“Sorry, this is (not) for you.” is an exhibition presenting an imaginary pawnshop where belongings with personal value are exchanged for essential items at extorting rates. The exhibition poses the question to the viewer: What things/attachments/stories are you willing to give up to preserve your life? Historically, colonialism and capitalism has enacted power as pawnbrokers, dictating what “acceptable” means and forcing marginalized communities and individuals out of respectable trades and positions in society. Outside of the mainstream, the marginalized are both associated with and victimized by the contemptible space they unwillingly occupy. In the pawnshop, both the clerks and the customers are victims of the same system yet are forced to play by its rules. Like the transparently omitted negation in the brackets of the title, the imaginary space of the pawnshop promises to fulfill the individual’s desires while arrogantly ignoring their needs. The exhibition illuminates women’s lives within those constraints, contaminated by society, economy, and history. The viewer is left to wander in the myriad of textual options, each of them simultaneously hiding and bearing the weight of female stories deemed unfaithful and contemptible by society.
After three years, artist Chen Wei-Ting returns with his solo exhibition “Paramita” at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, running from November 9 to December 29, curated by Tseng Hsueh-Yen. This exhibition gathers Chen’s key works from the past decade, spanning his artistic journey between Taiwan and Japan. It features handwritten poetry, paintings, sculptures, and multimedia works, reflecting his profound exploration of themes such as life, growth, and existence.
On November 23rd (Saturday) , GAP will hold an on-campus tour and department informative session in Toride Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts. For those who are interested in GAP, and have questions, please fill out the form and send it. *There is no reservation, the reception will be occur on the event day.
Students begin the first year with a course called GAP Practice which incorporates studio practice based around Toride, art fabrication in the ‘Common Workshop’*, and field work.
This is guided through lectures and practice-based instruction particularly through experimental workshops on expanded drawing, interdisciplinary dialogue, material exploration such as with sound and ceramic, and installation art, with the intention of supporting the generation of students’ own methodologies for art-making.
GAP encourage students to tailor their own work-environment, to develop methods for realizing works that are conceptually-based or process-led, and to gain fundamental skills to enable them to install artworks in an exhibition setting.
(*The ‘Common Workshop’ offers access to and instruction in the use of the university’s extensive metal, wood and stone workshops, enabling the development of work with diverse materials and processes.)
This exhibition will be the presentation of the GAP Practice course for Master 1 students during Toride Geisai period. Venues will separated in different GAP facilities and Toride campus common space.
Matthias Bruhn is Professor of Art Studies and Media Theory at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. He studied Art History and Philosophy in Hamburg (Dr. phil. 1997) where he also directed the research department “Political Iconography” at the Warburg Haus (until 2001).
After several fellowships and a position as coordinator of the World Heritage Studies program at BTU Cottbus, he worked as a Permanent Research Associate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and as Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung”.
His research focuses on scientific as well as political and economic functions of images, the development of visual media and comparative methods in Art History.
テーマTheme:
Reorienting Mnemosyne – Aby Warburg’s Atlas project in a comparative perspective. ムネモシュネの再編成：アビ・ヴァールブルクによるアトラス・プロジェクトの比較考査
また、23日（水）午後と24日（木）午前には、大学会館2階でカールスルーエ造形大学の学生と芸術学科、G A Pの学生が共同で制作した新たなムネモシュネ・アトラスの展示とプレゼンテーションが行われます。ぜひご覧ください。
Dear Non-Japanese speakers! Why not listen to a talk on a new art history in English? We are holding an exciting lecture with Professor Dr. Matthias Bruhn, who is a professor of Art Studies and Media Theory at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. No reservations are required, and there will be simultaneous interpretation in Japanese and English.
Do you know the ‘Mnemosyne Atlas’? This is a series of 63 panels, each of which is made up of a combination of images from ancient times to the 20th century, pasted onto a black panel. By analysing the connections between the images and the panels, it created a new trend in art history. This is the magnificent work of Aby Warburg (1866-1929), a cultural scientist who worked in Hamburg, Germany, and whose research laid the foundations for the field of iconology as it is known today. He converted his private residence in Hamburg into the ‘Warburg Institute for Cultural and Scientific Research Library’, and collected a vast number of books that went beyond the field of art history alone, exploring trans-disciplinary research methods. The images pasted into the ‘Mnemosyne (Goddess of Memory) Atlas(Map Book)’ include not only works of art from ancient times to the 20th century, but also a wide range of visual materials from the same period, such as advertisements and stamps, etc. This was a systematic analysis of images that cut across disciplines. After the death of Warburg, the ‘Warburg Institute for Cultural and Scientific Research Library’ evacuated all of its books and photographic materials to London, fearing persecution by the Nazis. This was the Warburg Institute, which is affiliated with the University of London. Ernst Gombrich, who worked here as an assistant, and Erwin Panofsky, a professor at the University of Hamburg, were greatly influenced by Warburg’s way of thinking and established world-leading methodologies.
Professor Matthias Bruhn, who will give this lecture, aims to construct a methodological model for ‘global art history’, a new approach to art research that is attracting attention, through a re-examination of Warburg’s work. This is an exciting lecture that explores the potential for new methodologies that will open up the future of art history through an examination of the ‘Mnemosyne Atlas’ panel, an art history tool left behind by Warburg. Professor Brune will be speaking in English, but the simultaneous interpretation in English and Japanese will be provided. We will also accept feedback and questions in either English or Japanese. We look forward to seeing you there.
In addition, on the afternoon of the 23rd (Wed) and the morning of the 24th (Thu), there will be an exhibition and presentation of the new Mnemosyne Atlas, which was created jointly by students of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, of the Geijutsu-Gakka (Department of Aesthetics and Art History, TUA) and of the GAP (Global Art Practice, TUA), on the second floor of the University Hall. Please come and take a look.
Mnemosyne Atlas
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日時 Date & Time：
2024年10月22日（火）18:30-20:00 October 22, 2024(Tuesday) 18:30-20:00
会場 Venue：
東京藝術大学上野キャンパス 美術学部中央棟第一講義室（以下の地図の7番） Lecture Room 1, Central Building, Faculty of Fine Arts, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts (No. 7 on the map below) * https://www.geidai.ac.jp/access/ueno
使用言語 Language：
英語 English （日英同時通訳付き） There will be simultaneous translation between English and Japanese.
参加無料・予約不要（先着順）Admission:
Free of charge, reservations not required (first-come, first-served)
主催 Credit:
東京藝術大学美術学部芸術学科 Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Tokyo University of the Arts
東京藝術大学大学院美術研究科グローバルアートプラクティス専攻(GAP) Global Art Practice (GAP), Tokyo University of the Arts
問い合わせ先 Contact:
美術研究科 グローバルアートプラクティス専攻 メール：gapstaffs@ml.geidai.ac.jp Graduate School of Art, Department of Global Art Practice Email: gapstaffs@ml.geidai.ac.jp
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