Interview with Mami Kataoka The remarkable "Aichi International Art Festival" will start on 2022/7/30.
片岡真実インタビュー：注目の「愛知国際芸術祭」が2022/7/30に開幕されました。「どう生きるか？それがずっとアートのテーマだった」現代アートの名言を交えたインタビューです。片岡真実は、現在、国際的に最も活躍している日本人キュレーターの一人です。2020年には東京・六本木の森美術館で初の女性館長に就任しました。「どこへ行っても「大きな大きな世界」はなく、あるのは、その場所のローカルだけです。ローカルが集めたものを世界と呼ぶのです。つまり、ローカルとローカルは、土、いのち、祈りのテーマでつながることができます。地域がつながり合い、強め合うことができたと感じることができる。美術にしろ音楽にしろ、表現された作品には嘘がなく、人間以上に素直に訴えかけてきます。上っ面のやり取りがほとんどになった人間社会が寂しすぎる。少しでも地球上の様々な地域の人々と知り合えればと思います。アーティストの意外な発想や異なる価値観に触れることで、普段考えないようなことも含めて自由に発想を広げ、世界や他人について考えていただければと思います。現代アートは常に社会とつながり、学びを授けてくれるものなのです。」(English) Interview with Mami Kataoka The remarkable "Aichi International Art Festival" will start on 2022/7/30. "How to live? That has always been the theme of art." This is an interview with quotes about contemporary art. Mami Kataoka is one of the most active Japanese curators internationally today. In 2020, she was the first female director of the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi, Tokyo. - If you go anywhere, there is no "big great world." In each place in the world, local people live. The world is made up of individual sites with their characteristics. Local people can connect and be strong through the theme of land, life, and prayer. Each community can connect, strengthen each other, and create a new world. Whether art or music, the expressed work has no lies and appeals to us more honestly than human beings. It is too lonely in human society, which has become a superficial, tentative exchange. There is hope here that people from different parts of the world can understand each other, even if only a little. We hope that by coming into contact with artists' unexpected ideas and different values, you will freely expand your thinking to include things you would not usually think about and think about the world and others. Contemporary art always connects us to society and gives us something to learn!
The Director of Mori Art Museum's Curatorial Tips
What is the value of art? - Balancing the Local and the Global
1)
If you go anywhere, there is no "big great world."
In each place in the world, local people live.
The world is made up of individual places with their characteristics.
She has such a great perspective.
She said, "Local people can connect and be strong through the theme of land, life, and prayer."
"Each community in the world can connect, strengthen each other, and create a new world."
2)
Whether art or music, the expressed work has no lies and appeals to us more honestly than human beings.
It is too lonely in human society, which has become a superficial, tentative exchange.
There is hope here that people from different parts of the world can understand each other, even if only a little.
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Interview with Mami Kataoka The remarkable "Aichi International Art Festival" will start on 2022/7/30.
"How to live? That has always been the theme of art." This is an interview with quotes about contemporary art.
A)
This summer, Aichi Prefecture will be the stage for one of Japan's most prominent international art festivals, featuring contemporary artists worldwide.
The gathering of nearly 500 works of art from various countries has also attracted worldwide attention.
B)
Under the overall direction of Mami Kataoka, the first female artistic director of the festival.
"How to live? That has always been the theme of art," she says.
C)
Changing the world for the better through contemporary art: STILL ALIVE International Art Festival "Aichi 2022" opens.
Mami Kataoka is one of the most active Japanese curators internationally today.
In 2020, she will be the first female director of the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi, Tokyo.
She has been actively looking at contemporary art and culture in the Asia-Pacific region.
D)
She continues to ask, "Can contemporary art change society for the better?"
There are now about 300 international art festivals being held around the world.
E)
As a global trend since the 1990s, art festivals and art fairs have been found in various places to have our culture seen not only in Europe and the United States.
We tend to think where we are and that the customs there are 'normal' and 'natural.'
F)
However, depending on what kind of culture and history the artists who grew up in each country and environment have experienced, their judgment of right and wrong, standards of beauty, awareness of issues, and even their expressions should change.
I want Aichi 2022 to be a place where we can get a sense of what artists living in the same era are thinking.
Each artist's expression incorporates the national character, political background, and culture that nurtured that person, and by receiving messages from their work, viewers can broaden their perspectives, she says.
G)
Everyone is living in the present.
Kataoka-san has chosen "Still Alive" as the theme of the Aichi 2022 International Art Festival.
This theme seems to reflect the idea that contemporary art is not only for the enjoyment of a small group of art lovers but is also an opportunity to connect with artists living in the present and the world.
H)
"Aichi 2022" will feature works by 100 artists and groups from Japan and abroad, including new jobs, and will focus on a diverse range of contemporary art.
Although their lifestyles, languages, and ideas are disparate, they present a hundred unique ways of looking at the world and inspirations for solving social problems.
We hope that visitors to the festival will not only look for cool or beautiful art but also think of it as a gateway to learning about the contemporary world, including its politics, history, culture, and geography.
I)
I believe contemporary art is a powerful tool in an uncertain world where the world has become increasingly divided over the past few years, and the future is still pending.
There is resistance to society but also an overwhelmingly positive energy. Their art is food for the spirit and food for thought.
I expect that each participating artist will learn about and respect the culture of Aichi and link it to their expression.
J)
Rediscovering Aichi Prefecture's history, culture, and local industry
The theme of the Year's exhibition, "Still Alive," has multiple meanings, one of which is the "rediscovery of Aichi Prefecture's proud history, local industry, and traditional culture."
K)
Aichi Prefecture has developed mainly through its manufacturing industry and has rich cultural resources such as traditional culture, crafts, and food culture.
I hope that by coming into contact with the artists' unexpected ideas and different values, you can freely expand your thinking to include things you usually don't think about and think about the world and others.
The Director of Mori Art Museum's Curatorial Tips
What is the value of art? - Balancing the Local and the Global
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgr2HgC5uPo&t=58s
Interview with Mami Kataoka The remarkable "Aichi International Art Festival" will start on 2022/7/30.
"How to live? That has always been the theme of art." This is an interview with quotes about contemporary art.
Art for Breakfast 2022: Where Japan Stands in the Global Contemporary Art Ecosystem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykv8Ca9BzgU
The Future "The Human Individual is the Only Thing," a unique exhibition by a world-renowned curator [Ho-Seite x The Future from the People, Complete Edition] [The Future from Here] [Mami Kataoka, Director, Mori Art Museum]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaVPHcxvITE&t=31s