Final Lecture by Yuko Mohri “Walking on the B-side” [Lecture Performance]
Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
Dec. 20, 2024
Since joining the faculty of the Global Art Practice Department at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2016, Yuko Mohri has been working with students on installation practice, as well as sessions using the body in an improvisational way, and exploring interactive communication using new media tools in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. From next year, she will be leaving her position as a full-time faculty member to concentrate on her own artistic practice, but she plans to continue to be involved as an artist active on the global stage, continuing to have an impact on the students of the university.
For her final lecture at TUA, Yuko Mohri will welcome the New York-based artist Miho Hatori and the music critic Manabu Yuasa, and hold a lecture live performance in which Hatori’s work “Salon Mondialité” will be directed by Mohri. Salon Mondialité is a video and performance piece inspired by the Caribbean thinker and poet Edouard Glissant. We will share a special time with you to consider what it means to “Walking from the B-side” in this world of deepening confusion.
Please join us.
Date & Time: 20 December 2024, Thursday 18:30-20:30
Venue: Lecture Room 1, Central Building, Faculty of Fine Arts, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts
Language: Japanese and English
Admission is free, reservations are required (on a first-come, first-served basis)
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Contact: Graduate School of Art, Department of Global Art Practice (gapstaffs@ml.geidai.ac.jp)
Artists
Yuko Mohri
In her installation and sculpture, Mohri works not to compose (or construct) but to call attention to “phenomena” that constantly shift according to various conditions such as the environment. Exhibitions include On Physis at the Artizon Museum (2024–5), Compose at the Japan Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, solo exhibitions at Camden Art Centre (London, 2018) and Towada Art Center (Aomori, 2018-2019), and participation in international exhibitions such as the 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023), the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022), and the 34th São Paulo Biennale (2021).
Miho Hatori
Miho Hatori is an artist, music producer, vocalist, improviser, and DJ. She started her music career in a legendary Downtown NYC unit, Cibo Matto, in the mid-’90s, with a conceptual album about Food and Love from their background Japanese identity. Since then, she has played, produced, and collaborated with many musicians (like Gorillaz, Beastie Boys, John Zorn).
Her creation style is borderless. After Cibo Matto, she started performing with a multimedia format, using music, sounds, and video installations related to identity and environmental issues. She has performed at Kitchen NYC, EMPAC, AGO museum, The Broad, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Pioneer Works, Canal 47, Newton Gallery, etc.Additionally, she does sound designs for contemporary artists, soundtracks, commercials, and company IDs.
Miho is originally from Tokyo but has been working and living in NYC for too many years.
Manabu Yuasa
Music critic. Also involved in editing, art, manga and photography. In 1982, he formed the legendary Maboroshi no meiban kaiho dome (The Phantom Vinyl Liberation Front) with Takashi Nemoto and Hideo Funabashi, and under the slogan “All records have the right to be reproduced and expressed equally on a turntable”, they worked to introduce and reprint unique songs that had been discontinued and disappeared without achieving commercial success. He also devotes his energies to music activities alongside his writing, and continues to be active with the band Yuasa Wan. His solo works include “The Counterattack of the Human Mountain Range”, “Ongaku ga orite kuru”, “Dai on kai”, “Bob Dylan”, and “Like a Rolling Cassette”. In September of this year, he published “Pon chuck art 1001”, the first book in a long time from the Phantom Classic Disc Liberation League.
