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Fujinoyama Biennale 24 Oct – 23 Nov 2020 Shizuoka, Japan

November 23, 2020/in Exhibits, Recent Activities /by James Jack

Fujinoyama Biennale 2020

24 October – 23 November 2020

James JACK

Loving Mountains: A Guide for Dismantling Intervention

「山を慈しんでいる:介入を取り除くための手引き」

会場         旧五十嵐邸歯科医院 /蒲原エリア >>

 

ジェームス・ジャックは、世界中に存在する社会とエコロジー(生態系)の関係を再生することに関心を持ち、各地で活動をしています。今回彼は、かつて富士山頂に建てられていた測候所のレーダードームが撤去されたという出来事に着目し、そこにハワイ島 のマウナケア山の姿を重ねました。この複数の場にまつわる新たなインスタレーションは、“ここ”と“そこ”の両方を癒し、地球のこころを覗きこむ空間をひらきます。

「神聖な山」として地元の人々の信仰の対象であるマウナケア山は、天体観測に好条件であるため、現在13台の天文観測所が建設されています。そして今、新たに世界一巨大な天文台を建てようとしており、それに対して自然と文化を守るための市民運動が起こっています。

コロナ禍で今年1月以降来日が叶わなくなった作家は、「人間が行動を控えることによって地球の空気・海・自然が復活している場所は非常に多くある」と言っています。数年前に静岡での環境アートワークショップと去年富士市の視察の延長線上で、富士山で起きた出来事についてオンラインでのインタビュー、文献、オーラルヒストリーの調査などを続け、専門家への質問や住民への聞き取りによってリサーチを進めました。

今日我々人類が山や、水の流れ、地層といった生態系に対して押し付けているもの。その介入を取り除く手引きを提示するために、この作品では山の持つ大きな歴史の周縁にある、ローカルな出来事に目を向けます。富士山とマウナケア山、山と人、歴史と現在、複数の視点を重ね、つなげていきながら、山を慈しむことを表現することができます。

 

http://fujinoyama-biennale.com

Shizuoka, Japan

 

座談会

人間、人間を超えて、山や大地を慈しむため

介入が減ることを通じた復活するものについて考える

ジェームズ・ジャックの「山を慈しんでいる:介入を取り除くための手引き」作品のインスタレーション風景2020年

 

富士の山ビエンナーレでの座談会

2020年11月22(日曜)

13時半―15時半

120分程度の対話

 

オンライン自由参加(無料)

 

Z O O Mのリンクはこちら

 

座談会概要

人間は自然環境の中で生きているが「これまで人間社会がおこなってきた自然への介入行為を、いかに解消していくか」と言う点について考えていきます。今年はコロナの影響もあり、そのような人と環境の関係性について再考をする年であると言われています。コロナ禍の状況は「Anthropause(人類の一時停止)」を引き起こしており、それは現代社会を象徴する厄災であり、科学研究、文化実践、社会運動などの分野でもこの状況を通じて深く考え、広い学びの機会となるでしょう。

もし仮に、山が大学であれば、そこではどんな学びができるでしょうか。ここで静岡の地域をはじめ他の場所も含めて、様々な研究者、キュレーター、N P O実践者、アーティストの観点から検討していきます。

今日の我々人類が、山や、水の流れ、地層といった生態系に対して(人間社会から)押し付けてしまっているものとして、撤去予定の構築物や閉鎖された建物、豊富な自然や汚染された自然などがあります。押し付けているものを取り除くための手引きを提示するために、山の持つ大きな歴史の周縁にある、ローカルな出来事に目を向けます。富士山と他の山の事例を考察し、人と人間を超えるもの、歴史と現在、水と大地から複数の視点を重ね、つなげていきながら、生き物を慈しむ方法について考えていきます。慈しむためのノーハウを共有していくために、皆さまと会話の場を開きます。

 

登壇者:

平野雅彦 (国立大学法人 静岡大学人文社会科学部 客員教授)

土器屋 由紀子(江戸川大学 名誉教授・認定NPO法人富士山測候所を活用する会 理事)

羽山まり子(アーティスト)

ジェームズ・ジャック(アーティスト・イェールシンガポール国立大学 助教授)

清水裕子(アート&ソサイエティ研究センター 副代表理事・大阪市立大学都市研究プラザ 特別研究員)

ファシリテーター:

森健太郎(富士の山ビエンナーレ キュレーター)

協力:

佐藤彩乃(南洋理工大学 芸術・デザイン・メディア学 博物館学と学芸の実践 大学院生)

 

富士の山ビエンナーレ概要

富士山の麓に位置するこの地域は、高くそびえる富士山と南アルプスの山々からの豊富な水や日本で最も深い駿河湾からの資源といった自然の恩恵多い土地であることに加え、東西には東海道南北に身延道と富士川が通っており、古くから交易の主要地として栄えてきました。しかし現在、高速道路に代表される近代の交通路は、巨大化した東西の都市をつなぐ線となり私たちの街を貫く形となっています。東西南北の交易と共に繁栄してきたこの地の文化は、徐々に風化し、歴史を生き抜いた建築物は役目を終えて止まったようにひっそりとたたずんでいます。私たちの愛するこの街が止まらないように、現在進行形の生き生きとしたアート作品が街に命を吹き込んでくれることを期待し、この芸術祭を開催します。

 

 

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“Art and Climate Change in the Pacific” exhibit – 11 October 2020 Hawai‘i

October 1, 2020/in Exhibits, Recent Activities /by James Jack
James Jack. Sea Birth three. 2020. 4K digital video still.

 

Inundation: Art and Climate Change in the Pacific  

January 19 – February 28, 2020
The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), Art Building

March 28 – June 26, 2020 New dates 1 July – 22 October 2020
Donkey Mill Art Center, Hōlualoa, Hawai‘i

Inundation refers to both the watery disasters of climate change and the overwhelming emotions they evoke. This exhibition, curated by Jaimey Hamilton Faris, Associate Professor at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, features work by Mary Babcock, Kaili Chun, DAKOgamay, James Jack, Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, Charles Lim, and Angela Tiatia. Based in the Pacific, these artists experience the climate emergency as an extension of long-term colonial, extractive and developmental forces that have made their communities especially vulnerable.

This major group show consists of multi-media videos, installations, and community performance projects, many of which have been conceived for this exhibition. Artists address climate justice situations in Hawai‘i, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu, the Philippines, Okinawa, and Singapore. As curator Hamilton Faris writes the exhibition “create[s] a space to process raw emotions, inspire collective imagination, and generate capacity for creative, actionable, and communal responses to our watery climate.”

Join curator Jaimey Hamilton Faris and guests for discussions on climate change and climate justice.

Thursday, January 23
Water Talks II: Climate Justice in the Pacific, The UH Art Gallery

4:00 – 5:30 PM  |  Tales of the Okinawan Sea
This special evening talk-story series brings together artists, scientists, policy-makers, historians and more to discuss how to move forward in this era of radical social and ecological transformation.

James Jack, Artist
Kenneth Kaneshiro, Director of the Center for Conservation Research and Training, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, SOEST
Norman Kaneshiro, Musician, UHM lecturer

facilitated by Aiko Yamashiro, Executive Director of the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities

James Jack. Sea Birth three. 2020. 4K digital video still.

 

University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery

Online catalog, video archive and climate justice resources available here:

https://www.inundation.org/

 

 

Selected Press
Inundation: Psychic Costs of the Climate Emergency
Hawai‘i Public Radio
By Noe Tanigawa Jan 14, 2020

In just twenty years, awareness of climate change has progressed to climate anxiety. According to Time Magazine, mental health studies show “eco-anxiety” exploded last year from Greenland to Australia. A new exhibit at UH Mānoa aims to work through the grief and denial toward community action.

Full article here: https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/post/inundation-psychic-costs-climate-emergency

 

 

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“The Shape of the Sky” exhibition 5-27 September 2020 Singapore

September 26, 2020/in Exhibits /by James Jack

The Shape of the Sky creates a collective space for sharing stories of past traditions alongside contemporary enquires of how we can navigate with the sea as a centre. Islanders’ oral histories focus on the abundance of natural resources, methods of a sharing economy and wisdom obtained from ancestral knowledge. Published lies have damaged islands with extractive colonial desire the remnants of which continue today. One such lie appeared in the Straits Times Overland Journal in 1881 stating that King Kalākaua was selling the Hawaiian kingdom to Germany while circumnavigating the globe. Simultaneous to these lies were positive examples of friendship, meals shared between diverse people, gift exchanges and special ceremonies held with local counterparts while circumnavigating the globe. Navigation is one tool for subverting colonial methods of extractive knowledge with indigenous methods of wayfaring both at sea and on land. These resilient threads are being woven from past to present making connections that steer towards a bright future vision.

This exhibit is one point on a net of open conversations between diverse members on the links between sea and land in Singapore/Johor and Hawai‘i found through sharing of culture. Creative methods for survivance amidst impositions both past and present on economies of sharing will be practised in the space itself along with concurrent programming, which includes a shared meal, a talk and a workshop with youth today. Methods of resilience will be shared by community members who cherish the value, knowledge and resources on their island. Visions for islands’ sovereign futures are based on deep respect for the voices of the plants, dirt, ancestors and water in each place. Open conversations will emerge here even with restrictions on national borders and physical gatherings with the aim to link people working for change now.

Conversation with Karin Oen

Comma Space 逗号空间
Saturday, 26 September 2020 at 16:00 (Online & irl)
Dr. Karin Oen (Deputy Director, Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore)
James Jack (Artist)
Video link

Wayfaring Talk Story

Comma Space 逗号空间
Saturday, 19 September 2020 from 13:30-14:30 (Online & irl)
Speakers:
Mina Elison (Curator, Donkey Mill Art Center, Island of Hawai’i)
Celeste Beh, (History Graduate, Yale-NUS College)
Moderated by: James Jack (Artist)

 

This talk story session will explore wayfaring as a practice of navigating out of lies told about our people, land and stories and into the depth of abundance. We will draw upon Malayo-Polynesian encounters from the 19th century, contemporary revival of indigenous voyaging knowledge and the power of creative links between islanders occurring today. Relearning the shapes of the sky together we will weave a net that may carry us towards the positive futures we want to see.

 

Link to watch: https://www.facebook.com/events/669555387013192/

—

Comma Space 逗号空间's photo.

The Taste of Tanjung Kupang:
Kelab Alami Community Workshop

 

Comma Space 逗号空间
Saturday, 5 September 2020 from 15:00-16:00 (online & irl)
Storytelling through heritage cuisine as a form of intercultural sharing in multiple presents.

 

Link to watch: https://www.facebook.com/events/2450546525243930/

 

 

 

The Shape of the Sky is a solo exhibition by James Jack, an American Asian artist of Gaelic Islander descent who engages layered histories tied to place as a way to concentrate on instances of positive change achieved through community-led initiatives. Curated by Dr. Wang Ruobing.

Comma Space, Singapore

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WDA at Oku-Noto Triennale *extended through 2023*

August 5, 2020/in Exhibits /by James Jack

Soilstory  土がたり

A New Installation and Performance Artwork by:

World Dirt Association
(James Jack, Shotaro Yoshino & Yoshitaka Nanjo)

with Marie-Cécile Conilh de Beyssac, Sakika Matsuda, Kenta Shinya, Momoka Kano and others.

 

 

 

Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+

A foremost art festival at the furthest edge of the world.

Artist No. 44

4 September – 4 November 2021
(Artwork display will extended through 2023)

Ishikawa, Japan

 

https://oku-noto.jp/index-en.html

WDA: James Jack “Soilstory” 2021, Reference image for work in progress

 

 

 

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“Œuvres à l’Encre” at Galerie Courtemanche Québec

November 28, 2018/in Exhibits /by James Jack
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“Dialogica” video installation at Museum of the Sky, Nagano

November 1, 2018/in Exhibits, Recent Activities /by James Jack

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.

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“Molokai Window” at Honolulu Museum of Art

September 25, 2018/in Exhibits /by James Jack

MOLOKAI WINDOW

Exhibition by James Jack

Honolulu Museum of Art

April 26-September 16, 2018

This installation focuses on land not as a commodity to be bought and sold, but on the visceral relationship between Molokai’s people and land. This three-year process has revealed that while the people of Molokai may have different priorities, they all see the island’s potential tied to love for the land.

—Healoha Johnston


James Jack Molokai Window: Mokio Point 2017 Natural pigments on paper 76 x 56 cm

 

James Jack Mauka & Makai 2017 Handmade walnut ink on paper (sketchbooks)

James Jack Cycles of Dirt as Life 2017 Natural pigment and graphite on paper (sketchbook)

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“WDA: Dirt Restaurant” at Ichihara Art x Mix

April 7, 2017/in Exhibits /by James Jack

Dirt Restaurant 

WORLD DIRT ASSOCIATION

James Jack
Shotaro Yoshino
Yoshitaka Nanjo

World Dirt Association collected dirt samples along with stories from ten sites. For Ichihara, a “tasting room” as well as a “kitchen” provides two unique experiences. The shape, color, fragrance and taste (based on smell) is linked with stories in the kitchen to create fresh experiences of the land we live on. Why don’t you try a new experience of dirt here in this restaurant?

 

Ichihara Art x Mix 2017

April 8- May 14, 2017

IAAES Map
Chiba, Japan

Article by James Jack about Ichihara Art x Mix 2014
Exhibition information: ichihara-artmix.jp [Japanese]

 

Dirt Restaurant -土のレストラン-

世界土協会:南条 嘉毅、ジェームズ・ジャック、吉野 祥太郎

2017年4月8日(土)— 5月14日(日)
いちはらアート×ミックス2017

世界土協会の3名アーティストは、それぞれの拠点から土のサンプルとそこに関わる人のストーリーを集めます。市原で「テースティングルーム」と「キッチン」の2つの空間で体験できます。土にまつわるストーリーを色、かたち、匂いをとおしてテイスティング(匂いを嗅ぐこと)し、 キッチンでは様々な素材を利用して新鮮な感覚で自分と地球を入り交じることもできます。ここで新たな土を体験してみませんか?

IAAES[旧里見小学校]
千葉県市原市南部地域
いちはらアート×ミックス2017

http://ichihara-artmix.jp

 

 

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“The Sea We See” book release

March 19, 2017/in Exhibits /by James Jack
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“Eight Layers of Dirt” Installation

October 17, 2016/in Exhibits, Recent Activities /by James Jack

Eight Layers of Dirt

James Jack

4 channel stereo sound installation

Variable dimensions

2016

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Dirt is a part of us. Just as our body is composed of cells, organs and systems—so too is the earth. This fragile earth supports our life, yet we often separate ourselves from it. Art provides one method for healing our fractured relationship with the land we inhabit. It gives us a glimpse into the layers of earth, where the possibility to rediscover ourselves inside the beautiful dirt exists. This work is composed of interviews with eight women, four of whom live in Fukuoka and four who live in Yame. The artist spoke with each of the women about their life stories, focusing on the complicated relationship they each have with the place they live. As these conversations unfold, the spirit of each place gradually comes into view from the ground up. The unique stories collected here provide a glimpse at the current layers of the land seen through the eyes of eight strong women.
Interview Participants:

ASATSUYU: Mari Kanazawa + Haruka Harashima

YAMAKAI: Satsumi Miyazono + Miki Matsunaga

SANMIDORI: Aiko Hara + Sayako Tachi

YABUKITA: Ayako Ohashi + Nami Kurita

 

YAME x FUKUOKA REMIX

October 2016

Organizer: Social Art Lab, Kyushu University

More info (Japanese): http://www.sal.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/artmanagement.html

Photos by: Akiko Tominaga

 

「八つの土のレイヤー」

ジェームズ・ジャック

4チャネル ステレオサウンド・インスタレーション

サイズ可変

2016年
土は、私たちの一部です。私たちの身体は細胞、臓器、器官からできていますが、地球も同じようにさまざまなものによって構成されています。そんな危うい地球に私たちの生命は支えられているのです。もっとも、私たちはそのことを自分には無関係なことと思いがちですが。アートは、私たちが暮らしている土地と私たち自身の失われた関係を修復する一つの方法を提示してくれます。土地のさまざまなレイヤーを垣間見ることで、私たちは美しい土に囲まれていることを再発見することができるのです。

この作品は、8人の女性––福岡在住の4人と八女在住の4人––のインタビューで構成されています。アーティスは、それぞれの女性のライフストーリーを聞きながら、それぞれの女性の生と暮らした土地との複雑な関係に焦点をあてていきました。会話が進むにつれ、それぞれの土地のスピリットが少しずつ現れ出てきます。ここに集められたユニークなストーリーは、8人の強い女性の目を通して見えてくる、土地のもつ複雑なレイヤーを垣間見せてくれます。

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