Dear members of SSJ-Forum, 

We cordially invite you to our 2nd JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series on February 24 (Sat), 2024. This event will be held in-person only. To join this event, please fill in the form below. Also, please feel free to share this information widely.  　

JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series #2 "Looking in Asia for a 'New Wind': Tomiyama Taeko and JAALA (Japan, Asian, African, Latin-American Artist Association)"

Date and time: February 24 (Sat), 2024, 11:00 AM -12:30 PM (JST)

Venue: Room 612, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia(IASA), UTokyo

※ The main gate of the IASA building is closed on the weekends. Please ensure you arrive on time to enter. 

Title: Looking in Asia for a "New Wind": Tomiyama Taeko and JAALA

Speaker: Mika Furukawa, Researcher of Korean Art and Culture 

Specializes in Korean art and culture studies. Graduated from Waseda University, finishing the Korean Language Institute at Yonsei University, and Professional Investigator at the Japanese Embassy in Korea. She won the Korean Award "Kim Bokjin" in August 2021. She is the author of "Korean Minjung(People's) Art: Aesthetics and Ideas of Resistance" (Iwanami Shoten, 2018), and co-authored "Reading the Beauty of Korea " (CUON, 2021) and "East Asian Yaskunism" (YuigakuShobo), "Hanryu Handbook" (Shinshokan), "Gwangju "May Series Woodcut-Dawn"" (Yakosha), "Art, censorship, and the Emperor" (Syakaihyoronsya), etc. She was an assistant curator at the 2000 Gwangju Biennale "Art and Human Rights Exhibition", connecting Japanese and Korean art.

Moderato & Discussant: Yunsu Yi, Ph.D. Candidate, Hongik University, and JF-GJS Fellow at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo

 

Language: Lecture in Japanese, Q&A in Japanese and English

 

Registration: https://forms.gle/8nDcm7B8Rhcgb6ff7

Abstract: 

JAALA(Japan, Asian, African, Latin-American Artist Association) was established in 1977 to create an avenue for artistic exchange with the Third World. It was founded in opposition to the mainstream Japanese art world, which followed along with the West. One of its founding members was the artist Tomiyama Taeko(富山妙子). She was quick to recognize that "expression of new cultures was beginning amid suffering from colonial rule, invasion, oppression under dictatorships, exploitation, and poverty in Korea, Palestine, Thailand, the Philippines, and other countries."

Meanwhile, coincidentally, in the same year that JAALA was founded, Tomiyama formed the Asian Women's Association with Matsui Yayori(松井やより), Yamaguchi Akiko(山口明子), Gotō Masako(五島昌子), and others to express themselves as they stood together with Asian women who were experiencing political repression, economic exploitation, and other forms of oppression.

Tomiyama Taeko sought a way for "Asia" and "women" to become subjects who would create a "new wind." In this lecture, I will reflect on her gaze towards the Third World, and her collaboration with the women's movement, and consider how we can continue that "New Wind" today.

 

Organizer: JF-GJS Initiative at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo 

Co-organizer: Japan Foundation 

Contact: pomn0627[at]gmail.com (Yunsu Yi)

Best Regards,

JF-GJS Initiative 

Global Asian Studies (GAS) 
https://gas.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp