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Overview:

Dates:　Friday, September 23‒Saturday, September 24, 2022
Live streaming: ZOOM Webinar
Language: Japanese and English with simultaneous interpretation
Registration: Free Registration
Capacity: 500
Register by: September 22, 6 PM JST
*The series will be on a first-come-first served basis.

Aims:

In 2018, the Agency for Cultural Affairs initiated the Art Platform Japan project, which has sought to promote contemporary Japanese art by raising its profile at the international level. Since, as a part of this project, the Agency has been convening the Agency for Cultural Affairs Contemporary Art Workshop series in an effort to create an international network of experts involved in contemporary art in Japan and overseas. As a project of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, we have constantly emphasized the importance of discussing contemporary art in Japan in transnational perspective. This year, in the fourth and final instalment of this workshop series, we conceive this discussion as a comprehensive program of initiatives launched over the past five years. Specifically, as we learn about new trends and opportunities for networking in the context of contemporary art in the Asia-Pacific region, we would also like to provide an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the appetite for the transmission of art and art history in specific regional contexts. Beyond this, the workshop will also explore the state of collaborative research and the handing off of knowledge and experience to the next generation based on museum activities and curatorial practices, including discussions taking place in academia.

Session 1: New Networks in the Asia-Pacific Region

Friday, September 23, 1 PM‒4 PM (JST)
This session offers an opportunity to learn about and discuss thoughts about new museums that have opened or expanded in the Asia-Pacific region over the past five years, as well as case studies from each region. We will also reflect on the Japan Foundation's Asia Network Initiative and think about possibilities for new international networks in the Asia-Pacific region.

◎Moderator: Uematsu Yuka (Chief Curator, The National Museum of Art, Osaka)
◎Presenters:

• Pi Li (Senior Curator and Head of Curator Affairs, M+ Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong)
• Park Joowon (Curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea [MMCA])
• Furuichi Yasuko (Former Art Coordinator, the Japan Foundation Asia Center)
  
  

  
  

  Session 2: Artist Presentations

  Friday, September 23, 4:30 PM‒7:30 PM (JST)
  The Bunka-cho Art Platform Japan project has been working toward the sustainable development of art from a transnational perspective. In light of this perspective, we will hear from four artists who have been creating and presenting their works in Japan and overseas. We would like this session to be an opportunity to hear about their practices and ongoing projects through their catalogue of past works, which have destabilized social stereotypes around gender and national identity, and who are working in a variety of media as they continue to create works that transcend disciplinary boundaries.
  
  ◎Moderators: Odate Natsuko (Arts Commons Tokyo, Yoshiko Isshiki Office), Nariai Hajime (Curator, Department of Fine Arts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
  ◎Presenters:
  

• Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai (Artist)
• Han Ishu (Artist)
• MES (Artist)
• Momose Aya (Artist)
  

  
  

  Session 3: Overseas Exhibitions and Discourses of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Art

  **Saturday, September 24, 9:30 AM‒12:30 PM (JST)
  Japan has been presenting its art to overseas audiences, particularly in Europe and North America, through expositions, exhibitions, and books since the since the Meiji era (1868–1912). How have these exhibitions and discourses of modern and contemporary Japanese art been received overseas? The Bunka-cho Art Platform Japan project has been translating key texts relating to modern and contemporary Japanese art. With an eye to thinking about our activities over the past five years from a historical perspective, this session offers a historical consideration of the ways in which modern and contemporary Japanese art have been transmitted and received through overseas exhibitions and discourses.
  
  ◎Moderator: Kajiya Kenji (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
  ◎Presenters:

• Bert Winther-Tamaki (Professor, University of California, Irvine)
  “Responses to Exhibitions of Contemporary Japanese Art in the US, 1986‒90”
• Gabriel Ritter (Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara)
  “From The Door into Summer to Winter Garden: The Global Reception of Japan’s Micropop Generation”
• Chelsea Foxwell (Associate Professor, University of Chicago)
  “Recent Trends in U.S. Museum Exhibitions of Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Art: With an Eye to Fostering Growth and Diversity”
  

  
  

  Session 4: Case Studies for Generating International Dialogue

  Saturday, September 24, 4:30 PM‒7:30 PM (JST)
  Art and culture information can be shared through a variety of media and methods, including exhibitions, art festivals, publications, websites, lectures, and academic courses. Over the past five years, the Bunka-cho Art Platform Japan has accomplished numerous projects in a multidisciplinary manner. It is important to consider methodologies and outreach to develop vigorous interactive dialogue from one-way transmission with collaborators and audiences. This session seeks to deepen discussion around the challenges to organize programs and generate dialogues by introducing case studies from different platforms, such as museums, biennials, art festivals, and artistic academies, to uncover what sorts of activities are being carried out, and among whom, in order to generate international dialogues.
  
  ◎Moderator: Kamiya Yukie (Art Critic, Curator)
  ◎Presenters:

• Ade Darmawan (Founding member of the ruangrupa / Director of documenta 15) *Online
  “Lumbung: Documenta 15—a space as a living room for citizens”
• Nakamura Fumiko (Curator, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art)
  “With whom are we in dialogue? : In the case of Aichi Triennale”
• Che Kyongfa (Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
  “Expanding Here and now”
• Carol Yinghua Lu (Artistic director, Yokohama Triennale 2023)
  “International Exchanges That Prioritize Specific Experiences”
  
  
  

Speakers' details

Please contact us via https://artplatform.go.jp/ja/contact.