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Art Studies
When the new Japan Foundation Asia Center was established in 2014, this publication project was started as a way to exchange, accumulate, and disseminate its surveys and research in the field of art. To better understand the circumstances surrounding Asian art created in the latter half of the 2010s, the premise of the project was to structure the volumes so that readers can see the position of Asian contemporary art around the time of publication while looking back over its history. The aim was to share the experience and knowledge of art critics, curators, and other related professionals by publishing their papers and discussions with a focus on ASEAN countries.
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Art Studies 01
This report comprises presentation papers and discussions from the international seminar “Cultural Rebellion in Asia 1960–1989,” which was held from September 30 to October 2, 2014. Featuring researchers from various Asian nations, it includes valuable discussions on the history of avant-garde activities in Asia from the 1960s to 1980s, a period which laid the foundation for the global rise of Asian art since the 1990s.
International Seminar 2014 "Cultural Rebellion in Asia 1960–1989" Report
Edited by Furuichi Yasuko; Sano Meiko
- Publisher:
Tokyo: The Japan Foundation Asia Center
- Year:
2015
- Total Number of Pages:
176
- Size:
30 cm
- Series Title
The Japan Foundation Asia Center: Art studies; 1
- Note
International Seminar 2014 “Cultural Rebellion in Asia 1960–1989”
September 30 (18:00–19:30), October 1 (10:00–18:30), October 2 (10:00–13:00) /JFIC Hall [Sakura] / Panelists: Park Hyesung; Yu Jin Seng; Adele Tan; Simon Soon; Suzuki Katsuo; Hayashi Michio; Patrick D. Flores; Lai Ying-ying; Pi Li; Nguyen Trinh Thi; Prapon Kumjim - Language:
English (eng); Japanese (jpn)
- NCID:
BB18524771
- Link:
[Contents]
| Title page | About The Japan Foundation Asia Center: Art Studies 01 | ||
| Chapter 1 | |||
| p. 4 | Panelist Profiles | ||
| p. 6 | Seminar Program | ||
| p. 7 | Day 1Keynote Speech | ||
| p. 8 | Imagining Cultural Solidarity in Asia Now | ||
| p. 19 | Day 2Session ⅠIn the Case of East Asia | ||
| p. 20 | Right is Wrong: Chinese Art before 1989 | ||
| p. 26 | Boundary Riders of Korean Art in 1960s–1970s | ||
| p. 34 | Art into Action: Taiwanese Activists from 1960s to 1980s | ||
| p. 40 | Cultural Rebellion: Japan from the 1960s to the 1980s | ||
| p. 47 | Day 2Session ⅡIn the Case of Southeast Asia | ||
| p. 48 | Competing Notions of the “Avant-garde” through Exhibitionary Discourses in Post-War Southeast Asia from the 1950s to 1970s | ||
| p. 54 | Magpie Modernity in Thai Art | ||
| p. 60 | Malaysia: A Cultural Rebellion | ||
| p. 66 | “Suddenly Turning Visible”: Art as Experiment and Pedagogy in the Philippines | ||
| p. 72 | Re-Reading History through Recycling Old Films | ||
| p. 76 | Discussion on Sessions Ⅰ and Ⅱ | ||
| p. 89 | Day3Session ⅢPlenary Discussion | ||
| p. 115 | Reflecting on the Seminar | ||
| Chapter 2 | |||
| p. 116 | The Japan Foundation Asia Center：Art Studies 01について | ||
| p. 119 | パネリスト・プロフィール | ||
| p. 120 | セミナー・プログラム | ||
| p. 121 | Day 1問題提起 | ||
| p. 122 | 今、アジアの文化的連帯を想像するために | ||
| p. 129 | Day 2セッション Ⅰ東アジア | ||
| p. 130 | 正は誤なり：1989年以前の中国美術 | ||
| p. 136 | 1960-70年代の韓国美術における境界線上を走る者たち | ||
| p. 142 | 行動に向かうアート：1960年代から1980年代の台湾人活動家たち | ||
| p. 146 | 文化的抵抗：1960年代から1980年代にかけての日本 | ||
| p. 151 | Day 2セッションⅡ東南アジア | ||
| p. 152 | 1950年代から1970年代にかけての戦後東南アジアにおける展覧会のディスコースにみる拮抗する「前衛」の概念 | ||
| p. 158 | タイ美術の「カササギ」的なモダニティ | ||
| p. 162 | マレーシア：文化的反乱 | ||
| p. 168 | 「突然目に見え始めた」フィリピンにおける実験とペダゴジーとしての芸術 | ||
| p. 172 | 古い映画の再編による歴史の再解釈 | ||
| p. 175 | セミナーを終えて | ||
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Art Studies 01
International Seminar 2014 "Cultural Rebellion in Asia 1960–1989" Report
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- pp.155-170 (PDF:8.57MB)
- pp.171-cover (PDF:2.98MB)
Art Studies 02
This publication features presentation papers and discussions from the international symposium “THE 1990s: The Making of Art with Contemporaries,” held on May 23 and 24, 2015. Examining art trends in Asia since the 1990s through the work of curators and researchers active in the field, the symposium was co-organized with the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo as a related satellite event for the “Time of others” exhibition also held in 2015.
International Symposium 2015 “THE 1990s: The Making of Art with Contemporaries” Report
Edited by Furuichi Yasuko; Hoashi Aki
- Publisher:
Tokyo: The Japan Foundation Asia Center
- Year:
2016
- Total Number of Pages:
160
- Size:
30 cm
- Series Title
The Japan Foundation Asia Center: Art Studies; 2
- Language:
English (eng); Japanese (jpn)
- NCID:
BB21115894
[Contents]
| Title page | About The Japan Foundation Asia Center: Art Studies 02 | ||
| Chapter 1 | |||
| p. 4 | Panelist Profiles | ||
| p. 6 | Symposium Program | ||
| p. 7 | Day 1Session 1Globalization and the Expansion of the Alternative Art Scenes | ||
| p. 8 | Shifting Asian Contemporary Art Networks | ||
| p. 14 | Off-Track | ||
| p. 20 | Homemade Structure and Small and Medium-Sized Speculation | ||
| p. 24 | Discussion: Session 1 | ||
| p. 31 | Day 1Session 2Artists' and Curators' Views: Foreign and Domestic Representations of “Asia” | ||
| p. 32 | True Journey is Return | ||
| p. 34 | The Scale Question in Contemporary Asian Art | ||
| p. 42 | Discussion: Session 2 | ||
| p. 49 | Discussion: Session 1 and 2 | ||
| p. 57 | Day 2Session 3Artistic Engagements of Public Institutions: The Visualization and Discourse of “Asia” | ||
| p. 58 | Contexts and Predicaments: Singapore 1996–2006 | ||
| p. 66 | The Political and the Personal: Australia's Experience in Visual Arts Exchange in Southeast Asia through the 1990s | ||
| p. 72 | Cultural Diplomacy and Museum Management: Beyond an Imaginary Asia | ||
| p. 77 | Discussion: Session 3 | ||
| p. 86 | Plenary Discussion | ||
| p. 94 | Post-Symposium Reflections | ||
| p. 94 | The 1990s: Building Platforms through Creative Thinking | ||
| p. 97 | The 1990s: Asia as Medium | ||
| p. 100 | Editor's Notes | ||
| Chapter 2 | |||
| p. 101 | The Japan Foundation Asia Center: Art Studies 02について | ||
| p. 102 | パネリスト・プロフィール | ||
| p. 104 | シンポジウム・プログラム | ||
| p. 105 | Day 1Session 1グローバル化とオルタナティヴ・アートシーンの広がり | ||
| p. 106 | 移行するアジアの現代美術ネットワーク | ||
| p. 112 | Off-Track：いつもと違う道 | ||
| p. 118 | 手作りの構造と小中規模の思索 | ||
| p. 121 | Day 1Session 2「 アジア」の表象：作家とキュレーターの視点から | ||
| p. 122 | 真の旅は帰還である | ||
| p. 124 | アジア現代美術におけるスケールの問題 | ||
| p. 133 | Day 2Session 3公的機関の活動と可視化・言説化された「アジア」 | ||
| p. 134 | その文脈と苦境─シンガポール1996–2006 | ||
| p. 142 | 政治的な制度と個人的な経験 | ||
| p. 148 | 文化外交と美術館経営─幻想の「アジア」を超えて | ||
| Post-Symposium Reflections | |||
| p. 152 | 1990年代─プラットフォームをつくる、という創造的思考 | ||
| p. 155 | 1990年代─「アジア」がメディアとして機能したとき | ||
| p. 159 | 編集後記 | ||
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Art Studies 02
International Symposium 2015 “THE 1990s: The Making of Art with Contemporaries” Report
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- pp.18-38 (PDF:8.95MB)
- pp.39-58 (PDF:8.56MB)
- pp.59-77 (PDF:8.76MB)
- pp.78-97 (PDF:8.62MB)
- pp.98-119 (PDF:8.73MB)
- pp.120-140 (PDF:8.85MB)
- pp.141-cover (PDF:7.78MB)
Art Studies 03
This volume collects together 15 texts, including discourse on Southeast Asian art since the 1980s as well as major discussion tracing that development. It was supervised by Patrick D. Flores and Kajiya Kenji and comprises key papers by researchers and curators in Asia-Pacific field.
Anthology “Shaping the History of Art in Southeast Asia”
Edited by Furuichi Yasuko; Andrew Maerkle
- Publisher:
Tokyo: The Japan Foundation Asia Center
- Year:
2017
- Total Number of Pages:
208
- Size:
30 cm
- Series Title
The Japan Foundation Asia Center: Art studies; 3
- Language:
English (eng); Japanese (jpn)
- NCID:
BB2353081X
[Contents]
| Title page | About The Japan Foundation Asia Center: Art Studies 03 | ||
| Chapter 1 | |||
| p. 4 | Introduction | ||
| p. 5 | Moments of the Modern in Southeast Asia: Art, Region, Art History | ||
| p. 9 | Learning from Modern and Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia | ||
| p. 14 | Essays | ||
| p. 15 | Premises for Critical Studies of Modern Art in Southeast Asia | ||
| p. 20 | Modern Art in Southeast Asia | ||
| p. 24 | Realism as an Attitude: Asian Art in the 1990s | ||
| p. 30 | Art as Criticism | ||
| p. 35 | Five Elements: An Abbreviated Account of Installation Art in Southeast Asia | ||
| p. 40 | Glimpses into the Future of Southeast Asian Art: A Vision of What Art Should Be | ||
| p. 47 | “Con Art” Seen from the Edge: The Meaning of Conceptual Art in Southeast Asia | ||
| p. 52 | Asia: Co-figurative Identification | ||
| p. 57 | Moments of Regionality: Negotiating Southeast Asia | ||
| p. 63 | Cultural Transformations in the Asia-Pacific: The Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art and the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale Compared | ||
| p. 72 | The Other as “Lost Pure Self”: Gauguinism in Southeast Asian Art | ||
| p. 78 | Postcolonial Perils: Art and National Impossibilities | ||
| p. 82 | In Search of a Lost Totality: Teaching Asian Modern Art (in Japan) | ||
| p. 87 | Insular Visions: Notes on Video Art in Singapore | ||
| p. 92 | The Shifting Art-Historical Field for Southeast Asia: Tradition, Modernity and “The Contemporary“ | ||
| p. 102 | Afterword | ||
| Chapter 2 | |||
| p. 104 | The Japan Foundation Asia Center: Art Studies 03について | ||
| p. 106 | Introduction | ||
| p. 107 | 東南アジアにおける近代的なものの諸契機─芸術、地域、美術史 | ||
| p. 111 | 東南アジアの近現代美術から学ぶ | ||
| p. 116 | Essays | ||
| p. 117 | 東南アジア現代美術の研究に先だって | ||
| p. 122 | 東南アジアのモダン・アート | ||
| p. 125 | 態度としてのリアリズム─90年代のアジア美術 | ||
| p. 131 | 批評としての美術 | ||
| p. 136 | 5つの要素─東南アジアのインスタレーション・アートに関する概略 | ||
| p. 142 | 東南アジアから─来るべき美術のために | ||
| p. 149 | 辺境から見る「コン・アート」─東南アジアにおけるコンセプチュアル・アートの意味 | ||
| p. 154 | アジア：対－形象化による同一化 | ||
| p. 160 | 地域性のいくつかの局面─東南アジアの交渉 | ||
| p. 167 | アジア太平洋における文化の変容─アジア・パシフィック現代美術トリエンナーレと福岡アジア美術トリエンナーレの比較 | ||
| p. 177 | 「失われた無垢なわたし」という他者─東南アジア美術におけるゴーギャニズム | ||
| p. 183 | ポストコロニアルの危機─美術と国家の不可能性 | ||
| p. 187 | 失われた全体を求めて─（日本で）アジア近代美術を教えるということ | ||
| p. 191 | 島国的展望：シンガポールのヴィデオ・アートについての覚書 | ||
| p. 196 | 揺れ動く東南アジア美術史の領域─伝統、近代そして「現代」 | ||
| p. 207 | 編集後記 | ||
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Anthology “Shaping the History of Art in Southeast Asia”
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- pp.181-197(PDF: 8.48MB)
- pp.198-cover(PDF: 6.56MB)
Art Studies 04
While the first three issues of Art Studies reviewed and investigated the conditions for art in Asia since the 1960s, this fourth issue shifted the focus to the current art scene in 2018 and took the form of a curators’ book. It is a collection of 19 reports by the curators who participated in “Condition Report,” a collaborative art project from late 2015 to 2017 providing young curators from Southeast Asia and Japan opportunities for networking and improving their curatorial skills through planning exhibitions and holding events.
Condition Report: Shifting Perspectives in Asia–Curators’ Book
Edited by Beverly Yong; Furuichi Yasuko
- Publisher:
Tokyo: The Japan Foundation Asia Center
- Year:
2018
- Total Number of Pages:
186
- Size:
24 cm
- Series Title:
The Japan Foundation Asia Center: Art studies; 4
- Languages:
English (eng); Japanese (jpn); Indonesian (ind)
- NCID:
BB25928282
[Contents]
| p. 3 | About Art Studies 04 | |
| Introduction | ||
| p. 10 | Condition Report: Shifting Perspectives in Asia—a Curators’ Book | |
| Essays | ||
| p. 17 | What is Southeast Asia? | |
| p. 19 | The Construction of Collaborative Space and Its Possibilities 2000–2017: From “Under Construction” to “Condition Report” | |
| p. 31 | Toward Reciprocity and Change | |
| p. 41 | Shifting Practices | |
| p. 43 | The Provisionality of Southeast Asia: The Value of Shifting Practices | |
| p. 55 | Curating, Collectives, and Conversation | |
| p. 66 | Unseen Connections: Collective Art Practice and Public Space in Southeast Asia and Japan | |
| p. 76 | Curating Histories of Cultural Activism: What Are We Trying to Change? | |
| p. 83 | Negotiating National Contexts | |
| p. 85 | Changes and Uncertainties in Contemporary Myanmar Art | |
| p. 90 | Laos in Motion | |
| p. 93 | Institutions, Communication, and Discourse | |
| p. 95 | Communicating with People Behind the Black Mirror | |
| p. 98 | Learning with Citizens | |
| p. 108 | Fixing a Broken Paper Boat: On Art Museums and Museum Curators in Indonesia | |
| p. 121 | Indonesian Curators Do Not Engage in Enough Debate | |
| p. 135 | Learning, Relationships, and Responsibility | |
| p. 137 | Phases of Curatorial Passage | |
| p. 142 | The Game-maker, the Player, and Levelling the Playing Field | |
| p. 146 | Friend First, Colleague Second! A Reflection on the Issue of Trust in Curatorial Practice | |
| p. 150 | Letting Go of Doubts: My Views on Transnational Curation | |
| p. 156 | Curatorial Circuit: Getting Past the Confusion | |
| p. 167 | The Earth from the Air: Curating as Diplomatic Work | |
| p. 170 | Giving Shape to Painful Things | |
| p. 177 | Afterword | |
| p. 179 | Appendix | |
| p. 180 | fig.01_Collaborative Curatorial Projects by the Japan Foundation | |
| p. 182 | fig.02_Project Structure of “Under Construction” | |
| p. 183 | fig.03_Project Structure of “Condition Report” | |
| p. 184 | fig.04a_Condition Report in 2017 | |
| p. 186 | fig.04b_Map | |
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Art Studies 04
Condition Report: Shifting Perspectives in Asia–Curators’ Book
Art Studies 05
This is the fifth publication of the series The Japan Foundation Asia Center Art Studies, which documents the discussions that unfolded during the “Curators’ Forum 2018: Imagining New Ecologies” (October 17-19, 2018). A group of young generation of curators from Southeast Asia and Japan convened at this forum to discuss the current issues and future projections regarding the three topics, “public,” “history,” and “education,” based on the experiences from the curatorial collaborative projects that took place in a span of five years from 2013 to 2018, “Media/Art Kitchen: Reality Distortion Field” (2013), “Run & Learn” (2014-2017), and “Condition Report” (2017).
Curators’ Forum 2018 “Imagining New Ecologies” Report
Edited by Beverly Yong
- Publisher: Tokyo:The Japan Foundation Asia Center
- Year:2019
- Total Number of Pages:128
- Size:24 cm
- Series Title: The Japan Foundation Asia Center: Art studies; 5
- Note:
Curators’ Forum 2018: Imagining New Ecologies
October 17–19, 2018 (14:00–17:00) / The Japan Foundation (Main Building) Hall "Sakura" / Panelists: Ayos Purwoaji, Che Kyongfa, Goh Sze Ying, Hasegawa Arata, Horiuchi Naoko, Kumakura Haruko, Le Thuan Uyen, Leonhard Bartolomeus, Maung Day, Bill Nguyen, Nishida Maki, Vipash Purichanont, Selene Yap, Shiraki Eise, Syafiatudina, Lisa Ito-Tapang, Beverly Yong / Link: The Japan Foundation Asia Center - Languages:English (eng)
- NCID:BB28113398
[Contents]
| p. 3 | About Art Studies 05 | |
| p. 10 | Curators' Forum 2018: Imagining New Ecologies | |
| p. 11 | Forum Participants | |
| p. 15 | A Note from the Editors and Forum Team | |
| Session 1: Public | ||
| p. 21 | Session 1: Public | |
| p. 23 | How Low Can You Go? | |
| p. 27 | The Shaping of Myanmar Art Scene and Who Can Play Which Role in It | |
| p. 30 | Making Room for Reasonable Disagreements | |
| p. 36 | The Role Required of the Art Museum | |
| p. 40 | Untimely Deaths, Undying Time | |
| p. 44 | DISCUSSION | |
| Session 2: History | ||
| p. 57 | Session 2: History | |
| p. 59 | Microhistory/Alternative History: Artistic Production in Looking at Identity, Political Struggle, and Expression | |
| p. 64 | The Plurality of History: History and history | |
| p. 69 | A Commitment to Telling: Curatorial Labor and Counter-Hegemonic Histories | |
| p. 73 | A Ghost of Collectivity: Hauntology and Curation of the Future | |
| p. 77 | When the Exhibition Recurs | |
| p. 81 | DISCUSSION | |
| Session 3: Education | ||
| p. 93 | Session 3: Education | |
| p. 95 | Can the Contemporary Art Museum be a New Place for Learning? | |
| p. 100 | Ways of Negotiation | |
| p. 106 | Collective as School | |
| p. 110 | School of Improper Education: Education of the Heart, the Mind, and Everything in Between | |
| p. 113 | DISCUSSION | |
| p. 124 | DISCUSSION: Closing Thoughts | |
| p. 127 | Afterword | |
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Art Studies 05
Curators’ Forum 2018 “Imagining New Ecologies” Report
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