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Innovation Weaves Tradition: For a Torn World
- Speakers: Theaster Gates, Hosoo Masataka, Izumi Reijiro and Kataoka Mami
While contemporary society has become inexhaustibly connected to others through globalisation and information technology, it also faces many problems related to COVID-19 and conflicts between nations and so on. In this talk, we invite artist Theaster Gates, Director of Mori Art Museum Kataoka Mami, Hosoo Corporation President Hosoo Masatak and Urasenke Tea Ceremony Museum Vice Director Izumi Reijiroto explore ways to survive in an ever-changing world while preserving the traditions that are becoming buried in this society.
Speakers:
Theaster Gates (Artist/Social Innovator)
Hosoo Masataka (President and CEO, HOSOO)
Izumi Reijiro (Vice Director, Chado Research Center/President, SABIÉ)
Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum/Director, National Center for Art Research)
Speaker’s Profiles
- Theaster Gates
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Theaster Gates is an artist and social innovator who lives and works in Chicago. Over the past decade, Gates has translated the intricacies of Blackness through space theory and land development, sculpture, and performance. Through the expansiveness of his approach as a thinker, maker, and builder, he extends the role of the artist as an agent of change. His performance practice and visual work find roots in Black knowledge, objects, history, and archives.
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- Hosoo Masataka
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Masataka Hosoo was born in 1978. After graduating from university and after a brief career as a musician, he entered a well known Japanese jewelry brand. After leaving the company to study for a year in Firenze, Masataka joined Hosoo in 2008. He has been overseeing Hosoo’s new endeavor in developing contemporary textiles since 2009. He is a member of the “GO ON” project, a unit consisting of 6 members, each a representative of a hereditary business in the traditional crafts. In 2014, Masataka was selected as one of “Top 100 Japanese Business Men” by the Nikkei Business Magazine. In 2016, he has been appointed as a member of the Director’s Fellow program hosted by the MIT Media Lab.
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- Izumi Reijiro
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Second son of Izumi Soko, who is himself the younger brother of the Urasenke 16th Iemoto Zabosai. His tea name is Sorei. In addition to studying Urasenke tea ceremony, he is also active as a researcher of tea ceremony history and handicraft history. After graduating with a PhD in fine art from from Kyoto University of the Arts, he went on to work as a curator at the Sakai City Museum, and is currently Deputy Director of the Chado Research Center Galleries, Vice Principal of Urasenke Gakuen, Chairman of Wa-no Gakko, and President of Sabié. With a central focus on Urasenke tea ceremony, he is expanding his activities into a range of fields.
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Chado Research Center Galleries
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- Kataoka Mami
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Kataoka Mami joined the Mori Art Museum in 2003, taking on the role of Director in 2020. She has also taken on the position of Director of the National Center for Art Research since April 2023. Visiting Professor of the Kyoto University of the Arts and Advisory Board Chair, ICA Kyoto. Beyond Tokyo, Kataoka has held positions at the Hayward Gallery in London, where from 2007 to 2009 she was the institution’s first International Curator; she has also acted as Co-Artistic Director for the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012), Artistic Director for the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018) and Artistic Director for the Aichi Triennale 2022. Kataoka served as a Board Member (2014-2022) and the President (2020-2022) of CIMAM [International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art].
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Talk’s archive
https://youtu.be/xW1n58sKvB4 -