Nishiki is essentially a barefoot practitioner who only spent a year in formal education in his entire adulthood. While being based at Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool (2011-2012), Nishiki made a portal to a more just world where "good" people were financially treated better. After obtaining a masters degree from the Center for Cultural Studies (CCS), a department that formerly existed at Goldsmiths, University of London (2013-2014), Nishiki began to be based at an Augmented Reality laboratory in the middle of a mountain (IMDLAB @NAIST, 2015-2016). There, he made a webapp in which money circulated by people dropping and picking up digital coins on the street (prior to Pokémon GO). This project took Nishiki to Rotterdam, at a summer residency at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media during which he connected his coins with free ice creams in the city. After relocating to the Netherlands, Nishiki worked on various projects tweaking supply chains and logistics systems with collaborators from TU Delft.
(UN)MAKING IT HAPPEN – Exhibition + Concept Store
An energy drink made from Japanese knotweed, a smartphone destroyer, and a car made of willow branches—all of it can be seen in the exhibition (un)making it happen.
Through projects by a selection of international artists and designers, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the systems and objects around us. What do we value, and what do we consider worthless?
As part of the exhibition, the (un)making concept store opened in a retail space within walking distance of 38CC.
(un)maker Faire
(un)maker Faire is a new vending practice that stemmed from Maker Faire, a DIY making culture originated by Make Magazine in the US. While they celebrated the power of creativity in amateur people at Maker Faire, (un)maker Faire disseminated the creative avoidance of production. Critical Making was a movement that came between the Maker movement and unmaking, eventually paving the way for (un)making practices.
MSR = HAAG SAEZ (Minamisanriku = Hague Special Art Experiment Zone)
MSR = HAAG SAEZ is an ethereal territory conceived precisely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a world where intercontinental travel has been restricted (now with new reasons), a way to carry on and even go beyond the current paradigm of internationality is sought after. In 2021, two artists Aydee Derix and Piet Verkleij took up summer-autumn residencies in MSR=HAAG SAEZ to produce a new kind of travel experience. It resulted in a PACKAGE (or a kit) with a QR CODE attached to it.