Upcoming Workshop at the University of California, Berkeley

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Hi Michael, 

Looks like a good program, I'll be there. I wondered, is the schedule right? Do activities really begin at 7:30 PM on thursday?

Ken

On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:59 PM, Michael Raine <raine.michael.j at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Cultural Geographies of 1960s Japan: Film, Music + Arts"
> 
> This workshop proposes to take the concerns of cultural geography as a
> model (or metaphor) for a way of thinking the landscape of art- and
> film-making in the 1960s Tokyo counterculture. By mapping the
> circulation of different forms of cinema, music, media and performance
> arts, the location of the different institutions that housed them, and
> the network of relations between the people involved, the workshop
> will enhance our understanding of intermediality in 1960s arts as a
> social and spatial, as well as textual, practice. The 1960s
> “counter-culture” must be taken at its word: as a relational term
> opposed to the commercial culture of high economic growth that also
> formed its condition of possibility. Combining the hermeneutic
> analysis of texts and art works with the recent emphasis on
> inter-medial connections and the analysis of spatial culture, the
> workshop aims to create a new perspective on the relation of
> avant-garde and mainstream culture.
> 
> Thursday 4/26    142 Dwinelle, Nestrick Room
> 
> 7:30 pm: Welcome and keynote    
> Miryam Sas, Film&Media and Comparative Literature, UC
> Berkeley    introductory remarks
> Michael Raine, Film&Media and EALC, UC Berkeley                    introductory remarks
> Kuroda Raiji (KuroDalaiJi), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum        
> Performance Art and Urban Space
> Julia Bryan-Wilson, Art History, UC Berkeley            
> response to KuroDalaiJi
> 
>    
> Friday 4/27    2223 Fulton Street 6th Floor Conference Room
> 
> 10 am: Conceptualizing urban (film) space    
> Sharon Hayashi, York University                   Space and politics in 1960s art
> Roland Domenig, University of Vienna               Down and below: Shinjuku
> and Japanese underground culture
> Hirasawa Go, Meiji Gakuin University               The "collective
> intelligence" of Shinjuku as a site for underground film production
> Chair: Dan O’Neill
>    
> Noon: Musical presentation with demonstration:  Graphic Scores /
> Ichiyanagi Toshi
> Yayoi Uno-Everett, Emory University    
> Bonnie Wade, Music, UC Berkeley    
>    
> 2:30 pm: Media / mediation    
> Yuriko Furuhata, McGill University               Techniques of Circulation:
> Expanded Cinema, Expo 70, and the Securitization of Urban Space
> Matsui Shigeru, Tokyo University of the Arts           Tono Yoshiaki and
> TV Environment
> Miki Kaneda, Museum of Modern Art               Memories of Place: The
> Sogetsu Art Center and Experimental Music in Japan
>    
> 5 pm: Concluding round table    
> Opening remarks by:    
> Steven Ridgely, University of Wisconsin-Madison    
> William Marotti, UCLA