Academic Staff

Part-time Lecturer

Title of course : Studies on Asian Performing Arts

From 1999 until 2016, Ken Takiguchi had been based in Malaysia and Singapore, working as a vice-president of Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur, a councillor of The Necessary Stage, and a research fellow at Division of Theatrical Studies, Department of English and English Literature National Singapore University. His recent publications include Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre (Kuala Lumpur: Five Arts Centre, Singapore: Epigram Books, 2018, co-edited). He currently works at Setagaya Public Theatre and teaches at Tokyo University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer.

Title of course : Global Art Theory and Criticism

Born in Osaka, Japan in 1982. Ryosuke Kondo is an artist, art critic, and Research Associate at the University of Tokyo. He obtained his B.A. from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, the University of London, and his M.A. from the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He was a JSPS Research Fellow (2014-16) and a Fulbright visiting researcher at Harvard Graduate School of Design (2016-17).
Specializing in Aesthetics and History of Landscape, his research primarily focuses on the theory of painting and gardening in modern Britain, America, and Japan. In addition to academic articles, he writes reviews for art and culture magazines, such as Bijutsu Techo and Ohararyu SOKA, and organizes contemporary art exhibitions, including Individual Sansui (Komagome SOKO, 2020) and The Genius Loci of Kudan and the Niki of the Japanese Garden (kudan house, 2018).

Title of course : Studies on Curatorial and Art Theory II

Futoshi Hoshino is an Assistant Professor at Waseda University. He received his M.A. (2007) and Ph.D. (2014) from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. His publications include Rhetoric of the Sublime (Tokyo: Getsuyosha, 2017), The Sublime and the Uncanny (co-edited, Tokyo: UTCP, 2016), Diversities in Aesthetics (co-authored, Beijing: Social Sciences Press, 2013) and Contemporary Art Theory (co-authored, Tokyo: EOS, 2013). He has translated books and essays by continental philosophers such as Jean-François Lyotard, Catherine Malabou, Quentin Meillassoux and so on

Title of course : Studies on Curatorial and Art Theory II

Tomonori Ishioka is Professor of Sociology at the College of Humanities and Sciences at Nihon University. He specializes in the methodology of sociological ethnography. His research interests span urban marginality, embodiment, and southern theories. His works in English include The Bottom Worker in East Asia: Composition and Transformation under Neoliberal Globalization. Brill (co-editor with Hideo Aoki, 2023), Training under Uncertainty: Tempography of Underdog Filipino Pugilists. In: Rinehart R, Kidd J, and Garcia Quiroga, Antonio (eds) Southern Hemisphere Ethnographies of Space, Place, and Time. Peter lang (2018), and The Habitus without Habitat: the Disconnect Caused by Uprooting during Gentrification in Metro Manila. Social Theory and Dynamics 1 (2016).

Title of course : Approaches to Art Criticism

Shinya Sugawara is an art critic based in Tokyo. His major area of study is contemporary art and the relationship between art and politics. He is currently researching art and migration. He has written exhibition reviews for Bijutsutecho and Tokyo Art Beat, and essays such as “Tania Bruguera, or the Expanded Concept of Participatory Art” (ART RESEARCH ONLINE) and “Intersection of identification and disidentification: Around the works of Santiago Sierra” (Pan no Pan 4 vol.3）. He has also interviewed artists and curators like Yuki Okumura（in 2016）and Hans Ulrich Obrist (in 2020) .