This Is Not My Magnum Opus – Episode 04: Origins, Echoes, and Nurturing Play with Chinen Aimi

Chinen Aimi joins Nicole to discuss her longstanding ceramic practice, the dynamic potential of forming functional objects from earth, and the deep roots her sensitivities have to the natural world around us and her childhood in Okinawa. Using a keen attention to material, nature, and ancestral knowledge, Aimi offers us a playful, experimental, and thoughtful alternative approach to globalized and mass-produced culture of the western world that reaches far beyond the walls of the gallery and into domestic and everyday practice.

Chinen Aimi is an artist working as an anthropological detective. Through personal and political narratives, she plays with variety of mediums including ceramics, glass, digital media, and film photography. She was born to an Indigenous 琉球人 Ryukyu mother and a U.S. Marine father; a by-product of the colonized and the colonizer. Her approach is rooted in the transformative potential of social sculpture and the power of Ryukyu Sosensuhai (Ancestors Worship), while also acknowledging the realities of globalization. Through affective objects that relate and stimulate emotions from the past and present, she aims to share the ritual of spherical thinking -- that is, meaning shaped through the historical consideration of time and space -- in hopes of stimulating the power of the collective unconscious and possibilities of PEACE.

You can find Aimi’s ceramic objects online at Spatial Oddity Studio: https://www.spatialodditystudio.com/

For her full portfolio, visit: https://www.chinennaimi.com/

To see her work in the SPEAK Protest Magazine: https://www.protestmagazine.com/getprotest/speak

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