documenta Talk
images by Terushi Sho
images by Terushi Sho
2023.09.02(Sat)
Panelists : Jun’ichiro ISHII / Kodama Kanazawa / Koichiro Osaka
Modulator： Enzio Wetzel (Director, Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa)
Held every five years in Kassel, Hessel, Germany, documenta is an international art festival that has a significant impact on the contemporary art world. Directed by the Indonesian collective ruangrupa, 2022’s documenta 15 sparked a great deal of debate not only in the art world but also in society at large. However, the main debate that surrounded the festival may not have addressed its core issues. In this program, three curators and one artist gathered to share their perspectives upon visiting documenta and exchange ideas with the audience.
Venue : Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa
Video : SHOEN MEDIA |
Edit : Mizuki Kajihara |
Subtitle : Kei Ota
Supported by : Kyoto Prefecture Bunka Ryoku Challenge,
Kyoto City "Arts Aid KYOTO"
Produced by : ©KIKA gallery 2024
archives
documenta Talk Part 1 - Jun’ichiro ISHII
documenta Talk Part 2 - Kodama Kanazawa
documenta Talk Part 3 - Koichiro Osaka
Panelists
Jun’ichiro ISHII
Ishii (b. 1975) is an artist who has traversed through the “art peripheries/interlo- cal sites" of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, producing and exhibiting his work in more than 20 countries since 2004. Since 2020, as a residencies coordinator, he has been organizing a network of artist residencies at ICA Kyoto (Institute of Contemporary Arts Kyoto) while also producing exhibitions for artists at KIKA gallery, as a program manager. Ishii is also a part-time lecturer at Kyoto Seika University.
Kodama Kanazawa
Kanazawa is a contemporary art curator. After working at public art museums, she began her career as an independent curator in 2013. Her past projects include those that explore beyond the boundaries of existing art genres such as media art, manga, community and art, and disability and art, and aim to capture people's changing perceptions in relation to society and its modern era. Kanaza- wa has organized and developed numerous exhibitions in Japan and abroad. She is a co-chair of Code-a-Machine, and a co-organizer of Gendai Bijutsu Online Event JP, a calendar of online events on contemporary art conducted in Japanese.
Koichiro Osaka
Osaka (b. 1979) is an independent curator and writer. In 2015, he founded ASAKUSA, a platform for contemporary art and critical thinking, and continues to serve as its director. His recent major exhibitions include “The Imperial Ghost in the Neoliberal Machine (Figuring the CIA)" (2019) at e-flux in New York and "Curse Mantra" (2019), organized during his residency at the contemporary art center "Para Site" in Hong Kong. He is currently an Associate Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts.
Modulator
Enzio Wetzel
Enzio Wetzel is born in Stuttgart. After school he worked with children in Israel/Palestine, took an apprenticeship as carpenter in the Black Forest and studied later cultural anthropology and near eastern languages in Munich. Since 1991 he has been at the Goethe-Institut, the German national cultural institute. From 1998 to 2005 he was in charge for the cultural program at the Goethe-Institut in Cairo, then for an initiative for supporting artist, cultural activists and cultural institutions at the headquarter of the institute in Munich. Form 2014 until August 2019 he was head of Goethe-Institut Bulgaria. For his engagement he received the honorary Citizenship of Sofia. Since Sept 2019 he is head of Goethe-Institut Osaka Kyoto and the Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto.
