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AIT SLIDE TALK #36
"Alternative Art Education for Social Changes in Japan and Hong Kong"
With Yoshiko Shimada and Asia Art Archive
Date: Wednesday, 25 July, 2018
Time: 19:00-21:00 (18:30 Door open)
Venue: Daikanyama AIT Room
Seats: 30 (Booking required)
Admission: 1000 JPY (general), 800 JPY (MAD students and AIT Base Members), Free (AIT House and Support Members) /All admissions with 1 drink
*Summarized translation available
Gendaishicho-sha Bigakkō, Nakanishi Natsuyuki's class (Photographed by Jun Morinaga, 1969)
AIT is pleased to host AIT SLIDE TALK #36 titled "Alternative Art Education for Social Changes in Japan and Hong Kong" on July 25th.
This public talk specially introduces Yoshiko Shimada, a Japanese contemporary artist, and we are also excited to be joined by Asia Art Archive (AAA), one of the non-profit organizations leading in Hong Kong and beyond that Shimada recently joined their residency program in this year.
Since 2010, Shimada has been continuously engaging her research on Gendaishicho-sha Bigakkō that was initially established in 1969 and continued until 1975 as an alternative art school in Tokyo during the aftermaths of the student movement by Gendaishicho-sha, the publishing company known for their radical criticism. The founder Kyoji Ishii envisioned the school as "A movement to change the world by changing the way the world is perceived." Nakanishi Natsuyuki, Akasegawa Genpei from Hi Red Center, and Nakamura Hiroshi, Kikuhata Mokuha from Kyushu-sha, and a forerunner of Japanese Conceptualism, Yutaka Matsuzawa taught at the school.
During her time in Asia Art Archive, she came across a similar form of alternative art school, "創建実験学院" which was established in 1967 riot aftermath and last one year from 1968.
Shimada shares her perspective, and ongoing research mainly focused on alternative art education and her most recent findings in Hong Kong, to bring up discussions with some fundamental principles of Bigakkō and how those artists formed them during that period, which may be still relevant today when we consider about alternative art education.
創建実験学院 advertisement, Image Courtesy of the Ha Bik Chuen Family and Asia Art Archive
Susanna Chung, Head of Learning and Participation from Asia Art Archive will give a glimpse of the various programs they organize from digital archiving to the educational program that they have been engaging. She will share the recent dramatic development in the landscape surrounding arts and culture in Hong Kong with more new art institutions such as the recently opened Tai Kwun Contemporary, and M+, the new museum for visual culture in Hong Kong, anticipated to open soon, and how AAA responses to the changing cultural ecology through collecting, creating, and sharing of knowledge around recent art in Asia.
Photo(left): Teaching Labs | Urban Interventions Art in the City workshop by Ricky Yeung, 2016. Courtesy of Asia Art Archive
Photo(right): School visit at Asia Art Archive's project space, Ha Bik Chuen Archive, 2017. Courtesy of Asia Art Archive
This public talk will be a fruitful opportunity for anyone who is interested in art education over the times in the changing society. Through Shimada's presentation around Gendaishicho-sha Bigakkō with experimental pedagogy and how AAA is observing the current state with fast pace in Hong Kong, the discussion will be brought up how we stand on the history of alternative art education and its future in the changeable social landscape.
We encourage all to join us.
On this particular occasion, AAA and AIT will also host a roundtable to discuss current changes in the social environment that both organizations are experiencing in Hong Kong and Japan, and how alternative art education would foster our community to grow within. The talk, "Alternative Art Education for Social Changes in Japan and Hong Kong" would be a fruitful opportunity for Japanese audience to reflect the history around the topic and its string extending to the current state in alternative art education we see today.
Over the decade, AIT organizes its educational program, MAD (Making Art Different) with a variety of topics around arts and culture in Japan and beyond. We are also overseeing the current state around alternative art education, especially when "Aternative Art School Fair" to introduce new and existing schools here at AIT this past spring. The series of discussions with Yoshiko Shimada and Asia Art Archive would bring us continuous exploration and examination to deepen our knowledge in alternative art education.
[Event outline]
Time: 19:00-21:00 (18:30 Door open)
Venue: Daikanyama AIT Room
Seats: 30 (Booking required)
Admission: 1000 JPY (general), 800 JPY (MAD students and AIT Base Members), Free (AIT House and Support Members)/ All admissions with 1 drink
*Summarized translation available
Organized by Arts Initiative Tokyo
Co-organized by Asia Art Archive
[Booking]
Please send an email with its subject line as "AIT SLIDE TALK #36" at otoiawase＠a-i-t.net, including your name, contact phone number and the category of your admission. (Please input @ in normal-width)
[Speaker]
Yoshiko Shimada
An artist and art historian Yoshiko Shimada graduated in 1982 from Scripps College, USA, and received her PhD from Kingston University, London, in 2015.
Her artwork explores the themes of cultural memory and the role of women in the Asia-Pacific War. Her works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
In recent years Shimada has been researching post-1968 art and politics in Japan. She has curated exhibitions such as 'Anti-Academy' (John Hansard gallery, Southampton, UK, 2013), 'Nakajima Yoshio Syndrome (Atsuko Balouh, Tokyo, 2015), and 'From Nirvana to Catastrophe' (Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, 2017), for which she wrote and edited the catalogues. She is currently working on Matsuzawa Yutaka archive in Nagano, and serving as a director of the Matsuzawa Yutaka Psi Room Foundation. She lectures on Japanese art and politics of the 1960s and 70s, and art and feminisms in Japan at Tokyo University College of Arts and Sciences.
Susanna Chung (Asia Art Archive)
Initiated the Learning and Participation Department at Asia Art Archive in 2007, Susanna Chung has worked extensively to make art accessible and lead the cultural learning strategies, projects and partnerships in Hong Kong and across Asia, including India, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. She is currently Head of Learning & Participation and Programmes Manager, overseeing the planning and production of all programmes across the organization. Chung has participated as a speaker and a moderator in a number of art education forums; including Worlds Together (2012), a conference organised by the Tate Modern, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the British Museum. In 2016, Chung was selected as the International Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme (2016/17) in the United Kingdom.
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AIT SLIDE TALK #35
A workshop on attentional practices "Polishing the Spectacle of Myself": A Brief Introduction to the Work of ESTAR(SER)
Date: Friday, November 24, 2017
Time: 19:00-21:00 (18:30 Door open)
Venue: Daikanyama AIT Room
*All admissions with 1 drink / Booking required / English only
On 24 November 2017, at AIT, visiting associates of ESTAR(SER) will offer a brief introduction to its past and present work, and present ongoing research into the history of the Order of the Third Bird (including a discussion of recent reinterpretations of the mysterious objects known as the MacGinitie Goggles). A number of ESTAR(SER) publications will be on hand, and several "protocols" for sustained attention inspired by those in use by the "Birds" will be made available. Experimentation will be encouraged.
New research, recently come to light, suggests that the eleven pairs of "Ganzfeld effect" goggles found in the so-called MacGinitie Collection of the W-Cache may have been used by associates of the Order of the Third Bird across the twentieth century as part of a heretofore unknown symbolic ritual of self-preparation. Did these individuals, with their focus on the proper way to look at works of art, collectively soil (and then cleanse?) various eyeglasses and protective eyewear in an intimate performance of their ambition to "see anew"? The evidence remains difficult to interpret. Links to Aldous Huxley's Art of Seeing are suspected.
About ESTAR(SER): The Esthetical Society for Transcendental and Applied Realization (now incorporating the Society of Esthetic Realizers) is an established body of private, independent scholars who work collectively to recover, scrutinize, and (where relevant) draw attention to the historicity of the Order of the Third Bird. www.estarser.net
[OUTLINE]
Date: Friday, November 24, 2017
Time: 19:00-21:00 (18:30 Door open)
Venue: Daikanyama AIT Room（Twin Bldg. Daikanyama B-403, 30-8, Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo） MAP
Capacity: 20
Admission: JPY1000 (JPY800 for Students and AIT Base Members / Free for AIT House and Support Members)
*All admissions with 1 drink / Booking required / English only
[Reservation]
Please send an email with its subject line as "AIT SLIDE TALK #35" at otoiawase＠a-i-t.net, including your name, contact phone number and the category of your admission. (Please input @ in normal-width)
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AIT SLIDE TALK #34
"Can we curate commons?"
Curator talk by Haizea Barcenilla from Basque country, Spain
Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Time: 19:00 - 21:00 (18:30 Door open)
Venue: Daikanyama AIT Room
Capacity: 30
※Booking required / Translation available
All photos from "Andrekale", courtesy of Señora Polaroiska
AIT is pleased to host SLIDE TALK #34 "Can we curate commons?" by Haizea Barcenilla, a current curator in residence on December 21, 2016. Barcenilla is staying to undertake her research in Japan until December 31 on a collaborative residency program initiated by AIT and TABAKALERA International Center for Contemporary Culture to exchange curators between Basque/Spain and Tokyo/Japan.
The talk will revolve around the idea of the public and the commons in relation to art practice and art curating which leads to her ongoing research developed as part of her residency at AIT. Her research consists to analyze the ideas of the public and the commons in Japan, especially in relation to the concept of performativity.
In the essay included in a book "Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities", academics have noted that the definition of space in Japan is marked by its use rather than its physicality. This would mean that publicness would be enacted temporarily while being created in certain spaces at specific moments.
At the presentation, Barcenilla particularly picks and introduces the project "Andrekale" produced and curated under "the New Patrons program", as an example of collaborative practice reflecting upon several themes chosen by participants such as urban space, history writing, gender and city empowerment.
Throughout the residency, Barcenilla asks; Can this performative idea be linked to the commons and understood as a social relationship around a resource or a knowledge? What is the role of art and of other cultural practices in the creation of these performative moments of publicness? During her talk, she shares with us some introductory ideas to develop these possibilities to expand further.
[Outline]
Date and Time: Wednesday, December 21, 19:00-21:00 (18:30 Door open)
Venue: Daikanyama AIT Room (Twin Bldg. Daikanyama B-403, 30-8 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Admission: 1,000 JPY (800 JPY for students, MAD students and AIT Base members / Free for House and Support members) *All admission include one free drink
*Booking required / Translation available
Translation: Satoshi Ikeda
Organized by Arts Initiative Tokyo, TABAKALERA International Center for Contemporary Culture
Supported by BASQUE INSTITUTE ETXEPARE, ACCIÓN CULTURAL ESPAÑA(AC/E), EU JAPAN FEST
*Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2016
[Booking]
Please send an email with its subject line as "AIT SLIDE TALK #34" at otoiawase＠a-i-t.net, including your name, contact phone number and the category of your admission. (Please input @ in normal-width)
[Haizea Barcenilla]
Barcenilla is an art critic, curator and art history lecturer at the University of the Basque Country. Her research revolves around two axes of interest: on the one hand, the ideas of public and common, and how they can influence curatorial practice and artistic research; on the other one, the revisitation of history from a gender point of view.
She has written extensively on both topics, including a PhD about curating and the commons, and also curated and produced various artworks and exhibitions. The recent ones are framed in the New Patrons scheme, in which she helped develop and produce the publication Manual de Uso by artist Andrea Acosta about the Zorrozaurre neighborhood in Bilbao, and the video Andrekale by Señora Polaroiska, with the collaboration of Tabakalera, for the town of Hernani.
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MAD WORLD
Global Art Perspectives from Tokyo
MAD WORLD with NODE
One day workshop and seminar by Perla Montelongo
Seminar: 'Art thinking: an insight on the thinking processes of artists'
Workshop: Institute for Terranautical Exploration: Fictional uses of art
Date and Time: Saturday December 12th, 2015 13:00 - 16:30
Venue: BankART1929 2F(Yokohama, Japan) *Booking required
Node Innovators Program 2015, Image courtesy of Node Center.
AIT is pleased to host Berlin based curator and founder-Director of NODE Center for Curatorial Studies, Perla Montelongo for a one day workshop. As part of our new MAD World series which aims to connect international art professionals to Tokyo through English language lectures and workshops, Perla will lead a unique workshop exploring the nature and possibilities of artistic creativity and inspiration.
The workshop will be held at the exhibition of the "Nissan Art Award 2015: Exhibition of New Works by the 7 Finalists" in BankART, Yokohama, with Perla leading participants through the exhibition and art works as a basis for the workshop. The event will be aimed at an introductory level and held in English.
[OUTLINE]
Date : Saturday December 12th, 2015
Time: 13:00 - 16:30
Venue: BankART1929 2F(3-9 Kaigan-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama 231-0002) [MAP]
Organized by: Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]
Lecturer: Perla Montelongo (Director of NODE)
Capacity：15 persons *Booking required
Admission: [Special Price] JPY4,500, Student/Base member JPY4,000
Other details: Admission includes a cup of tea and snacks
*The seminar and workshop will be in English only
[Curriculum Details]
13:00 - 14:00: 'Art thinking: an insight on the thinking processes of artists'
Modality: Seminar
What is the process that artists use prior to creating a work? Do artist think or see differently? Thinking divergently, questioning the everyday and using intuition are some common processes that artists consciously or unconsciously use as part of their creative activity. Can this way of thinking be applied to other disciplines and everyday life?
Node Center for Curatorial Studies - Berlin created a two-month program that gathered a group of 7 'innovators' from fields of art, education, neuroscience, physics and psychology to create a tool to strengthen ways of thinking divergently based on the thinking processes of artists.
As a first stage, we began researching texts on creative thinking and perception, particularly from the fields of neuroscience and psychology. In addition, we interviewed artists in order to find out commonalities in how they think. We also made an open-call survey to see whether there was a difference in thinking between artists and non-artists.
From this first mapping, we found four key components of the way that artists think that could be useful in other fields, specifically in education:
- Seeing - using multiple perspectives and ways of seeing the world
- Feeling - using intuition and trusting the senses
- Detouring - using abstract, non-linear ways of thinking
- Doing - an impulse to do and build regardless of its use or logic
With these components in mind, we created rough prototypes that were designed to train them: an app, a workshop and an online platform for teachers that heightens intuition, lateral thinking and engages the senses. These prototypes were developed and refined during the program and are still in development while we gain feedback from the actual users and testers.
In this seminar we will share the results, weaknesses and working methodology of the Node Innovators' Program.
L:Design thinking workshop at Node Innovator's Program, 2015. Image courtesy of Sabine De Schutter.
R:Node Innovators Program 2015, Image courtesy of Node Center.
14:30 - 16:30: Institute for Terranautical Exploration: Fictional uses of art
Modality: workshop and fun!
A workshop on art interpretation aiming to discover possible uses of art and artworks.
In this workshop we will immerse ourselves into a fictional future where no knowledge of art exists. In this fictional future, the "Institute for Terranautical Exploration" is in charge to discover what kind of purposes, uses or information do strange objects (artworks) carry with them.
The aim of the workshop is to put aside our preconceptions of art in order to analyze artworks from an unfamiliar and fresh perspective, discovering what kind of uses, purpose or information can art have besides the known ones.
'Game Design in Artistic Research', workshop by Viktor Bedö and Perla Montelongo.
Photo courtesy of Aalborg University
[Reservation]
Send an email with its subject as "MAD WORLD with NODE" to mad@a-i-t.net, including your name, and contact.
[ About Perla Montelongo ]
Perla is Director of Node Center for Curatorial Studies, her main focus is on designing alternative learning strategies from and for contemporary art. In 2010, she co-founded Node Center, establishing it as a place for teaching researching, and experimenting with subjects related to curatorial studies and contemporary art practices. Perla develops and defines Node Center's structure which has included the Collaborative Curatorial Residencies, Online Educational Platform and now the Innovators Program.
www.nodecenter.org
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AIT SLIDE TALK #32: "A-I-R and the City / Laboratory of relations"
Talk by Marianna Dobkowska from the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 22nd, 19:00-21:00
Venue: AIT Room, Daikanyama
*The talk will be held in English, with no Japanese translation.
Top Left: "We Are Like Gardens" temporary permaculture garden, project by Juliette Delventhal and Paweł Kruk at A-I-R Laboratory, summer 2012
Photo : Michał Grochowiak, Courtesy of CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Top Right: Bread and pizza baking oven project of Juliette Delventhal and Paweł Kruk at A-I-R Laboratory, summer 2011, Photo: Michał Grochowiak
Courtesy of CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Bottom Left: Francis Thorburn "Vehicle # 11: Amphibian", moving sculpture and public event, summer 2012, Photo: Bartosz Górka
Courtesy of CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Bottom Right:Beginning of the soudwalk in the frames of workshop "Urban Sound Design Studio" led by Caroline Claus, Warsaw, July 2015
Photo: Bartosz Górka, Courtesy of CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
We are pleased to be hosting Marianna Dobkowska, curator at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw for a one month residency in Tokyo supported by The Backers Foundation.
During Dobkowska's talk she will present some of the projects she has curated and produced at Artists-In-Residence Laboratory, a residency program where she is a curator. Founded in 2003, Artists-In-Residence Laboratory is a department of the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, one of the major institutions of contemporary art in Poland.
A-I-R Laboratory hosts up to 30 international artists a year and focuses on production and research based practices within the context of the residency treated as an artistic medium. Since 2014 the team of A-I-R Laboratory started a new program at the socrealist interior of the former hat shop Porthos in the center of Warsaw.
Invited architects gathered portfolios of the building while designing the revitalization of its interiors. Activities programmed in the space are directed to stimulate discussions: about the heritage of socialist realism and the social responsibility of the institutions of art.They are also focused on establishing new relations with local communities.
Throughout the talk, questions and comments from the audience will be welcomed.
We look forward to your attendance at this special event.
【Outline】
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 22 2015, 19:00 - 21:00
Organized by: Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]
In cooperation with: The Backers Foundation
Venue: AIT Room Daikanyama (Twin Bldg. Daikanyama B-403, 30-8 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku)
Capacity: 30. *Booking Required.
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 #32" to otoiawase@a-i-t.net, including your name, and contact.
[ Curator Biography ]
Marianna Dobkowska
Marianna Dobkowska curates projects, residencies and exhibitions, edits and designs publications and produces new works at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. She studied art history at Warsaw University and curating at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. She was a curator and manager of the Polish-Norwegian production and research based project and exhibition, Rooted Design for Routed Living. Alternative design strategies and editor of the book under the same title as well as co-manager of Re-tooling Residencies, a project dedicated to investigate the current condition of the residency models and fostering development of new residency-based initiatives in Eastern Europe. Dobkowska's curatorial projects include a solo show of American artist Jesse Aron Green The Allies, a cycle of exhibitions of young Ukrainian artists Transfer and We Are Like Gardens - a permaculture garden established in the park surrounding CCA Ujazdowski Castle. During her research stay at AIT Marianna Dobkowska focuses on social practice Japanese art, grassroots initiatives and programs that have a wide community base.
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www.csw.art.pl
www.re-tooling-residencies.org
www.design-in-residence.org
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"At the still point of the turning world..."
- a salon event curated by Gina Buenfeld (Camden Arts Centre, London)
Saturday 21st February, 2015
Time: 15:30 - 21:00 (Doors open at 15:00)
Venue: SHIBAURA HOUSE (Tokyo)
For this two-part salon event, curator-in-residence Gina Buenfeld (Camden Arts Centre,
London) will present a programme of live performance, screenings of artists' film, encounters
with sound and objects with open discussion in the incomparable setting of SHIBAURA
HOUSE, designed by Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. As a project that emerged from Buenfeld's
curatorial residency with AIT last year, and her ongoing research, "At the still point of the
turning world..." is a selection of works that proposes questions about sculptural and dynamic
form with a particular focus on dance and ceramics - two craft traditions with a strong
historical and contemporary presence in Japan. Drawing out the tensions between seemingly
inanimate objects and fugitive yet perpetually reiterated movement, the event proposes
questions about form and the varied ways in which its characteristics prevail as they are reexpressed
and re-created.
Divided into two acts whose atmospheres are inspired by Noh and Butoh, the event will feature
video works by international artists: Manon de Boer; Trisha Brown | Babette Mangolte; Jefford
Horrigan; Joachim Koester; Simon Martin; Ursula Mayer; Jeremy Millar; Fernanda Muñoz
Newsome and Ina Dokmo; Hiraki Sawa; Sriwhana Spong; a live performance by Mildred
Rambaud who will be in Japan especially for this event; and contributions from AIT artists-inresidence
Jesse Wine and Caroline Achaintre, who will be based in Tokyo for two months commencing in late January.
Summary
Title: "At the still point of the turning world..."
Date: Saturday 21st February, 2015
Time: 15:30 - 21:00 (Doors open at 15:00)
Venue: SHIBAURA HOUSE（Level 5, 3-15-4 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo）[Access]
Admission: Free (refreshments will be available for purchase)
Capacity: 50 people No reservations needed
Organisers: Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT] , Camden Arts Centre
Supported by: Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2014,
British Council, SHIBAURA HOUSE
Curator: Gina Buenfeld (Camden Arts Centre)
Time table
15:00 Doors open
15:30 - 17:00 Introductory presentations and discussion
- Intermission -
17:30 - 18:30 Act 01
Theme: Noh (screening)
- Intermission -
18:45 - 20:00 Act 02
Theme: Butoh (screening, live performance)
20:00 - 21:00 Open Discussion
Participating artists
Live Performance: Mildred Rambaud
Talk: Caroline Achaintre Jesse Wine
Screening:
1: Theme / Noh (45 min)
Hiraki Sawa
Jeremy Millar
Jefford Horrigan
Ursula Mayer
Manon de Boer
Joachim Koester
2: Theme / Butoh (45 min)
Mildred Rambaud
Simon Martin
Trisha Brown | Babette Mangolte
Fernanda Muñoz Newsome and Ina Dokmo
Sriwhana Spong
[Artist Profile]
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Mildred Rambaud
Mildred Rambaud is a London-based French artist whose practice encompasses a range
of media including sculpture performance and film to explore archetypal imagery, fragility
and the impossible. She has exhibited and performed at galerie Gabriel Rolt, the Place,
Oto, Shunt, Moot gallery, Point Ephémère, 54éme Salon de Montrouge, Wysing Art
Centre ... beyond others.
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Caroline Achaintre
Caroline Achaintre (FR, 1969). Born in France and raised in Germany, Achaintre trained
as a blacksmith before travelling to London with the prestigious DAAD scholarship to
study at Chelsea School of Art & Design and Goldsmiths College, London. Solo
exhibitions include the Present / Future Illy Prize at Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT from
November 7 and currently at Tate Britain, London, UK until June 2015 as part of the BP
Contemporary Spotlight programme Her works belong to Museum collections that include
FRAC, Aquitaine, FR, Musée d'Art moderne de al Ville de Paris, FR and the Southampton
City Art Gallery, UK. The artist lives and works in London.
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Jesse Wine
Born in 1983, and now living and working in London. Jesse Wine gained his BA Fine Art
from Camberwell College of Art (2007), and his MA Fine Art at Royal College of Art
(2010). His work combines humour, biography and art history. While Wine's work is multidisciplinary,
he often describes himself as a ceramicist. His recent work, mostly using
clay, has an erudite take on the medium, using its history, its alliance with craft and its
placement within the visual arts. His works reveal a fascination with the medium and the
process of making, as well as underlining issues of form and display. Recent and
forthcoming solo shows include BALTIC Centre for Contemporary art, Gateshead, UK;
Galerie Hussenot, paris, FR; Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow, UK; Oriel Mostyn Gallery,
Llandudno, UK (All 2014); BolteLang, Zurich, CH; Offspaceprojekt, Bernkastel, DE (all
2015); South London Gallery, London, UK; Limoncello, London, UK; Wysing Arts Centre,
Cambridge, UK (All 2014)
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[Curator Profile]
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Gina Buenfeld
(Exhibitions Organiser, Camden Arts Centre)
Gina Buenfeld has an MA in History of Art (20th Century) from Goldsmiths College (2004).
Following a period working with gallerist and leading art consultant Emily Tsingou, she
moved-on to be Programme Director at Alison Jacques Gallery, focusing on cultivating
relationships with artists and fostering commercial and curatorial context for their work. In
2009 she began working at Camden Arts Centre where she continues to work as
Exhibitions Organiser, realising ambitious exhibitions with international artists, including
João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Simon Starling, Jeremy Deller, Nathalie Djurberg and
the estates of seminal 20th Century artists Pino Pascali, Hanne Darboven and Dieter
Roth.
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Talk by Gina Buenfeld from the Camden Arts Centre
Date and Time: Tuesday, September 9th, 19:00-21:00
Venue: AIT Room, Daikanyama
*The talk will be held in English, with no Japanese translation.
We are pleased to be hosting Gina Buenfeld, the Exhibition Organizer at the Camden Arts Centre for a one month residency in Tokyo supported by Cultural Affairs. (The residency will take place over a course of two periods, September 2014 and February 2015)
Gina Buenfeld will introduce the history of this institution, that has been one of London's leading publicly funded spaces for international contemporary art for the past 25 years. The talk will cover the Centre's activities which range from ambitious exhibitions with artists of the highest calibre from across the international arts' scene as well as an integrated public programme of talks, events, performances and screenings and a pioneering education programme. Camden Arts Centre has a distinctive combination of galleries, studios and workshop spaces and operates a highly regarded residency scheme. The discussion will place Camden Arts Centre within the broader London and UK art scene and will introduce other key spaces, educational facilities and artists based in the country as well as giving an overview of the current financial conditions and challenges for cultural production in the UK.
Throughout the talk, questions and comments from the audience will be welcomed.
We look forward to your attendance at this special event.
[ OUTLINE ]
Date and Time: Tuesday September, 9th 19:00-21:00
Venue: AIT Room, Daikanyama (Twin Bldg. Daikanyama B-403, 30-8 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) [MAP]
Organized by Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]
*The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, in Fiscal Year 2014
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 #31" to otoiawase@a-i-t.net, including your name, and contact.
[Speaker Biography]
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Gina Buenfeld
Gina Buenfeld has an MA in History of Art (20th Century) from Goldsmiths College (2004). Following a period working with gallerist and leading secondary market dealer, Emily Tsingou, she moved on to be programme director at Alison Jacques Gallery, focusing on cultivating relationships with artists and fostering commercial and curatorial context for their work. In 2009 she moved to Camden Arts Centre where she continues to work as Exhibitions Organiser, realising ambitious exhibitions with international artists, including Simon Starling, Jeremy Deller, Nathalie Djurberg and with the estates of key 20th Century artists such as Pino Pascali, Hanne Darboven and Dieter Roth.
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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.
AIT ARTIST TALK #65
「Technics, Labour, Abstraction」Artist talk about recent works and new ideas by Dutch artist Vincent Vulsma
Date and Time: Monday, March 24th, 19:00-21:00
Venue: AIT Room Daikanyama
*Booking required *Talk will be in English with consecutive translation
Left: Figure 1.1 (Raghu Bhai), 2013 and Figure 1.2 (Norbhai Badhiya), 2013, Jacquard fabric, hand spun cotton
and machine-spun cotton, on wooden stretcher, 215 x 150 x 4 cm and 500 x 150 x 4 cm
Right: Figure 1.2 (Norbhai Badhiya), 2013, detail, Jacquard fabric, hand spun cotton and machine-spun cotton,
on wooden stretcher, 500 x 150 x 4 cm/ Photo: Achim Kukulies
AIT is pleased to present a talk by Dutch artist in residence Vincent Vulsma on Monday, March 24. Vulsma is currently undertaking a residency in Tokyo with support from The Mondriaan Fonds Foundation in the Netherlands.
The work of Vincent Vulsma explores the tensions between autonomous art and the socio-political relations underlying its production. The history and economy of cultural appropriation serve as important starting points for his investigations, with an underlying theme being the relationship between work and artwork. By playing various production technologies off against one another, Vulsma interrogates the hierarchic division of immaterial and material labour in an era that is dominated by digital forms of production.
For example, the source of his recent works, 'Figure 1.1 (Raghu Bhai)' and 'Figure 1.2 (Norbai Badhiya)', which were created on a computer-controlled Jacquard loom, was an 18th century Indian chintz from the collection of the Calico Museum in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Using a handheld scanner primarily used for document scanning, Vulsma digitised details of the historical fabric. The irregularities and distortions caused by the scanning process are transferred abstractly into the digitally woven structure whose height corresponds exactly to the duration of each scan operation. By defining the volume of the cotton to be processed, the amount of physical labour was also quantified. Starting from the idea that abstracted knowledge is stored in cultural goods and artefacts, Vulsma's works reflect the interaction of historical relationships - such as India's leading role in the history of textile production, the rapid development of a European market and the desire to copy the Indian form language for Europe's own production - and the contemporary hierarchies in an unequal global distribution of labour.
For the talk, Vulsma will present a selection of his projects from the past few years. Furthermore he will introduce the focus of his current research in Japan. During his residency Vulsma has studied the historical process of adaption and imitation of exotic cotton textiles during the Edo period in Japan, in particular shima-mono (striped and checked fabrics) and sarasa (Indian chintz and its imitations produced in South-East Asia and Europe). Such imports largely increased under influence of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the early modern global trading system. Rather than focusing on the style and meaning of such patterns, Vulsma is interested in the technical modification that these patterns underwent through local differences in mass printing and dyeing technologies, for example the use of Japanese katagami stencils versus Indian block printing. He would be happy to share how these findings could possibly shape concepts for new works.
The talk will be in English with consecutive Japanese translation.
[ OUTLINE ]
Date and Time: Monday, March 24th 2014, 19:00-21:00
Venue: AIT Room Daikanyama (Twin Bldg. Daikanyama B-403, 30-8 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku)
Organizer: Arts Initiative Tokyo, with support from The Mondriaan Fonds Foundation and with cooperation from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tokyo.
Founder: Mondriaan Fonds
Capacity: 30. Booking Required.
Admission: 1000 yen (800 yen for Students and AIT Base Members, Free for AIT House and Support Members)
Other details: Admission includes one free drink.
[ CONTACT ]
Send an email with its subject as "AIT ARTIST TALK #65" to otoiawase@a-i-t.net, including your name, and contact.
[ Artists Biography ]
Vincent Vulsma (Born in 1982, Zaandam, Netherlands)
Vulsma studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2002-2006) and was a participant at De Ateliers in Amsterdam (2006-2008). His recent solo exhibitions include 'A Sign of Autumn' at Stedelijk Museum Bureau (Amsterdam, 2011) and 'ARS NOVA E5305-B' at Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender (Berlin, 2009); whilst he has also participated in group exhibitions at Museum Abteiberg (Mönchengladbach, 2013), Musée d'Art Moderne (Paris, 2013), De Vleeshal (Middelburg, 2013), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2012), Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2012) and the 6th Berlin Biennale (2010).
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Guatemalan Film Screening and Talk by
AIT Artist in Resident, Alberto Rodriguez Collia
Date and Time: Sunday August 4th, 2013 12:00-18:00
AIT Room, Daikanyama
Left(Tom&Bottom): "The Devil's Dream"
Right(Top): from "Marimbas from Hell" Right(Bottom): "Distance"
AIT is pleased to host a filming event and talk by current Artist in Resident, Alberto Rodriguez Collia from Guatemala.
Through 3 small and intense film screenings, we will present a small but precise glimpse of the Guatemalan society, broken and forced but with a strong heart that is provided from the marginalized.
The political and economical power do not recognize the importance of culture and also try to diminish it, despite that, the society keeps producing and living culture with an underground attitude because it´s on their blood, it's one of their keep-living-motifs.
These small budget, passion-produced films are also the best examples in cinematography from Guatemala, each will have a small introduction and conversatory to explain details of this complicated society by Collia.
There will be a casual session with the artist, with some handmade Guatemalan snacks.
We hope you can join us.
※Films will be shown in Spanish, with English subtitles
※Talk will be in English with consecutive translation into Japanese
[Outline]
Guatemalan Film Screening and Talk by AIT Artist in Resident, Alberto Rodriguez Collia
Date and Time: Sunday August 4th, 2013 12:00-18:00 (Door Open 11:45)
Venue: AIT room Daikanyama (Twin Bldg Daikanyama B403, 30-8 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Capacity: 20 per film
Entrance fee: Comes with 1 drink
For 1 film - 800 JY
For 2 or 3 films - 1500 JY
*Half of entrance fee will be contributed to the 3 filmmakers in Guatemala
[How to participate]
There is no booking required.
Please come directly to the venue and pay entrance fee at the door.
[Event Schedule]
Open 11:45
Talk #1 12:00-12:20
Film #1 12:20-13:40 "Marimbas from Hell"
＜Break＞ 13:40-14:10
Talk #2 14:10-14:30
Film #2 14:30-15:40 "Devils Dream"
＜Break＞ 15:40-16:10
Talk #3 16:10-16:30
Film #3 16:30-17:50 "Distance"
Close 18:00
[Introduction of Films]
○MARIMBAS FROM HELL
Julio Herna´ndez Cordo´n / Guatemala / 2010 / 78 mins.
In Guatemala City contradictions converge in spaces and situations that challenges our imagination. This semi-documentary story represents these encounters and struggles that take place in a society that hates changes. Don Alfonso, a Guatemalan traditional marimba player, Blacko a heavy metal band member and Chiquili´n, a sui-genris-rapper and ex-gluesniffer, seek to create a new musical project due their economical crisis. Their effort to get along will be overwhelmed by the contradictory situation of non-acceptation in society.
○THE DEVILS DREAM
Mary Ellen Davis / Guatemala-Canada´ / 1992 / 68 mins.
From the Guatemalan Trilogy, this is a documentary with important historical value, held at the end of the 80's, shows the traces left by Civil War in Guatemalan society and approaches the discourse of what happened at the time of the Peace Agreements, when many of the Civil War actors covered their traces. Film that narrates through poetry the darkest era of a society.
○DISTANCE
Sergio Rami´rez / Guatemala / 2011 / 75 mins.
Toma´s Choc, a widowed farmer from Guatemala's highlands, has been searching for his daughter ever since she was kidnapped as a baby during the country's civil war. When, after 20 years, he receives word that she is alive, he sets out on a journey cross country to meet her. Gently, beautifully observed and subtly ingenious in its evocation of the horrors of the past, this is an immensely moving and emotionally satisfying film.
[About the artists]
Alberto Rodríguez Collía (b. 1985, Guatemala)
Graduated in 2007 as engraver from Escuela de Arte 10 from Madrid. Co-founded (together with La Torana and Mario Santizo) the Taller Experimental de Gráfica, the first workshop dedicated for engraving in Guatemala (2007). Collía uses archive's images (newspapers, television commercials, documentaries, video clips and the internet) to produce video works, drawings and collages. Selected exhibitions: "Estampida", Des.Pacio gallery ( San Jose, Costa Rica(2012), "Central American Biennial", Nicaragua (2010), "Auction 08", Museum of Latin American Arts , Long Beach, California(2008). Currently exhibiting at "Divided Against Ourselves" New works from Allegra Pacheco and Alberto Rodriguez Collia ( July 13th-July 27th, 2013 at YAMAMOTO GENDAI)
http://www.a-i-t.net/en/residency/2013/06/alberto-rodriguez-collia.php
【CONTACT】
Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]
T03-5489-7277 / F03-3780-0266
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Summer Minglius "Ancient cities in dreams, and 12,350km"
Residence Program Report by 2 Artists: Masahiro Wada and Alberto Rodríguez Collía
Saturday August 3rd 18:30 - 21:30 *Mini-Talk by the artists from 19:30
AIT Room, Daikanyama *Free Entry
