
From an interactive installation that recreates the sun’s path to a report on the collapse of Toyota City, Japan, which has been hit hard by the financial crisis, from the record of an album with three outstanding musicians: Lee Konitz, Paul Motian and Gary Peacock to the writting of a series, Harem, a historical saga set in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire, the panel of judges was enchanted with every grant winner’s project. This year, the number of candidates was particularly high and as everyone noted, so was the quality of the projects presented.