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Photography project
"KEEP IN TOUCH: Positions in Japanese Photography" |
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| Cultural Capital of Europe Graz 2003,Austria |
Keep In Touch is a photography exhibition
and symposium focusing on the contemporary photography of Japan
held by the photographic arts foundation Camera Austria based in
Graz as one of the programs of the Cultural Capital of Europe Graz
2003.
Camera Austria has since the 1970's run a series of projects to
introduce Japanese artists to its audience and in doing so has built
a wide-ranging network among photographers, researchers, curators
and other figures in the world of Japanese photography. The current
project features young Japanese photographers working in the context
of ongoing globalization. The purpose is to reconsider the situation
of visual information and the relationship between society and art
through their work, which emerges from a political and social environment
entirely different from that of the generation preceding them. Another
goal of this project is to construct a new network among the young
photographers of Japan. The EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee has supported
this project with the hope that it will prove an opportunity for
deeper understanding of Japan and form the basis for substantive
activity in future for the photographers of both Japan and Austria.
■Exhibition
Date：4 October〜2 November 2003
Venue：Camera Austria - Kunsthaus Graz
(Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz, Austria)
www.camera-austria.at
Curator：Christine Frisinghelli, Seiichi Furuya, Manfred Willmann
Artists：Mao
ISHIKAWA、Kisei
KOBAYASHI、Keizo
KITAJIMA、Mika
NINAGAWA、Sakiko
NOMURA、Masafumi
SANAI、Tomoko
SAWADA、Risaku
SUZUKI、Kyoichi
TSUZUKI
■Symposium
Date：Friday, 31 October + Saturday, 1 November
Venue：Kunsthaus Graz -Space 4
(Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz, Austria)
Admission：2-day pass 12EUR/8EUR
Individual session 5EUR/4EUR
Schedule：
Friday, 31 October
19:00 Toshiharu ITO (Tokyo National University
of Fine Arts and Music)
Michiko KASAHARA (Curator, Museum of Contemporary
Art Tokyo)
Kazue KOBATA (Art producer, adjunct curator,
P.S 1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, New York)
Saturday, 1 November
11:00 Masafumi FUKAGAWA (Curator for photography,
Kawasaki City Museum)
Minoru SHIMIZU (Art historian, Doshisha University, Kyoto)
Shino KURAISHI (Curator, Yokohama Museum of
Art)
16:00 Kyoichi
TSUZUKI (Writer, photographer, editor)
Toshiya UENO (Sociologist, Department of Expressive
Cultures, Wako University, Tokyo)
Mao ISHIKAWA
(Photographer, Naha, Okinawa)
■Publication
The project is documented in a publication
Camera Austria #84, December 2003 (German/English)
Organized by：Camera Austria
In cooperation with：Graz 2003 - Cultural Capital of Europe
Supported by： EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee |
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