Asuka Yamaguchi (JP) and Elaine Ho (USA/HK) have collaborated on projects since 2002, finding a shared point of departure in their common combined backgrounds in visual arts and fashion design. Asuka graduated from the sculpture course at the Kyoto City University of the Arts in 2000 before attending the Academy of the Arts in Arnhem, Netherlands, where she graduated this year from the fashion design course. Elaine graduated in 1999 from the Art and Art History department of Rice University in Houston, Texas, and later found her way to Arnhem as well, where she met Asuka and they began collaborating on art projects (You can be everywhere, 2003; Holland Papier Biennale, 2004) and costume design for contemporary dance (Unknown Islands Body, 2003).
Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga (GR) graduated from the architecture department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2003. She and Elaine met on a boat on its way to Istanbul. They discussed Athens’ sidewalk constructions and New England clam chowder right before Fotini headed to Harvard Design School's Masters in Design Studies program (2005). Fotini spent the first half of the summer working on a documentary project in a small town in Nebraska, and Elaine has most recently completed a fellowship and solo exhibition at the International Research Center for the Arts in Kyoto.
The three have simultaneously split and come together, collaborating since 2004 as designers and writers at iwishicoulddescribeittoyoubetter. Their point of communication is looking for the intimate, miniscule details of everyday life, through design, art or merely in enjoying breakfast. They are designers and artists working in a range of media, from video to performance to architectural design, but always in the scale of the familiar, the everyday and the banal. Design, in this sense, becomes a wandering course from an otherwise incomprehensible system — a way to ask questions about how people relate to their surroundings and, hopefully, find in them small moments of relief.
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Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga (GR) graduated from the architecture department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2003. She and Elaine met on a boat on its way to Istanbul. They discussed Athens’ sidewalk constructions and New England clam chowder right before Fotini headed to Harvard Design School's Masters in Design Studies program (2005). Fotini spent the first half of the summer working on a documentary project in a small town in Nebraska, and Elaine has most recently completed a fellowship and solo exhibition at the International Research Center for the Arts in Kyoto.
The three have simultaneously split and come together, collaborating since 2004 as designers and writers at iwishicoulddescribeittoyoubetter. Their point of communication is looking for the intimate, miniscule details of everyday life, through design, art or merely in enjoying breakfast. They are designers and artists working in a range of media, from video to performance to architectural design, but always in the scale of the familiar, the everyday and the banal. Design, in this sense, becomes a wandering course from an otherwise incomprehensible system — a way to ask questions about how people relate to their surroundings and, hopefully, find in them small moments of relief.
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