ARENA: JAKARTA BIENNALE XIII 2009 . FLUID ZONE
February 17, 2009
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What Game Shall We Play?
November 3, 2008
Artists：
Markus Ambach(Germany) / Iswanto Hartono(Indonesia) / Avi Sabah (Israel) / Yanai Segal(Israel) / Masha Zusman(Israel) / Sara Dolatabadi(Born in Iran, living in Japan) / Takashi Kuribayashi(Japan) / Ali Kays(Lebanon) / Deniz Gül(Turkey)
Tokyo Wonder Site and GOETHE-INSTITUT JAPAN continue the discussion about “On the Agenda of the Arts” from 2007. In today’s globalized world, communities in industrialized countries are challenged by transformation. Traditional bonds are degrading, once homogeneous societies are becoming multi-cultural and diverse as a result of immigration. The meaning of being a community and the functions it needs to perform to accomplish its aims are shared issues in cities all over the world. How can we build a community which finds value in difference? It seems to us that the arts and its institutions can play an important role in this process. The sphere of the arts has unique ways of posing questions and initiating dialogue, thus providing new outlooks and contributing to the way we deal with issues in society.
With ever increasing social complexity and growing interdependencies in view, the potential of art and culture for community building should be tapped on. This project will examine the role of the arts and art institutions and their communicative performance in society.
The meaning of art in society is changing at the outset of the new century. Together with its protagonists we would like to have a close look at the direction and the meaning of this process.
Round Table 1
What should be the role of the arts in a multicultural society? What are the challenges of art centers in society? In this round table artists and curators will discuss those and other questions and explore the potential of today’s art in a global context.
Date：October 25 (Sat.) 15:00-
Venue：Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
Admission：Free
Participants：
Melanie Bono(Germany) / Agung Hujatnika(Indonesia) / Yoshitaka Mouri(Japan)/ Artists
Round Table 2: “1968-2008”
How do the 60´s and their climate of social transformation relate to today’s society?
To what extent do we share similar issues and challenges with a time, which brought about change in many fields of society? In the international round table “1968 – 2008” curators and experts will discuss the relevance of “1968“ for today, particularly in the field of the arts and the role of new art centers in society.
Date：November 16 (Sun.) 15:00-
Venue：Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
Admission：Free
Participants：
Manuel Gogos (Germany) / Anke Hoffmann (Germany) / Yusaku Imamura (Japan)/
Vasif Kortun (Turkey) / Bradley McCallum (U.S.A.) / Joji Yuasa (Japan)
ISWANTO HARTONO VOID
October 6, 2008
VOID
ISWANTO HARTONO VOID
Maruki Museum, Saitama, Japan . 13 September – 25 October 2008
The ‘VOID’ project is a continuation of the solo show project ‘MELLOW’ exhibited in Gallery K, Ginza, Tokyo in December 2007, a series of works on the issues of the memories of Pacific War/Yasukuni Temple. The issues of Yasukuni Temple is one of the most important issues of Asian Geo-politics which is strait back to the remembrance of event/memories of the Pacific War during the World War II, happened in Asia, included Indonesia. I was continously working on the issues since early 2006 till now, cause the project was so challenging me to pursue of what history has written and how the history has shape the memory of the contemporary society and has its own context to the present day; history, event, memories, for i believe has its own independent stands to be interpreted by the societies or a person’s cultural/social-politics perspectives, outspoken of right or wrong, true or false. History will teach us nothing or vice versa, history is a void. [iswanto hartono, 2008].
for further informations:
http://www.aya.or.jp/~marukimsn/kikaku/2008/hansen/2008iswant.htm
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VOID
ISWANTO HARTONO MELLOW
December 8, 2007
ISWANTO HARTONO MELLOW
DECEMBER 17th – 26th 2007
CURATED BY REN FUKUZUMI
GALLERY K
Kyobashi Point Bilding.4F, 3-9-7, Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo ,104-0031, Japan
Iswanto Hartono’s first exhibition in Tokyo will not only be provocative
for an artist himself but also stimulating and very meaningful for us
Japanese viewers. It is because the war we have carried in the past is a
heavy responsibility which we cannot let go of or avoid, but thinking about
this issue together for Asian and Japanese people at the place of art is a
new attempt filled with hopes. We think of this as a great honor that
Gallery K is able to offer a space for Mr Iswanto’s such experimental work.
December, 2007 Takao Uruno, Director of Gallery K
