[spectre] Sejla Kameric, Milica Simonovic at Tokyo Symposium & Another Expo

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 22:34:37 -0500
From: "watanabe shinya" <w_shinya at hotmail.com>
Subject: <nettime-ann> [event] [Mya 19 Tokyo] Symposium "Another Expo
	-	Young Artists Who Go Beyond the Nation-State" in Tokyo


International Symposium
"Another Expo - Young Artists Who Go Beyond the Nation-State" in Tokyo

http://spikyart.org/anotherexpo/geidaiplatformintroe.htm

Organizer: Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Department of

Art
Collaboration: Another Expo Exhibition Committee

Date: May 19, 2004 6PM - 8PM

Place: Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ueno
Campus Department of Art Central Building 1st floor Room #1

Panelist:
Sejla Kameric
(Contemporary artist from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Milica Simonovic
(Contemporary artist from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro)

Kenichiro Mogi
(Adjunct Professor of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music,
Brain Scientist, Senior Researcher of SONY)

Shinya Watanabe
(Curator who completed Master of Art at New York University. Watanabe is
organizing an art exhibition which aims to go beyond the nation-state.)

Talks will be held in English and will be simultaneously interpreted into
Japanese.


<Questions & Reservations>
Mr. Takahashi at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Tel:029-73-9122 e-mail: <ht at fa.geidai.ac.jp>

During the session of Aichi Expo, which is created by states and
translational corporations, lots of different artists from new
generations
go beyond the 20th century-type cultural exchange which is defined by the
unit of the nation-state, and making sensations every corner of the
earth,
including international exhibitions such as Venetia Biennale.

In the last two decade of the 20th century, the corruption of communism
caused ethnic wars, and it created artists who were separated from
conventional nation-state and ethnic culture, or artists who jumped over
the frame of nations by themselves and began to explore a new identity.
Why
do these artists of their twenties to forties show their imaginative
abilities, which is not possessed by the artists from stable country with
stable systems including Japan?

Because of their situations, they show a new consciousness, sensitivity
and
even a spirit which cannot be acquired by living in the conventional
ethnic
culture or national system. These happen in the area of Balkan Peninsula,
Russia, Asia and Middle East.

Also outskirts of Japan, the artists from Okinawa and Korean Peninsula go
beyond the border, and show their fresh expressions in the world, with
facing the reality of the earth. If the ignorance of young Japanese
people,
created because of the thick protection wall, were left, it is miserable
for both art and society. (The hope that Japanese artists can compete in
the international level is becoming less.)

Sejla Kameric and Milica Simonovic, artists who got international
attention, will visit Japan. She is from former Yugoslavia area, where
clearly shows the new situation of the 21st century. In this opportunity,
with two specialists who have deep knowledge of this topic, we will have
an
introduction of her art works, a lecture, and a panel discussion. For the
young artists both outside and inside of Japan, this symposium might be
significant to nurture the sharp sense, and to explore the new expression
and the creation in this changing world.


*This symposium will be held as a platform of the exhibition "Another
Expo."

Another Expo Related Events Schedule

Exhibition Schedule in Japan:
Sejla Kameric and Milica Simonovic's artist in residence project in Kyoto

and Hiroshima
Start from May 20th to June 16th

Sejla Kameric Symposium at Kyoto Seika University "Art, War and Identity"

On Thursday,June 2, 14:40 - 16:10

Another Expo Platform in Kitakyushu at Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of
Art
On Saturday, June 18 2PM -
Panelist: Sejla Kameric,Milica Simonovic,Shinya Watanabe

Sejla Kameric and Milica Simonovic's exhibition in Kitakyushu: From
Saturday, June 18th for two weeks
Sejla's exhibition of her new artist in residence work: Gallery SOAP
Milica's exhibition of her new artist in residence work: Art Space
level1
Sejla and Milica's exhibition of their old works: Gallery Former 130 Bank
Gallery