Tandem Flight Onagawa video installation and workshop, Japan

Tandem Flight Onagawa, Japan, 2013
Tandem Flight Onagawa, Japan, 2013

In the second flight of the ongoing Tandem Flight project, Marc led a workshop with a group of Onagawa children to draw new monsters to pedal the flying tandem bicycle. The drawings were digitized and animated, and overlaid on fresh footage – the landscape of Onagawa town and surrounding areas. In the original installation of this project, cartoon Flash monsters pedaled a flying bicycle over nighttime Los Angeles.

Children’s Workshop

10:30 am – 3:00 pm
Saturday, 31 August 2013
Town Baseball Stadium Temporary Housing, Onagawa, Japan

Children made fantasy monster paper puppets that were digitally collaged over the video footage, to make the Tandem Flight Onagawa interactive video installation.  There are face holes cut in the video screen and you can be the flying monster! Children who made a monster could then inhabit the installation and be the flying monsters of their own imagination!

Puppet Display

4 to 8 September 2013
Town Baseball Stadium Temporary Housing Exhibition Space, Onagawa, Japan

Video Installation

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
8 September 2013
Baseball Diamond Temporary Housing, Onagawa, Japan

 

Tandem Flight installation monstres flying above a green hill
Tandem Flight
Tandem Flight Onagawa, Japan, 2013
Tandem Flight Onagawa, Japan, 2013
Tandem Flight Onagawa, Japan, 2013
Tandem Flight Onagawa, Japan, 2013
A little Onagawa girl holds a puppet she made in Marc's workshop.
A participant holds the puppet she made that is shown in the photo below and also at the top. Most of the pedaling monsters were drawn by children from Onagawa.

Video animation installation of two children riding a flying tandem bicycle.

Temporary housing residents receive the art they made after the exhibition.
Mai and her multi-headed monsters.

A child's face with purple and blue projected light.

Tandem Flight Onagawa, Japan, 2013

People sitting on benches look at a video projection on a big screen.
Tandem Flight Onagawa, Japan, 2013
Tandem Flight Onagawa
Tandem Flight Onagawa, drawing by Marc Ngui and photography and collage by Magda Wojtyra. Landscape by Onagawa, Japan.
Daily Bravery and Tandem Flight Onagawa monsters installation view inside shipping containers.
Daily Bravery and Tandem Flight Onagawa monsters installation view inside shipping containers.
Daily Bravery and Tandem Flight Onagawa monsters installation view inside shipping containers.
Daily Bravery and Tandem Flight Onagawa monsters installation view inside shipping containers.
Daily Bravery and Tandem Flight Onagawa monsters installation view inside shipping containers.
Daily Bravery and Tandem Flight Onagawa monsters installation view inside shipping containers.
Posing inside art exhibition steel container with organizers and fellow artists
Posing inside art exhibition steel container with organizers and fellow artists
View from behind with children, Tandem Flight Onagawa
View from behind with children, Tandem Flight Onagawa
Tandem Flight Onagawa
Tandem Flight Onagawa
Tandem Flight Onagawa
Tandem Flight Onagawa
Tandem Flight Onagawa
Tandem Flight Onagawa
Tandem Flight Onagawa
Tandem Flight Onagawa

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