2x Zines: Sunshine City and Kitakagaya by Oliver Sieber and Katja Stuke

Böhm #53
Sunshine City
by Oliver Sieber and Katja Stuke
20 x 28 cm, 12 pages,
12 photographs
Xerox Print, stapled

Sugamo Prison, constructed in 1895, based on European prison models, gained notoriety by the 1930s for detaining political prisoners, including numerous communists and anarchists like Sakae Osugi. In 1978, the Sunshine 60 Building, which became Japan‘s tallest skyscraper at the time of its completion, was erected on the former prison site. This building is part of Sunshine City, a large complex in East Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Opened in 1978, the complex includes corporate offices, a shopping mall with various restaurants, and attractions such as an observatory at the top of Sunshine 60, the Ancient Orient Museum, an aquarium, a planetarium, the Prince Hotel, a Namco-operated indoor amusement park, a convention center, and a theater.

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Böhm #52
Kitakagaya
by Oliver Sieber and Katja Stuke
20 x 28 cm, 16 pages,
16 photographs
Xerox Print, stapled

Kitakagaya is a town in Osaka, near the mouth of the Kizu River, along Osaka Bay. The area has a long history as an industrial and fishing hub and is now home to numerous artists. Kitakagaya hosts various small businesses, as well as shipping, recycling or logistics companies. In 2024, artist and musician Hino Koshiro asked us to take photographs in Kitakagaya for a music project titled Uta to Gyaku ni. Uta ni.
which he developed in collaboration with Ikeda Shotaro, poet and performance artist. Their work was inspired by the poet Ono Tozaburo and his 1939 poetry collection Osaka. Ono was associated with the anarchist movement and an admirer of Japanese anarchist Osugi Sakae.

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