Project AMANEKU

Outreach Project AMANEKU is a circular educational initiative that opens up CRAFT’s established creative methodologies—such as Mitate (the art of seeing one thing as another), Translation, and the dialogue between body and material—to educational institutions and emerging artists, weaving new perspectives together.

Concept: Universality & Transformation

The project title, AMANEKU, is an archaic Japanese term meaning "universal," "widespread," or "commonplace."

How can we discover artistic value in everyday objects? How can everyday bodies transform into unique forms of expression? 

The core of this project is to share this "shift in perspective" with the next generation.

The Three Pillars of the Project

Methodology Sharing Beyond merely teaching techniques, we share CRAFT’s unique process of Translation with students. Participants engage in a practical exploration of how individuals from disparate backgrounds can construct a single, shared "common language."

Collaborative Creation Rather than simply reproducing an existing repertoire, we reconstruct a new work using the "individual physicality" of the participants and the "local environment" as raw materials.

Feedback Cycle The discoveries and new questions born within the educational setting are fed back into the core research of the CRAFT. This ensures that education is not a one-way street of "instruction," but a space for "unknown discovery" for the professional artists as well.

Proven Impact

Balettakademien Göteborg (2025): Commissioned to create a graduation performance for 10 students with an original score. The process, in which students under the theme of "Transforming Perspectives" explored the"boundary and rerationshio between material and body," was highly acclaimed by educators as an "innovative lens for material-based research."