STAYART PROJECT Edition3 English version

Project LINK / https://camp-fire.jp/projects/view/349359

By sending your avatar to MOGANA, a luxury hotel located near Kyoto Nijo Castle, you will experience a "virtual-stay" by participating in the creation of an artwork by Satoshi Iida, an artist who will stay there. The creation process will be updated on SNS and you can get a collection of works as a result.

Introduction

Hello, my name is Fukao from Stay Art, a company that organizes and manages art events in hotels. I’d like to provide you a kind of ［stay］in hotel even if we can't travel as much as we'd like in these times. For those who want to participate in a new art experience using social networking sites I would like to take you to a slightly different, but never-before-experienced project!

Following the first edition of Setouchi Retreat Seonagi (Ehime, Japan) and the second edition of Hotel Claska (Meguro, Tokyo), the third edition will take place at the hyper-modernist MOGANA, a hotel located near Nijo Castle in Kyoto City, where the aesthetic sense of the architect Takashi Yamaguchi and the owner is crystallized.

Hotel website / https://yadomogana.com

(virtual)accommodation  experiential installation

In this project, participants = guests, their avatars (alter egos) will be placed in the guest room on behalf of the guests. The artist will create their own story and record it in the photos. This time, a flower arrangement by artist Iida will be added to the work.

Why did I decide to do this project

One of the reasons is that I wanted to break this situation it is difficult to go to distant hotels as easily as before, and the other reason is the ongoing expansion of remote work and the new demand in the social networking service and content industry, which led me to this idea.

Past Activities

I had been working as an architect and experienced hotels all over Japan and the world and wanted to spread the attraction of hotels, but I felt that the creation of a building alone was neglecting the actual usage of the building, so I decided to focus my activities on exploring the contents and much more interesting ways of using the hotels.

Previous Results Hotel CLASKA https://note.com/norindia/n/n0c265d7647aa


Artist Profile

Osaka-based florist Satoshi Iida will be the host artist for this project  

His floral designs are unconventional and graceful of course, but also their shapes with his wit and conceptualization have a presence of their own as sculptures. Currently, he is mainly working on floral arrangements for weddings and hotels.

Artist LINK

https://www.instagram.com/iida.satoshi/?hl=ja

twitter.com/satoshiiida4

How to use the funds

Hotel accommodations, fees for the artists, publication and mailing of the book, and administrative personnel costs.

About Returns

1. The artist will place your avatar in the guest room and take some art pictures with the flower arrangement (the artifacts will be provided digitally via email for you only)

2. An art book (an analog collection of the above mentioned photo products)

3. Supporters' names (anonymous or pseudonymous) to the above art books

We are thinking of the above three types.

We have received permission from the hotel to conduct this crowdfunding campaign.

Implementation schedule

〜The guests (participants) will be asked to send their avatar descriptions and photo images by e-mail in advance.

1/11 - 1/15 Avatar pickup reception *The shipping cost is to be paid by the participant to MOGANA.

1/16-17 January 16 to 17 January: Artist lodging, avatar photo shoot, photo shooting on SNS

1/17- Avatar coming home (return)

1/18- Workbook production

March Collection Delivery

As a general rule, you can send only one item though a set of items as playing cards, building blocks, socks, etc is OK.  The size should be within the range of about 20 x 20 x 10 cm. If you have any other questions, please consult with us via email or other means in advance. We do not handle food and other items that cannot be stored or are not solid.

Finally

This is an unprecedented experiment, but I myself think it will be a very meaningful project in society and art. We would be very grateful for your participation and support if you can share in this new accommodation experience and art making！

This project will be implemented in an all-in format. Even if we don't meet the target amount, we will carry out the plan and deliver the return.