【Finish】Symposium “Strategies from the Periphery”

2023/10/7(Sat) 15:00〜

Following the opening of the exhibition “Koganecho International Artist’s Network 2023: Nobody Knows Their Story”, we would like to invite everyone to a symposium to discuss the theme “Strategies from the Periphery”. Invited speakers will discuss their practice as arts organizers, researchers, and artists, and share their experiences and thoughts about the so-called “margins” of contemporary art. The forum includes Mitomi Yukie (Arts Center Akita), Dian Arumningtyas (Indeks, Bandung, Indonesia), Takuro Goto (KIAN23 artist from the Tohoku region), and Hunter P. Deerfield (KIAN23 researcher-in-residence).

Date｜October 7 (Sat.) 15:00~

Venue｜Studio Site-D Community Space Beneath the Railways

*Consecutive interpretation
*There is no advance reservation, but attendees may be limited as necessary.
*Online stream will be made available.
You can join it via the following link.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84033854842

About the Panelists

Mitomi Yukie (Manager, Arts Center Akita)
Yukie Mitomi is manager of Arts Center Akita, a non-profit organization which runs various community outreach programs and research projects of Akita University of Art, Japan. Born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. She received her M.A. of Arts, International Cooperation Studies Program, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University. She worked for the Japan Foundation (2006-2016) and was appointed Assistant Director at the Japan Foundation, Manila (2008-2015). Her projects at the Japan Foundation, Manila includes Japanese film festival “Eiga-Sai” (2008-2014), Rap in Tondo 2 (2011), Rap in Tondo 2 x Shinjuku Art Project (2012), Media/Art Kitchen – Reality Distortion Field (2013), and MOVE PHILIPPINES (2014).

Takuro Goto 
Born in Yamagata, Japan in 1982. After graduating from the oil painting course at Tohoku University of Art and Design, Takuro Goto has been working in Yamagata. He makes oil paintings depicting decaying ruins covered with vegetation, and installations using snow enclosure materials unique to areas with heavy snowfall. He attempts to renew his landscape paintings by reimagining the landscapes of his hometown as something that is forced to change under the influence of economic activity and world affairs, rather than as something that evokes nostalgia.

Dian Arumningtyas (Program director, Indeks, Indonesia)
Dian Arumningtyas is a researcher and curator who works closely with topics related to cultural mobility, community involvement in artistic instruments, and textual reading through archives and library collections. Her long-term research project dissects how artist-in-residence programs become a cultural strategy driven by the governmental and funders’ agendas to develop and revitalize communities. She is interested in delving into power relations and the agency of the local community to be equally active in shaping the culture. Recent projects that Dian has been working on include being involved in the 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale as a curatorial assistant (2023-2024), co-curating “Post-Localization Syndrome” with Barim Gwangju, supported by the Korean Foundation for International Culture Exchange (2022); co-developing a curatorial workshop with Goethe-Institut Bandung (2022); and having granted a fellow for the Ishibashi Foundation–the Japan Foundation Research on Japanese Art (2020). She is currently working as a program director for Indeks.

Hunter P Deerfield
Hunter P Deerfield is a researcher focusing on emerging contemporary art scenes, primarily in Southeast Asia. His working methodology is essentially anthropological and based around building trust and conducting informal, recurring conversations. His research explores the working process and personal histories of artists, but also artists’ reflections on society and wider historical and cultural contexts. Hunter is also the editor of the alternative archiving and publishing project KIRTI. For his research residency in Koganecho, Hunter has been exploring local artists’ practice, as well as seeking to learn more about the local Southeast Asian immigrant population in Yokohama.

Moderator

Nozomu Ogawa
Born in 1976, Tokyo. Director of Art Center Ongoing. Graduated from Musashino Art University in 2001, then achieved a master’s degree at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo. He has held a large exhibition every year from 2002 to 2006, building a unique network of artists who have publicly applied for the exhibition. Based on this network, he launched Art Center Ongoing, an art complex, at Kichijoji in 2008.