Shin Egashira is an artist, architect and educator based in London.
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flat elephant
In this installation, we wished to make an elephant walk around the Space R. It is a surface representation of our city. Its elusive, and expansive body is described by different kinds of technologies. Communication gadgets deliberately left incomplete are combined with float glass, timber beams, pebbles and steel angles that give the elephant its weight. Computers, microcontrollers, industrial motors, speakers and sensors reconstitute its nervous system creating a new set of relationships in the name of City elephant.
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slow box after image
The project was created for the first Tsumari International Art Triennial in 2000 intended to make linkage between 7 towns of Tsumari District. It required the construction of an over-sized camera vehicle (Slow Box) and an archive space…
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koshirakura landscape workshop
In 1996 I held the first architectural summer workshop in Koshirakura village, Japan. This soon became an annual event in the local calendar and coincided with Koshirakura’s traditional Maple Cutting Festival. Participants were drawn from the AA
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suitcase camera slow box #2
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aso aguricultural park
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kahoku cho water bridge
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throw away stone
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yamagata farm conversion
The Yamagata Farming Estate in the Tochigi prefecture was established 100 years ago and now lies in neglected ruins. The aim of this project is to rearrange the existing texture of the landscape by cultivating artworks to form new ground…