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On the Agenda of the Arts - NEW COMMONS -

  • Date：
    2009.11.21(Sat) - 2010.01.17(Sun)
    Closed：
    Mondays (or Tuesdays when Monday is a national holiday), Year End and New Year Holidays: December 28 – January 4
    Time：
    11:00 - 19:00
    Admission：
    Free
    Organize：
    Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture,Tokyo Wonder Site / GOETHE-INSTITUT JAPAN
    Cooperation：
    Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, san art (Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam)
    Venue：
    TWS Shibuya
    Artist：
    Dinh Q. Le / Yuken Teruya / Vartan Avakian

Tokyo Wonder Site and GOETHE-INSTITUT JAPAN have continued a series of projects "On the Agenda of the Arts" since 2007. This project considers "possibilities of Arts" in today's multi-cultural societies with international curators and participating artists. This year, we organize the third exhibition, titled "NEW COMMMONS", which explores how new commons function in globalised and diversed societies and communities.

 

Related Event :   *Reservation required.

◆Helena Waldmann 
　"Performing workshop: Communication through body"

*Finished.　
Date: December 4 (Fri.) - 6 (Sun.), 2009
Tuition fee: 3,000 yen (tax included)  
 *No admission fee required for the talk on 12/4 (Fri.).
Participants' profile: Everyone is welcome, regardless of age or experience.
Venue: TWS Aoyama:Creator-in-Residence
Tutor: Helena Waldmann

■Schedule:

[1] 12/4 (Fri.)> 19:00 - 20:30 Open talk   (Open to public)
  *Japanese-English interpretation.  *No participation fee. Reservation required.

[2] 12/ 5 (Sat.)>  10:30 - 12:30 Session 1  /  14:00 - 16:00 Session 2

[3] 12/ 6 (Sun.)> 10:30 - 12:30 Session 3  /  14:00 - 16:00 Session 4

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 *Finished.                                                                                                                ◆Vasif Kortun "Curatorial workshop"

Date: December 18 (Fri.) - 20 (Sun.), 2009
Tuition fee: 5,000 yen (tax included) 
 *No admission fee required for the talk on 12/18 (Fri.).
Participants' profile: From high school students onwards.
Venue: TWS Aoyama:Creator-in-Residence
Tutor: Vasif Kortun

■Schedule:

[4] 12/18 (Fri.)> 19:00 - 20:30 Open talk   (Open to public)
  *Japanese-English interpretation.  *No participation fee. Reservation required.

[5] 12/19 (Sat.)>  10:30 - 12:30 Session 1  /  14:00 - 16:00 Session 2

[6] 12/20 (Sun.)> 10:30 - 12:30 Session 3  /  14:00 - 16:00 Session 4
 

■■■ How to apply for the workshop ■■■
Send the following information to the FAX number or e-mail address listed below: Date and name of a tutor, number of people wishing to participate, name of representative, address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address.
FAX: 03-5766-3742 or E-mail: contact@tokyo-ws.org to Harada or Takamura.

 

[ Tutors profile ]

Helena Waldmann:
Director and choreographer living in Berlin. In her research in the field of the gaze, she moved the audience directly next to the stage; as a result, works such as 'Die Krankheit Tod', or 'CheshireCat', created between 1993 and 1999, were internationally acclaimed. Since 2000, her works are creating a worldwide stir as political avant-garde theatre, dealing with the themes of exile and immigration, as seen in "Return to Sender", her commentary on European immigration policy, formulated by six exiled Iranian women.

About Helena Waldmann →　http://www.helenawaldmann.com/　　

 

Vasif Kortun:
Born in 1958. Founded in 2001 the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Turkey), whose he is the current director. In 2002-2003, he curated many seminal exhibitions of Turkish artists at Proje4L, Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1992, he was chief curator at the Istanbul Bienniale, and in 2005 curator at the same Bienniale, as well as, among others, the Bienniales of São Paulo and Taipei.

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■Round Table:   *Finished.

Date: November 21 (Sat.), 15:00 -  (door open 14:30)
Admission: Free (Japanese-English Interpretation) 
Participants: Participating artists
Guest speaker: Yuji Takahashi (Composer, Pianist) /
                        Kazue Kobata (Prof., Tokyo University of the Arts)
*No reservation required.  

 

■ARTIST TALK:   *Finished.

Date: November 23 (Mon, National Holiday.), 15:00 - (door open 14:30)
Admission：Free  (Japanese-English Interpretation)
Participants: Participating artists
*No reservation required, Admission Free

en_Dinh_Installation_Whole.jpg                                                               Dinh Q. Le ≪Hyakuri Peace Park: Contested Ground≫2009, Mixed Media Installation

dinh_q_le_mail2.JPG                                                               Dinh Q. Le ≪Hyakuri Peace Park: Contested Ground≫2009, Mixed Media Installation                                                                


Dinh Q. Le　≪South China Sea Pishkun≫ 2009, digital animation still #8,
Courtesy of the artist and 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong

en_Yuken_Installation01.jpg                                                             Yuken Teruya ≪Earn lots of money. No need to write any letters, just send home the money first≫2008, Mixed Media 

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Yuken Teruya ≪Earn lots of money. No need to write any letters, just send home the money first≫2008, Mixed Media.

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Yuken Teruya ≪You-I You-I, 2002 - 2007≫
Linen, pigments, dimension variable　Courtesy of the artist

en_Vartan_Installation.jpg                                                            Vartan Avakian ≪Quick Response Poems≫2009, Installation 

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Vartan Avakian　≪Bleeding Pink (Self-portrait)≫, 2009
History book cover design - Illustration by Karim Farah,
Courtesy of the artist

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