Art Theory “Ecological Thinking”

Speakers: Emanuele Coccia and Hasegawa Yuko

Emanuele Coccia, popular philosopher and author of “Metamorphoses” and “The Life of Plants” will speak with Hasegawa Yuko, the Director of the Kanazawa 21st Century Art Museum who puts new theories of ecology and art into practice through exhibitions, about the relationship between art and current trends toward consideration of sustainable societies.

Speakers:
Emanuele Coccia (Philosopher/Associate Professor, EHESS) *Participating Remotely
Hasegawa Yuko (Director, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)

Speaker’s Profiles
　

Emanuele Coccia

Emanuele Coccia is associate professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris since 2011. He has been Visiting Professor at the universities of Buenos Aires, Columbia NY, Harvard, Munich, Venice, Tokyo and Weimar. He is the author of Sensible Life (2010), The Life of Plants (2018), Metamorphosis (2021) and Philosophy of the Home (2023). His books are translated into several languages. He has written a photo-theory book with Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen (Modern Alchemy 2022) and participated in the making of and co-directed animation videos such as Quercus (2019, with Formafantasma), Heaven in Matter (2021, with Faye Formisano) and Portal of Mysteries (2022, with Dotdotdot). He has written two plays together with Frédérique Aït Touati and Duncan Evenou (Earthscape 2022, Météores 2023). With François Roche he made a video installation called “La Chambre des mémoires à-veniré (2023)
In 2019, he contributed to the exhibition Nous les Arbres, presented at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. He edited the catalogs of the 23rd Milan Triennale of Architecture and Design: Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries. He is writing a four-handed work on the relationship between fashion and philosophy with Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele.

Hasegawa Yuko

Yuko Hasegawa is a curator, educator and writer based out of Tokyo. She currently holds positions as Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Her curatorial language is interdisciplinary, encompassing not simply art but also architecture, design, science and anthropology, and combined with global curating experience, allows her to view art as part of a single, holistic ecology. Hasegawa has also curated, either solo or in a joint capacity, international art biennials including the
7th International Istanbul Biennial (2001), the Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013), and the 7th
Moscow Biennale (2017), and the 2nd Thailand Biennale, Korat (2021).

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Talk’s archive
https://youtu.be/Un-snmn-keY