(page9) <> What I’m acutely aware of since visiting welfare facilities is the sense of distance between the existence of the facilities and the local community. For example, when I went for a walk with the facility users, a passer-by didn’t reply when the facility user said hello to them. This might be out of some sense of consideration, but it’s not a reason to cause the sadness felt by the person from the facility at not getting a reply to their “hello.” So together with the facility users I met on this program, we thought about ways in which they and people in society at large could look at one another eye to eye. This was the beginning of the Band Kobo project. It’s all about communicating through expression, just like a band doing a live show. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Daisuke Nagaoka (Artist) From TURN FES 6 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum -Band Kobo statement August 17, 2021 (page10) <> In a world inhabited by deaf and hearing people, I think each group has its own unwritten rules. And at the same time, people have their individual “fluctuations.” “ Fluctuations” lie between regularity and irregularity, so even if you are sharing the same time and moment, perhaps you’re in a parallel world where each person experiences time in a different way. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Yuko Setoguchi (Sign Interpreter) From TURN JOURNAL WINTER 2020−ISSUE 06 February 5, 2021 (page11) <> TURN provides people with the experience of things they’ve never seen or done before, and draws out their abilities. And for the staff members too, we probably wouldn’t have been able to experience interacting with other people from different lines of work or in completely different fields without TURN, so I think it was a great experience for us, and gave us exciting opportunities to see people interacting up close. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Noriko Takada (Staff member, Itabashi-ku Komone Fukushien welfare facility) From an interview with Hiroshi Tamura, RAKUDA STUDIO June 25, 2021 (page12) <> Actually even people with low vision have difficulty reading other peoples’ facial expressions. With very short words or phrases for instance, it’s hard for them to judge from facial expression if something is said with a smile, in anger or in disgust, and I often hear of some being thought of as incapable by others of picking up on a mood or situation. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Satoko Mishina (Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Miyagi University of Education) From the 8th TURN Lab Study Group February 15, 2021 (page13) <> (When I visit Momosan Fureai no Ie,) I don’t think of myself as an artist. I think people have several modes of being. According to them I’m an artist, but if I’d tried to communicate with people at the facility from that perspective only, I wouldn’t have had any success in talking to them. So in my nonartist persona, I came up with a succession of things I wanted to ask or talk about, and spent my time at the facility finding opportunities to talk to the facility users. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Katsuya Ise (Artists / Professor at Joshibi College of Art and Design, Joshibi University of Art and Design) From TURN FES 6 Online Program - MY TURN / YOUR TURN 02 August 18, 2021 (page14) <> Hello, I’m Kanayo Ueda. I thought I wasn’t feeling well because I tightened my *obi sash too much, but instead I just think of it as something that I have to live with. Mr.Kobayashi said earlier that he wanted to“ smooth out the smallness of his existence,” and I think rather than wanting to do something about his pain or the negative aspects of his life and things like that, he meant it in the sense of accepting things as they are. So I’m going to go through today with that mindset, accepting the way things are. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kanayo Ueda (Poet / Founder and Manager of NPO The Room for Full of Voice Words and Hearts “Cocoroom”/ Program Director, Sakai Arts Council) From TURN LAND Harmony - No Charge Cafe 3: In My Brain February 27, 2021 *obi sash - sash for traditional Japanese dress such as Kimono (page15) <> People do not change easily. There are some difficult and painful things regarding how it is considered good to be able to respond to things in life smartly, flexibly and quickly. Adaptability to change is one ability, and even if someone calls me stupid, even if I drag my heels, I want to make sure of the raw voices that everybody including myself potentially have inside, and which come bubbling up before I deal with things. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mika Nagamine (Editor / Writer) From TURN JOURNAL SPRING 2021−ISSUE 07 March 19, 2021 (page16) <> I felt really touched and inspired at TURN FES we took part in the first year. The yarn we dyed ourselves with indigo was turned into things we couldn’t have anticipated. Usually we connect our facility users with the community by getting them to make products and sell them locally have people touch and try them directly, things like that. But looking back, I really think it was TURN that made me feel that actually there were plenty of other ways to connect with society. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kenji Takano (Director, Atelier La Mano) From TURN FES 6 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Talk -Hands and people: 32 people who connect themselves to society through their hands August 17, 2021