Ito Hirobumi was born in 1841 in the Chōshū Domain as the son of a low-ranking samurai.Despite being born into poverty, he had a passion for learning. At the age of 11, he learned to read and write at a local village school, and at 14, he was assigned to perform miscellaneous duties for the…

I met with Jinhyuk, with whom I am collaborating on this project, to discuss our ideas. Initially, we talked about using the stone monument at UCL with Itō Hirobumi’s name inscribed on it and the old Japanese banknotes featuring him as a symbol as the core elements of our work. The main topic of our…

I am planning to carry out two projects for this collaborating course. To be precise, as I am writing this, both projects are already in progress. The first project is a collaboration with a student majoring in Fine Art at Goldsmiths. We are creating a dance film incorporating acting, based on the theme of pressure,…