Study: Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival 2023 and Kamagasaki University of Arts co-host talk events "Survive with Transdisciplinary-Arts Vol. 1 ‘Life' - Azire and Marginal Arts" and Vol. 2 ‘Survive' - Asia and Marginal Arts Today". The exhibition will be held at the following venues.

Overview of the event

Date: 29 Jan (Sun), 2023 14:00~16:30 *Video streaming available at a later date
　　　Vol. 1 ‘Life' - Azir and marginal art 14:00-15:15.
　　　Vol. 2 ‘Survival' - Asia and marginal art today 15:30-16:30.
Venue: Semba Excel Building,6F
Address: 3-2-11 Kyutaromachi, Chuo-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Fee: Free of charge
*Please inform the reception desk on the 2nd floor that you are attending the talk when you arrive. The venue is a paid venue for Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2023. A common pass is required to see the artworks exhibited on each floor (available for sale on site).
Capacity: 20 persons (advance booking required).
Study:Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival 2023 Website: https://www.osaka-kansai.art/

Organised by Akita University of Art
Co-organised by Kamagasaki University of Arts, Study: Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival 2023.

Vol. 1 ‘Life' - Azir and Marginal Art

Moderator: Mitsuki Akita (graduate student at Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts, Akita University of Art)
Guests: Kanayo Ueda (poet), Ren Fukuzumi (art critic, associate professor at Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts, Akita University of Art).

Poet Kanayo Ueda believes that "to live is to express", and while running the guesthouse, café and garden Cocoroom in Kamagasaki, she has been creating a space where diverse people can learn about art, culture, and knowledge. In session vol. 1, Ueda and art critic Ren Fukuzumi will discuss the awareness of 'life' in Cocoroom's activities, including the perspective of 'marginal art', which lies on the borderline between life and art.

Vol. 2 ‘Survival' - Asia and Marginal Art Today

Moderator: Yuto Yabumoto (graduate student at Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts, Akita University of Art)
Guests: Tuan Mami (artist), Aung Myat Htay (artist), Ren Fukuzumi

Session vol. 2 will share the environment and situation surrounding contemporary Southeast Asian art, based on the artistic expressions of Vietnamese artist Tuan Mami and Myanmar artist Aung Myattay, under the theme of the word ‘survival'. The presentation will also include a discussion of the Asian ‘view of nature' and the ‘natural way of thinking'. Then, taking Asian ‘views of nature' and 'myths/folktales' as a starting point, and in the context of Shunsuke Tsurumi's ‘Marginal Art', a dialogue will be held on the specific nature of art for ‘survival' in contemporary Asia.

More information can be found here.

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About 「Study : Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival 2023」

This is a pre-event to “study” the relationship between “art and people”, “art and society”, and the possibilities of art, with the aim of holding one of the world’s largest art festivals, the Osaka Kansai International Art Festival (tentative), in 2025.
The second edition of the festival will feature exhibitions by artists with connections to the Kansai region, an art fair where galleries from Japan and abroad will exhibit their work and where anyone can enjoy purchasing artworks, and thematic conferences are organized to draw out the potential of the arts, furthermore, the restaurant will be the venue for a limited time only art dining, a collaboration between food and art etc, a diverse programme of ‘seeing’, ‘buying’, ‘eating’ and ‘learning’ art on 17 days of the art festival period.

Read more: https://www.osaka-kansai.art/