User:Gotosoon/Setsuko Chiba

Setsuko Chiba is a Japanese poet, artist, poetry reading art performer, mixed media artist and award-winning artist. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.

brief personal biography

After making her debut in the mid-1990s in the East Village of New York, USA, she moved to Paris, France, where she was released by the French record label Spalax as a Japanese-English and French-language poet and artist. She is the first Japanese poet to release a CD of poetry readings in Japanese, English and French for the European market, and is a star icon in the world of poetry reading. [1] Through a series of live performances in Japan and abroad, she has raised poetry reading to a total art form and paved the way for a new generation of artist poets through her artistic stage work, which is distinctly different from so-called poetry recitations. [2]

Graduate of Aoyama Gakuin University. After graduation, worked as a journalist in the Mainichi Newspaper's special edition editorial department, an essayist and in other writing jobs. She also worked in photography and modelling for international fashion magazines. [1]

Since the late 1990s, she has lived in Shirakawa City, Fukushima Prefecture, and has been active as an artist, especially after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011 and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, creating and presenting conceptual photographic tools and installation contemporary art works on the theme of 'Renaissance of the Heart'. [1][2]

In 2021, she was selected as one of 52 poets from 52 countries to have her poems published in Global Insides-vaccine, a poetry collection published by an American publisher. One-third of the proceeds from the sale of the book of poems were donated to healthcare workers and the needy in the US Corona disaster, which was the worst at the time. [1][2][3][4]

In 2022, she was selected as a Shortlisted Artist from a total of 2000 entries worldwide in the 'Alpine Arts Foundation International Competition Visual Art Prize' in the UK. [1][2]

Sources and footnotes

1.↑I saw Setsuko Chiba perform and present her poetry in Paris almost 20 years ago, and discovered her ability as an artist. [1]

2. ↑The magazine was liked by the then editor-in-chief, Christina Frasca, and was featured in the main gravure for two consecutive seasons, which was unusual for the fashion industry.

3. ↑2014 Oct-Nov - Gallery shimizu "Setsuko Icon / POETGRAPHOLLIA / Planet Angel", collaboration with poet Setsuko Chiba.

4. ↑Setsuko Chiba is a poet, artist and poetry-reading art performer with a diverse range of artistic activities around the world. [1]

5. ↑"Your work heals lives and gives hope. We all need to look up to the sky and let our courage spring forth. I urge you to continue this work. Everyone needs hope." [1] Secondary sources

Global Insides-vaccine [1].

Garden of Dreamers

External links

Official Japanese website - Profile

Setsuko Chiba - Cloud 9 in the 7th Heaven [1].

installlife.hitois.net/

Setsuko Icon / POETGRAPHOLLIA

Setsuko Chiba Facebook [2].

The Utsukushima sky that gave hope to the people of Paris Setsuko Chiba (poet, artist and poetry performer)[3].

Japan Search The Garden of the Dream Devil Setsuko Chiba Poetry & reading Collection: National Diet Library