AIT SLIDE TALK #30 Viewing event "Thinking about Writing about Art"
Speakers: Christy Lange (Associate Editor of frieze magazine), Andrew Maerkle (ART iT), Roger McDonald (AIT)
Date and Time: August 6th (Wednesday), 7 - 9pm
Venue: AIT Room, Daikanyama
*AIT will hold a screening event of AIT SLIDE TALK #30 which was held last month, as we received many sign-ups but due to limited capacity, many could not register. We look forward to your coming. *Talk was held in English only.
AIT SLIDE TALK #30
Thinking about Writing about Art: Christy Lange (Associate Editor of frieze magazine), Andrew Maerkle (ART iT) and Roger McDonald (AIT).
Date and Time: Thursday, July 3rd, 19:00-21:00
Venue: AIT Room, Daikanyama
*The talk will be held in English, with no Japanese translation.
Left: frieze magazine 2014 Summer issue No.164 / Right: 2014 May issue No. 163
We are pleased to be hosting Christy Lange, Associate Editor of frieze magazine for a one month residency in Tokyo supported by The Backers Foundation. Christy has written extensively about contemporary art for frieze magazine, in addition to organizing talk programs for Frieze New York and London.
For this event Christy will introduce frieze magazine, its workings, and its editorial directions within the broader landscape of art media and criticism today. Following her presentation, Andrew Maerkle of ART iT and AIT's Roger McDonald will join Christy for a roundtable discussion about art journalism and criticism, with a focus on the situation in Japan. In a highly globalized art scene, what is the role of art magazines like frieze? Can we speak of a shared international art discourse today, and how could we imagine Japan in this context? Is art history still the foundational ground from which to write art criticism, or can we identify a more open field of references that includes music, film, literature or art brut? Throughout the discussion, questions and comments from the audience will be welcomed.
We look forward to your attendance at this special event.
[ OUTLINE ]
Date and Time: Thursday, July 3rd, 19:00-21:00
Venue: AIT Room, Daikanyama (Twin Bldg. Daikanyama B-403, 30-8 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Organized by Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT] in cooperation with The Backers Foundation
Booking required (limited to 40 guests)
Admission: JPY1000 (JPY800 for Students and AIT Base Members / Free for AIT House and Support Members) Other details: Admission includes one free drink *Talk will be in English only.
[ CONTACT ]
Send an email with its subject as "AIT SLIDE TALK #30" to otoiawase@a-i-t.net, including your name, and contact.
[Speakers Biography]
Christy Lange
Christy Lange is an American writer living in Berlin, Germany. She is Associate Editor of frieze magazine and contributing editor of frieze d/e, as well as the co-curator of the Talks Program at Frieze Art Fair in New York in London.
Andrew Maerkle
Based in Tokyo, Andrew Maerkle is an editor with the online publication ART iT. He also writes for international publications including Art & Australia, Artforum and frieze, and has contributed essays and interviews to catalogues for artists including Thea Djordjadze, Daan van Golden, Isaac Julien and Koki Tanaka.
Roger McDonald
Deputy Director AIT and MAD program Director, independent curator, lecturer at Tokyo Zokei University and Director of Fenberger House, Nagano.
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The Backers Foundation and AIT residence programme vol. 7
"NEW WORKS BY ALBERT SAMRETH (USA) AND GOR SOUDAN (Kenya)"
Saturday, July 12 - Saturday, July 26 at YAMAMOTO GENDAI (Shirokane-Takanawa, Tokyo)
Opening Reception: 6pm - 8pm on Saturday, July 12
Left: "Continuity Drift" (2013). Natural pigment dyes /reference image. Right: Gor Soudan, Drawing in space (2014). Protest wire / reference image.
Press release Download（PDF / 889KB)
Exhibition flier Download（PDF / 5.4MB)
Artists interview Download（PDF / 2.3MB)
Interview by Ben Davis and Naoko Horiuchi
The exhibition will mark the 7th time that The Backers Foundation and AIT have partnered together, having previously hosted artists and curators from Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East. As part of the joint residency programme, the exhibition will be accompanied by research, production and cultural exchange through educational sessions.
Albert Samreth (Born in 1987, Los Angeles, USA) is an emerging conceptual artist who has developed a studio practice based around engaging with natural and systematic processes. For this exhibition, Samreth will present a new series of paintings created by either the effects of Tokyo's heavy summer rainfall or made by the sunlight in a natural photographic process. The remainder of his work for the show will be derived from graphic scores related to his concurrent project for the International Moscow Biennale of Young Art, where he will be teaching songs to an African Grey Parrot.
Gor Soudan (Born in 1983, Kisumu, Kenya) is a self-taught conceptual artist based in Nairobi, Kenya. For this exhibition, Soudan will present pieces from his "Drawing in Space" series alongside linear drawings and an installation constructed in his Tokyo studio using a variety of locally-sourced, natural materials.
[ OUTLINE ]
Title: The BAR (The Backers Foundation and AIT Residence Programme) Vol. 7
"New works from Albert Samreth (USA) and Gor Soudan (Kenya)"
Date: Saturday, July 12 - Saturday July 26, 2014
Time: 11:00 - 19:00 *Admission free (Closed on Sunday, Monday and National holiday)
Venue: YAMAMOTO GENDAI（3F, 3-1-15, Shirokane, Minato-ku, Tokyo）
Organized by: Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]
Co-organized by: The Backers Foundation
Supported by: YAMAMOTO GENDAI / YOKUMOKU
Opening Reception: 6pm - 8pm on Saturday, July 12
Curated by:Naoko Horiuchi(AIT)
Related Event: Please check the AIT website for further information.
*The Associate Editor of Frieze Art Magazine, Christy Lange, joins the artists as a curator-in-residence.
＜Artist Biography＞
Albert Samreth (Born in 1987 in Los Angeles, USA)
Albert Samreth is an emerging conceptual artist who has developed a studio practice based around engaging with natural and systematic processes, and was recently featured in the Singapore Biennale 2013. His recent works include "Pacific Ocean Water Colors," a series of paintings created using the currents of the Pacific Ocean, and "The Voice," a five-channel audio installation commissioned for the Singapore Biennale 2013, where his poetry was narrated by Carolyn Hopkins, a voice actress whose announcements are used for the entire New York City subway system and most airports worldwide. For this exhibition, Samreth will present a new series of paintings created by either the effects of Tokyo's heavy summer rainfall or made by the sunlight in a natural photographic process. The remainder of his work for the show will be derived from graphic scores related to his concurrent project for the International Moscow Biennale of Young Art, where he will be teaching songs to an African Grey Parrot.
http://albertsamreth.com/
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Gor Soudan (Born in 1983 in Kisumu, Kenya)
Gor Soudan is a self-taught conceptual artist based in Nairobi, Kenya. With a background in sociology and philosophy, Soudan approaches issues relating to the rapid socio-political changes that Africa, and Kenya in particular, is currently undergoing. His ongoing series "Drawing in Space" comprises works made from protest wire - a tangled, black mass of wire salvaged from car tyres burnt during the civil unrest that accompanied the last elections in Kenya. Soudan more recently produced sculptural works from old bicycle brake cables that he gathered during his time in Freetown, Sierra Leone. For this exhibition, Soudan will present pieces from his "Drawing in Space" series alongside linear drawings and an installation constructed in his Tokyo studio using a variety of locally-sourced, natural materials.
www.gorsoudan.daportfolio.com
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What is The Backers Foundation?
Since 2007, the Backers Foundation, a private group of patrons from the business worlds, has supported ten emerging contemporary artists and five curators to visit Tokyo and stay for a three month residency. The non-profit organization AIT works with the Backers Foundation to organize and host the program. In 2012, a group exhibition bringing the ten previous residency artists was held at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.
Further Information
Press Enquiries
Ms. Sakai at YAMAMOTO GENDAI
Tel: 03-6383-0626 / i@yamamotogendai.org
Backers Foundation/Artist-in-Residence Enquiries
Naoko Horiuchi, Rika Yoda at Arts Initiative Tokyo
Tel: 03-5489-7277 / otoiawase@a-i-t.net
