Urgent Talk 028:
Rethinking the Artist Catalogue
- Jun Yang’s Monograph Project
Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available
Today, despite the permeation of electronic media, the catalogues that accompany exhibitions and biennales and collections of artists’ works (monographs) show no sign of disappearing. In particular, monographs, which have existed for many years as means of introducing the activities of artists and sometimes even helping establish the credibility of or lend authority to an artist, have become increasingly diverse in terms of their format, page number and design. One of the participating artists of Mori Art Museum's “Roppongi Crossing 2016,” Jun Yang, based in Taiwan, Austria and Japan and who's active on the international stage, is a conceptual artist who is also interested in the institutions and systems surrounding contemporary art. At “Urgent Talk 028,” he explores the possibilities of the artist catalogue based on his own 9-year-long project concerning monographs (a total of six volumes, all with different formats).
- Date & Time
- 15:00-16:30, June 25 [Sat], 2016 (Doors Open: 14:30)
- Speaker
- Jun Yang (Artist)
- Jun Yang
- Born in 1975 in Qingtian, China. He lives and work in Vienna, Taipei, and/or Yokohama. Received M.A. Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. His recent exhibitions include 9th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea, 2012), “What a Wonderful World: Visions in Contemporary Asian Art of Our World Today” (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012), “Jun Yang: The Gallery Show” (Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, 2015), and “Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice” (Mori Art Museum, 2016).
