{"id":7564,"date":"2019-05-30T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T02:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ga-beta.geidai.ac.jp\/2019\/05\/30\/morningdew\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T07:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T22:48:15","slug":"morningdew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/2019\/05\/30\/morningdew\/","title":{"rendered":"Regarding Socially Engaged Art Project , \u201cMorning Dew\u201d by Soni Kum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regarding Socially Engaged Art Project ,
\n\u201cMorning Dew\u201d by Soni Kum<\/span>
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\u25a0 Event summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date and time: June 22nd (Sat) 14:00 to 17:00
\nVenue: Tokyo University of the Arts, Ueno Campus (Music department’s side), GA Lecture Room
\nOrganized by: The Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices program at the Graduate School of Global Arts + Music Environment Creation (Mouri Lab), Tokyo University of the Arts,
\nCooperation: Project \u201cMorning Dew\u201d, Kawamura Arts and Culture Foundation
\n* Participation free \/ no pre-booking required<\/p>\n

In this event, the artists, curators, and scholars are going to give presentations and have discussions for the art project \u201cMorning Dew\u201d, which will be realized through the support from Kawamura Arts and Cultural Foundation Socially Engaged Art Support Grant, starting from this year.<\/p>\n

In the second part, the scholars who supports the project \u201cMorning Dew\u201d, will respond to the presentations given by the artists and the curators at the first part.<\/p>\n

We will hold discussions with the presenters and participants regarding the topics such as \u201chow art can intervene the political and social issues facing East Asia\u201d, \u201cwhat the possibilities and challenges of socially engaged arts are\u201d, and \u201cthe relation between aesthetics and politics in contemporary art\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Program schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u25cb Part 1: 14: 00~ 15: 30
\nRegarding Socially Engaged Art Project, \u201cMorning Dew\u201d by Soni Kum<\/p>\n

-Overview (presentation with photos and videos by Soni Kum)
\n-Presentation by the collaboration artists: Hiroki Yamamoto, Nobuaki Takekawa
\n-Discussion with project coordinators: Soni Kum + Hiroki Yamamoto + Nobuaki Takekawa + Haruka Hama + Yumiko Okada<\/p>\n

\u25cb 2nd part: 15:30 ~ 16:30
\n“In response to the presentation, project \u201cMorning Dew”<\/p>\n

Presenter Yoshitaka Mouri
\nChunghwa Lee + Mika Furukawa + Soni Kum<\/p>\n

\u25cb 16: 30-17: 00
\nDiscussion with the audience<\/p>\n

Facilitator: Midori Miyakawa
\nVenue arrangement: Ai Kano<\/p>\n

\u25cb 18: 00
\nGet-together party<\/p>\n

\u25a0 About the project \u201cMorning Dew\u201d <\/strong>
\nThis project is a collaborative art project with North Korean defectors living in Japan, former North Korean Japanese wives, and artists based in Japan.
\nThere are currently about 200 North Korean defectors living in Japan. Many of them are former Korean residents in post-war Japan. During Japanese colonialism, many Koreans immigrated to Japan.
\nThey were living under the condition of severe poverty.
\nDiscrimination against Koreans were almost unbearable to many, since 1959, they started to immigrate to North Korea. They are called \u201creturner\u201d as they were considered to return to their fatherland.
\nHowever many of them were from Southern part of Korea and they immigrated to a totally unfamiliar territory.
\nTotal over 90,000 \u201creturners\u201d immigrated to North Korea and the immigration plan was ended in 1984.
\nThe “returners” were forced to live a hard life in North Korea, in the middle of the poverty of the reconstruction from the Korean War. Many \u201creturners\u201d were sent to concentration camps and to rural areas, forced to live severe life.
\nMany were already sacrificed.
\nThe North Korean defectors living in Japan are obliged to hide the fact that they are from North Korea.
\nIt is because they would experience difficulties in everyday life otherwise.<\/p>\n

Under such circumstances, artists individually will go to meet them. We will conduct workshops.
\nThrough the experiences of making artworks together, listening to the stories, and recording the testimonies, the artists will receive inspiration and deepen the connections with them. We will exhibit the work of each artist, defector or Japanese wife in the end of the project. Through the form of exhibitions and symposiums, we intend to generate a new kind of discussion and discourse of socially engaged art in Japan.<\/p>\n

The title Morning Dew is the name of the South Korean song that I learned for the first time in North Korean school. Morning Dew symbolizes regeneration of something pure and beautiful after going through dark night of the soul.<\/p>\n

\u25a0Short Bio <\/strong><\/p>\n

Soni Kum
\nSoni Kum is an interdisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan as a third generation Korean.
\nShe received a M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in the United States in 2005 and Doctor in Fine Arts from Tokyo University of Arts in 2011. Her work has been exhibited at numerous art spaces and film festivals around the world.
\nAfter working for activist art projects with North Korean migrants in South Korea for several years, she begun to explore the theme of ritual in her performance\/ installation works. She has taught in several universities in South Korea for 4 years since 2011 and received Excellent Lecturer Award from Yonsei University.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.sonikum.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Yumiko Okada (born 1982) is an independent curator who works in and across Okinawa, Tokyo, and Cuba. She served as the chief manager of Maejima Art Center in Naha (2005~2009) and now runs an art caravan project Cimarcus with Haruka Hama.
\nShe curated \u201cOkinwa Art Action!\u201d (Okinawa Prefectural Museum of Art,2011), \u201cTakao Kawaguchi: A Perfect Life in Okinawa\u201d (Espace Cr\u00e9ation de Uehara, 2011), and \u201cCuba Insularidad: Abel Barroso y Sandra Ramos\u201d (Camp Talganie Art Farm, 2013).<\/p>\n

Hiroki Yamamoto
\nHiroki Yamamoto was born in Chiba, Japan in 1986. He graduated in Social Science at Hitotsubashi University in 2010 and received an MA in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UAL) in 2013. From 2013 to 2018, Yamamoto worked as a research fellow at UAL\u2019s Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN), where he completed his PhD in 2018. He was previously a research fellow at Asia Culture Center (ACC) in Gwangju, Korea. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.<\/p>\n

Nobuaki Takekawa
\nNobuaki Takekawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1977 and completed BA in Fine Arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2002. In the same year, he presented his first solo exhibition at Ota Fine Arts (Tokyo). In recent years, he has participated in various exhibitions in Japan and abroad – “Portrait Session” (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, 2007), “Real Japanesque: The Unique World of Japanese Contemporary” (The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2012), “12th Biennale de Lyon” (Mus\u00e9e d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, 2013), etc. – while also participating in street activities, including protest demonstrations. Takekawa always pursues new methods of expression, questioning the relation between the society\/ history and individuals by crossing various boundaries in the field of art.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/takekawanobuaki.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Haruka Hama
\nHaruka Hama has been the producer and coordinator of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF) since 2001, and director of the festival\u2019s Tokyo office since 2015. She also works for Cinematrix, a film distribution company based in Tokyo. At YIDFF, Hama has coordinated programs such as Okinawa: Nexus of Borders, Ryukyu Reflections, Islands \/ I Lands \u2013 Cinemas in Exile and Vista de Cuba. She is co-founder of the art producer team Cimarcus. She produced the feature-length film Hengyoro by Takamine Go, which premiered in the film program that Hama curated for the Aichi Triennale in 2016.<\/p>\n

Chonghwa Lee
\nProfessor at the Faculty of Law, Seikei University. Chonghwa Lee is known for her poetic and philosophical writings dealing with gender and colonial violence, and with the issue of testimony related to the 1948 Jeju Massacre and former “comfort women.”<\/p>\n

Mika Furukawa
\nBorn in Tokyo. Researcher for Korean art and culture . Part-time lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design.<\/p>\n

Yoshitaka Mouri
\nBorn in 1963 in Nagasaki, Japan. Professor at Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. An economics graduate of Kyoto University. Holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London. Specializes in sociology and cultural studies. Critiques themes of social movements, organization of urban space, and contemporary culture especially contemporary art, music, and media.<\/p>\n

Midori Miyakawa
\nBA in Art History at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015. MA in Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018. Currently in Ph.D candidate at Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts at the Tokyo University\u00a0of the Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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