The Graduate School of Global Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts is jointly running the exchange residency program “TEA+” in collaboration with the Taipei National University of the Arts. Yeh Hsing-Jou has been researching practices of video documentation in Japan during the 1990s, a period when individual video production began to spread. Takeuchi Kota has been investigating Taiwanese religious sites and monuments connected to anti-Japanese resistance during Japan’s occupation. In this session, the artists will speak about their respective interests and activities, as well as how they plan to further develop the work. The event is open to all, so please feel free to join us.

TEA+ Party with Yeh Hsing-Jou | Takeuchi Kota

Date & Time: Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 18:00–20:00
Venue: Community Salon, 3F Taki Plaza, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts
Guests: Yeh Hsing-Jou, Takeuchi Kota Language: English (with some Japanese and Chinese)
Organized by: Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

About TEA+:
https://t2ea.art/

Reservation Form:
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Yeh Hsing-Jou
Freelance art researcher, producer and curator. PhD student in the School of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. Her research focuses on art history in 1990s Taiwan, especially its methodology of D.I.Y. and independent artistic practices, with a particular interest in how art documentary films influence the historiography of art. In recent years, their curatorial research has centered on socialist writer Yang Kui, probing the “medium-turn” in 1990s Taiwanese literature and the cultural phenomenon of the “Tunghai Garden” in the 1970s. She has worked in ET@T and Digital Art Foundation, specializing in technology art, VR, integrated virtual-physical exhibitions and performances, the research on the 1990s art documentary archives and the maintenance of the archive database. She served as an Annual Program Selection Committee for Body Phase Studio-Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, Annual Observer for CREATORS Creation/Research Support Program (Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab), Joint Consultant and Project Editor for MODERN ART PLUS archive (Taipei Fine Arts Museum), researcher for Exhibition Curation Research on 1990s Taipei County (New Taipei City Art Museum).

Takeuchi Kota
An interdisciplinary artist based in Japan. He has created installations based on traces of local history as stone monuments and a movie theater. In recent years, he has developed a series of works from archival and field research in the US/Japan of the history relates the balloon bombs that flew across the Pacific during World War II. He is known as the representative agent of the “Finger Pointing Worker” who stood in front of the live camera at the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in disaster. He and Finger Pointing Worker’s recent exhibition include “Waiting for the Wind “, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo(2023; Tokyo), “JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE: Resistance and Resilience in Japanese Contemporary Art”, Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea, (2022; Milan, Italy), “Splitting Atom”, CAC/SMK Centre for Contemporary Art and Energy & Technology Museum, (2020; Vilnius, Lithuania) . Takeuchi received the Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2021-2023. Their works are included in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Kadist Foundation.