Conversation PLATFORM 2018

The speakers include Odile Burluraux (Curator at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris),Patricia Chen (Writer, Specialist on the Asian fine art scene),Catherine David (Main Curator, Eye Pompidou), Sou Fujimoto (Builder),Yuko Hasegawa (Creative Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and Professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts), Martina Koeppel-Yang (Independent Scholar and Curator, expert on contemporary Chinese fine art),Akiko Miki (International Artistic Managing director at the Benesse Art Site in Naoshima), Kodama Kanazawa (Senior deputy managing director of curatorial affairs at the Towada Art Middle, Aomori, Nihon), and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London).

In addition, the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris,  in collaboration with ASIA Now, volition organize a special Japanese program including a talk with Makoto Aida, a lecture on Japanese avant-garde photography with Lilian Froger, and a circular-table word on Art after Fukushima, featuring artists such as Teppei Kaneuji.

This Conversation series is complemented this year by an enhanced video plan, presenting video art and documentaries, both by and nearly artists.

Wednesday 17 Oct

iii pm - 4 pm

"The ability of site-specific contemporary fine art and architecture to revitalise local communities and to concenter international visitors - a few case studies in Japan" by Anne Alene

Anne Alene organises trips to Nippon for top art institutions, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts, as well as for fine art collectors and philanthropists.

4 pm - five pm

"On '2nd Floorism" with Makoto Aida, artist and Catherine David , chief curator at the Center Pompidou

The controversial artist discusses his installation, which examines the nature of cities and questions what is the best place to live.

v pm - vi pm

" Teppei Kaneuji & Reiko Tsubaki: conversation" with Teppei Kaneuji , creative person and Reiko Tsubaki , curator at the Mori Fine art Museum

A discussion around the artist's works, which investigate the mass consumption of contemporary Japanese civilisation and transcend the boundaries between sculpture and operation.

6pm - 7pm

Off-site Plan at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris

"L'art après Fukushima (Post Fukushima Fine art Scene) Past Clélia Zernik , professor in aesthetics, in conversation with Teppei Kaenuji , artist and Nile Koetting , artist

Clélia Zernik examines the creative impulse built-in from the March eleven, 2011 tragedy.

Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris : 14, rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris

Thursday 18 Oct

11 am - 12:00 pm

Negotiation and Negation: Thinking "Chiiki (Community) Fine art" from a Historical Context past Kodama Kanazawa , senior deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan and Clélia Zernik , professor in aesthetics at The Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris

Why are there so many art festivals/triennials in Japan? What is the reason for the rise of "customs fine art"? In this talk, Kodama Kanazawa discuss the topic within the scope of Nippon'due south cocky-imposed cultural imperialism, and innovate the dynamics of fine art betwixt governments, artists, and local people.

1:thirty pm - 2:30 pm

"Takashi Murakami'southward Superflat Collection" by Akiko Miki , International artistic director, Benesse Fine art Site, Naoshima

Akiko Miki introduces one of the most unconventional collector'south stories in Nippon, that of the artist Takashi Murakami, who has been actively engaged in collecting in recent years.

iii pm - iv pm

"Mingei et Wabi Sabi, Are Yous Here ?" with Nicolas Trembley, curator Syz Collection, Constantin Chariot, director of La Patinoire Royale and Nathalie Guiot , art collector and founder of Foundation Thalie, ThalieLab, Bruxelles. Moderated past Emmanuelle de Montgazon

Nicolas Trembley presents the exhibition "Mingei: Are Yous Here?" (Footstep London and New York, 2014) and discusses the resurgence of craft and of the Wabi Sabi philosophy and aesthetics in gimmicky art with Constantin Chariot and Nathalie Guiot.

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4 pm - 5 pm

"Air current and H2o" directed by Felicitas Yang, presented by Martina Köppel-Yang, chastened by Lin Zuqiang

Wind and H2o is office of Felicitas Yang'southward ongoing project, a series of brusque documentaries near Chinese contemporary artists. She visited Zheng Guogu'south hometown where she filmed three dissimilar venues that Zheng conceived and developed as artistic projects.

v pm - 6 pm

"Nigh Virtual Reality in Gimmicky Art" with Karen Levy, collector and founder of The Art of this Century, Sylvain Levy, collector, founder of  DSL collection, Sandra Nedvetskaia, Khora Contemporary and Eric Karsenty, editor in chief at Fisheye magazine

6pm - 7pm

Off-site Programme at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris

"I have been creating these things for 30 years in Tokyo" past Makoto Aida , artist

Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris : 14, rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris

Friday 19 October

11 am - 12:00 pm

"The patrimonial logic in contemporary art" with Ivana Zivanovic and Adea Meidani from CMS Francis Lefèbvre Police Firm, Jérôme Barré and Julia Novak, Attorneys at law, Franklin Police House, and Nathalie Robert and Morgan Morris, SIACI Saint Honoré

12:xxx pm - 1:thirty pm

"Le marché de l'art est-il sujet aux excès" (Is the art market subject to excesses?) with Georgina Adam , author and Roxana Azimi , journalist and art critic (Le Monde, l'Hebdo du Quotidien de 50'Art)

Book signing of Dark Side of the Boom by Georgina Adam - This volume scrutinises the excesses and extravagances that arose in the wake of the 21st-century explosion of the contemporary fine art market.

Book signing of Guide Hazan de l'art contemporain past Roxana Azimi - This publication, written past one of the leading French specialists on the art market, aims to guide undecided buyers through the circuitous field of international contemporary art.

2 pm - 3 pm

"Liu Bolin" with Liu Bolin, creative person, Romain Degoul, founder of the Galerie Paris-Beijing and Liyu Yeo , independent curator

Liyu Yeo introduces the works of Liu Bolin and the artist's his new collaborative project with Ruinart.

five pm - 6:xxx pm

"New Free energy in Chinese Fine art : Zhao Zhao" and "New Energy in Chinese Art : Wang Yuyang" Directed past Fabien Pacory, with the support of John Dodelande Collection. Followed by a conversation with Jean Marc Decrop, collector

Fabien Pacory paints a portrait of the new generation of artists in China.

Saturday 20 Oct

11 am - 1 pm

"Effectually Chinese Blithe Films" , Presented past Odile Burluraux, curator at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, with Gerben Schermer, creator and director of the Holland Animation Film Festival, Lise Li, Vanguard Gallery, and Thomas Sauvin, artist

This talk examines the evolution of Chinese blithe films, with particular attention to the new generation of artists that emerged in the 2010s and are close to contemporary art.

one pm - two pm

Sou Fujimoto , Builder and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Manager at the Serpentine Galleries, London

A discussion around Reja, Sou Fujimoto'due south piece of work on the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which is currently on display in Tirana, Albania.

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

"Films on Collecting Asian Art – Patricia Chen in Feature", curated by CoBo Social  / "The 24-Hr Fine art Practice" (55 min) /  "Uli Sigg: China'south Fine art Missionary" (25 min), followed by a conversation with Patricia Chen, art writer, producer/director (Leading Patrons of Asian Art), moderated past Selina Ting (CoBo Social)

The motion picture 24-Hour Art Practise takes a look at Dr. Oei (OHD), a whimsical godfather of Indonesian art who amassed one of the most meaning collections of modern Indonesian art.

Uli Sigg: Red china'south Fine art Missionary traces the journey of Swiss art collector Uli Sigg into the heart of the Chinese cultural space as a preserver and custodian of cultural assets which are not his own.

5 pm - half dozen:30 pm

"Video Art Asia Screening Office 1" , curated by CoBo Social

A choice of 25 cutting-edge video works by twenty Asia-based artists will be presented to collectively reflect the shifting perspectives and sensibility of a whole new generation of artists grown up in the rapid economical transformation in the Asian societies.

six:30 pm - 8 pm

"Discussion"

With Selina Ting, director and editor-in-chief of Cobo Social,  Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître, collectors, and Marcella Lista, curator, fine art historian, director of the new media service at the Eye Pompidou.

Sunday 21 October

xi am - 12:30 pm

"Video Art Asia Screening Part 2" , curated past CoBo Social

A choice of 25 cutting-edge video works by 20 Asia-based artists will exist presented to collectively reverberate the shifting perspectives and sensibility of a whole new generation of artists grown upward in the rapid economic transformation in the Asian societies.

12:30 pm - 12:45 pm

« "AÏ (Dear)", 1962-1963 / 8mm / b&w / sound / 1E / ten' 00 by Takahiko Iimura, Introduced by Masayuki Kawai , video artist

Takahiko Iimura, whose recent work is presented by Mori Yu Gallery, is a pioneer of experimental video and expanded cinema in Japan. He is close to the members of Fluxus, including Yoko Ono who created the soundtrack to this seminal slice.

12:45 pm - 2 pm

"Kusama-Infinity," (1h20) directed by Heather Lenz

Trailblazer Yayoi Kusama'southward turbulent quest to get a world famous artist is documented in Kusama-Infinity. Born in a conservative family in Japan, Kusama battled racism and sexism in the 1960s New York art scene, to become i of the height-selling female person artists in the globe today.

2 pm - 3:30 pm

"From Japanorama to Fukami exhibitions"  with Yuko Hasegawa , artistic director of the Museum of Contemporary Fine art, Tokyo

Yuko Hasegawa looks back on the recent exhibitions she has curated from the perspective of emerging art in Nippon.

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Yuko Hasegawa , creative director of the Museum of Gimmicky Fine art, Tokyo in chat with Kohei Nawa.

The creative person discusses his contempo works, including Throne on display in the Louvre Pyramid.