Part: 1 Presentation
Part 2: Discussion
Part 3: Networking

*Simultaneous Japanese-English interpretation provided

Sook-Kyung Lee (Director of the Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Curator of Japan Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale)
Yusuke Hashimoto (Head Dramaturg of the Berliner Festspiele)
Taro Igarashi (Architectural Historian and Critic) *moderator

　Photo: Courtesy of Gwangju Biennale Foundation
Sook-Kyung Lee
（Director of the Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Curator of Japan Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale）
She is the Director of the Whitworth, The University of Manchester, UK. She was Artistic Director of the 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023), titled soft and weak like water, which explored themes of resistance, indigeneity, decoloniality and ecology. Lee was Senior Curator, International Art at Tate Modern, working in exhibitions, collection displays and acquisitions. She also headed a major multi-year research initiative ‘Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational’ at Tate Modern, overseeing its strategic vision and associated programming. Lee served as the Commissioner and Curator of the Korea Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and is currently curating the Japan Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, represented by the artist Yuko Mohri.

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Yusuke Hashimoto
(Head Dramaturg of the Berliner Festspiele)
Born in Fukuoka in 1976. He began his theater career in 1997 during his student years at Kyoto University. He established his own production agency in 2003 and was involved in producing and organizing various contemporary theater and dance performances, including the “Theater Project” program at Kyoto Art Center. He founded Kyoto Experiment (Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival) in 2010 and led the festival as the artistic director until 2019. From 2014 to 2022, he had served as program director at ROHM Theatre Kyoto and also as President of the Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM) from 2013 to 2019. He joined in the Berliner Festspiele in September 2022 and now is the program director of “Performing Arts Season,” which will present the international performance productions through the autumn and winter months.

Taro Igarashi
(Architectural Historian and Critic)
Born in 1967. Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University.
Received his M.A. from the University of Tokyo in 1992 and Ph. D. in Engineering. Artistic director of the Aichi Triennale 2013 and commissioner of the Japanese Pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale (2008). He has overseen exhibitions such as “Impossible Architecture: The Architects’ Dreams”, “Windowology: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows”, and “Re-Discovering Decoration: Architecture in Nihonbashi”. He was awarded the 64th Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists and the 2018 Architectural Institute of Japan Education Award (Educational Contribution). He is the author of numerous books, including “Elimination Art for Whom?” (Iwanami Shoten) “New Religion and Gigantic Architecture” (Seidosha), “Enlarged Edition: War and Architecture” (Shobunsha), and many others.

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