Tokyo No Hate
Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber
BöhmKobayashi
English
Softcover
72 pages
200 x 280 mm
2017
A photographic exploration of the Japanese pop world and subculture Since they first traveled to Japan together in 2005, this country has been the key focus of the joint work of Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber. The two photographers have been tracing the excesses in the country’s subculture and pop scene and the pressures in Japanese society, while also seeking to explore urban structures and the interrelation between architectural and social barriers. Their photography is not about capturing a single image. Stuke and Sieber work in series and sequences. They create layers and mix materials, they take pictures of computer screens and posters, they construct a whole set of images and constellations, depicting various motifs with different media and equipment. The result has little to do with the traditional iconography of Japanese tea ceremonies and rock gardens. Stuke and Sieber are not interested in noble or nostalgic settings. In their photo series and compositions, Japan emerges as a country of tarmac roads and sidewalks, of power lines and garage doors, a country of flickering TV screens and virtual realities.
About the Artist
Together with Oliver Sieber they cover a broad spectrum of identities: Photographer and artist, curator and initiator of exhibitions, designer and publisher of artist books. Through their work and their mediation activities, they have long since become moderators of a particular photographic culture. Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have become global travelers in the field of photography, more on the road than at home in their Düsseldorf studio. They reveal the many faces as well as the increasingly migrating image forms and modes of presentation of the media.
Since 2005 they have worked regularly abroad in artist residencies in Osaka, Tokyo, Cité International des Arts Paris, Chicago, Rotterdam, Chongqing, Sarajevo or Toronto among others.
Katja Stuke, born 1968, is a German photographer. She studied from 1988 to 1993 she studied visual communication in Dusseldorf, specializing in typography, photography / film. From 1993 to 1998 she worked for Michael Schirner. Together with Oliver Sieber, with whom she forms an artist couple and runs a joint studio in Düsseldorf, she publishes the photography project Frau Böhm, which developed into Böhm / Kobayashi.
https://katjastuke.de/
(source: https://katjastuke.de/about/)
About the Publisher
BöhmKobayashi is Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber who cover an extensive range of personas: photographers and artists, curators and exhibition organizers, designers and art book editors. Yet as they move through their photographic cosmos, it is not always so easy to determine where one identity ends and the other begins. Regardless, in their works and activities as artists and art facilitators they have long since become moderators of a very specific photographic culture.
boehmkobayashi.de
(source: https://boehmkobayashi.de/about/)
