2024 ::: An intercultural case study on how we construct our private memories in different societies. With reserachers from both countires we compare and cross examine the methods of storytelling, design and purpose of private photoalbums. Private photo albums are probably the most extensive source material on the pictorial history of the 19th and 20th…

Lecture about the Production of Place and Public Art in Interwar Japan and its Western Influence. Since the sixteenth century onward different methods of public display were established in Japan. Until the transformation of the Western concept of museum, objects were presented in the temporary unveiling of sacred icons called kaichō, the educational displays of…

Taipei 2017 | During a three-month residency, a was able to complete a project on the construction of history and memory of Imperial Japan in Taiwan. This was realised through representative maps that describe the genealogy of history using diagrammatic methods, making the evidence of connections visible. The three mappings were accompanied by an essay…

Taipei 2017 | Exhibition series about Japanese propaganda in the early 20th century. An illustration of commercial construction of memory and the sovereignty of interpretation. Museums are institutions of collecting, preserving and power of interpretation as representative memory places. In constructing identity they deliminate and display the stranger, as well as turning to one’s own culture…

Seoul, Taiwan, Nanjing 2017 | Using the method of intercultural exchange | Museums are institutions of collecting, preserving and power of interpretation as representative memory places. The project compares the visual and audible mediation of museums in different countries on the same issue of Imperial Japan. In constructing identity museums deliminate and display strangness, as…

Mapping Japan by drifting through history. A pictorial foundation which is meant foremost as inventory of components which had a demonstrable impact on the style and life in movement during the investigated time in Japan.Using a psychogeographic approach, lent from Guy Debords Situationists, I drift through an amount of texts and images making notes of…

It started as a coproduction between  Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany in 1937 by Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami. The idea was to make one big propaganda film together which shows the ideologic relation of both nations. The two directors Franck and Itami found little mutual understanding in the production of the film and therefore created two separate versions for…

Hiroshi Ōshima (April 19, 1886 – June 6, 1975) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany before and during World War II. Ōshima’s close relationship with Hitler and Ribbentrop gave him unparalleled access for a foreigner to German war plans and national policy. By the time the Americans began…

Japan 2016 | This project at TOKAS shows the intertwined wartime memories of Japan and Germany. In the work image and translation recall related historical events in a different manner.„Awareness of the suffering that accumulates in a select number of wars happening elsewhere is something constructed. …The understanding of war among people who have not…