Over six days, we will be offering 12 streamed talk sessions as part of UENOYES, a social inclusion-themed arts and culture project set in and around Ueno Park. With everyone forced to stay inside (“HOME”)due to the coronavirus pandemic, our guests for each talk session will hold remote discussions(“AWAY”), through which we join an online audience in thinking about the blueprint for the future as envisioned by the UENOYES project; namely, an exploration of how to diversify the ways people develop an interest in Ueno as an intersection for arts and culture.
17:30 – 19:00 “Don’t Move Too Much”: the UENOYES philosophy
Masaya Chiba (philosopher), Hiroki Yamamoto (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts), Katsuhiko Hibino (UENOYES General Producer)
Ueno/Yanaka Short Story 1 starring KOM_I
19:10 – 20:40 Home and Away: Is a decelerated world sustainable?
Ryuichi Sakamoto (Musician), Ari Hatsuzawa (Photographer), Katsuhiko Hibino (UENOYES General Producer)
15:00 – 16:30 No such thing as a misfit: changing education by degrees
Yoshikazu Yamagata (fashion designer/founder and head of “coconogacco” fashion school), Kenryu Nakamura (Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo), Yayako Uchida (writer), Katsuhiko Hibino (UENOYES General Producer)
Ueno/Yanaka Short Story 2 starring KOM_I
16:40 – 18:10 After “FLOATING NOMAD”: Strengthening “Diversity” and “Inclusivity”
Yoshikazu Yamagata (fashion designer/founder and head of “coconogacco” fashion school), Hirofumi Kurino (Senior Adviser, United Arrows), Aomi Okabe (UENOYES Director of International Division), Katsuhiko Hibino (UENOYES General Producer)
15:00 – 16:30 Wardrobes and sisterhood: Do clothes both hamper and advance gender theory?
Kotoha Yokozawa (Fashion Designer), Arisa Harada (“Textrator”), Natsumi Araki (Associate Professor, Department of Intermedia Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts), Katsuhiko Hibino (UENOYES General Producer)
Ueno/Yanaka Short Story 3 starring KOM_I
16:40 – 18:10 The global possibilities of art: Exploring solidarity beyond the pandemic
Leonhard Bartolomeus (Curator of the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) /Ruangrupa (Indonesia) art collective member), Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng (Artists/Curators, C&G Artpartment(Hong Kong)), JK Anicoche (Performance Artist/Curator (Philippines)), Kanoko Tamura (Art Translator), Katsuhiko Hibino (UENOYES General Producer)
19:00 – 20:30 (pending)
Ueno/Yanaka Short Story 4 starring Sakiko Hirano
20:40 – 22:10 Art to overcome coronavirus: the beauty of an undivided world
Toshiyuki Inoko (Representative Director of Team Lab), Naohiro Ukawa (Founder of live streaming studio DOMMUNE), Katsuhiko Hibino (UENOYES General Producer)
22:20 – 22:50 Live
Yuta Itani (Sound Creator)
23:00 – 24:00 Live
Mars89 (DJ/Composer)
16:00 – 17:30 Theater/art begins to wander into the ephemeral and crowded creative space of the online environment
Toshiki Okada (Playwright/chelfitsch founder), Rintaro Fuse (Artist), Katsuhiko Hibino (UENOYES General Producer)
Ueno/Yanaka Short Story 5 starring Sakiko Hirano
17:40 – 19:10 New curatorial spaces: the Reiwa era, disasters, and art
Furamu Kitagawa (Art Director), Hiroyasu Yamauchi (Vice Director, Rias Ark Museum), Noi Sawaragi (Art Critic), Katsuhiko Hibino (UENOYES General Producer)
13:00 – 14:30 UENO Home⇆Away: Walking in Ueno/Yanaka, neighborhoods that support culture and the arts
KOM_I (Singer/Artist), Sakiko Hirano (Food Essayist), Katsuhiko Hibino (UENOYES General Producer)
Ueno/Yanaka Short Story 6 starring Sakiko Hirano
14:40 – 16:10 Messages from directors of cultural institutions in Ueno, a “Global Capital of Culture”
Ryohei Miyata (Commissioner at the Agency for Cultural Affairs), Masami Zeniya(Executive Director, Tokyo National Museum), Yoshihiro Hayashi ( Director of the National Museum of Nature and Science), Akiko Mabuchi (Director General of the National Museum of Western Art), Katsuhiko Hibino (UENOYES General Producer)
To be streamed on the official website
*Free participation (no advance registration required)
*All sessions will have sign language interpreting, and sessions in English will be accompanied by simultaneous interpreting)
UENOYES2020 secretariat (Implementation Committee for New Concept “Ueno, a Global Capital of Culture”)
E-mail：uenoyes2020@ueno-bunka.jp
