Ojika Artist in Island Residency Program, an ongoing residency in Nagasaki Prefecture’s Goto archipelago. The annual program invites diverse artists to collaborate, explore, and create within Ojika’s vibrant community, historical, and cultural context. The focus of the residency between 2019 - 2025 is to investigate different approaches to creating cultural and artistic infrastructure.

With our close friends, and Japan distributors D.E.A.D. (Dog Ear Archive Distribution) we organize the D.E.A.D. Future Tour. It is a tour through Japan that started in 2023 and will continue till all of us, and our generational successors have decided to throw in the towel.

In the last few decades, emphasis on individual success has dominated, but a shift towards a Common Future is needed. In 2017, Lokaal Internationaal was initiated to connect global creative networks with a shared vision. By 2019, VRIJHAVEN / COMMON FUTURE, a series of cultural events, was proposed for the Olympic Year. However, the pandemic disrupted plans. In 2021, the program pivoted to online and offline media, featuring interviews and essays in Vrijhaven and ongoing Common Future 'zine series, fostering connections and inclusivity among global makers.

We were part of a group exhibition in Cale Tokyo in May 2022, at the end of our first post-COVID trip to Japan. We made some new collage work together with photographer Shin Hamada. And, made a new book and poster series "Out of TYO" about all the places we had visited in the weeks before. To share our love for deep-local places.