ACA Symposium "Contemporary/Art/Archive: Deposit, Output, Activation"
What materials should archives of contemporary art and artists collect and preserve? How far, and in what way, should their archiving be developed? How should they utilize diverse resources to create new values and meanings?
Answering these questions is crucial to understanding and extending the potential of archives in contemporary art. An archive is more than just a refuge for historical documents. Its formation should focus on developing a platform for making materials accessible to wider public, for thriving innovate minds in scholarly research and for engendering a range of creative practices. It is also important to consider how an archive can invigorate itself through archiving.
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Date
Saturday 14 January 2017, 13:00-18:00
Venue
Keio University (Mita), South School Buidling Hall
Audience
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Cost
無料
Enquiries and bookings
Secretariat: Fujitsu Research Institute
moc.ustijuf.pj.sc@05nekiaz-irf
Date
Saturday 14 January 2017, 13:00-18:00
Venue
Keio University (Mita), South School Buidling Hall (5th floor)
2-15-45, Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8345 [Access]
Audience
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Cost
無料
Booking
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Lecturer/Performer
Coordinator: Yohko Watanabe (Curator and professor at Keio University Art Center)
Farah Wardani, Assistant Director, Resource Centre, National Gallery of Singapore
Dr. Jo Melvin, Director, Estate of Barry Flanagan, Reader in Archives and Special Collections at Chelsea Collage of Arts, University of the Arts London
Yukiko TAKAYANAGI (Osaka City Museum of Modern Art)
Tama Art University & Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Yu HOMMA (Keio University Art Center)
Kazuko KOIKE
Seishi NAMIKI (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
Ryusuke YONEDA (Sogetsu Foundation)
Hitoshi KUBO (Keio University Art Center)
Takako FUJIMOTO (National Archives of Modern Architecture, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan)
Farah Wardani
Assistant Director, Resource Centre, National Gallery of Singapore
Born in Jakarta in 1975. Farah Wardani completed her MA in Art History (20th Century) at Goldsmiths College, London, UK in 2001. She has been active as a writer, curator, and art organizer since 2001 in Indonesia. From 2007 until 2015 she was the Director of Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, establishing the first digital archive of contemporary art in the country http://archive.ivaa-online.org/. In March 2015 she joined National Gallery Singapore as the Assistant Director for the Gallery’s Resource Centre.
Jo Melvin
Director, Estate of Barry Flanagan, Reader in Archives and Special Collections at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London
Jo Melvin is a writer and curator whose recent projects include “Animal, Vegetable Mineral” Waddington Custot Gallery, “Christine Kozlov: Information No Theory” Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, “Five Issues of Studio International” Raven Row, London, and “Palindromes: Barry Flanagan and John Latham” at Flat Time House, London. Recent essays include “The Xerox Book,” Paula Cooper Gallery New York, “British Art and Conceptualism 1966-1979” Tate Britain, and “Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptualism” at the Stedijk Museum, Amsterdam. She is planning an exhibition with the LeWitt-Mahler Studios in Spoleto, Italy and the catalogue raisonné of Barry Flanagan to be published by Modern Art Press in 2018.
Yohko Watanabe
Professor & Curator, Keio University Art Center
Born in Tokyo in 1961. Yohko Watanabe completed an MA at Keio University. She specializes in history of modern and contemporary arts. She curated exhibitions and conducted research at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. The main exhibitions she curated include “Structure and Remembrance: Toya, Endo and Kenmoch” (1991, “Revolution: Art of the 60s” (1995), “On the Earth” (2003), among others. Since 2006, she has been working as a professor and curator at Keio University Art Center. She is involved in the activities of archives there. She plans various events, exhibitions, and addresses the issue of archiving post-war art. She has done research in London as a Visiting Fellow at Tate Research Centre Asia in 2016.
Timetable
Coordinator: Yohko Watanabe (Curator and Professor, Keio University Art Center)
1. Keynote Speeches
Farah Wardani, Assistant Director, Resource Centre, National Gallery of Singapore
The Importance and Challenges of Art Archiving in SEA Art and Society
Dr. Jo Melvin, Director, Estate of Barry Flanagan, Reader in Archives and Special Collections at Chelsea Collage of Arts, University of the Arts London
Sculpture from soft to hard and back again…Barry Flanagan and his contemporaries
2. Case studies
2A Archiving and Promoting Japanese Contemporary Art
- Gutai Art Association
Yukiko TAKAYANAGI (Osaka City Museum of Modern Art) - Mono-ha
Akira TATEHATA (Tama Art University)
Gen UMEZU (Museum of Modern Art, Saitama)
Sen UESAKI (Yokohama National University) - VIC and Documentation of Art in 1970s Japan
Yu HOMMA (Keio University Art Center)
2B Stages of Archival Development
- Sagacho Exhibit Space
Kazuko KOIKE - Design Archives
Seishi NAMIKI (Kyoto Institute of Technology) - Sogetsu Art Center
Ryusuke YONEDA (Sogetsu Foundation), Hitoshi KUBO (Keio University Art Center) - Archives of Modern Architecture
Takako FUJIMOTO (National Archives of Modern Architecture, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan)
3. Poster presentations and Break
4. Final discussion
Enquiries and bookings
Secretariat: Fujitsu Research Institute
moc.ustijuf.pj.sc@05nekiaz-irf
Organiser(s)
Coordinated by: Yohko Watanabe (Keio University Art Center)
Hosted by: Agency for Cultural Affairs
The second day of the symposium falls into two parts. The first part includes keynote lectures by Farah Wardani and Dr. Jo Melvin. Farah Wardani is Assistant Director of the Resource Centre at the National Museum of Singapore and has engaged in archiving and promoting contemporary south Asian art for years. Dr. Melvin is an art historian and Reader in Fine Art, Special Collections and Archives at the Chelsea College of Art. She is also Director of the Estate of British sculptor Barry Flanagan and a founder of his archive in London. The juxtaposition of their archiving practices, which are quite different in scope and purpose, will offer insight into relevant issues concerning contemporary art archives.
The second part consists of two sessions. The first session introduces archive projects focusing on Japanese art from the 1950s to the 1970s, which are funded by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, and reflects on the way in which each archive communicates the importance of its collection. The second session focuses on several important stages of building an archive. By examining each stage and its unique problems, challenges and opportunities, this session explores the possibilities of generative archiving and effective dissemination practices.