• Update Date: 2023.07.15
• Category: Talk Event

Muneteru Ujino x Shinya Watanabe (Film director / independent curator) x Yasutaka Hayashi (Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group)

Talk Event
“All industrial products are connected with war, and all DIY activity, with revolution”

Speakers：
Muneteru Ujino
Shinya Watanabe (Film director / independent curator)
Yasutaka Hayashi (Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group)

Date：
2023.7.22 (Sat.) 16:00 – 18:00

Admission：
Free

Capacity：
30 people (Booking required)
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Language：
Japanese

Speakers’ Profile:

Muneteru Ujino

Born in Tokyo, 1964. Lives and works in Tokyo.
Soon after UJINO graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1988, he started to produce and present sound sculpture series “Love Arm” with electric products. From 2004, his practice stems from the idea to adopt ’rotating motor’ as an icon to symbolize the late 20th century, when mass consumption society rapidly started to take over, and claims ’Research on the material world’ through the artistic lens. The recent project “The Rotators” employs a DIY method to combine technologies with everyday products – home appliances, automobiles, furnitures and used records – all motor-operated, as his artworks of sound sculpture and performance. He previously showcased his artworks in the solo exhibitions internationally along with biennales and curated exhibitions.
The recent major exhibitions include “POP/LIFE” The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa (2013), “Yokohama Triennale 2017 Islands, Constellations and Galapagos” Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1, Kanagawa (2017).
  
Shinya Watanabe

Born in 1980 in Shizuoka, Japan, Shinya Watanabe is a film maker / independent curator. After completing his MA at New York University, Watanabe worked as a manager of a commercial gallery in New York City. As an art curator, he curated international art exhibitions focusing on the issues of nation-states in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Japan and more. After working at the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture’s Tokyo Culture Creation Project, he became an overseas trainee for emerging artists at the Agency for Cultural Affairs (2011-2013). Watanabe became Doctor of Philosophy at the Berlin University of the Arts with his thesis “Searching for EUR-ASIA: Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik’ Life Long Collaboration.” His first film “Soul Odyssey – In Search of Eurasia” (2016) won the International Award of Excellence and the Story Award at International Film Festivals for Peace, Inspiration, and Equality (IFFPIE). His major curatorial exhibitions include “Into the Atomic Sunshine — Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9” (2008-2009), “Nam June Paik: Who will be laughing in 2020? +? =??” (2016-2017), “Stone / Rock Carvings as Beginnings – From Ireland to Amami Islands” (2018), and “OHMAKI Shinji – Before and After the Horizon.” Currently Watanabe is an Adjunct Professor of Temple University Japan Campus.
  
Yasutaka Hayashi (Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group)

Yasutaka Hayashi is a member of the artist collective Chim↑Pom from Smappa! Group, formed in 2005. He is primarily involved in visual aspects such as photography and video-based works, as well as event management. In addition, Hayashi is also the co-organizer of gardening project “Leggy_” with Motomu Inaoka and Kenta Nishimura.