Day 1 Saturday, August 19, 2023 17:00-19:30
UTAMURA Hanae x HOMMA Mei
Guest: KEINO Yuka (Curator, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori Public University)
Day 2 Sunday, August 20, 2023 14:00-16:30
KIM Woojin x KIM Insook
Guest: YAMADA Yuri (Curator, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)
Venue: Former movie theater (2F Asahi Building, 3-31-18 Higashi-Nippori, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo)
Tickets can be purchased from the following website:
https://screeningdialogue.peatix.com/
Supported by: Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Arts Council Tokyo [Startup Grant]
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On Day 1, we will be screening works by Utamura Hanae, who uses her body to contemplate natural phenomena that far exceed the human scale, and works by Homma Mei, who explores issues surrounding women through collaborative productions with collectives and research into the traditional culture of the region where she is staying.
program
Venue 16:30
Screening 17:00-18:15
Hanae Utamura
①Secret Performance Series (10 minutes 23 seconds)
② Rise and Fall (2 minutes 35 seconds)
③When a Line Becomes a Circle (6 minutes 46 seconds)
③Spring Water, Faults, and the Body (16 minutes 34 seconds)
Mei Homma (Back and Forth Collective)
④Speculative Fiction: Practicing Collectively (24 minutes)
⑤Bodies in Overlooked Pain (14 minutes)
Talk 18:30-19:30
We have invited Ms. Yuka Keino, curator at the Aomori Public University Contemporary Art Center, to speak to the two artists about how they use their own bodies as a starting point for thinking, and the paths they take to connecting with and collaborating with others.
Film introduction
Hanae Utamura
The Secret Performance Series involves traveling to various locations around the world, such as beaches and deserts, and leaving a mark on the land.
The performance was recorded at a castle in the south of France.
"Rising and Falling" and "Spring Water, Faults and Bodies" are a collection of overlapping images, including the memoirs of a scientist who was once involved in nuclear energy research, a research institute for geological disposal technology of radioactive waste, and a workshop at an artist-in-residence program in Aomori.
Honma Mei
The Back and Forth Collective, of which Homma is a member, has produced Speculative Fiction: Practicing Collectively, a work co-produced with a Scottish curator on the theme of women's care work such as childcare and housework, and Bodies in Overlooked Pain, a performative re-enactment of Indonesian traditions and customs surrounding childbirth.
Artist Profile
UTAMURA Hanae
Born in Ibaraki Prefecture. Based in New York and Tokyo. Graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Art at Chelsea College of the University of the Arts London.
Currently enrolled in a doctoral program in the Electronic Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA). He travels to various places around the world and creates works that use the body as a medium, incorporating the memories and history of those places. He is the recipient of the 12th Shiseido Art Egg Award.
He has held solo exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany) and has participated in special exhibitions at Aomori Contemporary Art Center, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), Tretyakov Gallery (Russia), and the IJssel Biennale (Netherlands).
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HOMMA Mei
Born in Tokyo. Based in Tokyo and Bandung. Graduated from the Fine Art Department at Chelsea College, University of the Arts London.
Based on research into the historical relationship between Indonesia and Japan, she creates works that intertwine archives, novels, and everyday items to consider inter-national relationships. In recent years, she has focused on women's issues. She has held solo exhibitions at the Koganecho Area Management Center and Akasa Bookstore (Indonesia), among others. She has participated in special exhibitions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the Mito Art Museum Contemporary Art Gallery, and the Semarja Gallery (Indonesia). She is a member of the "Back and Forth Collective."
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Guest Curator
KEINO Yuka
Born in Tokyo and raised in Kanagawa Prefecture, he completed a master's course at the Graduate School of Academic Information Sciences at the University of Tokyo.
From 2014 to 2016, she worked as an assistant at the Visual Arts Department and Social Contribution Center (now the NPO Arts Center Akita) at Akita Prefectural University of Art and Design, before being dispatched to the National Museum of Samoa for two years from 2017. Since 2019, she has worked as a curator at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC) at Aomori Public University, where she is working to further maximize the facility's potential by planning and producing exhibitions based on local research and residency production, as well as restructuring (co-planning) the residency program. Her major projects at ACAC include the exhibition "Cracks in Life: Modernity Depicted in Fabrics from Aomori" (2020) and the SIDE CORE/EVERYDAY HOLIDAY SQUAD solo exhibition "under pressure" (April 24 - June 27, 2021).
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On Day 2, we will be screening works by Kim Woo-jin, who focuses on the disappearing minority languages of Asia and explores the image of "us" as we are exposed to rapid social change, and works by Kim In-sook, who expands the concept of the "individual" to include family and community.
program
Venue 13:30
Screening 14:00-15:15
Kim Woo-jin
①Memories Projects: Part 1. Disappeared, disappearing (27 minutes)
②Memories Projects: Part 2. Collapsing Sign (5 minutes 20 seconds)
③Memories Projects: Part 3. Korean Dictation Test_You Will Have to Answer Questions What You Hear(7 minutes)
④The Ghost, Sea and Moebius Loop (9 minutes)
Kim In Suk
⑤The Real Wedding Ceremony (18 minutes 19 seconds)
⑥House to Home, Come On Ceremony, #Ceremony (2 minutes 42 seconds)
⑦House to Home, Come On Ceremony, #Interview (4 minutes 02 seconds)
⑧House to Home, Families (17 minutes 06 seconds)
Talk 15:30-16:30
We will be joined by guest Yuri Yamada, curator at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, to discuss what they value in expanding their project and how they turn the social issues that emerge from interacting with people into artwork.
Film introduction
Kim Woo-jin
Memories Project No.1-No.3 was produced through interviews with people of various generations and collecting songs about minority languages spoken in places like Taiwan, Jeju Island in Korea, and Hong Kong. The Ghost, Sea and Moebius Loop overlaps the situation of minority languages being eliminated by digitalization with the situation of regional cities being lost due to population concentration in cities.
Kim In-sook
The Real Wedding Ceremony is set at the bride and groom's own wedding, and shows how those around them form a new community through the ceremony. The House to Home series explores the family-like relationships that are built with others within the local community in a town where Korean houses built in the 1930s remain.
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Artist Profile
KIM Woojin
Born in Korea. Graduated from the Department of Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Completed a doctoral course at Ewha Womans University. Based in Seoul, she stays in various communities, observing the causes and establishment of social stagnation and engaging in creative work that explores this process. She has held solo exhibitions at alternative space Loop (Korea), Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo (Tokyo), Seongnam Art Center (Korea), Incheon Art Platform (Korea), and Kim Jong Young Museum of Art. She has participated in curated exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (Korea) and Nam June Paik Art Center (Korea), among others.
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KIM Insook
Born in Osaka. Graduated from the Photography and Video Course in the Department of Western Painting at Hansung University Graduate School of Art (Korea). Since 2003, he has been based in Japan and Korea, working on projects that examine memory, history, tradition, diversity, and relationships with immigrants and local communities. He has held solo exhibitions at Gwangju Museum of Art (Korea) and Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo (Tokyo), among others. He has participated in special exhibitions at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (Korea), Seoul Museum of Art (Korea), and Busan Museum of Art (Korea). He won the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 Commission Project Special Award. He is a member of "Knots for the Arts."
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Guest Curator
YAMADA Yuri
Born in Chiba Prefecture. Completed a master's course at the Graduate School of Letters, Waseda University.
After working at the IZU PHOTO MUSEUM (Shizuoka) in 2014, she has been working as a curator at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum since 2018. She has curated the exhibitions "Fiona Tan Ascent" (2016), "Teri Weifenbach" (2017), "Memories Seep into the Earth, Cross the Wind: Emerging Japanese Artists Vol. 18" (2021), and "Seiichi Motohashi and Robert Doisneau: Intersecting Stories" (2023). Her joint exhibitions include "About Love: Asian Contemporary" (2018) and "Reversible Future: Japanese-Australian Contemporary Photography" (2021).
Part-time lecturer at Meiji Gakuin University.
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