C Ap Art Museum Case Study
C.A.P. The Conference on Art and Art Projects (Non-profit organization)
C.A.P. was founded in 1994, when eleven artists met up to discuss about an ideal art museum. The ideas were pitched to the city of Kobe, which planned on founding a new art museum by then. A contemporary, unconventional museum was visualised, a vivid space for regional art production and communication, sharply contrasting museums exhibiting representative works by institutionalized artists. Tragically, Kobe was struck by the Hanshin Awaji earthquake in 1995 and all plans were discarded. However, the artists held on to C.A.P. as an active collective to reflect about the relationship of art and society and related issues.
After the earthquake, French artists started an …show more content…
HOUSE was launched. The project with a duration of 190 days took place in a run-down western-style building, established in the 1930’s as Kobe’s immigration centre. The project started with a big public clean-up of the building, both artists and citizens participated. Several small rooms that were originally used to accommodate immigrants now functioned as artist studios and were kept open to the public daily as a distinct feature of the project. Many exhibitions and workshops evolved. The C.A.P. HOUSE project fuelled the further development of the growing collective.
As a result of C.A.P. HOUSE, the city of Kobe asked C.A.P. to continue their residency at the immigration centre. Furthermore, the city of Kobe established a documentation centre of Japanese immigration policy on the first floor. The collective then moved within the building and became a registered non-profit organisation to sign a residency contract. C.A.P. HOUSE was continued until 2007.
Since 2009, after a one-year long renovation process, the former immigration centre is a joint venture project, entitled Kobe Centre for Overseas Migration and Cultural Interaction, including a museum for Japanese immigration policy as well as a support centre for local citizens. C.A.P. officially functions as an international artist exchange forum and moreover pursues an open studio concept under the name of KOBE STUDIO Y3, with biannually changing artists in
C.A.P. was founded in 1994, when eleven artists met up to discuss about an ideal art museum. The ideas were pitched to the city of Kobe, which planned on founding a new art museum by then. A contemporary, unconventional museum was visualised, a vivid space for regional art production and communication, sharply contrasting museums exhibiting representative works by institutionalized artists. Tragically, Kobe was struck by the Hanshin Awaji earthquake in 1995 and all plans were discarded. However, the artists held on to C.A.P. as an active collective to reflect about the relationship of art and society and related issues.
After the earthquake, French artists started an …show more content…
HOUSE was launched. The project with a duration of 190 days took place in a run-down western-style building, established in the 1930’s as Kobe’s immigration centre. The project started with a big public clean-up of the building, both artists and citizens participated. Several small rooms that were originally used to accommodate immigrants now functioned as artist studios and were kept open to the public daily as a distinct feature of the project. Many exhibitions and workshops evolved. The C.A.P. HOUSE project fuelled the further development of the growing collective.
As a result of C.A.P. HOUSE, the city of Kobe asked C.A.P. to continue their residency at the immigration centre. Furthermore, the city of Kobe established a documentation centre of Japanese immigration policy on the first floor. The collective then moved within the building and became a registered non-profit organisation to sign a residency contract. C.A.P. HOUSE was continued until 2007.
Since 2009, after a one-year long renovation process, the former immigration centre is a joint venture project, entitled Kobe Centre for Overseas Migration and Cultural Interaction, including a museum for Japanese immigration policy as well as a support centre for local citizens. C.A.P. officially functions as an international artist exchange forum and moreover pursues an open studio concept under the name of KOBE STUDIO Y3, with biannually changing artists in