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ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts will be hosting a talk about China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic Ai Weiwei. It will take place this Thursday, March 21, at 3 pm in the Lower Level South Gallery of the ASU Art Museum.
The presenter is Lee Ambrozy who is the editor-at-large for Artforum.com.cn and the editor and translator of Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews and Digital Rants 2006–2009 (MIT Press, 2011 http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ai-weiweis-blog). She is also one of the experts featured in the recent award-winning documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.
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Chim↑Pom reenact their “100 Kiai” (100 Cheers). Photo courtesy Gadabout.
February 15th I will be giving a paper on Disaster and Creativity panel at the 101st Annual CAA Conference. Here is the short abstract:
“Between Awe and Anger: Young Japanese Artists Respond to Tohoku and Fukushima”
Artistic responses to the twin disasters that struck Northeastern Japan in March of 2011 span the spectrum from aestheticizing the awesome forces of nature to condemnation of human ineptitude and industrial-political collusion. Chihiro Kabata’s series of large-scale paintings depict glistening black water ripples washing back dimly after a climactic surge in which so many lives were instantly obliterated by the wall of murky water.
A different response to the man-made and still ongoing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is by the Tokyo-based collective Chim↑Pom, whose clandestine insertion of the smoking Fukushima reactor into Taro Okamoto’s 1969 anti-nuclear mural at Tokyo’s Shibuya station landed them in legal trouble. In contrast to Kabata’s existentialist awe at the omnipotence of nature, Chim↑Pom’s reaction is a social critique. Their focus is the mismanagement of atomic power. Yet, ultimately, both Kabata and Chim↑Pom contribute to forming the collective memory of the disasters.
My review of the “Painting” show at The Box gallery is up on the Artforum.com site.
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Phoenix’s JAVA magazine interviewed me for their last issue of 2012. Here is the link to the article written by Jenna Duncan (you will need to click on the red arrow in the upper right corner).
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I posted this blog entry exactly one month ago on Le Huffington Post. By the end of the first week if was the most emailed article on the site, and as of today it was still the most emailed entry of the month. Make sure to view the slideshow, the images speak for themselves.
HuffingtonPost.fr 1/09/2012: Le Prix Marcel Duchamp récompense-t-il la créativité? by Julia Friedman http://huff.to/PQ41Pf
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