“Art Linking Communities” Fujinomiya Biennale talk 28 Sept
Art Linking Communities
Artist Talk
FUJINOMIYA BIENNALE 2020
18:30- 20:00
28 September 2019
Ishibashi Historic House
3-chōme-23-3 Kanbara
Shimizu-ku Shizuoka, Japan, 421-3203
For more Information
http://fujinoyama-biennale.com
『コミュニティをつなげるアート』
日時
2019/9/28
18:30- 20:00
場所
旧五十嵐邸歯科医院
静岡県静岡市清水区蒲原3-23-3
『 コミュニティをつなげるアート、 ホノルルと小豆島での実践について』
今回のトークでは、 ジェームス氏のこれまでの活動や、各地で行っているの実践を手法を取り上げながら その活動の意義や目的、私たちの中にある”piko”について考える
詳細
Flyer: 2019fgak.pdf
“Resilient Island Stories” artist talk 14 July
RESILIENT ISLAND STORIES
Date
16:00- 18:00
14 July, 2019
Arts Tropical
688-3 Kokuba, Naha-City, Okinawa, Japan
“DIRT IS NOT DIRTY”
– Walter Ritte
James Jack’s art projects place emphasis on social processes and question dominant political worldviews of power and ownership of land. For this talk, he will focus on Molokai Window (Honolulu Museum of Art, 2018) which explores the visceral relationship between the earth and the people on the island of Molokai by listening and engaging with their stories. Collaborating closely with the community this exhibit shows ways to protect land by cherishing our deep connections with it. Come listen to Jack speak more about Molokai Window and share his rich experiences working with island stories as active forms of resilience.
More Information
info@artstropical.okinawa
https://artstropical.okinawa
立ち上がる島の物語
日時
16:00- 18:00
14 July 2019
Arts Tropical
〒902-0075 沖縄県那覇市字国場688-3
“DIRT IS NOT DIRTY”
– Walter Ritte
ジェームス・ジャックは、社会的プロセスに重きを置き、土地の所有権とその力についての支配的な政治 観に疑問を投げかける作品を制作しているアーティストです。今回のトークでは2018年にホノルル美術 館で発表した作品「モロカイ・ウインドウ」にフォーカスします。この作品はハワイ・モロカイ島 の住人のストーリーから土地との関係について制作されました。その経験から、土地と密接に関わりながら関係性を大切にし、権力から守るする方法をご紹介します。ぜひお越しください。
“Identity XV” exhibit at NCA Tokyo 23 May – 29 June
“Identity XV” exhibit at NCA Tokyo 23 May – 29 June
Work selected for a group exhibit
James Jack
“Botanical Lessons in Idleness”
Handmade walnut ink on paper
Triptych (76 x 56 cm each)
Identity XV
Curated by Meruro Washida
Date
23 May – 29 June
nca | nichido contemporary art
タイトル
Identity XV
Curated by Meruro Washida
会期
5/23(木)-6/29(土)
“Grounded Conversations” talk at NUS Museum
“Grounded Conversations” talk at NUS Museum
Panel Discussion | Grounded Conversations with Yeo Shih Yun and James Jack
Date
Wednesday, 10 April 2019 7pm
S T Lee Atrium, NUS Museum
NUS Museum presents this iteration of the Grounded Conversations series, which brings together Yeo Shih Yun and James Jack to mark the exhibition’s closing. Focusing on their shared attention to methodology, the conversation traces the marks, stains, colours, and pigments present in their respective works that emerge from specific windows of time or particular inhabited sites, while picking out the materiality of their presentations which range from collections of dirt to recorded brush marks. In so doing, the artists articulate the nuances present in the different ways they choose, ruminate on, and respond to their varying environments, through the carefully considered approaches of spontaneity, choreographed acts, or meticulous investigations. Reflecting on the ultimate trajectories of their chosen artistic and research processes, the conversation hopes to reveal the motivations and preoccupations that define their practice.
About Grounded Conversations
Presenting a series of distinct projects on how art practitioners have begun to adopt comprehensive paradigms in their methods, associated variously with environs and formal interests, negotiated through research and rooted commitment, Grounded Conversations brings together practitioners from the contemporary art world to elucidate artistic productions and their contexts.
About the speakers
Yeo Shih Yun graduated from National University of Singapore with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration. She joined LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts and completed a Diploma in Communication Design before pursuing a Post Baccalaureate programme in painting at San Francisco Art Institute. Yeo founded the artist-run space INSTINC, the INSTINC Artist-In-Residence programme and INSTINC Collective.
James Jack is an artist who creates work together with people, places and ecological networks. He has developed socially engaged art works for the Setouchi Triennale, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art amongst others. Recent solo exhibits include Honolulu Museum of Art (2018), Trudeau Gallery at Orford (2018), and TMT Art Projects (2017). He is a member of the World Dirt Association artist collective formed in 2015, and his writings have been published in Art Asia Pacific, Shima, Satoshi Koyama Gallery and The Contemporary Museum of Hawai‘i. Jack was a Crown Prince Akihito Scholar, holds a PhD in Fine Art and is currently Assistant Professor of Art Practice at Yale-NUS College.
Image credit:
Yeo Shih Yun, We are Singapore: Future, 2015. UV print on plexiglass, 30cm diameter each. Edition of 5 (2/5). Collection of the artist. Image courtesy of artist.
Detail from James Jack, Molokai Window, 2018. Natural pigments and gum arabic on wall panel. Image courtesy of Honolulu Museum of Art.
“Sea-centric SEA” Artist workshops in Tainan
“Sea centric SEA” Artist workshops in Tainan
February 2019
Critical Re-imagination of Intercultural Flow in the Kuroshio Current
Aiming to find pathways between Taiwan, Kyushu and Singapore through collective memories of youth
James Jack on Searching for Rumours, Reimagining The Framework and Mapping Alternative Histories
Studio Interview with Artist James Jack by Object Lessons Space
James Jack is an artist who has created socially engaged works for the Setouchi International Art Festival, Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival, and Institute of Contemporary Art. His works have been exhibited at TMT Art Projects, TAMA Gallery, and Beppu-Wiarda Gallery. He was an artist in residence at the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Ku Art Center, the Vermont Studio Center and holds a PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts. Now he is an Assistant Professor of Art at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. We meet with him in his studio to discuss his recent works, exhibitions and upcoming projects.
Full article HERE
“Dialogica” video installation at Museum of the Sky, Nagano
Dialogica
James Jack + Ruri Watanabe Dialogica 2017 (still frame from 30’49” digital video)
TENKU Art Festival
Museum of the Sky
Tomi City, Nagano, Japan
This collaborative artwork made in the mountains of Kyushu at a unique site where local legends say a Chinese monk who brought the first tea leaves to Japan has been sitting in meditation since the 7th century. Artists Watanabe and Jack walk down a ledge to the tip of the same protruding rock to share a “dialogue” together with the past. Starting in silence, this contemplative work grows in a meditative way along with the plethora of sounds present in the burgeoning summer forest. Near the end, one of the artists slowly returns across the ledge while the other continues to sit indefinitely on the stone of meditation.
“Practices of Alternative Spaces and Transitional Politics in Asia”
Speakers:
Yoshitaka Mōri
James Jack
Michelle Lim
Tay Tong
Woon Tien Wei
Moderator:
Chua Beng Huat
Date
19 Oct 2018
Time
18:45 – 21:00
Venue
Moving Image Gallery, Singapore Art Museum at 8Q
8 Queen Street, Singapore 188535
Organized by Minna Valjakka, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Details can be found here
More information
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
https://ari.nus.edu.sg/Album/PhotoGallery/a2bcee57-d76f-456d-a12c-f3aa41dc96e9