitar sound that synchronized with 00s US indie, they solidified their reputation with the conceptual trilogy "homely," "100 nen go" and "Paper Craft," which incorporated elements of psychedelic rock and krautrock. At the "FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL," they appeared on the WHITE STAGE (2014) and RED MARQUEE (2022) stages. In September 2024, they released their new album "Shizen to Computer"

Mika Kosugi

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After majoring in Western art history, I worked in a small theater in Tokyo. My favorite glide is "seared ribs x 5". My favorite painters are Georges de La Tour and Leon Spilliart. I am of the school that drizzles olive oil on natto.

Hiroshi Okamoto

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Born in Tokyo in 1990. Graduated from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. While in school, studied sociology and anthropology, and frequently visited Eastern Africa. After graduation, worked for a video production company before going independent. While working mainly in magazines, web media, and advertising, she focuses on the relationship between society and the individual, and creates works that take the social background and social structure as their subject matter, showing them both in Japan and abroad. His work has won the runner-up prize at the Dummy Award Kassel in Germany, been published in overseas magazines such as Foam Magazine in the Netherlands and Le Monde in France, and his photo book “Recruit” was selected as one of the 10 best photo books by Italian Vogue magazine in 2016.

WEB : https://hiroshi-okamoto.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/hiroshi_okamotoo/

Shimanuki Taisuke

#ART #STAGE

Art writer and editor, born 1980 in Kanagawa. Based in Kyoto and Beppu, he also travels to Tokyo, writing, editing, and planning for CINRA.NET, Tokyo Art Beat, Bijutsu Techo, etc. From the fall of 2022, he will hold the performance event "Small Onsen Art Festival Yunoue FOREVER! The second event is scheduled to be held in the fall of 2023.

Tamaki Sugihara

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Writer. I write and interview for art magazines and books. I am currently a regular contributor to artscape's "Hello, Curator? I have also been an external editor of Bijutsu Techo since 2009. He has been an external editor of Bijutsu Techo since 2009, and has been involved in the publication of Daisuke Tsuda and Oriza Hirata's "Nippon no Geijutsu no Yukue: Why Does Art Create Divisions? (Seigensha), and "Kou no Jidai" by Ryuta Ugi (Chim↑Pom) and Osamu Matsuda (Asahi Press).
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https://www.instagram.com/tamakisugihara/
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Rika Tomomatsu

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Born in Gifu Prefecture and currently resides in Tokyo. He is a photographer, filmmaker, and a member of the publishing unit "(TT) press".

Haruya Nakajima

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Born in 1989 in Kanagawa Prefecture. He has been involved in a wide variety of activities as an independent artist, such as contemporary art, writing, and rap music, while engaging with a variety of places and people. Lecturer at "Contemporary Art Kitchen Gate" at the School of Aesthetics. Member of the project team "Nozarashi. Major solo exhibitions include "Breathe Tokyo through your nose and dance" (gallery αM, 2019-2020), curated "SURVIBIA!" (NEWTOWN, 2018), group exhibition "RE : FACTORY" (Terada Warehouse G1 Building, 2023), album "From Insect Cage" (Stag Beat, 2016), and book "Oil on Townscape" (Ronsosha, 2022).

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