A special workshop for TUA students will be held with Ho Tzu Nyen, who is currently visiting Japan for his solo exhibition “Ho Tzu Nyen: A for Agents” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Students will attend a special lecture on Monday, April 8, to gain an understanding of Ho’s artistic methodology and base approach before participating in the intensive two-day workshop.
Ho’s artworks are rooted in thorough research on the histories of Southeast Asia and East Asia. They are reconstructed in the present day by integrating various media – such as video, animation, performance, VR, and music – as needed, to access a more multi-layered history. Many of his projects involve close collaborations with researchers, translators, and other artists, sometimes over long durations. In this workshop, Ho will share and speak about the archival materials that he has gathered for his projects related to Southeast Asia, Japan, and Korea. Through conversations, exercises, and group work, we will not only experience his approach to dealing with history, but we will also collectively think about the limitations and possibilities of engaging in the histories of “others”.
*This workshop is a Social Practice Seminar class for second-year M2 students in the Global Art Practice course of the Graduate School of Fine Arts, and is open to students in other departments as well.
Dates and time: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 10:00-17:00, Wednesday, April 10, 2024 10:00-17:00
Venue: Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, B2F)
Capacity: 30 students from Tokyo University of the Arts
Conditions of participation: -The participant must be a student of Tokyo University of the Arts -Those who can attend the Ho Tzu-Nyen Special Lecture on April 8 (Mon.), 2024 from 18:00 to 20:00. -Those who are able to attend the entire workshop on April 9 (Tue.) – 10 (Wed.), 2024 from 10:00-17:00. -Those who have no difficulty in attending the workshop in English. *Recommended to see the exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo on April 6 (Sat.) or 7 (Sun.), 2024.
Application: Apply using the form below by Monday, March 25, 2024. After selection, you will be notified by e-mail whether you can participate or not by Friday, March 29, 2024.
Credit: Organized by: Global Art Practice Program (GAP), Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts Co-organized by: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Contact: Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Global Art Practice Email: gapstaffs@ml.geidai.ac.jp
《時間のT：タイムピース》 2023年、映像スチル Image courtesy of the artist and Kiang Malingue
Ho Tzu-Nyen is an internationally renowned artist based in Singapore. Based on his extensive research, he has created numerous video works, installations, and performances that capture and reconstruct the complex multi-layered nature of Asian history in a unique way. In recent years, he has presented a series of new works in Japan, such as “Hotel Aporia” (Aichi Triennale 2019), “Voice of Void” (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, YCAM, 2021), and his solo show “Night March of 100 Monsters” (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2021). Through these projects, Ho continues to make a strong impression on Japanese audiences and provide a new perspective on Asian history.
In conjunction with his new solo exhibition “Ho Tzu-Nyen: A for Agents” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, which opens on April 6, we invite him to the Tokyo University of the Arts to give a special lecture to the students and the general public. The first half of the lecture will be in the form of a lecture, in which he will talk about the ideas and practices that form the basis of his creative activities and the approach he takes in creating his works, using recent works published in Japan as examples. In particular, we will hear in detail about his unique methodology and creative process of bringing to light the multilayered nature of Asian history through his extensive use of quotations and collages from animations and films widely shared in Asia, and making the reappearance of spies, soldiers, monsters, faceless characters, etc. that have been invisible in the history of the region.
In the latter half of the session, we will take questions from students attending the workshop, which will be co-hosted by the Tokyo University of the Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from the following day. We will consider what kind of artistic approach is possible in Asia, which still faces many unspoken historical and political tensions. We hope that this lecture will also provide an opportunity for international students from Asia who are studying at the university to confront history from a pluralistic perspective and connect it with their own artistic expression. We look forward to your participation.
Lecturer : Ho Tzu Nyen Ho Tzu Nyen was born in 1976 in Singapore, where he lives and works. His films, film-based installations, and performances draw from a vast range of cultural materials and discourse, which are repurposed into a visual machinery that animates the entanglement and complexity of history, subjectivity, and power. Ho’s recent solo exhibitions were held at Singapore Art Museum (2023), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, 2022), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi, 2021–22), Crow Museum of Asian Art of the University of Texas at Dallas (2021), Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (2021), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2018), and Ming Contemporary Art Museum (Shanghai, 2018). He represented Singapore at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Ho’s recent group exhibitions include Thailand Biennale (2023), Aichi Triennale (2019), 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018), and 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014). His works have also been presented in numerous international theaters and film festivals, including Theater der Welt (2010, 2023), Holland Festival (2018, 2020), Berlin International Film Festival (2015), Sundance Film Festival (2012), and 41st Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival (2009). In 2019, Ho co-curated the 7th Asian Art Biennial with Taiwanese artist Hsu Chia-Wei at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
Planning and moderator: Chiaki Soma (Art Producer, Associate Professor of Global Art Practice, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts)
Date & Time: April 8, 2024 (Monday) 18:00-20:00
Venue: 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 There will be no online streaming of the lecture.
Eligibility: TUAT students, faculty, staff, and the general public (first-come, first-served; capacity of 150)
Language: Japanese and English with consecutive interpretation (interpreter: Kanoko Tamura)
Credit: Organized by Global Art Practice (GAP) and Inter Media (Sentan), Tokyo University of the Arts Co-organized by Global Support Center, Tokyo University of the Arts Special Cooperation: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Contact: Graduate School of Art, Department of Global Art Practice Email: gapstaffs@ml.geidai.ac.jp
[Opening Hours] 9:30am – 5:30pm (Last admission 5:00pm) *Admission Free Venue｜Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the University Art Museum and within Ueno Campus 12-8 Ueno park, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Organized by Tokyo University of the Arts
Supported by MORINOKAI, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
The concept of heterotopia was coined by philosopher Michel Foucault. While utopia is a utopia that does not exist in reality, heterotopia means an absolutely “other place” that exists in reality. The artist, Akira Takayama, has conceived the tour-performance “Tokyo Heterotopia” as a device to lead the audience to a “heterotopia,” a place in Tokyo where traces of memories of former Asian students, immigrants, and refugees still remain. The number of places visited increased from 13 at the first performance at Festival/Tokyo in 2013 to 30. Now, through a sightseeing app in collaboration with Tokyo Metro, visitors can listen to readings of “stories that could have been there” spun by poets and novelists (Keijiro Suga, Wen Yourou, Yusuke Kimura, Masatsugu Ono, Koma Ikoi, Chen Yu-Chin, Erika Kobayashi, Sachiko Iioka, Natsumi Aoyagi). During the past 10 years, projects have also been developed in cities such as Taipei, Abu Dhabi, Riga, Beirut, Athens, and Frankfurt, where Takayama has been invited, and heterotopias continue to exist in many parts of the world. In this program, we would like to look back on the accumulation and development of this project over the past 10 years, and once again confront the question, “what is heterotopia in Tokyo, a city within Asia? In the first part, we will invite Toni Hildebrandt, an researcher who visited all heterotopias during his stay in Tokyo and wrote a paper entitled “Tokyo Heterotopia: A ‘Passagenwerk’ for the 21st Century”, who will give a presentation based on his paper. In the second part, we will discuss the future possibilities of this project as much as time permits, freely moving back and forth between urban theory, theater theory, tourism policy, and Asian histories, with urban engineer Eiji Hato and the artist himself as discussants. We hope you will join us, as there is much to learn from this project as an example of a sustainable art project that crosses theory and practice and develops over a 10-year period, as well as an example of work that starts from urban research to launch a narrative and project.
Date & Time: Thursday, January 18, 2024, 19:30-21:30 Venue: Community Salon, 3F, International Exchange Building, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts (Map No. 19 below) ( Changed) Lecture Room 1, Chuo Building, Visual Arts Department, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts ( Map No. 7 below) https://www.geidai.ac.jp/access/ueno There will be no online streaming.
Speakers: Part I: Keynote Speech “Tokyo Heterotopia – A ‘Passagenwerk’ for the 21st Century” Speaker: Toni Hildebrandt (Art Historian and Philosopher, University of Bern)
Part II: Discussion “Tokyo Heterotopia” 10 Years and Beyond – Invisible Theater, City, and Tourism around Heterotopia” Discussant: Eiji Hato (Urban Engineer, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo) Akira Takayama (Director, Artist, Professor of the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts)
Planning and moderator: Chiaki Soma (Art Producer, Associate Professor of Global Art Practice, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts)
Language: Japanese and English with consecutive interpretation (interpreter: Kyle Yamada)
Organized by: Chiaki Soma Laboratory, Department of Global Art Practice (GAP), Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Co-organized by: Akira Takayama Laboratory, Department of Media Imaging, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts Global Support Center, Tokyo University of the Arts
Contact: Department of Global Art Practice, Graduate School of Fine Arts Email: gapstaffs@ml.geidai.ac.jp
Toni Hildebrandt Toni Hildebrandt is an Advanced Postdoc and Coordinator of the SNSF Sinergia project “Mediating the Ecological Imperative“ at University of Bern in collaboation with UNAM Mexico City. After receiving his PhD in Art History at the University of Basel in 2014, for which he received the “Wolfgang-Ratjen award”, Toni Hildebrandt has been working at the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art History at University of Bern since 2014. He was a guest lecturer at University of Basel, the University of the Arts in Bern, the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel and New York University, and he held fellowships at the Swiss Institute in Rome (2013-2017), the Central Institute for Art History in Munich (2019) and the Walter Benjamin Kolleg (2020/21; Senior Fellow 2024-26). In 2022 he published the anthology PPPP: Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher (together with Giovanbattista Tusa) and he is currently working on a new book “Art in the Atomic Age“ (forthcoming in 2024).
Eiji Hato Born in 1967. Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Specialized in urban engineering and social infrastructure planning. He was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a visiting researcher at the University of Leeds, a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an associate professor at the Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo before assuming his current position. He has received many awards for his research on decision-making models on mobile networks, including the Yoneya-Sasaki Prize, the Bursary Prize of the World Society of Transportation Engineers, and the Best Paper Award in Transportation Engineering. He is involved in the reconstruction plan of Rikuzentakata and the research and development of the Mobility Cloud, while working on the Tokyo 2060 project.
Akira Takayama Born in 1969, Akira Takayama formed the theater unit Port B in 2002. He has been active worldwide intervening in real cities and societies through touring performances and social experimentation projects using actual cities. In recent years, he has been exploring the possibilities of theatrical ideas and thinking by crossing borders into different fields such as art, tourism, literature, architecture, and education. Major works include “Wagner Project” (Yokohama, Frankfurt, Oita, Kanazawa), “McDonald Radio University” (Frankfurt, Berlin, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Kanazawa, Brussels, Ulsan, Tottori), “Referendum Project” (Tokyo Tokyo, Fukushima, Vienna, etc.), “The Complete Manual of Evacuation” (Tokyo, Frankfurt, etc.), and many others. His main publications include “Theatron: What Links Society and Theater” (Kawade Shobo).
Chiaki Soma Chiaki Soma is Founder and Representative Director of Arts Commons Tokyo, art collective founded in 2014. She is curator and producer specialized in transdisciplinary contemporary art crossing over theater, contemporary art, socially engaged-art, and media arts with AR/VR technology etc. She has produced or curated various projects over last 20 years in Japan and Asia : Program Director of Festival/Tokyo (2009-2013), Founding president and Artistic director of Theater Commons Tokyo (2017-present), Performing Arts Curator of Aichi Triennale 2019 and 2022. Recently she worked as program director of the Theater der Welt 2023 in Frankfurt-Offenbach, Germany. She has been awarded the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France’s Minister of Culture in 2015 and the Art Encouragement Prize from Japanese Minister of Culture in 2021. She is currently Associate Professor for The Graduate School of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts.
The Department of Global Art Practice (GAP), Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts is delighted to announce a 2-day Movement Workshop “Body as a Stage” led by Professor Emmanuelle Huynh (dancer and choreographer) from Beaux-Arts de Paris.
This workshop aims to relight the realm of performance through the concept of ‘movement’, exploring not only physical expression, but also investigating spatial awareness and awareness of the self within the collective through various movement practices:
Time, Space and Body will be the tools as well as the investigated field.
We welcome applications from all departments, including those who are new to performance!
【Movement Workshop: Body as a Stage】
Date: December 21 and 22, 2023 (2 days)
Time: 10:00 to 16:30
Place: Ueno Campus
No. of students: 20 students (all departments are welcome)
Application form: Please apply from the form below.
https://forms.gle/peUrtPCtdiwC63mQ9
Application Deadline: December 17, 2023
Language: English (key points will be translated to Japanese)
Biography: Emmanuelle Huynh
Born to Vietnamese and French parents. Huynh studied philosophy at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University and earned a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA) in research. Additionally, she studied dance at Mudra, the school founded by choreographer Maurice Béjart in Brussels, Belgium. After collaborating with Hervé Robbe and Odile Duboc, she received the Villa Medicis overseas scholarship in 1994, allowing her to pursue creative activities in Vietnam. Upon returning from Vietnam, Huynh conceived her solo work “Múa” (1995) on the concept of “borderless collaboration with artists from different fields,” which became a symbol of her dance. In 2009, she collaborated with ikebana master Seiho Okudaira in “Shinbai,” and in 2011, with butoh dancer Akira Kasai in “SPIEL”. From February 2004 to December 2012, she served as the artistic director of the National Center for Contemporary Dance (CNDC) in Angers. During this time, she created a new master’s degree called “Essais”, offering a dance, creation, and performance training programme, contributing to the center’s reform. In 2009, 2011, and 2013, she initiated and organized the international conference “Schools,” where contemporary dance and art schools from around the world showcased their educational programmes. In September 2016, Huynh became the professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris heading the choreography, dance, and performance arts atelier.
Less than two months have already passed since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, and the Israeli army invaded Gaza in response. During this time, more than 15,000 civilians and children have lost their lives, and the irreversible destruction and violence continue to deprive the people living there of their human rights, dignity, and hope. In addition, this conflict has manifested itself in the division of the international community and is threatening to disrupt the global art scene, as evidenced by the resignation of the entire selection committee for the artistic director of Documenta 16 in Germany.
What can we see and hear, how can we think, and how can we take action in response to this critical situation? In this talk event, we invite online correspondent Jun Takaku, who is the Jerusalem bureau chief of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and has been reporting and delivering articles on both thePalestinian and Israeli scenes every day. Mr. Takaku is a journalist specializing not only in politics and economics, but also in social thought and the arts in general. Since October 7, he has been visiting extreme situations on the ground every day and has conducted extensive interviews with everyone from politicians and military personnel to ordinary citizens and refugees, and has written multifaceted articles.
At this meeting, we would like to hear from Mr. Takaku, who has heard a vast number of voices in Palestine/Israel, for as long as time permits. In addition, we would like to explore together with Ikuo Gonoi, a political scientist, the forms of imagination and solidarity that are possible only at an art university, while weaving a dialogue with the artists and students who will gather at the event. We hope you will join us.
*Please note that there is a possibility that Mr. Takahisa’s speaking time or participation may change depending on the situation. *There are no plans for online distribution.
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 18:00-20:00
Venue: Community Salon, 3F, International Exchange Building, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts (Map #19 below) https://www.geidai.ac.jp/access/ueno
Speakers: Speaker: Jun Takahisa (Chief of the Asahi Shimbun’s Jerusalem Bureau, Correspondent Reporter) Discussant: Ikuo Gonoi (Political Scientist, Professor at Takachiho University, Faculty of Business Administration) Moderator: Chiaki Soma (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts)
Free of charge, reservation required (first-come-first-served basis, capacity of 50 people)
Submission Form Fully booked
Language: In principle, Japanese will be used, but for those who are not Japanese speakers, we will be flexible and switch to English for some parts.
Organized by: Global Art Practice (GAP), Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Co-organized by: Tomoko Shimizu Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Art Creation (GA), Tokyo University of the Arts Global Support Center, Tokyo University of the Arts
Contact: Graduate School of Art, Department of Global Art Practice
Email: gapstaffs@ml.geidai.ac.jp
Profile of Speakers
Jun Takaku Jun Takahisa joined the Asahi Shimbun in 2006. After working in the Culture and Life News Department, the International News Department, and the Opinion Editorial Department, he became the Jerusalem Bureau Chief in 2022. He originally became a newspaper reporter to cover music and dance. Overseas, he has covered such events as the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2003 and the referendum in the U.K. on leaving the European Union in 2004. He is co-author of “Is Democracy Really the Best Rule?
Ikuo Gonoi Political theorist and professor of International Relations at Takachiho University. He specializes in democratic theory, international order theory, and aesthetics of politics. He is also one of the founder of “Rikken Democracy no Kai” (Association for Constitutional Democracy) and a selector and author of “Japanese Politics” in “Gendai Jogo no Kihonjikai” (Basic Knowledge of Contemporary Terms). His most recent article is “Is Cancellation Culture Choking Democracy?” (Sekai, June 2023), “Contemporary World Order proposals and Pacifist norm” (Houhou Jiho, May 2023), etc. He is also the co-author of “How to Really Enjoy Contemporary Art” (Film Art, Inc.) and “Tetsuya Yamagami and Japan’s ‘Lost 30 Years'” (Shueisha, Inc.).
Chiaki Soma Art Producer, Representative Director of NPO Arts Commons Tokyo. She specializes in curating and producing contemporary and transdisciplinary arts. She has experience working with Palestinian and Lebanese artists. First Program Director of Festival/Tokyo (2009-2013), Curator of Aichi Triennale 2019 and 2022, President and Artistic Director of the Theatre Commons Tokyo (2017-present). She served as Program Director of the World Theatre Festival 2023 in Germany.
Date: October 30th (Mon), 2023 Time: 13:00 Open / 13:30 Start Venue: Lecture Room 1, Fine Arts Department, Tokyo University of the Arts Admission: Free / Reservation Needed Guest: Tim Ingold Language: Japanese / English (simultaneous interpretation available)
Schedule: 13:30~15:00【Lecture】BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE: REFLECTIONS ON THE MEANING OF RESEARCH 15:15~16:00【Talk】Drawing Dialogue with Hiraku Suzuki（Artist, Associate Professor） Reservation Form: https://forms.gle/KTGW6FnYAuS2n4YHA *Registration will be closed when we reach capacity due to limited seats *Please register one person at a time
スケジュール： 13:30~15:00【講義】芸術と科学のあいだ：リサーチの意味を考える 15:15~16:00【対談】Drawing Dialogue with 鈴木ヒラク（アーティスト、本学准教授）
Organized by: Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts; Global Art Practice, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts Supported by: Japan Institute of Design Promotion; SAYUSHA Contact: info-ga@ml.geidai.ac.jp / 050-5525-2725 (Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
1948年英国バークシャー州レディング生まれ。社会人類学者。トナカイの狩猟や飼育をめぐるフィンランド北東部のサーミ人の社会と経済の変遷についてフィールドワークを行なう。線という観点からあらゆるものを捉えなおす『ラインズ 線の文化史』(原著2007)、手の仕事を通じて人類学を編みなおす『メイキング 人類学・考古学・芸術・建築』（原著2013）のほか、『ライフ・オブ・ラインズ 線の生態人類学』（原著2015）、『人類学とは何か』（原著2018）、未邦訳の著書としてThe Appropriation of Nature（1986）、アカデミズムにおける進化の概念を俯瞰するEvolution and Social Life（1986）、世界の知覚のあり方を問い直すThe Perception of the Environment（2000）などの著書がある。
We will have Special Guest Lecture by Prof.Suchan Kinoshita and Prof. Julia Schmidt from Kunstakademie Münster, which is a part of collaboration Project with the Sculpture Department, Oil Painting Department, and GAP. They will talk about recent developments at the university and share insights into their own creative work.
On November 25th (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.
概要/Outline
日時/Date: 11月25日（土）/ Saturday 25th November 2023
時間/Time: 13:00 – (JST)
集合場所 / Venue: 東京藝術大学取手キャンパス メディア棟２階第1講義室/1st lecture room, Media building 2F, Toride campus, Tokyo University of the Arts.
