Strata of Colours: The World of DOROZOME (mud-dyeing)
Thursday, 4 August 2022 19:00〜20:30
Gallery Research! Design with Fascinating Processes Talk Event
‘Strata of Colours: The World of DOROZOME (mud-dyeing)’
“Craft Portrait” (Satomi Minoshima + Pauline Agustoni) is an installation that presents the process of DOROZOME mud-dyeing, a traditional craft on Amami Oshima Island, and best known for producing the true “black” colour of Oshima Tsumugi fabric. The two designers, Minoshima and Agustoni, and Yukihito Kanai from KANAIKOUGEI, a historic mud-dying workshop using only natural materials, will talk about the profound world of DOROZOME mud-dying, its charm, and the technique used to obtain its unique “black” shade requiring more than 85 dying processes.
Date and Time
Thursday, 4 August 2022 19:00〜20:30
Capacity
15-20 participants (and streaming online)
Admission fee
Free
Speaker
Satomi Minoshima + Pauline Agustoni, Yukihito Kanai (KANAIKOUGEI)
Moderator
Tsuchida Takahiro（Writer/Design Journalist)**Japanese/English consecutive interpretation available
Satomi Minoshima（1989、Japan）/ Pauline Agustoni（1996、Switzerland）
They met during their studies at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Allying Satomi’s sensitivity towards graphics and materials and Pauline’s hands-on approach and research skills, they developed a unique way of working that is based on understanding and expressing a subject from the inside. The simultaneously raw and subtle expression of their research and findings into their original creations questions their audience and places gathered knowledge at the center.
Satomi Minoshima Website：www.satomiminoshima.com
Pauline Agustoni Website：www.paulineagustoni.com
Yukihito Kanai (KANAIKOUGEI)
KANAIKOUGEI is a handicraft workshop that inherited the mud-dyeing techniques handed down on the Amami Oshima island to the present day. Not limited by the boundaries of thier traditional craft, they create possibilities and unique expressions of natural dyeing in a variety of fields.
Takahiro Tsuchiya