Art Encouragement Newcomer Award of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology げいじゅつせんしょうもんぶかがくだいじんしんじんしょう
Edition 58 (2008)
Winners
10 peopleA work of cultural representation studies that crosses poetry, fiction, photography, architecture, and film to examine the imagination and memory structures generated by cities. It was recognized as criticism that reads the signs and memories of place.
The book reads the city as a poetics where memory and image intersect.
A poetry collection by Emiko Saito that explores voice, distance, the body, and presences behind daily life through the medium-like sensation of radio and the image of the back. It was the work recognized by the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists.
A poetry collection that inscribes the feeling of living between audible voices and unseen backs.
An ensemble film directed by and starring Tetsuman Hirosue. It interweaves the wounds and memories of adults who were once fourteen with boys and girls now living through that unstable age, portraying the suffocation of school and society.
Adults who were once fourteen face children living through that age now.