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Tokyo Geidai AAI Annual 2022 Crosstalk Symposium
Toward a New Platform for Creative Asia

This project is a part of Tokyo Geidai AAI Annual 2022.

Currently, universities, museums, art centers, and various other platforms that connect and build “Arts and Culture in Asia” are emerging in Asian countries now. In Asia, where the political and social situation is changing and globalization is taking hold, what are the new “platforms” that will be required in the future and in the age of “with/after” pandemics? What can universities do to encourage artists and researchers? We will invite guest panelists to consider new forms of connections (platforms) in “Creative Asia”.

Date & Time: January 14, 2022 (Friday) 3:00PM – 6:00PM Japan Time
*Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in English and Japanese.
*Online Streaming (YouTube live)　※ The distribution archive is scheduled to be released around March 2022.

＜Guest Panelists＞
Prof. Masahiro Ushiroshoji(Director, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art)
Prof. Tejaswini Niranjana (Director, Centre for Inter-Asian Research, Ahmedabad University）

<Discussant>
Prof. Yusaku Imamura (Professor, Global Art Practice, Graduate School of Fine Arts)
Prof. Mitsuko Okamoto (Professor, Department of Animation, Graduate School of Film and New Media)
Prof. Hiroyuki Hattori (Associate Professor, Department of Media Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media)
Prof. Yoshitaka Mori (Professor, Graduate School of Global Arts)

＜Moderator＞
Ms. Haruka Iharada (Part-time Lecturer, Global Support Center)

＜Program＞　*The following is Japan time（JST）.
3:00PM – 3:10PM Introduction
3:10PM – 3:50PM Presentation by Prof. Masahiro Ushiroshoji(Director, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art)
3:50PM – 4:30PM Presentation by Prof. Tejaswini Niranjana (Director, Centre for Inter-Asian Research, Ahmedabad University）
4:30PM – 4:45PM Break
4:45PM – 5:10PM Comments by Discussants
5:10PM – 6:00PM Discussion

Masahiro Ushiroshoji is director of Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art. In 1978, he became a curator in the Preparatory Office of the Fukuoka City Art Museum, and after serving as curator of the Fukuoka City Art Museum and head of the curatorial section of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, he became a professor at the graduate school at Kyushu University in 2002.After retiring from the university in 2020, he has been working on his longtime dream of opening a private library and research center on modern and contemporary Asian art, called “Bibliotheca Lizard（Tokage Bunko）”. At the Fukuoka City Museum of Art, he has introduced modern and contemporary Asian art through exhibitions such as “Asian Art” (the first four exhibitions, 1980-1994), which is said to be the world’s first exhibition of contemporary Asian art. He has also been involved in the introduction of modern and contemporary Asian art through exhibitions such as “New Art from Southeast Asia 1992” (1992), and “Southeast Asia: The Birth of Modern Art” (1997). He also contributed to the establishment of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum as Director of the Curatorial Division, and has organized numerous exhibitions related to Asian art. At Kyushu University, he was involved in the AQA Project, which planned and implemented contemporary Asian art exhibitions with students. He has co-authored several books including “Charting Thoughts: Essays on Art in Southeast Asia (National Gallery Singapore, 2017).

Tejaswini Niranjana is currently Director of the Centre for Inter-Asian Research at Ahmedabad University, India. Between 2016 and 2021 she was Professor and Head of the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong and two-time Chair of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society. Her monographs include Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad (2006), and Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious (2020) both from Duke University Press. Among her edited volumes is Music, Modernity and Publicness in India (Oxford UP, 2020). She is co-producer of three documentary films relating to music, and curator of Saath-Saath, the India-China music collaboration project (http://saathsaathmusic.com).