“Symbiosis Symbiont Synthesis” Exhibit@Art no Show, Shodoshima, Sept 2024

展覧会タイトル:

Symbiosis  Symbiontic  Synthesis 

共存 共生 共同 

Artistic collaborations with more than human species in the rich ecosystems of Setouchi

瀬戸内の豊かな生態系を舞台に、人間以上の種との芸術的コラボレーション

 

Organizer:
waseda eco art studio 

https://ecoart.studio/ 

 

会場:Art no Show Terminal

(Shodoshima, Kagawa, Japan)

アートノショーターミナル 

 

Artists: 

Elica Masuya

Hanpeng Lu

Himeko Otake

Ikuto Shiosaka

Jingtong Wu

Kanae Hatano

Megumi Fukuda

Meika Mizuno

Qiutong Zhai

Rinichi Takumi

Ruoxi Chen

Takumi Itagaki

Takuto Kawakami

Taro Furukata

Termites Studio (James Jack, Masashi Echigo, others)

 

Guest:

Leonhard Bartolomeus

 

 

アーティスト:

板垣 拓海 

吴 靖彤 

大竹 媛子 

川上 拓徒 

塩坂 郁人 

侘美 凜一 

陈 若曦 

翟 秋童 

秦野 歌苗 

福田 恵 

古堅 太郎 

升谷 絵里香 

水野 明香 

路 瀚鵬 

Termites Studio (ジェームズ・ジャック、越後正志、他)

 

ゲスト:

レオナルド・バルトロメウス

 

 

2024年9月14日~23日 12:00~18:00

14-23, September, 2024 12:00-18:00

 

 

香川県小豆郡土庄町甲5165-201

0879-62-7006(土庄町役場建設課)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/FpiTmN8Frs4EDVch8?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy 

 

デザイン:Ruoxi Chen

 

支援:

早稲田大学、科研費24K22456、科研費24K03568、National Arts Council Singapore

 

協力:

カサイホールディングス株式会社、コスモイン有機園、宮脇慎太郎、めちゃ工房、皿井明日夏、慈氏周豊、土庄町、矢田建設株式会社、Yellow River College

 

“Termites Studio” @Res Artis Taipei 6–9 September 2024

Res Artis Conference 2024 — TAIPEI

Interweave the Spectrum: Beyond Collaboration

06 – 09 September 2024

The Termites Studio: In Cohabitation with Other Species

 

“In Cohabitation with Other Species” is a community engaged art project by The Termites Studio on Shodo Island (Seto Inland Sea, Japan). As artists, sailors, farmers, educators, parents and more we work with termites in collaborative ways seeking kinship with other living members of the ecosystems we inhabit. Building upon the nourishement of artists living on Shodoshima includuing painter Enokura Shogo (1901-1977), designer Yoshiaki Kawata and multimedia artist Kana Ko (1975-2020); artists James Jack and Masashi Echigo chose to reside as members of the island community after participating in the artist-in-residence program (2009-2015) held on Mito Penninsula. Together with diverse human and more than human collaborators, they now grow shared ideas drawing from the methods whereby termites build nests in complex and collective ways.

We have identified three creative possibilities based on kinship patterns of termites from which humans can learn. First, the potential for forming communities that live together and support each other through endosymbiotic methods. Second, the creative potential found in seasonal digestive behaviors that imbibe natural, artificial and new materials. And third, the possibility of termites, which are widely distributed in not only the Seto Inland Sea region but also tropical island climates, becoming a shared language for connecting more than human dialogues on Shodo Island with other islands particularly in Asia Pacific. Our current focus is on hosting artists-in-residence and assembling a community archive of sensory experiences. Our work aims to nurture a creative nests whereby parents, plants, children, seaweed, insects and more may gain deeper senses of interconnection. Through continued interactions with more than human kin, we hope interspecies relationships will grow on Shodos Island together with an archipelagic network of other islands for many seasons to come.

 

The 2024 Res Artis conference titled Interweave the Spectrum: Beyond Collaboration will be organized by the Taipei|Treasure Hill Artist Village under the Taipei Culture Foundation and co-organized by the Taiwan Art Space Alliance held in Taipei from 6 – 9 September 2024. The conference is supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government.

https://resartis.org/taipei-2024/

 

“American Art in Asia” @ National Gallery Singapore, 2 February 2024

Book Launch and Panel Discussion:
“American Art in Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence”

How do we think and talk about “American” and/or “Asian” art, at a time when the production and display of contemporary art is taking place across diffused borders, under the fluid conditions of a world dramatically transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental crisis, and the recent wars on multiple fronts in Europe and the Middle East?

Moderated by art historian Dr Karin Oen, this panel brings together artist James Jack, art historian Michelle Lim, and curator Russell Storer, to reflect on how postwar notions about national and personal identities have given way to new conversations about ecological sustainability, migration and migrants, community and the Global South issues. Their critical perspectives about the histories and historiographies of art, along with the long history of exchanges between the Americas and Asia, bring fresh insights into how cultural vicissitudes in the Asia-Pacific region are complex and multi-layered, shaping art practices and audience engagement in new ways.

This discussion is based on the recently published anthology American Art in Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence (Routledge, 2022), which includes contributions from the panelists, as well as other leading scholars, curators and artists around the world.

02 Feb 2024
04.00 PM – 05.30 PM
NATIONAL GALLERY SINGAPORE

The Agee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
(City Hall Wing, Basement 1)
1 St Andrew’s Road, Singapore 178957)

Urgent Talk 048: “American Art in Asia” @ Mori Art Museum, 11 Dec 2023

The “Urgent Talk” series provides a platform for discussion around artists, curators, critics, activists and others across the globe engaged in significant, innovative work that demands urgent attention.

How do we think and talk about “American” and/or “Asian” art, at a time when the production and display of contemporary art is taking place across diffused borders, under the fluid conditions of a world dramatically transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental crisis, and the recent wars on multiple fronts in Europe and the Middle East?

This panel brings together art scholars Kajiya Kenji and Michelle Lim, with artists James Jack and David Kelley, to reflect on how postwar notions about national and personal identities have given way to new conversations about ecological sustainability, migration and migrants, community and the Global South issues. Their critical perspectives about the long history of exchanges between the Americas and Asia bring fresh insights into how cultural vicissitudes of Japan are complex and multi-layered, when seen from within and the outside.

This discussion is based on the recently published anthology American Art in Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence (Routledge, 2022), which includes contributions from the four guest panelists, as well as other leading scholars, curators and artists around the world.

Date & Time
19:00-20:30, Monday, December 11, 2023 (Doors open: 18:45)
Appearing
Kajiya Kenji (Art historian)
James Jack (Artist)
David Kelley (Artist)
Michelle Lim (Art historian, Curator)
Moderator
Yahagi Manabu (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum)

Image:
James Jack
Sunset House: The House as Language of Being
2010-2020
Granite, basalt, ubame oak tree, yakita clapboards, mud walls with granite and basalt dust, wishes, hopes, dreams, tatami, pine, broken ceramics, digital video, hardships, fears and challenges
Setouchi Triennale (Shodoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan)

ENG: https://www.mori.art.museum/en/learning/6981/index.html
JPN: https://www.mori.art.museum/jp/learning/6981/index.html

「アージェント・トーク」は、世界各地で意義深く、革新的な活動をしているアーティスト、キュレーター、批評家、活動家などを囲み、今議論すべきアージェントなトピックスを話し合うためのプラットフォームです。

現代アートの実践が広く国境を越え、パンデミックや環境問題、また各地で発生している戦争によって世界情勢が大きく揺れ動いている現在、私たちは「アメリカ」あるいは「アジア」のアートについてどのように考え、語ることができるのでしょうか。

今回のアージェント・トークでは、学者の加治屋健司氏とミシェル・リム氏、アーティストのジェームズ・ジャック氏とデヴィッド・ケリー氏とともに、現代アートを巡る言説が戦後の国家や個人のアイデンティティを巡る諸問題から、生態系の持続可能性、移動と移民、新しいコミュニティの概念、グローバル・サウスなどの対話にどのように移り変わってきたのかを考察します。アメリカとアジアの長い交流の歴史を新たな視座から洞察することで、日本の文化的変遷が、内と外から見たとき、いかに複雑で重層的であるか、認識を新たにするでしょう。

本トークで交わされる議論は、出演者を含む世界各地の学者、キュレーター、アーティストが寄稿した選集『American Art in Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence』(Routledge, 2022年)をもとに行われます。

日時
2023年12月11日(月)19:00~20:30(受付開始 18:45)
出演
加治屋健司(美術史家)
ジェームズ・ジャック(アーティスト)
デヴィッド・ケリー(アーティスト)
ミシェル・リム(美術史家、キュレーター)
モデレーター
矢作 学(森美術館アシスタント・キュレーター)

Kajiya Kenji is an art historian who focuses on post-World War II art and art criticism in the United States and Japan. He is a professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies at the University of Tokyo and the deputy director of The University of Tokyo’s Art Center. Before moving back to Tokyo, he was an associate professor at the Faculty of Arts, Hiroshima City University, and at the Archival Research Center, Kyoto City University of Arts. He also serves as the director of the Oral Art History Archives of Japanese Art since 2006. His book, Emancipated Painting: Color Field Painting and 20th Century American Culture, was just published by the University of Tokyo Press this fall. He edited Usami Keiji: A Painter Resurrected (University of Tokyo Press, 2021) and co-edited From Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945−1989: Primary Documents (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012), Shaping the History of Art in Southeast Asia (Japan Foundation Asia Center, 2017) and 12 volumes of Selected Works of Art Criticism by Nakahara Yūsuke (Gendai Kikakushitsu + BankART 1929, 2011–2024) and others.

James Jack is an artist who weaves ecological stories of human and more than human resilience. Exhibitions include documenta fifteen (Kassel, Germany, 2022), Setouchi Triennale (Japan, 2013, 2016, 2022), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2017), nichido contemporary art (Tokyo, 2019), Honolulu Museum of Art (2018), Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival (South Korea, 2013), Donkey Mill Art Center (Hawaii, 2021), Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan, 2016), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art (2016, 2019) and Oku-Noto Triennale (Japan, 2021, 2023). Published writings include “Peripatetic in the Pandemic,” Art Journal Open (2022), “Dirt Stories,” ANTENNAE (2021), “Spirits of Tsureshima” Shima (2018) as well as chapters in books including Place-Labor-Capital (NTU CCA Singapore, 2018) and Mono-ha: Requiem for the Sun (Blum & Poe, 2012). Jack holds a PhD in art practice (Tokyo University of the Arts), was a Crown Prince Akihito scholar (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa), postdoctoral fellow at Social Art Lab (Kyushu University), Archipelagic Artist-in-Residence Founding Director (Yale-NUS College), Georgette Chen fellow (Singapore) and is Associate Professor of Intermedia Art and Science (Waseda University, Tokyo).

David Kelley is an artist working with photography, video, and installation. His recent projects draw attention to the effects of global capitalism, resource extraction, and shifting physical and political landscapes. Influenced by a range of visual traditions, Kelley draws upon elements of experimental documentary, ethnography, performance, and avant-garde cinema. By working at the intersection of these strategies, he encourages an understanding of his subjects that is simultaneously direct and speculative.His work has been shown in galleries and museums nationally and intenationally. Recent exhibitions include the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Fotofest Biennial, Houston. Other exhibitions include Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles, The Bank in Shanghai, the deCordova Biennial in Boston, BAK in Utrecht, MAAP space in Australia, and the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok.Kelley received a Master of Fine Art from the University of California, Irvine, and was a 2010-2011 resident at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. He is currently based in Los Angeles, CA, and is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Fine Arts at University of Southern California.

Michelle Lim is an art historian and curator based in New York and Singapore. She holds a PhD in art history from Princeton University and was a Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program 2009-2010. Michelle has worked on research and curatorial projects for institutions such as the Asia Society Museum (New York), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Princeton University Art Museum (New Jersey, USA), and Singapore Art Museum. She taught Asian art history at The Cooper Union and contemporary curating at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York before taking up the faculty position at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2014.

Plants & Walks: Artistic encounters @ PACT Zollverein June 2023

Can we hear plants or feel the energy flow of microorganisms in the earth’s soil? What happens when we no longer primarily rely on our sense of sight to orientate ourselves in the world? What shifts in our perception and self-conception as human beings are necessary to achieve this? On a performative excursion to the Zollverein colliery slagheap, visitors are invited to encounter the plant and bacterial inhabitants of this man-made, and now densely overgrown, hill formed with waste matter from coal mining.

Close by PACT, artists Deter/Müller/Martini attempt to make contact with plants while the bacilli collective from Japan share artistic methods for harvesting alternative energy, and dancer and choreographer Márcio Kerber Canabarro and his team explore the possibilities of a practice of »seeing« that involves tactile and auditory perception and all our receptive faculties.

https://www.pact-zollverein.de/en/programme/plants-walks

The Japanese artist collective bacilli nurture active spaces for living with dirt, people, food, microbes and spirits. Through artistic engagement with earth, they build hopeful models for how we can live in co-habitation with more than human life. While in residency at PACT, bacilli are artistically investigating the energy created from microbes inside dirt in Essen and questioning whether we can live synergistically together with energy currents flowing through the earth? Starting through geological research on coal histories in the Ruhr area, the three artists are conducting interviews with residents about shifting energy models currently in progress and connecting power currents past and present through imaginative thinking. At their picnic, bacilli invite visitors to share their own stories, exchange ideas, or simply enjoy the conversation. bacilli will also offer insights into their work and share artistic methods for harvesting alternative energy to bring it back into the hands of citizens for their creative enjoyment in the creative format of ›Dirt Radio‹.

6:00-19:00 h ongoing
Close to PACT
bacilli collective
›Dirt Currents‹
Picnic / Talk / Residency Insights
Admission free

DOCUMENT art:writing:history collaborative project

DOCUMENT IS…

 a series of collaborative workshops and conversations that seeks to reconsider the notion of document. Bringing together the practice of three artists, three writers, and three historians, whose work has involved the use of historical archives, DOCUMENT attempts to critically reexamine conventional practices of history and offer alternate modes of writing about the past. It seeks to create a space of making, a way of writing, that cuts across the disciplinary boundaries of history, creative writing, and art.

https://dokyu.space/

 

ORGANISERS
James Jack
Naoko Shimazu
Lawrence Ypil
PEOPLE
Martin Dusinberre
Hilmi Johandi
Anthony Medrano
Collier Nogues
Siddharta Perez
Aki Sasamoto
CREATIVE TEAM
Chan Yi Qian
Christie Chiu
DESIGN
Sean Cham

Nets of Connectivity: Contemporary Maritime Voyages

Nets of Connectivity: Contemporary Maritime Voyages
Jaringan Penyambungan: Pelayaran Maritim Masa Kini

Serina Rahman & James Jack 

This project weaves upon intimate maritime links in the Malayo-Polynesian world through a synergy of artistic and scientific methods reconnecting communities in Kona (Hawai‘i), Pandan (Singapore) and Tanjung Kupang (Malaysia), working with our shared passion for stories. Voyaging with stories as our compass we find new ways of understanding trade routes within the hybrid realities of today. We share food recipes to overcome national borders, colonial separations and social distancing with innovative approaches to not only survive, but to thrive.

Fishnets are a symbol of our maritime connections, embodying our continuous engagement in tying, mending and maintaining the knots between individuals, groups and cultures that weave shared his/herstories. This project tells tales of co-creation by two groups of youth working across the Tebrau Strait before, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, through the distinct yet intersectional work of science and art revitalizing knowledge of informal trade networks past and present.

International Forum on Maritime Spice Trading Routes and Cultural Encounters in Indo-Pacific: Past, Present and Future

Bandung, Indonesia

Art is a Priority! 13-27 Feb 2021 DMAC Island of Hawai‘i

 

New work by James Jack featured in the 14th annual Art is a Priority Online Art Auction to benefit the Donkey Mill Art Center happening February 13-27, 2021. All proceeds will go towards providing outstanding arts education and experiences to the community by an established arts organization. Visit https://bit.ly/annualartauction to register!
Featured Artists:
Clayton Amemiya, Margaret Barnaby, Jake Boggs, Melissa Chimera, Alex Couwenberg, Jesse Kahoonei, John Koga, Wayne Levin, Gerald Lucena and Kristin Mitsu Shiga, Hiroki Morinoue, Setsuko Morinoue, Anthony Watson, Makiko Yamaguchi, Lee Ballard, Nanette Bell, Henry Bianchini, Jisoo Boggs, Hunter Buck, Lynn Capell, Kaili Chun, Robert Corsair, Micha Croft, Tara Cronin, Heide Cumes, Angaea Cuna, Akiko Cutlip, Michael Cutlip, Andrea Dezso, Kevin Diminyatz, Kathleen Dunphy, Peter Durst, Eric Edwards, Brady Evans, Carl F.K. Pao, Ronit Fahl, Bailey Ferguson, Renee Fukumoto-Ben, Judith Gaulke, Adam Gurvitch, Daven Hee, Roxanne Hironaka, Bobby Howard, James Jack, James Kaulukukui Jr., Melany Kerver, Caroline Killhour, John Kjargaard, John Koga, Noa Lake, Jaxson Lambert, Lindsay Lander, Cris Lindborg, Kasey Lindley, Michael Marshall, John McCaskill (Studio Jomac), Linda Meyer, Jane Chang Mi, Mary Mitsuda, Miho Morinoue, Richard Notkin, Harinani Orme, Laraine Oura, Avalon Paradea, Marcia Pasqua, Barbara Pfaffenberger, Joy Ray, Margo Ray, Dorothy Remington, Rich Richardson, Sam Rosen, John Roth, Kamran Samimi, Laurel Schultz, Claire Seastone, Daniel Sheinfeld Rodriguez, Esther Shimazu, Shelby Smith, Leslie Steinwachs, Ira Stivers, Laurie Sumiye, Phoebe Toland, Lonny Tomono, Gerald T. Walsh III, Judith Williams, Kate Williams, Nora Yamanoha, Maile Yawata, Scott Yoell, Hana Yoshihata, Debbie Young
Important Dates:
Silent Auction: Opens on February 13 at 9:00am HST – Closes on February 27th at 5:30pm HST
Live Auction: Begins at February 27 at 5:00pm HST

Full Press Release here

Sea Birth three featured in Tropical Lab online

 

 

Tropical Lab Alumni online showcase:

James Jack

Sea Birth three

2020

‘Through the Sea Birth trilogy, Jack draws upon the maritime history of Okinawa, where the islands’ folklore adds crucial perspectives often missing in current reporting of issues. In Sea Birth three, the final part of the trilogy, the painting sets the scene in Henoko-Ōura Bay with signs of resistance arising from the forest, the video provides context to the political contestations in the bay and the driftwood becomes a home for the fire spirits to return to their rightful habitat.’

– Jaimey Hamilton Faris & Azusa Takahashi

 

https://www.tropicallabpresents.com/james-jack


Credits:
Masayuki Tamae, Leona Nishinaga, Hideaki Gushiken, Takeshi Ishihara, Osamu Makishi, Yukino Inamine, Soma Takahashi, Piko Ishihara, Monica Kim, Keith Teo, Nathasha Lee, Yuto Mori, Noa Jack, Kristen Ho Hui Yan, the Georgette Chen Foundation, and Wakagenoitari Village