ALFAVILNIUS. . . . . . . . . Blogasis Alfavilio miestas-dvynys The evil twin city of Alphaville

Exterior decoration and shortened title of adults education centre on the suburbs of Alfavilnius. There’s a plan to shoot a documentary film inside.

LETTERS, SEND & RECEIVED. TOKYO VOLUME
The Book As The Platform Of Meetings.
Preparations Of Curating The Exhibition In A Form Of A Book.

Project “LETTERS, SEND & RECEIVED: TOKYO VOLUME” may be conceived as the preparations of curating the exhibition in a form of a book. The content of the book would be prepared from cultural research of Tokyo, reel and imaginary meetings with Tokyo insiders and outsiders: local and international artists, theoreticians, philosophers, writers, designers, city dwellers, etc. The final result, depending on the process of the project may end up in public meetings, lectures, exhibition, book, website, or even in all mentioned forms.

Therefore I have to stress that this project is curatorial and collaborative project: the artists, photographers, writers, designers or active and creative city citizens, I would meet or would be interested by the idea, would be a part of correspondences, which would define Tokyo city.
There are few inspirations that inspired the project LETTERS, SEND & RECEIVED: TOKYO VOLUME:
• The project by Alexandra Mir, who took a map of metropolitan Tokyo, where the streets have no names, and superimposed names upon it based on suggestions from friends and fellow artists including Matthieu Laurette, Jeremy Deller, Nicolas Bourriaud, etc… Her idea is based on the fact that Westerners often complain that Tokyo has no street names and that you can’t find your way around without a guide who innately knows the logic of his own city. The new fictional Tokyo was born.
• Stretching the genre of documentary the movie, the experimental film of fictional letters by Chris Marker SANS SOLEIL is a rich composition of thoughts, images and scenes.
• The so called “typical” knowledge and stereotypes of what is meant to be Japan and what is Japanese and how the idea of Tokyo is conceived and imagined by people who have never been in Tokyo.
• The unexpected - surprises, people, new acquaintances, coincidences and other inspirational experiences I am going to meet or receive during my visit in Tokyo.

From my residences experiences I know that by staying in residency you always meet new people, you communicate with someone by email, phone, skype, etc, by making inquires into history of the city and explaining it to yourself and to others. Communication with new, strange and already familiar is the daily basis for a residence. That’s why I am completely positive that this project would be an interesting and meaningful activity by which new, both fictional and real relationships between insiders and outsiders of Tokyo would be established.
After you complete this residency program, how you can contribute the activities of Tokyo Wonder Site Exchange with other artists and citizens, debriefing session, workshop, etc (200 words)

As this project is curatorial and collaborative: the artists, photographers, writers, designers or active and creative city citizens, I would meet or would be interested by the idea, would be a part of correspondences, which would define Tokyo city.

As project “LETTERS, SEND & RECEIVED: TOKYO VOLUME” may be conceived as the preparations of curating the exhibition in a form of a book, and the content of the book would be prepared from cultural research of Tokyo, reel and imaginary meetings with Tokyo insiders and outsiders: local and international artists, theoreticians, philosophers, writers, designers, city dwellers, etc, so the final result, depending on the process of the project, may end up in public meetings, lectures, screenings, exhibition, book, website, or even in all mentioned forms.

http://www.lux.org.uk/touring/lamelas.htm

http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

thanks to Darius for a link

http://www.bittercinema.com/2005/01/godard-on-monster-movies.html