Talk Session Series “Connecting with Unfamiliar Worlds” Day 2
WORLD CLASSROOM Exhibition-Related Program
Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available
The video archive of the program is now uploaded on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SMu12UXGpz1Kw2dH7FQBYkNRzDJZu6f
(Language: Japanese, subtitles: N/A)
Emanating concurrently from different corners of the globe, contemporary art brings encounters with a plethora of values reflecting the times, the history of different places, and artist identity, and at the same time offers us a chance to find universal connections with worlds other than our own. During their schooling, students also study the world from various angles, however learning today is formalized and divided into specialist subject fields. At the “Connecting with Unfamiliar Worlds” talk sessions organized by the Mori Art Museum in conjunction with Rikkyo University, participants will learn about topical issues in fields including literature, social studies, philosophy, mathematics, and science, and discuss the links between these fields, and with contemporary art, and the diverse and simultaneously universal qualities of different realms.
* Speakers at each of the talk sessions will include Rikkyo University teaching staff, plus curators and artists.
- Dates & Times
- [Day 1] 18:00-20:30, Friday, June 16, 2023 (Doors open: 17:30)
[Day 2] 14:00-19:00, Saturday, June 17, 2023 (Doors open: 13:30)
[Day 3] 14:00-18:30, Sunday, June 18, 2023 (Doors open: 13:30) - Booking
- Booking required for each day even if you’d like to participate both days.
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* Book for Day 1 here.
* Book for Day 3 here.
- DAY 1
- 18:00-20:30, Friday, June 16, 2023 (Doors open: 17:30）
- [Introduction]
Appearing - Nishihara Renta (President, Rikkyo University; Professor, Department of Christian Studies, College of Arts, Rikkyo University), Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum)
- [Talk Session I]
“On attempts to show the unseeable”
Appearing - Hachikai Mimi (Poet; Professor, Department of Letters, College of Arts, Rikkyo Univeristy), Miyagi Futoshi (Featured Artist)
- Moderator
- Yahagi Manabu (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum)
- * Click here to see the profile of the speakers of DAY 1. (PDF/703KB)
- DAY 2
- 14:00-19:00, Saturday, June 17, 2023 (Doors open: 13:30）
- [Talk Session II]
“Living long on Earth as creatures of the cosmos”
Appearing - Kameda Shingo (Professor, Department of Physics, College of Science, Rikkyo University; Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Miyanaga Aiko (Featured Artist)
- Moderator
- Tsubaki Reiko (Curator, Mori Art Museum)
- [Talk Session III]
“Art and society: Techniques for observing and imagining ‘the world at large’”
Appearing - Koizumi Motohiro (Professor, Department of Contemporary Culture and Society, College of Sociology, Rikkyo University), Aoyama Satoru (Featured Artist)
- Moderator
- Kondo Kenichi (Senior Curator, Mori Art Museum)
- [Talk Session IV]
“Uncovering multilayered memories of different peoples at Vietnamese archaeological sites”
Appearing - Yamagata Mariko (Specially Appointed Professor, Curator Course, Certification Courses, Rikkyo University), Fujii Hikaru (Featured Artist)
- Moderator
- Kumakura Haruko (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum)
- * Click here to see the profile of the speakers of DAY 2. (PDF/602KB)
- DAY 3
- 14:00-18:30, Sunday, June 18, 2023 (Doors open: 13:30）
- [Talk Session V]
“Meeting the overwhelmingly other Penan forest people of Borneo”
Appearing - Okuno Katsumi (Professor, Department of Intercultural Communication, College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University)
- Moderator
- Tokuyama Hirokazu (Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum)
- [Talk Session VI]
“Lessons in living freely, Roman-style”
Appearing - Kato Masue (Professor, Department of Christian Studies, College of Arts, Rikkyo University)
- Moderator
- Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum)
- [Synthesis]
Appearing - Okuno Katsumi (Professor, Department of Intercultural Communication, College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University), Kato Masue (Professor, Department of Christian Studies, College of Arts, Rikkyo University), Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum)
- * Click here to see the profile of the speakers of DAY 3. (PDF/449KB)
- Organizers
- Mori Art Museum; Research Center for the Humanities, College of Arts, Rikkyo University
- In Association with
- Rikkyo Educational Corporation
Root of Steps
2023
Naphthalene and mixed media
Dimensions variable
Production support: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
Courtesy: Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
Installation view: WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2023
Photo: Furukawa Yuya
The Ocean View Resort
2013
Video, color, sound
19 min. 25 sec.
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