Outline

For those who wish to attend the symposium, please fill out the registration form below by Friday, February 28, 2025, 23:59 (JST). Registration form may be closed at the time of reaching capacity.

Program

Speakers

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  Anna TELLGREN (PhD)
  Curator of photography and research leader at Moderna Museet

  
  She has curated exhibitions, including Lars Tunbjörk Winter/Home (2007), Moderna Museet Now: Inta Ruka (2008), and Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff: Alternative Secrecy (2021), and more. Francesca Woodman: On Being an Angel (2015) toured internationally for several years. In 2011, she organized the large-scale photography exhibition Another Story: Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection. She was previously a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Art History at Stockholm University. She edited The History Book. On Moderna Museet 1958-2008 (2008) and published two books on Pontus Hultén and Moderna Museet (2017, 2023). She is also contributed to Fotografihistorier. Fotografi och bildbruk i Sverige (2022) and Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage (2023, Thames & Hudson). She is a director of Konsthistorisk Tidskrift / Journal of Art History.
  

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  Natalia SIDLINA (PhD)
  Curator of international art at Tate Modern

  
  She is specialized in modernist (émigré) art. She has been working on research and curatorial practices, focusing on history, connections, and exchanges in artistic practices between Eastern and Western Europe in the early 20th century. She has been a curator of international art at Tate Modern since 2015. She is currently studying the performativity of Picasso’s work for the coming exhibition The Theatre of Picasso, scheduled for 2025. Recent exhibitions and publications include Eric Bratoff (2018), Naum Gabo: Constructing for Real Life (2020), Natalia Goncharova (2019), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (2021), and Cézanne (2022). In the exhibition Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider (2024), she explored the cultural connections and networks of the artist group known as the Blue Rider.
  

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  MITSUDA Yuri
  Art critic, professor at Tama Art University, and director of AAC

  
  She is specialized in 20th-century art history and photographic history. She worked as a curator at museums including the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design and the Shoto Museum of Art. Her publications include Words and Things: Jiro Takamatsu and Japanese Art, 1961-72 (McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, 2012), Photography: On the Interface with Art (Seikyusha, 2006, Japan Photography Association Award), and others. She has co-authored Modern and Contemporary History of Japanese Art (Tokyo Shoseki, 2014), The New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography (Yale University Press, 2015), PROVOKE: Between PROTEST and PERFORMANCE (Steidl, 2016), Complete Collection of Art Criticism 1955–64 (Geika-sha, 2021), among others. Her curated exhibitions include Hi Red Center: Tracing Direct Action (2013–14), Mirror behind Hole: Photography into Sculpture (2017), Painting into Sculpture―Embodiment in Form (2019), and many more.
  

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  Pascal GOBLOT
  Performer, video artist, and film director

  
  His film Richard Hamilton in the Reflection of Marcel Duchamp has been awarded the SCAM Star Award. Through devices, performances, and multi-screen video installations, he explores new territories in digital expression. Since 2006, he has focused on Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, creating a series of works under the title The Legend of the Large Glass. This series include installations, videos, performances, and digital works, such as the performance To Be Broken and ephemeral copies of The Large Glass. In 2012, he founded the company Escalenta. He is currently based in Paris.
  

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  ORIMO Katsuya
  Research associate, Komaba Museum, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences

  
  Graduated from the Department of History and Geography, Faculty of Letters, Meiji University, majoring in archaeology in 1993. He was a research student at the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, from 1997 to 1999. He received his PhD (History) from The Faculty of Letters, Department of History, Kokugakuin University, specializing in archaeology in 2002. In June 2002, he was granted a position as a research fellow at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo, specializing in Environmental Studies. In October 2002, he was appointed a program researcher at Kokugakuin University for The 21st Century Center of Excellence Program. After serving as an academic assistant at Komaba Museum, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences, he has held the current position since 2004. His specialties are Archaeology and Museology.
  

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  ARIFUKU Kazuaki
  Professor, Ariake College of Education and the Arts

  
  After enrolling at Tama University in 1977, he was involved in the creation of The Large Glass Tokyo Version. He received his master’s degree from the Graduate School of Art, Tama Art University, majoring in oil painting in 1982. From 1985 to 2015, he was engaged in art education and workshops as a staff member at the “Children’s Castle.” Since 2016, he has held his current position. He has contributed to several exhibitions, including the Exhibition of Marcel Duchamp (1981, Seibu Art Museum/Takanawa Art Museum), Marcel Duchamp and the 20th Century Art (2004–05, Yokohama Museum of Art), and Marcel Duchamp and Japanese Art (2018, Tokyo National Museum).
  

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Exhibition flyer (Designed by Kato Katsuya)