International Symposium "Art in the Age of Catastrophe: Efforts by Artists and Cultural Institutions"
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Learning Project Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY30 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 1st term
Business Overview
What role can art play in the face of catastrophe? We will consider this possibility with various guests. In the Tokyo edition, after a keynote speech by Anthony Gardner of University of Oxford, Panel I will consider the "power of art" in critical human situations with exhibiting artists and researchers. Panel II will focus on the Great East Japan Earthquake and discuss the movement of cultural institutions including museums and the changes in the art world since then. Performers: Anthony Gardner University of Oxford, Sheba Cach (Artist), Renzo Martens (Artist), Sedar Tamasala (Artist, Vice President of CATPC), Tomoko Yoneda (Artist), Mika Kuraya (Director, Planning Section, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo), Aya Takada (Representative, Build Flugus), Yu Takehisa (Chief Curator, Center for Contemporary Art, Mito Art Museum), Emilia Terratino (Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford), Jason Waite (Ph.D. student, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford) Moderator: Kenichi Kondo (Curator, Mori Art Museum) In the Oxford edition, Art in a Time of Catastrophe: Ecologies of Resistance, a writer for New York e-Flux, Brian Quan Wood, gave a keynote speech. Hikaru Fujii (Artist) and Kenichi Kondo (Curator, Mori Art Museum) spoke from the exhibition. In addition, Sabu Kosaw (writer) and Hira Havi (artist) took the stage, and Ross Gray (Professor, Goldsmiths College, University of London), Jason Waite and Emilia Terratino served as moderators.
- Period of Activity / Project
- December 15, 2018, February 21, 2019 to 22nd
- Venues
- Academy Hills (Minato-ku, Tokyo) University of Oxford Christchurch College Lecture Theatre, Ruskin School Project Space (Oxford/UK)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
【 Learning Project Executive Committee 】
The purpose of the Learning Project Executive Committee is to contribute to "learning" in contemporary art and the spread of international cultural and artistic education by holding symposiums on society and the practice of contemporary art in Japan and abroad, deepening discussions and opening them to the public. It was formed mainly by the staff of the Mori Art Museum, who are the main members of the planning of this program, and people related to University of Oxford.