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Title: | Symposium “On Disability and Art Today: Living Together with Differences”Registration Required Finished |
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| Date: | 10:00-17:30, Sunday, October 9, 2016 |
Place: | Bldg. 18 Hall, Komaba I Campus, the University of Tokyo |
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Symposium “On Disability and Art Today: Living Together with Differences”
Date: 10:00-17:30, Sunday, October 9, 2016
Place: Bldg. 18 Hall, Komaba I Campus, the University of Tokyo
Seating capacity: 180 (registration required; see the Japanese page)
Language: Japanese (see the Japanese page regarding information accessibility)
Artistic activities by people with disabilities have recently attracted much greater attention than ever before. With increased support from the public sector, they are now thriving so vigorously that it may not be an overstatement to call the situation a bubble. Most notably in Tokyo, which will be hosting 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, “supporting art by the disabled and promoting initiatives to provide them with more opportunities to appreciate and participate in the arts” has been designated as one of the main cultural policies of the Metropolitan Government. Various activities have already been implemented according to the policy, and media coverage on the issue of disabilities and art has increased steadily.
However, it is still the case that art by people with disabilities, is all too often represented in the media as a source of inspiration with such stereotypical terms as “art of the soul,” “genuine” and “pure.” What lies behind such comments is nothing but the gaze of the majority, whom from one side of a fixed boundary has an aim to consume the minority on the other side.
This symposium explores the differing and at the same time overlapping umwelts of diverse people and reexamines both “disability” and “art,” which are in the constant motion of border transgression. In so doing, it aims to reflect and rediscover the art of living together with differences. We open this space for dialogue, wishing to provide an opportunity to deepen our thought for future collaborative practices.
Planning by: Mitsuru Mizutani (Research Collaborator, UTCP) and Yuichiro Nagatsu (Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Design Science, Faculty of design, Kyushu University)
Coordinator: Kohji Ishihara (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo; L2 Project Coordinator, Uehiro Research Division for the Philosophy of Co-existence, UTCP)
Speakers (by alphabetical order):
- Kohji ISHIHARA (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo; L2 Project Coordinator, Uehiro Research Division for the Philosophy of Co-existence, UTCP)
- Asa ITO (Associate Professor, Center for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Tomoaki KURAMOTO (Author; Lecturer at Kansai University and various other institutions)
- Mitsuru MIZUTANI (Research Collaborator, UTCP)
- Yuichiro NAGATSU (Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Design Science, Faculty of design, Kyushu University)
- Fumihiko SUMITOMO (Director, Arts Maebashi: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts)
- Reiji SUZUKI (Director, Kapukapu Community Workshop: Theatre Critic)
- Keiko TAKEDA (Assistant Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo)
Organized by: L2 Philosophy of Disability and Co-existence, Uehiro Research Division for the Philosophy of Co-existence, UTCP
Co-organizer: Co-creative Art in Welfare-funded Activities for the Disabled in Japan: An Empirical Study and Working Theory, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) Grant Number JP16K21028