“Symbiosis Symbiont Synthesis” Exhibit@Art no Show, Shodoshima, Sept 2024
/in Recent Activities/by jj admin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
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
/in Recent Activities/by James JackRes 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
/in Recent Activities/by James JackBook 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
/in Recent Activities/by jj adminThe “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
/in Recent Activities/by James JackCan 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
/in Recent Activities/by James JackDOCUMENT IS…
Martin Dusinberre
Hilmi Johandi
Chan Yi Qian
Christie Chiu
Sean Cham
Nets of Connectivity: Contemporary Maritime Voyages
/in Recent Activities/by James JackNets 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
Art is a Priority! 13-27 Feb 2021 DMAC Island of Hawai‘i
/in Recent Activities/by James Jack
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Sea Birth three featured in Tropical Lab online
/in Recent Activities/by James Jack
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