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Part-time Lecturer

Amane Kasai

葛西周

Title of course : Title of course : Studies on Asian Culture
Amane KASAI is a musicologist, who completed her PhD in 2010 at Tokyo University of the Arts. She is currently an assistant professor at WIAS (Waseda Institute for Advanced Study), Waseda University. Her research focuses on the places and environments in which people have experienced music, and how our aesthetic concepts, values, and images concerning music have been established there. Its originality lies in the cross-genre viewpoints she presents: it has examined music used in media events or films, not targeting specific works, musicians or music genres. Her present project reviews tourist sites as “contact zones” where people with different music preferences and backgrounds have gathered and experienced music together.

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Part-time Lecturer

Ken Takiguchi

滝口健

Title of course : Studies on Asian Performing Arts
From 1999 until 2016, Ken Takiguchi had been based in Malaysia and Singapore, working as a vice-president of Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur, a councillor of The Necessary Stage, and a research fellow at Division of Theatrical Studies, Department of English and English Literature National Singapore University. His recent publications include Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre (Kuala Lumpur: Five Arts Centre, Singapore: Epigram Books, 2018, co-edited). He currently works at Setagaya Public Theatre and teaches at Tokyo University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer.

Part-time Lecturer

Ryosuke Kondo

近藤亮介

Title of course : Global Art Theory and Criticism

Born in Osaka, Japan in 1982. Ryosuke Kondo is an artist, art critic, and Research Associate at the University of Tokyo. He obtained his B.A. from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, the University of London, and his M.A. from the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He was a JSPS Research Fellow (2014-16) and a Fulbright visiting researcher at Harvard Graduate School of Design (2016-17). 

Specializing in Aesthetics and History of Landscape, his research primarily focuses on the theory of painting and gardening in modern Britain, America, and Japan. In addition to academic articles, he writes reviews for art and culture magazines, such as Bijutsu Techo and Ohararyu SOKA, and organizes contemporary art exhibitions, including Individual Sansui (Komagome SOKO, 2020) and The Genius Loci of Kudan and the Niki of the Japanese Garden (kudan house, 2018).

 

Part-time Lecturer

Futoshi Hoshino

星野太

Title of course : Studies on Curatorial and Art Theory II

Futoshi Hoshino is an Assistant Professor at Waseda University. He received his M.A. (2007) and Ph.D. (2014) from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. His publications include Rhetoric of the Sublime (Tokyo: Getsuyosha, 2017), The Sublime and the Uncanny (co-edited, Tokyo: UTCP, 2016), Diversities in Aesthetics (co-authored, Beijing: Social Sciences Press, 2013) and Contemporary Art Theory (co-authored, Tokyo: EOS, 2013). He has translated books and essays by continental philosophers such as Jean-François Lyotard, Catherine Malabou, Quentin Meillassoux and so on.

 

Part-time Lecturer

Shinya Sugawara

菅原伸也

Title of course : Approaches to Art Criticism

Shinya Sugawara is an art critic based in Tokyo. His major area of study is contemporary art and the relationship between art and politics. He is currently researching art and migration. He has written exhibition reviews for Bijutsutecho and Tokyo Art Beat, and essays such as “Tania Bruguera, or the Expanded Concept of Participatory Art” (ART RESEARCH ONLINE) and “Intersection of identification and disidentification: Around the works of Santiago Sierra” (Pan no Pan 4 vol.3）. He has also interviewed artists and curators like Yuki Okumura（in 2016）and Hans Ulrich Obrist (in 2020) .

 

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