Kurochosha | New publication information “WORKSIGHT No. 25 Towards Asia” published on November 13th!

Kurochorisha Co., Ltd. press release (2024.11.12) Kurochosha Co., Ltd. [Kurochosha | New publication information] “WORKSIGHT No. 25 Towards Asia” published on November 13th! The latest issue of the print version of “WORKSIGHT” has a special feature on Asia! A fumbling exploration of Asia with Go Kurosawa of Guruguru Brain/Geometric Patterns as a guest editor. Image
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Photo by Leo Arimoto KOKUYO’s own media, WORKSIGHT, has been exploring the future of autonomous and collaborative societies, focusing on weekly newsletters. On November 13th (Wednesday), we will publish the latest print issue, “WORKSIGHT No. 25 Towards Asia”. For more than 100 years, Japan has shaped its society by looking far away at Europe and America and incorporating their culture. However, times are changing, and new cultural trends are emerging from Asia. In this special feature, we welcome guest editor Go Kurosawa of Guruguru Brain/Geometric Pattern, a group based in Rotterdam, Netherlands that disseminates Asian music, to explore Asia, where new cultures are thriving. A conversation between Go kurosawa and TaiTan (Dos Monos), who are active in Japan, Asia, Europe and America, interviews with five front runners who have pioneered a new culture, including Eastern Margins and Yellow Fang, and Terayama spreading in China. The “Asia Special Feature” includes information on the Shuji, Tadanori Yokoo, and YMO booms, as well as introductions to notable indie publishers and up-and-coming psychedelic creators. Please enjoy it. Table of contents ○ new asian psychedelics Selection=Go Kurosawa Asia is strengthening its presence as a center of culture. The new art that is born there is a psychedelic chaos that cannot be categorized by conventional Western values ​​and aesthetics. A glimpse of new Asian creativity introduced by Go Kurosawa of Guruguru Brain, a label based in Rotterdam that disseminates Asian music. ○ Foreword: A story that does not converge into one story Text = Shotaro Yamashita (editor-in-chief of this magazine) ○ Asia’s side Conversation: TaiTan (Dos Monos) x Go Kurosawa (Guruguru Brain) For the past 150 years, Japan has looked far away at the West and adopted its culture to form its own society. The situation is changing little by little, and every day I am witnessing a new culture emerge in Asia right before my eyes. How to look at “Asia” as considered by two artists who work in Japan, Asia, Europe, and America. ○ Dawn of Eastern Youth Eastern Margins／bie Records／Yellow Fang／Orange Cliff Records／Yao Jui-Chung At a time when global culture, in which the West once boasted tremendous influence, is becoming decentralized and multipolar, a new cultural trend may be emerging from Asia. We asked five groups of front runners who have had a front row seat to the changes in Asia and are pioneering new ways of culture. ○ Beijing’s Indy Bancho appears in Asagaya An alternative community spreading from mogumogu Asagaya mogumogu is a Chinese indie music shop/live house that opened in 2023 in the area where Yasunari Kawabata and others settled and formed Asagaya Writers’ Village about 100 years ago. China, Japan, and even the world. An indie and alternative network that spreads with a homely atmosphere. ○ Dirt-Roots Collective connected through soccer Soccer is a common culture around the world. However, the local communities that fueled the “football culture” at the grassroots level were divided and isolated. However, in recent years, communities centered around creators have begun to connect across borders. “Dirt-Roots” is a pan-Asian football culture platform launched by the Japanese football culture magazine “SHUKYU Magazine” with friends from Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, and China. How is it born and how does it grow? We asked Takashi Ogami, editor-in-chief of SHUKYU Magazine. ○ Independent editorials of Asian designers Asian designers are stepping beyond “design” into the realm of publishing and editing. The challenge of 10 indie publishers finding new possibilities in the analog form of expression called “books.” ○ Terayama Yokoo YMO Japanese
underground/subculture loved in China The “underground” literature, art, movies, and music from the 1960s to 1980s, when the cultural powerhouse Japan was at its peak, is currently attracting a lot of attention among young Chinese creators and editors. Why are they fascinated by cultural icons that represent postwar Japan, such as Shuji Terayama, Tadanori Yokoo, and YMO? The interview was conducted by a Japanese editor who has lived in Shanghai for eight years and also publishes his own books in China. ○ Book Guide: A Hundred Years of Wandering: A chronicle of books written by travelers in Asia Over the course of a century, Japanese people have visited Asian lands, understood (or thought they had) something, and passed on their knowledge. Japan also exists as a target of attention from overseas. Travel, work, research, war… there are many different reasons to visit. Just when you think you have it, Asia slips through your hands, and at least 60 books will help you reach its tail. ○ lost in reality MOTE’s Asian Club Drift 2018/2024 In 2018, editor Toshihiro Ishigami stepped into Asian club culture after reporting for a magazine’s Asia feature, and before he knew it, he had become a DJ himself, sinking deep into its depths. . This club is a local, obscene, different world that stands out from the “culture” in capital letters. Relying on their feelings of helplessness and aimlessness, they discovered the unknown reality of Asia that they could not enter.
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/52157/26/52157-26-494350fc34f8feb8d8955d97281af3b9-1844×2700.jpg Book title: “WORKSIGHT No. 25 Towards Asia” Editing: WORKSIGHT Editorial Department (Yokoku Institute Kurochorisha) ISBN: 978-4-7615-0932-3 Art direction: Hiromi Fujita (FUJITA LLC.) Publication date: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 Publisher: KOKUYO Co., Ltd. Publisher: Gakugei Publishing Co., Ltd. Format: A5 variant/128 pages List price: 1800 yen tax Click here to purchase.
https://book.gakugei-pub.co.jp/gakugei-book/9784761509323/ WORKSIGHT This media explores themes and keywords that can serve as important guidelines for thinking about society in the future, based on KOKUYO’s ideal image of an autonomous and
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