Journée d’étude : « Artistic Practices and Discourse in Postwar Japanese Art  » (Berlin 26 octobre 2015)

Artistic Practices and Discourse in Postwar Japanese Art (Berlin, 26 Oct 15) Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin, October 26, 2015

Workshop: Confronting Matter: Artistic Practices and Discourses of Sciences and Technologies in Postwar Japanese Art Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin Room 2.2058 & Room 2.2059

Program

13:15–13:30 Opening Remarks (Tomoko Mamine, Berlin)

13:30–14:30 Tatami and Wood: Ink Rubbings and the Discussion of Materiality in Postwar Japanese Calligraphy and Art (Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, Heidelberg)

14:30–15:30 Materials Matter: Gutai between the Wars (Vera Wolff, Zurich/Basel)

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–17:00 The Material is the “Massage”? Embodying Semiotic Transformations (Gabrielle Schaad, Zurich)

17:00–18:00 A Matter of Time: Gutai’s Experimentations with Physicality in Art (Tomoko Mamine, Berlin)

18:15–20:00 Evening Talk by Reiko Tomii, New York Matsuzawa Yutaka’s Art of Kannen: Transcending Physical Time-Space

The workshop will be hosted by the DFG Research Group 1703 « Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art. Comparative Perspectives on Historical Contexts and Contemporary Constellations », Research Unit C2 « World Art and the World of Art – Then and Now », Concept: Tomoko Mamine