2015.6.7 Finished

International Symposium: Imagining Asian Art in Global Asias

Time and Date:: 9:30-18:30, Saturday, June 27, 2015
Venue:: Auditorium, Administration Office Bldg. 3F, the University of Tokyo, Komaba
Language:: English
Note:: Admission Free; No Registration Required
Organized by:: The Educational Project 1 "Shape of Life," Integrated Human Sciences Program for Cultural Diversity (IHS), the University of Tokyo
Cooperation:: Mori Art Museum, New York University Global Art Exchange, and The Japan Foundation

This symposium, organized by the University of Tokyo's Integrated Human Sciences Program for Cultural Diversity (IHS), aims to interrogate the notion of Global Asias and the contemporary situation of Asian art in and beyond geographical Asia.

The idea of Global Asias, which refers to the global dislocation, relocation, and transformation of goods, ideas, and people originating in Asia, calls attention to transnational conflict and negotiation at multiple intersecting levels. It is concerned with relationships not only between indigenous cultures inside Asia, but also between Asian-derived cultures outside of Asia. Global Asias looks, for example, not only at the relationship between Japan and the United States or Japan and Brazil, but also the relationship between Japanese-American and Japanese-Brazilian.

The symposium proposes to focus specifically on contemporary art practices in relationship to the global diffusion and transformation of Asian art and culture. We would like to explore how local art history in Asian countries is reconfigured by, and also reconfigures, the globalization of Asian art and its discourses. We are also interested in examining how art practices within a given country relate to art practices by those who are from that country but live and work elsewhere.

In addition, we would like to consider how the idea of Global Asias, which represents a plural and transnational concept of Asian culture, figures in the processes of globalization that in some way exercise hegemonic effects on local and indigenous art practices. The symposium will also consider global framings in relation to the concept of Global Asias which may include a call back to the international or may examine practices that call upon the global in terms of the planetary.

SCHEDULE

9:30	Opening Remarks: Uchino Tadashi, Professor, University of Tokyo Thomas Looser, Associate Professor, New York University
10:00 - 12:00	Panel 1: Beyond Boundaries in East and Southeast Asia Synthetic Experience in Contemporary Korean Art: The Alternative and Cinematic Medium in the Age of Anxiety and Disaster Chung Yeon Shim, Associate Professor, Hongik University, Seoul Coordinates of Region, Latitudes of Locality Patrick D. Flores, Professor, University of the Philippines, Diliman Perception and Distance of the Globalization: How Japanese Contemporary Art Has Been Delivered to New Audience Kataoka Mami, Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Globalized East and Ecological Globe: Is There a Way for Chinese Art to Take? Wang Chunchen, Associate Professor, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Discussants Inaga Shigemi, Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto Miriam Wattles, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara Moderator: Kajiya Kenji, Associate Professor, Kyoto City University of Arts
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 15:00	Panel 2: Imagining Japan in Contested Sites of Contemporary Art Hybridity, Precarity and Possibility in Recent Works by Yamashiro Chikako and Soni Kum: "Imagining an Asia, Politics and Art to Come" Rebecca Jennison, Professor, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto Global Asias: Diversity of Nippo-Brazilian Artists Michiko Okano, Professor, Federal University of São Paulo To the Ubbeboda Station: Yoshio Nakajima in Northern Europe Shimada Yoshiko, artist Mahatma Gandhi, Mao Zedong and Nguyen Ngoc Loan Who Executes Viet Cong Captain Nguyen Van Lem: The Asian Images of Morimura Yasumasa, 1991-2010 Ayelet Zohar, Curator and Lecturer, Tel Aviv University Discussants Kuraya Mika, Chief Curator, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Ido Misato, Project Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo Moderator: Nakajima Takahiro, Professor, University of Tokyo
15:15 - 17:15	Panel 3: Localized Mobilities / Mobilized Localities in Transnational Asias Sociologies of Artistic Consumption and Education John Clammer, Visiting Professor, United Nations University, Tokyo Scale Drawing: Contemporary Art and Globalization in South Asia Sonal Khullar, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle Behind the Waves Jawshing Arthur Liou, Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington Art in the Centre of Asia: an Identity Crisis or a Multicultural Modernity? Yuliya Sorokina, independent curator Discussants C. J. W.-L. Wee, Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Imamura Yusaku, Director, Tokyo Wonder Site Moderator: Uchino Tadashi
17:30 - 18:30	Wrap-up Discussion Kataoka Mami Thomas Looser Inaga Shigemi Uchino Tadashi Moderator: Nakajima Takahiro

See also "Global Art and Diasporic Art in Japan and Asia", symposium jointly organized by Mori Art Museum, New York University Asia 2015 Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange Initiative, and the Integrated Human Sciences for Cultural Diversity Program (IHS), the University of Tokyo.

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IHS students will be asked to submit a report essay after attending the symposium.
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