Monday, May 02 02pm and 06:30pm
Kent Hall, Room 403
Columbia University, 116th Street & Amsterdam Ave. New York, NY
In Art, performance and social poetics: contemporary Japanese perspectives we consider the interrelationship of artistic practices with community events, cultural activism and people’s experiences of everyday life in Japan. How are these experiences represented in the arts and what are the places, people and problems that are motivating artists? Is there evidence for a social poetics that productively rethinks politics in Japan and meaningfully connects artistic practices with communities? What are the aesthetic and dramaturgical strategies that have been emerging in Japan over the last decade?
Afternoon symposium with papers by Peter Eckersall, Marilyn Ivy, Thomas Looser, Miwako Tezuka, and Midori Yamamura.
Evening artist talk with Akira Takayama (performance and installation artist, artistic director Port B, Tokyo) and Keijirô Suga (poet and writer, presenter of the 2016 Sen Lecture).
All events are free and open to the public.
Please email your name to rsvp-sen@keenecenter.org to pre-register for the 2016 Sen Lecture on April 28th with Professor Keijiro Suga of Meiji University. On May 2nd, we will be hosting a symposium and artist talk with Akira Takayama and Keijiro Suga, with support from the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center of the City University of New York.
For more information visit: http://www.keenecenter.org/