EXHIBITION-RELATED PROGRAMS

The National Art Center, Tokyo “21st DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow” x Mori Art Museum “Roppongi Crossing 2019” Joint Program Talk Session 2 “Using Art Practice to Ponder 2021 and Beyond”

Roppongi Crossing 2019 Related Program
Conducted in Japanese

Takekawa Nobuaki’s contribution to this year’s Roppongi Crossing, Cat Olympics (2018), posits critiques of who the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are actually for, and underneath all the hype, what is being lost. Meanwhile, Yamagata-based Mise Natsunosuke focuses on the future of the relationship between urban and rural. At the Yamagata Biennale in 2018, Mise curated Contemporary Yamagata Thought: Is restoration possible? Community/Region/Japan. This exhibition, which encouraged viewers to rethink the relationship between ourselves and art, by displaying the kind of pre-modern artworks and cultural treasures being lost in Yamagata, addressed what is in fact a pressing issue for most of Japan’s regions. As the capital consumes even more attention ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, this talk will look at the Japan of 2021 onward, from the different perspectives of two artists.

Date & Time

14:00-15:30, March 2 [Sat], 2019 (Doors Open: 13:30)

Appearing

Takekawa Nobuaki (Roppongi Crossing 2019 participating artist), Mise Natsunosuke (21st DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow participating artist), Tokuyama Hirokazu (Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum)