{"id":973,"date":"2021-04-29T04:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ongoing.jp\/en\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=973"},"modified":"2024-04-23T01:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T16:04:01","slug":"yuhei-higashikata","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.ongoing.jp\/en\/artist\/yuhei-higashikata\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuhei Higashikata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HIGASHIKATA Yuhei was born in 1982 in Sapporo, Japan and has been residing in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture since April 2017.<br>He completed his Ph.D. at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media, where he honed his expertise in contemporary art practice and theory in 2022.<br>Renowned for his multidisciplinary approach to art, HIGASHIKATA engages in installations, performances, and community-engaging projects. His style of intervention utilizes a humorous approach to highlight imbalances and contradictions within the social system, often employing &#8220;play&#8221; as a cue.<br>Since 2017, he has spearheaded his own artist residency program &#8216;AIR-H&#8217;, playing a main role in planning and managing artist-in-residence initiatives.<br>HIGASHIKATA further enriched his international experience as a research fellow in the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan&#8217;s Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists. He conducted research and project at THEN Cafe and Hue University of Arts in Vietnam in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3555,"template":"","character":[46],"class_list":["post-973","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","character-y-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ongoing.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ongoing.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ongoing.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ongoing.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ongoing.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"character","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ongoing.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/character?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}