Tokyo Metropolitan PrefectureChuo-ku
Jam Session Ishibashi Foundation Collection x Yamashiro Chikako x Shiga Rieko “Stranded”
- Art / Exhibition
- Real-life event
Schedule
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Free for Under junior high school age (No reservation required)
Contents
“Jam Session” is a series exploring new possibilities in art through collaboration between the Ishibashi Foundation Collection and contemporary artists. This time, which is the 6th time, we welcome Yamashiro Chikako and Shiga Rieko, who are rooted in the different lands of Okinawa and Tohoku and have faced history and memories.
In recent years, against the backdrop of changes in social structures and disasters, disconnections lurking between regions and cultures and the weathering of memories once shared have become apparent. In Japan in particular, memories of the earthquake and war have faded, and a division that is difficult to see between the center and the periphery is spreading. This exhibition takes a fresh look at the themes of “center and periphery” and “land and memory” based on such a modern situation.
Also, how can we face the past in the post-truth era where information is flooded and the outlines of facts become vague? Yamashiro and Shiga's expressions are the practice of physically facing memory and history, and the work itself has the power to appeal as an act. It will shake the viewer's perception, and it will be an opportunity to re-examine existing stories and perspectives.
Through encounters between new works by the two artists and works in the collection, we create a place to look at complex and difficult realities and reconsider the power of art.
Text By Ishibashi Foundation
●Related programs
Saturday course
1st “Artist Talk About the Drifting Exhibition”
Lecturers: Yamashiro Chikako, Shiga Rieko
Moderator: Utsumi Junya (curator in charge of this exhibition)
10/11 (Sat) 14:00-15:30 (doors open at 13:30)
Artizon Museum of Art 3rd Floor Lecture Room
2nd “Gathering with Shokichi Kina”
Speaker: KINA Shokichi Kina (musician) Interviewer: Takashi Ando (exhibition catalog editor)
10/25 (Sat) 18:30 to 20:00 (Reception starts at 18:00)
Artizon Museum of Art 6th floor exhibition room
#3 “Focusing on the book “Why the Atomic Bomb Isn't Evil: America's Nuclear Consciousness”
Speaker: Miyamoto Yuki (Professor, Department of Religion, DuPort University; Director of the DuPaul Humanities Center)
Interviewer: Shiga Rieko
11/1 (Sat) 14:00-15:30 (doors open at 13:30)
Artizon Museum of Art 3rd Floor Lecture Room
4th “Focusing on the book 'How have local communities dealt with energy? '”
Speaker: Tsunehide Chino (Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Hosei University) Interviewer: Shiga Rieko
11/22 (Sat) 14:00-15:30 (doors open at 13:30)
Artizon Museum of Art 3rd Floor Lecture Room
#5 “Palau, Okinawa, Tokyo, and... Let's Go Around ＜An Invisible World/ Forgotten Time＞ 1”
Lecturer: Mori Akiko (Researcher, Doshisha University ＜Amami-Okinawa/Ryukyu＞ Research Center)
Moderator: Kinjo Satsuki (part-time lecturer, Okinawa International University)
12/20 (Sat) 18:30 to 20:00 (Reception starts at 18:00)
Artizon Museum of Art 6th floor exhibition room
Yamashiro Chikako
video artist. Born in 1976 in Okinawa Prefecture.
Visually explore Okinawan history, politics, and culture by making full use of photographs, videos, and performances. In recent years, I have taken the Okinawa problem as a universal proposition that is not limited to that, and I have continued to create and think on themes of identity, the boundary between life and death, and the succession of memories and experiences of others, using the history and people from a bird's-eye view of the East Asian region as subjects. Major solo exhibitions in recent years include “Song of the Land” (Gulbenkian Center for Modern Art, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024-25), “Flowers of Belau” (Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, 2023), “Reframing” (Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture Photographic Art Museum, 2021), and “Chinbin Western” (Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK, 2021).
Shiga Rieko
photographer. Born in 1980 in Aichi Prefecture.
He moved to Miyagi Prefecture in 2008, and while meeting people living there, he continues to create based on subjects such as relationships between human society and nature, and memories spanning generations. Since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, he has sought to go back to the roots of the human spirit from his experience of being overwhelmed by “reconstruction,” such as a déjà vu of high economic growth, and has come to fruition in various works. Major solo exhibitions include “Human Spring” (Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture Photographic Art Museum, 2019), “Blind Date” (Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, 2017), “Canary” (Foam Museum of Photography, Amsterdam, 2013), and “Spiral Coast” (Sendai Mediatheque, 2012-13).