Special Lecture

Introduction to Art and Culture in the Global Age　

Hans Ulrich Obrist 

“Think like a cloud: where is contemporary art going?”

 

The Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices program (GA) would like to announce the upcoming open lecture.

As a part of the “Introduction to Art and Culture in the Global Age” course offered by the Graduate School of Global Arts, we would like to invite you to the following open lecture series presented by Hans Ulrich Obrist (curator, writer, Artistic Director of Serpentine Gallery).

In his lecture titled “Think like a cloud: where is contemporary art going?” Obrist, who works at the world frontier as a curator and writer, will talk about his jet setting experiences flying around the world, as well as his ideas on theory and practice. Please don’t miss this precious opportunity.

You can see the archive video here:

 

Open Lecture Outline

Theme:  “Think like a cloud: where is contemporary art going?”

Lecturer: Hans Ulrich Obrist (curator, writer, Artistic Director of Serpentine Gallery).

Moderator: Yuko Hasegawa

Time: Jan 5, 2020 (Sun) 15:00-17:00

Location: Tokyo University of the Arts Ueno Campus, Faculty of Music, Lecture Room 5-109

12-8 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, TOKYO 110-8714 JAPAN

Admission Free (reservation required), consecutive English to Japanese interpretation available.

Please make reservations from the following website: https://obrist.peatix.com
*All seats are booked already.
*Live broadcasting is available from here.

Organized by: Tokyo University of the Art, Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices

 

 

 

 

Guest Lecturer Profile

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist b. 1968, Zürich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show ‘World Soup (The Kitchen Show)’ in 1991, he has curated more than 300 exhibitions.

Obrist has lectured internationally at academic and art institutions, and is a contributing editor to the magazines Artforum, AnOther Magazine, 032C, a regular contributor to Mousse and Kaleidoscope and he writes columns for Das Magazin and Weltkunst. In 2011 he received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, and in 2015 he was awarded the International Folkwang Prize for his commitment to the arts.

His recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), Mondialité (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018) and The Athens Dialogues (2018).

 

 

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