Fwd: Conf: 1960s Japanese Art

[Aaron Gerow]

Begin forwarded message:
> From: ArtTomii at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:37:47 EDT
>
>
> Saying Yes to Say No: Art and Culture in 1960s Japan
>
> In conjunction  with the exhibition Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art:
> Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950 - 1970,
> University of Michigan Museum of Art  (UMMA) will present a two-day
> international symposium and performance considering experimental art
> of 1960s Japan in a broader cultural  context.
>
> Generously funded by the Center for Japanese Studies and the
> Department of the History of Art, this event is co-organized with the
> University of Michigan Museum of Art and Department of History of
> Art,  in association with PoNJA-GenKon, a listserv group dedicated to
> contemporary  Japanese art (www.ponja-genkon.net).
>
> Friday, April 2
> 5:00 pm – Keynote  lecture with Reiko Tomii, Independent Scholar and
> Co-Founder,  PoNJA-GenKon
> Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
> "When Artists Beat Historians:  A Legacy of 1960s Japanese Art  
> Continued"
> Moderator: Alex Potts, History of  Art, University of Michigan
>
> 6:30 - Performance by Ei Arakawa, New  York-based Artist
> Apse, UMMA
> "M for Mavoists (and so  on...)"
>
> Saturday, April 3
> 9:30 am - 5:00 pm, Papers, Helmut Stern  Auditorium, UMMA
>
> 9:30 - Welcome remarks by Ruth Slavin, Interim  Co-Director and  
> Director
> of Education, UMMA, and Reiko Tomii, Independent  Scholar and Co- 
> founder,
> PoNJA-GenKon
>
> 10:00 - Hiroko Ikegami, Osaka  University, Japan
> "Introducing the Art under the Nuclear Umbrella: The New  Japanese
> Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New  York"
>
> 10:30 - Midori Yoshimoto, New Jersey City University
> "Fluxus  Nexus/Tokyo—New York"
>
> Moderator: Joan Kee, History of Art, University of  Michigan
>
> 11:30 - Lunch break
>
> 1:00 - Ryan Holmberg, University of  Southern California
> "Deep Road to the Narrow South: The Erotopia of Tsuge  Yoshiharu  
> Manga,
> 1965 - 1970"
>
> Moderator: Kevin Carr, History of Art,  University of Michigan
>
> 2:00 - Jonathan Hall, Pomona College and Meiji  Gakuin University
> "Away from Center: Radical Times in Art  History"
>
> Moderator: A.M. Nornes, Screen Arts and Cultures and Asian   
> Languages and
> Cultures, University of Michigan
>
> 3:30 - Coffee &  tea break
>
> 4:00 - Roundtable discussion with speakers
>
> All events  are free and open to the public.
>
> Access to the University of  Michigan
> http://www.umma.umich.edu/visiting/parking.html
> http://www.admissions.umich.edu/visiting/directories.html
>
> Hotel  information
> Campus Inn, http://www.campusinn.com
> Bell Tower Hotel,  http://www.belltowerhotel.com
> Inn at the Michigan League,  http://uunions.umich.edu/league/inn
> Lamp Post Inn,  http://www.lamppostinn.com
>
> Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in  the Public Sphere in  
> Postwar
> Japan, 1950-1970 will run from March 27th –  June 6th in the UMMA's  
> Works
> on Paper Gallery.
>
> This exhibition has  been organized by the Getty Research Institute,  
> Los
> Angeles. The exhibition  and related programs are made possible in  
> part
> by the University of Michigan  Center for Japanese Studies and the
> Department of the History of  Art.
>
> Please send questions to Natsu Oyobe (onatsu at umich.edu) or Jacob   
> Proctor
> (jdproc at umich.edu)
>
>
> University of Michigan Museum of  Art
> 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, 48109-1354
> Information:  734.763.UMMA; www.umma.umich.edu
>
>
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