New work and lecture performance for the exhibition "When It Waxes and Wanes" planned by the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ)
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Mai Endo
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY31 (2019) 1st term Creation Grant [Single-year grant program]
Business Overview
This project produced and presented Mai Endo's new work. She was invited to "When It Waxes and Wanes," an exhibition organized by the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ), and also held a lecture performance at the exhibition. This exhibition reexamines the historical "cultural exchange" made possible by the imagination of different cultures from the end of the 19 century to the present, and presents new expressions born from alternative and cross-cultural encounters. This exhibition consists not only of works of contemporary art, but also of historical research materials, archives and journals that are said to have been involved in art and the queer feminist movement. Among these cultural exchanges, he focused on European art movements such as the Viennese separatists, the process of modernization in non-Western cultures, Japanese girls' culture after the war, and queer culture under its influence.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, February 8, 2020 – Sunday, May 31
- Venues
- Association of Austrian Women Artists (VBKÖ)
(Vienna/Austria) <p> <br /> *Information such as project outlines is provided by the grant-making organizations and individuals.</p>
Profile
Endo Mai
Born in Hyogo in 1984. In 2018, he became an exchange student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since 2016, he has been enrolled in the research area of oil painting (wall painting) at the Department of Fine Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. He is an artist and actor who has expressed the gap between the message of the body here and now and social norms and artistic forms in a playful way, crossing media and methodologies such as images, photographs and plays. Since 2018, he has published "Multiple Spirits," a queer art gin from Japan, with the critic and curator Mika Maruyama.