Hi, I'm Tomoko Kawachi. Since January 2005, I am staying in Amsterdam as a resident artist at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Rijks).
What is artist-in-residence? Artist-in-residence is an institution or a programme which provides artists a place to stay and an opportunity to develop their production and presentation. There are such residency programmes all over the world, and each programme has its own characteristics, administrations and conditions, such as the work period and budget. (In case of Rijksakademie, artists can stay up to two years.)
Rijksakademie is inviting artists who pursue different art disciplines and techniques from many different countries. There are also advisors at Rijksakademie, some of whom are artists themselves, and others art critics or curators.
Before joining Rijksakademie, I was involved as a support staff in the organization called Art Trace, and that is how I came to keep a diary about my life in the Netherlands on their web page.
If you are interested in a residency programme or in staying in the Netherlands, or, if you want to know more about Tomoko Kawachi, thirty-one years of age, please visit my website for further updates.
For more information about Rijksakademie, please visit:
http://www.rijksakademie.nl/uk_index.htm