Utopia In The Cloud
is a junior art design project created by 2 French designers
named A Portee De Souffle
They are 2 talented women who aimed to breath new life into Nagoya
with the concept of continuous breath.
The event took place at the Nagoya TV tower
which is inspired by the Eiffel Tower in France.
This project was collaboration with Arts Bridge Cities
which is a global team based in Nagoya
with the mission to explore the power of creativity and collaboration.
I'm at Nagoya TV tower right now.
There is an art event here.
And basically like this is supposed to represent Nagoya TV tower as a living organism
breathes in out and out.
so if you look over here
you can see like the air. It's supposed to bring life to the tower.
It's just like an art design project that was created by the 2 really beautiful and talented art students, design students from France.
This is pretty cool. I've never been in anything like this before so.
I was able to speak to the 2 designers about the project.
So let's here what they have to say.
Where are you from? What is Utopia in the Cloud?
We are from France. We are students.
We are presenting this A Portee De Souffles.
which is a project here in Nagoya.
We wanted to make a breath. to do something light with movement.
There is some shades with the fabric that is moving.
What inspired you to create and take part in this project?
The theme of this contest was...
Well...these installations had to create a WOW effect.
So we took the idea of "breathing in" and transformed it into an art installation.
So we started from the idea of "breathing in" and "breathing out, which can be associated
with the fact that we are in this tower that's 90 meters high.
when you see the view from up here, it literally takes your breath away
because of how beautiful it is!
So we used the original architecture's shapes and structure as a model
and we decided to fill this architecture with shapes we created with fabric and plastic
For example here this place has a lot of beams, which creates interesting dynamics
so we decided to fill these spaces with our installations.
How long did this project take?
You can say in French.
We started some months ago in November
It was for our competition in our school.
We worked on it very hard before coming here.
We learned we won this competition in December.
We had a lot of works to do before coming here.
We've been here three weeks.
Is this your first time in Japan?
Yes.
What do you love about Japan?
Everything.
It's very different. Great food.
Food is good, right?
So many drawings everywhere.
Artistic, yeah.
Everything is cute
Everything is cute.
Everything is little and cute.
Yes, yes, yes. I agree.
Well, thank you so much. It was nice meeting you.
The event had great refreshment and not to mention the beautiful view above the city of Nagoya.
I met up with Victor, Tomoko, Irachan as well as Tom from the channel Ghost of Matsubara.
So check their links down below.
It was a great experience and they will have more in the future
So check out the links below if you are interested in learning more about this project and up coming events.
Thanks for watching guys. See you next time.