CULTURAL TRANSLATIONS 1, CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION Trans-Cultural Contexts - Japanese Artists working with Photography in a Post-National Context
Tuesday 19 October 2004
The Conference Centre, Sir James Matthews Building, Southampton Institute, Above Bar, Southampton, SO14
This symposium is the start of a three year research programme which sets out to investigate the creative transformations that arise out of the mapping of different cultural formations onto and into one another.
This first symposium will examine the cultural forms that arise specifically within the domain of contemporary Japanese art practice through artists working with photography and its relation to cultural context.
The purpose of this symposium and project is to bring together individuals from multiple disciplines and viewpoints who share an interest in this emerging discourse through visual representation. The Cultural Translations 1 symposium coincides with with the exhibition Counter Photography: Japan's Artists Today at the Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute and invites speakers and delegates from Japan and Europe involved as artists, curators, anthropologists, cultural theorists, art historians and students.
Cultural Translations 1 will explore trans-cultural contexts and dialogues as emerging art and cultural paradigms.
Speakers include:
Professor Sarat Maharaj, academic, co-curator of Documenta 11 and opening speaker of the Sao Paulo Biennial 2004 Yuri Mitsuda, Curator, "COUNTER PHOTOGRAPHY Japan's Artists Today" based at The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo Tomoaki Ishihara, Artist – lives and works in Osaka, Japan Dr Dolores Martinez, Anthropologist, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Jonathan Watkins, Director, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Catherine Atherton, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University Tomoko Yeneda, Artist – lives and works in London / Japan Professor Joy Hendry, Europe Japan Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University Shimabuku, Artist - based in Berlin Dr Bernadette Buckley, Head of Education and Research, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton Stephen Brigdale, Senior Lecturer at Southampton Institute Background: Since the late 1980s Japanese art, like Asian art in general, has increasingly turned towards the discourses of Euro-American avant-gardism. In photography this meant embracing notions of simulation and deconstruction. But the Japanese response to postmodernism has not taken the form of a simple translation. Indeed, one could argue that there is no such thing as a simple, one to one translation: as anyone who has learnt a different language will appreciate. The interleaved and interrelated discourses that emanate from a post-national perspective have developed new territories and forms that are only recently being cognised and theorised.
Contact Details:
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or 023 8031 9916 (Millais Gallery direct telephone number)
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Millais Gallery Southampton Institute East Park Terrace Southampton SO14 0YN UK
Support: This conference is supported by the Centre for Advanced Scholarship in Art and Design, Southampton Institute, in partnership with the Millais Gallery (Southampton Institute), the John Hansard Gallery (University of Southampton). Supported by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and The Japan Foundation.
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