The Art Management Human Resource Development Program in the Age of Globalization: &Geidai: International Series
Special Lecture
Art and Culture in the Age of Globalization:
HU Fang:
Towards a Non-intentional Space:
Potentials of Spaces for Art Today

Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices at Graduate School of Global Arts in Tokyo University of the Arts is pleased to announce that we will invite Mr HU Fang, an internationally renowned curator and fiction writer, who is also a Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou and of The Pavillion in Beijin, China and hold a special lecture open to the general public in our Ueno Campus. Admission free, English-Japanese translation available, no prior bookings required. All welcome.
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Following the intimations of the life journey, HU Fang would like to explore how to re-connect two spatial archetypes that would seem to be far removed from each other in terms of geography and culture—Krameterhof, a permaculture showcase on a slope of Austrian mountain (as a prototype space of nature farming) and the Chinese garden (as a prototype space of constructed nature) —which will in turn allow us to think about the potential of the art space today: as a site for focusing on flows of energy and processes of growth; as a site for focusing on everyday nourishment and cultivation; as a site for practicing care for others and preparing space for the exercising of sensibility; as a site which, instead of being detached from its surroundings, aspires to be perpetually open to multiple dimensions of time and life.
If this were so, then regardless of whether it is Krameterhof or the Chinese garden or some other more latent spatial archetype, the significance of which escapes our current understanding, all would develop more fundamental links with the implications of the “art space.”
The lives of such spaces must be maintained through constant encounters with different forms of life, so that through a kind of daily discipline of receptivity toward relations and dynamics, people and spaces reciprocally exchange each other’s modes of living.

＊Admission Free. English-Japanese Translation Available. No Reservation Required（Seats available on a first come first served basis. Seating Capacity: 260.

Date: November 11, Saturday, 2017
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Lecture Room 5-109, Department of Music, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts

A borrowed scenery in a Chinese Garden Photo: Hu Fang

Zheng Guogu Liao Garden 2004- Photo: Zheng Guogu

LECTURER：
HU Fang

HU Fang is a fiction writer and curator based in Guangzhou and Beijing, China. He is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou and The Pavilion in Beijing. Founded in 2002, Vitamin Creative Space seeks an alternative working model for contemporary arts and culture specifically geared towards the contemporary Chinese context. HU also involves in the co-founding of the project space Mirrored Gardens, which is located in agricultural environment in south of Guangzhou, the architecture is designed by Sou FUJIMOTO. The research process related to Mirrored Gardens leads to practice and construction of a “field”, where contemporary art practices, daily life and farming-oriented life practices can be nurtured and cultivated in tandem. HU has contributed to various international projects including the 2007 documenta 12 magazines as Coordinating Editor and Yokohama Triennale 2008 as Co-Curator. His published books include essays Towards a Non-intentional Space (which reflects upon the research and thinking process of building Mirrored Gardens; Vitamin Creative Space; Pap/Pmplt edition, 2016) and fictions Dear Navigator (Sternberg Press, 2014), Garden of Mirrored Flowers (Sternberg Press, 2011) etc.

Photo: Michael Eddy

MODERATOR：
SUMITOMO Fumihiko
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

Organized by: Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Granted by: Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Part of The Art Management Human Resource Development Program in the Age of Globalization: &Geidai Program
Approved as: The Tokyo University of the Arts 130th Anniversary Official Program

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