STUDY GROUP: SHARING THE FIELD
Sharing the Field: exhibition, festival, project as co-learning platform?
Open Study Group: Exchanges between Japan and Philippines through Art
March 24, 2019
13:00 - 18:30
Admission free
VisLab Osaka（Grand Front Osaka, North Building, 9F)
Keynote Speech
Norberto Roldan (Artist / Director of Green Papaya Art Projects)
Section 1
"Into the Sea of Trees: Practice of Curator and Researcher"
- Tatsuo Inagaki (Artist, Professor of Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Hosei University)
- Atsuo Yamamoto (Chief Curator of the Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art)
Moderator: Hisako Hara (Professor of Faculty of Information Science and Arts, Osaka Electro-Communication University)
Section 2
"Process of Unlearning: Exhibitions, Art Festivals and Projects"
- Miho Nakanishi (Chief Executive Officer of Osaka Arts Council)
- Hitoshi Kanamura (Artist, Associate Professor of Osaka Electro-communication University)
- Mizutama (Artist, Director of FIGYA)
Moderator: Mayumi Hirano (Curator, Load na Dito)
Section 3 "Gap effect"
- Takehiro Iikawa (Artist)
- Kanade Yagi (Artist)
- Qenji Yoshida (Artist)
Moderator: Mark Salvatus (Artist, Load na Dito) A significant number of art exhibitions, festivals and projects is currently organized with an aim to enhance international exchanges. Between the Philippines and Japan, a wide variety of attempts for exchange has been made by art museums, national cultural policy, art organizations and individuals. This open study group, by looking at specific projects, addresses the question - what is exchange after all? What is the role of artists in this globalized contemporary society?
Organised by：VisLab Osaka / Osaka Electro-Communication University
Co-organised by：Load Na Dito、FIGYA
Granted by：TERUMO Foundation for Life and Sciences and Arts
Convened by：Mayumi Hirano
Co-convened by : Hisako Hara
Keynote Speaker
Norberto Roldan
Roldan founded Black Artists in Asia in 1986, a group with a socially and politically progressive practice. In 1990 he initiated VIVA EXCON (Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference), the longest running biennale in the Philippines. He co-founded Green Papaya Art Projects in 2000 which remains to be the longest-running independent and multi-disciplinary platform in the country. Roldan’s own art practice is rooted in social and political issues. His installations, assemblages and paintings of found objects, text fragments and found images address issues surrounding everyday life, history and collective memory. His artistic process engages with ways in which material objects are re-appropriated in another context.
Photo by Conrad Velasco
Session 1: Into the sea of trees
Tatsuo Inagaki
Tatsuo Inagaki is an artist, a professor of the Faculty of International Cultural Communication at Hosei University, and a visiting researcher at Art Studies Department at University of the Philippines in Diliman. Inagaki has started international activities with the participation of VIVA EXCON (Philippines) in 1992. Inagaki's art projects are fundamentally collaborative, and it is promoted based on region-specific form. He also researches art education and develops educational programs.
Yamamoto Atsuo
Born in Kyoto in 1966. Graduated from the Kyoto University, Faculty of Letters, Division of Philosophy, Aesthetics and History of Arts in 1990. 1990-2005 he worked as an assistant curator at the Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, and from 2005-2011 as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, Shiga. He is currently a chief curator of the Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art.
Session 2: Process of Unlearning
Miho Nakanishi
Miho Nakanishi is interested in how arts are incorporated into the social structure as a method to empower socially marginalized people and how such efforts have been positioned in history. She has conducted field research in the Philippines with research grant from Japan Foundation Grant Fellow and Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. She continues her research at the Doctoral Course at the Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University. She works as a Chief Executive Officer of Osaka Arts Council.
Hitoshi Kanamura is Contemporary Artist woriking in various media such as photographic installation, 3D printed sculpture and painting. He makes multi-layred space. He has his exhibitions in mainly Kansai area in Japan. 2015 Visiting Artist, New York State University Albany. 2017 Solo show at West gallery,Quezon, Philippines. Osaka Electro-Communication University Associate Professor.
mizutama
Artist based in Konohana, Osaka
His practice ranges from performing and organising sound performance, running an exhibition space and many more.
In recent years, he has been engaged in exchanges with Filipino artists. In 2018 he was appointed as an emerging producer of the Arts Development Projects of the Osaka Prefectural Government, and hosted a residency program as a platform to invite Manila-based artists to Konohana.
Session 3: Gap Effect
Takehiro Iikawa
Born 1981 in Hyogo. Graduated from Seian University of Arts and Design. Working in a wide range of medium, such as video, photography, sculpture and installation, Iikawa explores the relativity of time and uncertainty of perception. His major exhibitions include: Genbi Dokodemo Tenji 2017 (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017), KAAT EXHIBITION: Open Theater (Kanazawa Arts Theatre, 2017), All for one? (HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO, 2016), Happening Upon (The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, 2013), Taipei International Artist Village (Residency program, Taiwan, 2018). His work is currently shown at Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions (Mori Art Museum).
Kanade Yagi
She graduated Tokyo Zokei University and finished the research program of CCA Kitakyushu. She did research in the Philippines as a researcher of Asia Fellowship of Japan Foundation in 2016 and the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists (short term) in 2017. She currently stays in the Philippines half of a year and does research about spiritualism and creativity in the Philippines, and explores how to express the things that she got from the research as her art works.
Qenji Yoshida
Born in Osaka in 1982. Lives and works in Osaka. An interdisciplinary artist who explores in between somewhere between different cultures utilizing languages, translations and dialogue methodologies.
Studied a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2006. Recent exhibitions: “Compiling behaviors, digesting actions”, TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo, 2018, “インターセクション กับดักนักท่องเที่ยว”, Gallery wks., Osaka, Cartel Artspace, Bangkok, 2017, “理解出来ない is incomprehensible,” QUINTA DEL SORDO, Madrid, 2016, “The Arts of Translation,” BUG Rangsit, Bangkok, 2016, “Vague Distance,” plan.d. produzenten galerie e.v., Dusseldorf, 2016.
Moderators
Hisako Hara
Born in Kyoto. She was the editor of “Art & Critique” (published by Kyoto University of Art & Design, 1987-1997). Hisako has done extensive research on artist-in-residency programs and art spaces, while practicing as a producer, writer, editor and consultant since the beginning of 1990s. She has collaboratively curated exhibitions, including ”Omoide no Ashita” (Kyoto City Museum, 1997), “Move on Asia” (Alternative Space Loop, etc, 2002-2018), “Roppongi Crossing 2004” (Mori Art Museum, 2004), “Between Site and Space” (Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, 2008, ARTSSPACE Sydney, 2009), “Aichi Triennial 2010” (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, etc, 2010). She is a co-author of “Alternatives - Contemporary Art Spaces in Asia” (Japan Foundation: 2001, 2005), “Henbou suru bijyutsukan” (Showado). Her field of study is contemporary art, cultural policies. She is Professor of Osaka Electro-Communication University.
Mayumi Hirano
Based in Manila and Osaka. Co-founder and curator of a mobile research and artistic project, Load Na Dito. She is also the co-founder of 98B COLLABoratory in 2012 organizing and presenting projects until 2018. Mayumi is currently researching on artistic exchanges among Filipino and Japanese artists through VIVA-EXCON (1992), Lake Naguri Outdoor Art Festival (1992) and Baguio Arts Festival (1993). She is a curatorial coordinator of Gwangju Biennale 2018 in South Korea, Asian Public Intellectual Fellow (2013-2014), curator of Koganecho Bazaar (2008-2013), Researcher of Asia Art Archive (2006-2008) and curatorial coordinator of Yokohama Triennale 2005. She completed her Master’s studies at Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Mark Salvatus
artist based in Manila, Philippines. His works have been shown in various exhibitions and venues such as Sharjah Biennial 14, Mill6CHAT, Hong Kong, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; MMCA, Seoul; Singapore Biennale; Guangzhou Triennale; Jakarta Biennale, SONSBEEK International, Asia Society New York, the Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Ateneo Art Gallery and Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center. He is the founder of 98B COLLABoratory serving as the artistic director from 2012-2018. Currently he is working with the mobile artistic and research project called Load na Dito which he also co-founded in 2016.
