• Update Date: 2024.03.27
• Category: Talk Event

Hiroyuki Oki x Yukio Pegio Gunji x Machiko Chiba Talk Event

Hiroyuki Oki, who has been actively producing film and video works both in Japan and abroad. To commemorate this exhibition, which present a rare opportunity to capture the entirety of Oki’s activities from the late 1980s to the present, a talk event will be held on Wednesday, April 3.
It will be featuring Hiroyuki Oki himself and Yukio Gunji Pegio, a professor at Waseda University’s School of Science and Engineering, who is also a researcher of Fundamentals of Life Theory, has published numerous books, and has been actively engaged in creating and presenting artworks in recent years; as well as Machiko Chiba, a curator at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, who curated the αM project “Have something that defines my judgment　vol. 4 Hiroyuki Oki: tiger/needle”.

Regarding the exhibition title, they will focus on discussing the question – what exactly is “Abstract Incarnation” ?

We look forward to seeing you there.

Date & Time: 2024.4.3 (Wed.) 19:00 − 20:30
Speakers: Hiroyuki Oki (Artist), Yukio Pegio Gunji (Researcher on the Fundamentals of Life Theory), Machiko Chiba (Curator at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art)
Language: Japanese
Admission: Free
Reservation: Booking through ArtSticker
*Same-day tickets are available. However please be aware that seatings are reserved on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Venue: ANOMALY, Tokyo
*Additionally, please kindly note in advance. There will be no a live stream for this talk event.
*If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Speakers:

Hiroyuki Oki
Born in Tokyo in 1964, and his activities are based in Kochi Prefecture, Tokyo, and other locations.
He began producing video works in the early 1980s, while he was pursuing studies in the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Engineering. In 1989, he launched the Matsumae series consisting of video works made mainly in Matsumae-cho, Hokkaido. He received the Special Jury Prize at the Image Forum Festival for his film Swimming Prohibited in 1990, and the NETPAC Award at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival for his HEAVEN-6-BOX (1995) in 1996. His artistic activities are by no means confined to video; they also extend to drawing, installation, and performance.

Yukio Pegio Gunji
Researcher on the Fundamentals of Life Theory, Artist
Department of Intermedia Art and Science, School of Fundamental Engineering, Waseda University, Professor (2014~Current). Faculty of Science, Tohoku University(BA). Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University (Master and Doctor of Science). Author of “Life never moves” (2018, Seido-sha), “Natural Born Intelligence” (2019, Kodansha), “Coming” (2020, Igaku-shoin) and many others. From 2021, art works were created in parent’s home where no one lives, and the photos movies and objects were installed with Japanese painting painter, Kyoko Nakamura in ASK? Art Space Kimura, Tokyo. The documents of creating art works were published in the form of “Where does the creativity come?” (Chikuma-shinsho, 2023). Group exhibition, “ALIFE2023, Unconscious Relation” (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 2023); “In-front-of-the-Gate Millennium Festival” (Nagano, 2024). “BOG BODY, summoned body” (ASK?, Tokyo, 2024).

Machiko Chiba
Curator at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art. Born in Aichi Prefecture.
After working as a curator at the Okazaki City Museum, she assumed her current position in 2015. 
She specializes in modern and contemporary art and design. Her major exhibitions include “Have something that defines my judgment” (galleryαM, 2022), “Modern Synchronized and Stimulated Each Other: The Polyphony of Function and Decoration” (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2022), “Kenjiro Okazaki: Retrospective Strata” (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2019), “work on five hypotheses to cut off ….” (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2017), “play on the facts” (Okazaki City Former Residence of Honda Tadatsugu, 2015), and “HUMOR and LEAP of THOUGHT: Far beyond our recognizable world” (Okazaki City Museum, 2013).