International Creative Workshop @ ICC which has been featuring such as Tomato, Rinzen and Airside , is going to host a cutting-edge multi-media workshop with The light Surgeons from the UK.

The Light Surgeons, who have been creating many great audio visual works, is one of the leading teams in early VJ club culture in the UK and also involved in the dawn of world renown digital film festival ‘onedotzero’. This experimental audio visual squad is finally landing in Sapporo! They are going lead this workshop with their unique, longtime cultivated, avant-garde methods.

Seemingly audio & visual means are going to be the main media to be used, however please don’t forget that the basic idea is to have a ‘creative adventure’ together. We ask you to embark on the adventure of making things with your mind, heart and body to the fullest. The technique and craftsmanship may be required, but not more than the desire and sensibility to create and express.

Derived from the famous words ‘ think globally, act locally’, the concept of this workshop is ‘from global imagination to local creation’. Worldly active The Light Surgeons inspires the imagination to bring about the creation within the local Sapporo, Hokkaido.

The theme is going to be ‘local living & global environment’ and ‘between culture and civilization: everyone’s story’.

The contemporary urban milieu seem to push us into the life of alienation and fragmentation more and more everyday. On the other hand, there is the apparent crisis such as drastic climate changes, which we must face and act together in global basis. The workshop wants to tackle the living conundrum under the name of UK-JAPAN collaboration by cutting through the problems with creators eyes and consequently send out the end results to the world.

Let’s have a 10days of creative camp in Sapporo, a northern city of Japan and melt the snow with your passionate creation!

Workshop Details
>Date: 4th – 14th March 2008

>Place: Intercross Creative Centre (ICC)
http://www.icc-jp.com/

>Address: 1-12-1-12, Toyohira, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo city, Hokkaido, Japan
http://www.icc-jp.com/en/access.html

>Work & Exercise:
The final work – the targeted end result will be some audio & visual works led and navigated by The Light Surgeons. However the paths to the goals should be many and varied. That is somehow collaborative using all the five senses. You can bring in your own computer if necessary. Let’s create the process reflecting our lives, which are physical, intellectual, spiritual and organic.

>Fee: 60,000yen - adults
40,000yen - students
First 21 applicants only.
'We send you some briefings a week prior to the workshop.
The preparation for the workshop starts from then on.'
application-form(PDF)

Please fill in the application form and fax or email us.
>contact: Akira Hatsusegawa, Mari Hataya / ICC
Phone：＋81-11-817-8911　e-mail: info@icc-jp.com