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Screening & Talk｜Viewing 1990s Taiwanese “Art Documentation” Video through Huang Mingchuan’s Avant-Garde Liberation

Director Huang Mingchuan's contemporary art documentary series, Avant-Garde Liberation: The Huang Mingchuan Image Collection of the 1990s (2002), took him ten years to produce independently. Upon its release, it was immediately recognized by the "Taishin Arts Award" as a "Visual Arts" work and granted the Grand Prize. This identification and recognition expanded Avant-Garde Liberation's categorization beyond that of a “Culture and Arts Documentary” on Taiwan Public Television, bringing to the fore a critical question: when defining "art documentation" videos, is “art” the subject matter (theme) that the film documents, or is it an adjective (attribute) describing its cinematic aesthetic? In…

Le Balcon: Playing with the Spirits of Time and Space

Le Balcon: Playing with the Spirits of Time and Space From October 21 to 24, 2025, the Exhibition Room at University Hall, Tokyo University of the Arts (Ueno Campus), will open its doors to Le Balcon: Playing with the Spirits of Time and Space, presented as part of Avec Le Balcon (ALB) project. This exhibition presents the Paris-based artistic collective Le Balcon, whose work continuously metamorphoses the boundaries between classical music and interdisciplinary production, daring to reimagine what has yet to be imagined. Following their special lecture at Tokyo University of the Arts on November 10, 2025, the exhibition presents…

Special Talk Event “Report from the Field: The Current State of Contemporary Art in Asia“

本講演では、アジアにおける現代美術の変遷について、30年以上にわたるキュレーターとしての活動を通して得た知見を、現場からレポートします。包括的な調査ではなく、グローバリゼーション、政治変革、そして環境危機といった力によって形作られたアーティスト、機関、そしてムーブメントとの出会いや、生きた経験を反映しています。

Kobe-Art festivals Symposium ―Structural Transformation of Curation

Kobe-Art festivals Symposium ―Structural Transformation of Curation We are pleased to announce the “Kobe-Art Festivals Symposium: The Structure and Transformation of Curation,” to be held in Kobe City on Sunday, November 9, 2025. 　 Art festivals, characterized by their periodic occurrence every few years in specific regions, continue to increase in number even as of 2025. Art projects tied to cities have often engaged in reimagining places through collaboration with others, seeking to uncover their new value. This could be described as a relational turn in the understanding of place. However, it is no longer solely the works or artists…

Bubble Chamber

In Bubble Chamber, Pierre Sérot explores how predictions shape timelines—how foresight transforms the future into a present probability. Predictions often rely on the idea of revolution: the cyclical return of events...

[Work in Progress] Ningyo Come / Tsunami Go

We are pleased to announce an exhibition and performance by Betty Apple, a Taiwanese artist currently in residence at the Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2025, Japanese manga artist Tatsuki Yamashita's book Watashi ga Mita Mirai (What I Saw in the Future), which depicts a catastrophic tsunami, became a topic of conversation on social media...

Embers from the Ashes

Four artists—each inspired by their encounters with life and death—invite us to pause, linger, and listen. Their works resist loneliness and erasure, weaving life and death into a single breath: death testifies to lives once lived, while life carries forward its echoes..
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