SACHI MIYACHI
photo: work in progress in the Chapel
www.sachimiyachi.com
Sachi Miyachi is a performance and installation artist who was invited by the Virtual Museum Zuidas to participate in the Zuidas Free Spaces AIR 2010.
Sachi Miyachi was born in Japan and among other things studied anthropology, philosophy and art at the Wako University in Tokyo. In 2004 she came to the Netherlands and studied at the VAV (Formerly Audiovisual) Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she graduated in 2007. She subsequently followed a two-year program at the Sandberg Institute for her master's degree. In 2007 she won the AIAS (International Association of Independent Art and Design Schools) Prize of Honour.
Miyachi makes sensitive drawings and installations that in various ways are often constructions for ‘forgotten memories’. Miyachi investigates what she encounters in her immediate surroundings, and like an archaeologist searches for useful historical data in order to tell a story about (urban) change and identity. In addition, rituals and daily routines are an important part of her performances.
Results of the Residency: ‘The Field – an exercise to be an optimist’
During her stay in the Zuidas, it became clear to Sachi Miyachi what sort of effect this completely new urban landscape had on her. In this publication she describes and illustrates a series of ideas, associations and fantasies about ways of ‘humanizing’ the Zuidas. The present area, dominated by high-tech architecture, is the sort of place that turns up all over the world and gives her an anxious and extremely uneasy feeling. Aware that she is not the only one who has this reaction and that she must find a strategy in order to conquer the fear and unease, she finds that frankness, humour and fantasy offer the (only) solution.
As a follow-up to this series of ideas, Sachi Miyachi decided to literally drive away her negative feelings by building a surrealistic 'golf course' for the exhibition in the Kapel.
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