(page25) <> The cotton seeds arrived from Atelier La Mano, and my “life with cotton” began. The time during which I imagined the seeds inside the soil not knowing whether they would sprout or not, turned “waiting” into fun. A difference in growth even if the seeds were sown on the same day turned “difference” into individuality. I was surprised to see my plant “sleeping” with its leaves down at night, turning the “everyday norms” into new discoveries. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Yasuaki Igarashi (Artist) From Hand Project: A Record of 211 days in 2020 March 24, 2021 (page26) <> When I hear the word “accessibility,” the first thing that comes to mind for those of us who cannot hear is sign interpretation, speech-to-text interpretation and other things we are familiar with. But the fact of the matter is that most of these represent“ oneway information”? that is, a pattern in which the person who cannot hear is on the receiving end of the information. Information should be something that you receive and also something that you give, so I think that “accessibility” is also about people who cannot hear proactively disseminating information, and the development of an environment in which they can easily and efficiently do so. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Shinya Ogasawara (Art Event Supporter, The Tokushima Modern Art Museum / Shuwa Map member) From an email reflecting on TURN FES 6 August 26, 2021 (page27) <> It’s difficult perfecting everything, and I also think perfection means different things to different people. I think the cumulative process of practice of discussion, communication and thinking together on how we can achieve our best and to what extent we can convey something given the situation and the people we are working with, is a process that we can be applied to other subsequent occasions. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Maria Hata (Staff member, Arts Council Tokyo) From TURN Meeting No. 14 August 17, 2021 (page28) <> After I’d been involved with TURN for about a year, I had a conversation about whether welfare and art were alike. Before that conversation, art was something vague and simply cool, and I’d never thought about whether the two were similar or not, but I gave it some thought. And I thought that they were similar. The main things they have in common is that neither have all the answers, that you interact with people, and both involve plenty of discoveries. And they can also provide various perspectives, right? You discover things about someone, and you get into discussions about something even if you don’t have the answer. I thought that kind of aspect was similar, plus they both involve what you might call sensitivity. I find them similar in the way they both touch on the “senses” in terms of our sensibilities. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Noriko Takada (Staff member, Itabashi-ku Komone Fukushien welfare facility) From an interview with Hiroshi Tamura, RAKUDA STUDIO June 25, 2021 (page29) <> I think creativity is our life force. I constantly want to train myself so that in the event of an emergency, my creativity is not confined to an existing social framework and I won’t stop the process of thought. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Aki Yahata (Artist) From TURN JOURNAL SPRING 2021 - ISSUE 07 March 19, 2021 (page30) <> Some people (with visual impairments) say they walk around by themselves using echolocation -a method of making sounds and listening for the sound reflection in order to judge their surroundings. Also many make use of reverberation and reflection. For example quite a few people say when they’re walking between buildings they can tell if there is a building nearby from the sound their white cane makes on the ground, or say they know when they’ve come to an alleyway because of changes in wind current. So it’s very important that there are objects around; if people are somewhere like a big open field with nothing in it, they probably find it difficult to get an accurate fix on the space. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Satoko Mishina (Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Miyagi University of Education) From the 8th TURN Lab Study Group February 15, 2021 (page31) <> Imagine a world you are not familiar with, which is invisible to you, so you don’t get swept away by grand words as you amble your way through our incomprehensible world. I think that taking your time to come face to face with and nourish weakness in this way creates a “heart” that becomes the soil for connecting the“ head” and“ body.” It may take time to produce carefully cultivated soil, but I’m sure it will produce a keen creativity. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Akira Aoki (Independent Curator) From TURN JOURNAL SPRING 2021 - ISSUE 07 March 19, 2021 (page32) <> Get Back a Sense of Being Yourself in the World - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TDU Tekisen Democratic University Chikara Matsumoto (Artist) From TURN FES 6 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum -a film screening handout August 18, 2021